Essential The Official Football (Soccer) Thread - We are SO back, the Premier League returns!

[Montez]

Don't think clubs can totally blow this off

http://www.espnfc.us/story/2056071/fifa-to-ban-third-parties-owning-transfer-rights


Wumger going in uninhibited next summer :wumgerwow:

How they gonna launder money?

 

[KOTK]

the drums enhance it imo..sampha though

Good god I preferred the original. Good god.

 

[concise]

Don't think clubs can totally blow this off

http://www.espnfc.us/story/2056071/fifa-to-ban-third-parties-owning-transfer-rights


Wumger going in uninhibited next summer :wumgerwow:

So what happens to their investments now?

 

[gho3st]

"We took a firm decision that TPO should be banned but it cannot be banned immediately - there will be a transitional period," he said.

 

[Gooner]

How they gonna launder money?

So what happens to their investments now?

Most likely, big clubs/agents will find loopholes, or FIFA/UEFA will give weak punishment like they did with the Barca "transfer ban"
Tbh I'm not too impressed up by this ruling big clubs usually get whatever they want
But we can dream
A world where Wenger can buy players without inflated transfer fees :wumgerwow:
Wenger not having to deal with corrupt super agents :wumgerwow:
A transfer market utopia :wumgerwow:

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

So what happens to their investments now?

cant see how they can annul the ones already in place. they might just have to only ban new ones

 

[yoyoyo1]

Gala fans seem very indifferent about their team, goals barely being celebrated

perils of being on a "business as usual" bandwagon.

ruined by success. when you have a CL QF against Madrid and CL R16 against Chelsea, going 2 up against sivasspor seems even more than it already was

 

[Gooner]

Damn FIFA is on a role today, won't release report of Qatar and Russia World Cup bids

http://www.espn.co.uk/football/sport/story/349725.html?CMP=chrome

A report into alleged World Cup voting corruption will not be made public by FIFA, despite several high-ranking figures urging the governing body to disclose the findings.

FIFA ethics investigator Michael Garcia and his team conducted more than 75 interviews over the past two years for the report on alleged corruption in the 2018 and 2022 World Cup bidding contests in 2010. Russia and Qatar were chosen to host the respective tournaments, but the voting process has since come under much scrutiny.

The report was handed over to FIFA ethics judge Joachim Eckert, who is due to examine the findings.

However, despite calls from the likes of UEFA president Michel Platini and FIFA presidential candidate Jerome Champagne to make the report public, world football's governing body and Eckert have so far refused to make the report, or at least its key findings, public.

Speaking at a news conference in Zurich on Friday, FIFA president Sepp Blatter said that the report will remain secret and that no member of FIFA's Executive Committee has asked for its disclosure.

 

[Montez]

Someone compared Giggs to Di Maria?

Giggsy is the most overrated player in Premiership history.

 

[#DatGuyWelbz]

Someone compared Giggs to Di Maria?

Giggsy is the most overrated player in Premiership history.

Imagine if he was english

 

[Julius Skrrvin]

The negative reputation @Max B is going to receive as a result of Spurs-Gunners tomorrow

 

[SCORCH]

Someone compared Giggs to Di Maria?

Giggsy is the most overrated player in Premiership history.

 

[Ari Gold Bawse]

deserve a neg for this level of disrespect

 

[Montez]

Imagine if he was english

Would be painful.

All he did was stick around long enough.

Never did it on the big stage.

H/T @Broletariat

 

[SCORCH]

deserve a neg for this level of disrespect

Don't get me wrong, I'm not saying he wasn't a decent player. But when people try to put him in the same group as genuinely world-class foreign talents who lit up the Premier League (Zola, Bergkamp, Henry, Ronaldo, Hazard etc) you know it's a joke.