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Premier League 13/14

marv3llous

Liverpool signs players, players lean on stuff in photoshoots. For some reason some of them are hilarious to me:

Iloveyouarsenewenger

After the lean-on photoshoot, this is the next thing Liverpool new signings do :

http://www.mirrorfootball.co.uk/news/Joe-Cole-Liverpool-is-a-bigger-club-than-Chelsea-or-Manchester-United-article533169.html

And it all ends with ...

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/sport/football/4826463/Joe-Cole-amits-Liverpool-move-was-wrong.html

Here is what really happened

“When I joined, the guy interviewing me said ‘you’ve joined the biggest club in the country’ and reeled off the trophies they’d won.
“I just said ‘yeah, if you put it like that, I suppose you’re right’ and Liverpool used that as the headline to the interview.
“I didn’t want to upset anyone so I just went along with it. But obviously they’re not the biggest club in the country any more."

Qwiss

😆 The SSN crew don't know what to do.

Burnwinter

http://www.guardian.co.uk/football/2013/jul/02/joe-kinnear-director-of-football

"The manager can't do everything. I'm probably the only football manager to be a director of football. I don't know any other ex-managers who have."

What a mouth-breather. You'd think someone like Kinnear would've heard of Kenny Dalglish. Toon is like a fucking Dunning-Krugerquake.

Iloveyouarsenewenger

qs! wrote:

😆 The SSN crew don't know what to do.

Brilliant!

Bold Tone

Tony Cascarino looks like an idiot, used to play like an idiot and talks like an idiot.
Notwithstanding this, he sounds more knowledgeable than the presenters on that show.
Mr Jeff "Blah Blah Blah" and Ms Kirsty "Abramovic made Chelsea which put England on the map" are just off the scale.

Burnwinter

Just got a chance to watch that. Fucking nails it doesn't he.

Biggus

Nah he's talking bollocks, how is owning Chelsea going to protect Abramovich if he falls afoul of Dobby?
It's not exactly a golden goose that he can live off if his assets in Russia are seized, and as for "the mystique of Manchester united"- Fuck off.

Burnwinter

It's blindingly obvious that having a high profile, and a constituency of supporters in England give Abramovich a degree of political protection far beyond that of an equivalent oligarch unknown outside Russia.

Biggus

If he was running for election in London perhaps, but do you think Dobby would give a shit what Chelsea fans think?

Burnwinter

Unknown oligarch not owning a PL club: disappears with little incident like many of Putin's undesirables.

Abramovich: massive international contretemps that runs as front and back page news in all the big broadsheets and tabloids for months.

You be the judge.

Biggus

😆 Do you think Dobby reads the Star?

Burnwinter

Putin is almost absurdly image conscious. I guarantee he's acutely aware of what is said about him in the press.

Edit: wait, scrap that "almost".

Relatedly, an analysis of Putin's statement on Edward Snowden:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/hendrikhertzberg/2013/07/devilishly-clever-that-putin-fellow.html

Biggus

He's shown himself to be ruthless when perusing his enemies, a few thousand chavs are not going to stop him

Burnwinter

I guess if you earn a reputation for ruthlessness by choosing opponents you can be certain to categorically destroy, then people escape your influence by calling that certainty into question.

Qwiss

Same game Usmanovs playing.

flobaba

Why focus on investing in soccer teams then? And why just in England? Are the rules for ownership more lax over there than in other countries, and against other sports? I don't get it much either, or fully buy the political protection angle. Who truly knows why rich folk spend their money on whatever they choose to spend it on?

Captain

high profile
Chelsea was available
The rules are/were more lax (and chelsea were available)

Abramovich clearly had interest in establishing his identity outside of Russia. Could be that he likes football, I think he loves it, but that doesn't nullify other vested interests.

Biggus

He seems to genuinely to enjoy the game unlike some.....
Isn't he just doing what we all would if we had a spare couple of billion?

Timbob

Haha, Matthew Syed just got his last gig on Sky.

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