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Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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What possible reason could the Glazers have for turning down money for the naming rights, if not that no big corporation is seriously interested? It can't be the fans' feelings, since they've never listened to them before. Tbh I suspect they'd happily rename it the "Malcolm Glazer is a Right sh*thead Stadium" if you offered them enough dosh!
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Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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Sounds about right, but with the way things are, I'd be surprised if it was clinched this year. For example, when Juve completed their new stadium in 2011, they sold the naming rights through to 2023 to a marketing company, Sportfive Italia, for €75m i.e. €6m p.a.. Yet despite no Covid and Juve being a much bigger "brand" than Spurs and the stadium being on a completely new site, it still took Sportfive another six years before they could sell the rights on to Allianz. And who knows, they might even have made a loss on the deal? All that said, Levy is one smart operator when it comes to money and if they could also attract a permanent NFL franchise to London, then that could make it "a whole new ball game". (Sorry )
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Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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That would be the sensible option, but since when did common sense ever come into these things? I mean, what new President is going to get elected on a platform of: "Well it's like this, lads. I'm going to sell Leo and the rest of the big names and replace them with cheap options from God knows where, while we wait for a new golden generation to come through from La Masia. Meanwhile, don't expect to win very much for the next 10 years." That ain't gonna happen.
Everyone, incl the fanbase, accepts that it has to be rebuilt. Ideally, it will be done without losing all its soul, but the financing and revenue-generating possibilities will take priority. In any case, don't be fooled by "El Classico", or a select few big European nights. There are many games when the atmosphere at the Camp Nou is pretty "meh". This is because it is always the fans who give a stadium its soul, so that when they're not up for it, the present stadium is revealed to be just a big 1980's concrete bowl, without even much of a roof:
Who is going to stump up €1bn to clear the debt, then maybe the same again to rebuild the team and the stadium? There may be plenty of individuals out there who could come up with that sort of money, but I'd venture NONE who would risk those sorts of sums without also being the owner of the club, never mind as a President who could be voted out at the next election. And speaking of elections, last time out in 2015, Barca had 110k members who were eligible to vote (though only 47k of them i.e. 43%, actually bothered to do so). Meaning that it would cost every single member approx €10,000 each just to clear the debt. So that ain't gonna happen either. |
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Alan Kernaghan Joined: 02 Sep 2010 Location: Ireland Status: Offline Points: 123 |
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How are "proper Man U fans from Ireland" different from "holiday fans"?
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Jack Charlton Joined: 25 Nov 2014 Status: Offline Points: 5817 |
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Not so fast there, Steve! The first Pass Penalty was actually invented by one Danny Blanchflower, when he passed to Jimmy McIlroy to convert in an NI international against Portugal in Belfast in April 1957. However the referee, who clearly didn't know what to do, disallowed it and ordered NI to retake the penalty, which McIlroy scored conventionally to make the final score 3-0. This was one month before the Coppens Pass Penalty, but because their referee allowed it, he is (mistakenly imo) credited with having invented it. Which is a crying shame, not least because it was another Ulsterman, William McCrum, who invented the penalty kick in the first place. And McCrum was a goalkeeper! Anyhow, more here, including a video of the Blanchflower/McIlroy penalty: https://ireland-calling.com/lifestyle/northern-ireland-cruyff-messi-passed-penalty/ P.S. Please don't ask me by what process I happened to come by Steve's post just now - you couldn't write an algorithm to do the job. |
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Jack Charlton I love buses Joined: 06 Jan 2009 Location: Amsterdam Status: Offline Points: 7381 |
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As the man with the orthopedic foot so famously said; "I stand corrected' I always thought it was Cruijff, untill I seen an item on Belgian telly when Coppens passed away a few years ago. But Blanchflower it is so me auld flower!
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Molly Malone's pub- The home of YBIG in Amsterdam!
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Robbie Keane Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 42949 |
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Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world
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Robbie Keane Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 42949 |
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Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world
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Paul McGrath WATP 55 not out Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 18157 |
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On a serious run of form
Tonights El Classico away to Real is massive |
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yea, win tonight and they’ll be in a serious chance of winning LaLiga
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Robbie Keane Joined: 24 Sep 2008 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 42949 |
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Quality goal from the great man. |
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Double Maxim without doubt the greatest drink in the world
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Paul McGrath WATP 55 not out Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 18157 |
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Win their game in hand and they are top
Some turnaround Still a long way to go though, including a home game v Atletico |
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Jack Charlton Man City records obsession Joined: 20 Mar 2012 Location: Dundalk Status: Offline Points: 9647 |
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AM have bottled this. 10 points clear but last 10 games read: W4, D3 and L3. They won 18 of the first 23 games with only one defeat. |
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Paul McGrath WATP 55 not out Joined: 05 Apr 2010 Location: United Kingdom Status: Offline Points: 18157 |
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Blown it after another draw last night
Gotta be curtains for Koeman now too |
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Robbie Keane Stay Home & watch Lethal Weapon Joined: 03 Feb 2008 Location: Ath Cliath Status: Offline Points: 37951 |
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Messi leaving Barca
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Eamonn Dunphy:"I'll tell you who wrote it, Rod Liddle, he's the guy who ran away and left his wife for a young one".
Bill O'Herlihy: Ah ye can't be saying that now Eamonn |
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interesting to see how this develops - sign for someone or rest up for a few months until Barca off load.
No fee so opens a lot of contenders - leeds haven’t spent in the market and there’s the Bielsa factor.
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Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7703 |
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Believe it when i see it. Like last time.
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I love beer gardens
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Jack Charlton Teenage Kicks, so hard to beat Joined: 30 Mar 2015 Status: Offline Points: 7703 |
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Leeds
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I love beer gardens
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