windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
Are those the only two options? Are all clubs in the world operating under one of those two models?
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Dublin blue 75
Player Valuation: £50m
Open the spigot to those petro-rubles uncle..
windymiller
Player Valuation: £60m
Drico
Player Valuation: £60m
Precisely. People also need to realise that if Usmanov owns the club - and everything points to this reality - then it is, effectively, a "family business". Of course he will put people he trusts into positions of responsibility. If that is his nephew, then so be it. His accountant, sorry, "business partner" is already there. His nephew makes complete sense - especially as he doesn't see advantages in being personally present. His placemen are, well, in place.
I wouldn't be remotely concerned about family members taking the reins. I'd be more concerned about the type of individual who now owns the club. But then, why even bother with that given the way the game has now evolved? The club game is a billionaire's plaything. Very few of those gentlemen are "fit and proper" in the way Sir John Moores might have been. And even Sir John, for all his obvious commitment to Everton, was hardly a man of spotless credentials.
When the Qataris and Emirati are sportswashing through football, it's even possible to sympathise with the likes of Newcastle United who wish to install a murderous regime at the head of their operation. As implacably opposed as all right-thinking people should be to this kind of thing, it's hard not to draw the conclusion that "where the line is drawn" is incredibly self-serving and dubious. As it is, we have our own oligarch. The choice modern football clubs of size now face is stark: allow yourself to be subsumed by odious, sometimes murderous, investors - or become utterly irrelevant. The governance of the game has ensured this - and the clubs themselves, or rather their odious owners, have facilitated this decadent and immoral state of affairs.
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Haven’t him and moshiri got British passports. Unlike Abramovich who can’t get into Britain.
Also I read Moshiri’s stake in USM has gone under 10% so they can put money into the club without a conflict of interest
chazzle_dazzle
Player Valuation: £35m
That second bit true? I haven't read that, could be big if true.
If he’s fully in this enterprise then surely some dodgy sponsorship deals needs to be sorted to alleviate the ffp problem. Man city created a whole new company to dump all of the non footballing staff into so their costs weren’t counted against it.
Otherwise its mid table rinse and repeat
Otherwise its mid table rinse and repeat
It's been a bit of a sh1tshow under Moshiri and Usmanov. May have been different if they arrived when we had a settled manager like Moyes. It's been poor appointment after poor appointment so far for different reasons but the intention is there. Surely with all the money behind them something will eventually click and we'll come good again.
If this money had landed 2007/8-2008/9 we’d have been laughing. Had the nucleus of a really good side with the right additions
Goodison87
Player Valuation: £35m
Certainly looks like we’ll be under the ownership of the Usmanov family for a very long time.
NeilA1878
Player Valuation: £6m
Stephenlloyd
Player Valuation: £40m
Im not an expert on the financial side, im
Sure there’s a few on here. But that’s what I read, he’d gone under the 10% threshold
catcherintherye
Player Valuation: £80m
It is true yes. From the rules around FFP/STCC perspective anyway.
SpongeBob brown shoes
Player Valuation: £40m
You can have all the money in the world, but if you don't acquire the right manager/ players then it's pointless
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