20-04-2021, 02:30 PM
(20-04-2021, 01:45 PM)exgaffer Wrote:(20-04-2021, 12:26 PM)Tufnell_Chimes Wrote: It doesn't matter how much they give Real Madrid or Barcelona, they'll still go through it all in two transfer windows. Then what are they are going to do? Madrid already sold a chunk of their training ground in a super-dodgy deal with the governement - and burned through that in no time at all. This whole exercise is all about debt, which is maybe why Citeh and Chelsea are getting cold feet, they already have bottomless pots of money.
Dead right Tuffers.
The finances of both clubs are dodgy, especially Real. They are supported in their profligate spending by the government which has been illegally propping them up.
The football authorities should have taken action years ago but haven’t got the bottle for it, or are bought off by brown envelopes full of cash, or both.
The stench of corruption is overwhelming.
You are both right. In 2001 Florentino Pérez sold Madrid's training ground to the city for 480 million euros, and ACS (guess who the president of this company is..??) was then awarded a contract to build three high- rise flats there.
Technically Real Madrid and Barcelona are owned by their members and its a line they both like to peddle when comparing themselves to the likes Of Chelsea and City. In reality Real Madrid has become, with the help of his excellent networking skills and political connections, Florentino Pérez's own personal plaything. Barcelona's recently re-elected president Joan Laporta, another one with an extremely high opinion of himself, failed to mention anything about a superleague in his election campaign. Both clubs are morally and financially bankrupt and the super league is their get out of jail card. Morality can do one as far as they are concerned