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🗣️ Richard Masters to #FTFootball on Chelsea spending. "I am not here to defend [them]. The new owners have owned the club for less than a year. They've had two transfer windows. You need to judge the football club after three or four years... 
"They might have bought, but they would probably argue they have a different transfer policy to the previous regime with younger players, longer contracts and lower wages...
"Within our rules it's a test over a 12-month period, so the question is whether they are going to sell some of their existing players in the next window. I am not here to defend them but you have to judge these things over a period of time."
La Liga president Javier Tebas says it is 'depressing' that UEFA & PL have taken too long to investigate Man City after his initial complaints in 2017.
Adds his complaints about PSG and Man City could extend to Man United if the Qatari buyer wins the bidding war. #FTFootball
Adds his complaints about PSG and Man City could extend to Man United if the Qatari buyer wins the bidding war. #FTFootball
Tebas also says Barcelona were unable to sign players in January and will be unable to sign them in the summer.
Tebas is trying to show how La Liga is willing to punish Barca quickly while PL is slow to show their hand on possible Man City beaches.
Juventus chairman @andagn on the increasing concentration of money and talent in European football's biggest leagues:
"Whether you're a football club or selling bottled water, your biggest European markets will be England, Germany, Spain, Italy, France"
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"Whether you're a football club or selling bottled water, your biggest European markets will be England, Germany, Spain, Italy, France"
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He's not wrong, but that comparison neatly illustrates how the strong views fans have about the direction of football are centred on that very point:
They see football as much more than business, fulfilling social and cultural needs more than just the inevitability of economics.
They see football as much more than business, fulfilling social and cultural needs more than just the inevitability of economics.
The big clubs now see themselves as corporations, so they're focused on maximising & stabilising revenues.
They don't care if other clubs are marginalised along the way, they see it as inevitable, much as Coca Cola doesn't lose sleep thinking about independent soft drinks makers
They don't care if other clubs are marginalised along the way, they see it as inevitable, much as Coca Cola doesn't lose sleep thinking about independent soft drinks makers
