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24 Jul, 17 tweets, 23 min read
🧵I love #football

Have done since the 1980's ⚽️

Nowadays though, the off-field stuff seems to get as much coverage & column inches as the game itself 🗞️📺📱

Competition isn't just about trophies - it's about eyeballs, soft power, geo-politics, PR and #money

Quick tale...
Did you see that news report from the #US this week about the #billionaire financier #TomBarrack being arrested? ($250m bail)

In the weird (but fun) world we live in, that incident ties to #NewcastleUnited & the #PremierLeague

Say what?! 🧐

#FollowTheMoney #Networks #Power 💸
We have;

- Billionaires acting as back-channel diplomats (💰)
- Political actors orchestrating things but pretending they're not
- Qatar buy rights to #EPL for region
- Saudi pirate them #AJ #BeIn #BeOut
- SA try to buy NUFC
- Qatar say "No Way"

#Rights ✍️/👨‍👩‍👧‍👦
#Value (s) 💸🙏⚽️
In 2016 when the clown President #Trump was inaugurated as the most powerful political figure in the world, lots of shysters, international fixers & 💸men smelt big opportunity!

#TomBarrack was one

(Pay-for-play / influence - touch of #Epstein maybe)?

cnbc.com/2021/07/23/tru…
Before the financial crisis of 2008, world order was already shifting

Tribes in the Middle East with sovereign status & bags full of loot 💰🛢️ were thinking about the future & securing their place in the pantheon of powerful players🌐

Money⏩Sport⏩Influence⏩Power⏩Control 📺
How does that relate to #NewcastleUnited and #EPL ?

Well, when the perpetual growth economic model was under threat with the big crash in 2008, people with access to big bundles of loot spied a chance to 'cash in' on it's scarcity & leverage it for influence & control!

💸⚽️💸
Like #TomBarrack #AmandaStavely is a 'Money [Wo]Man' too 💸

Connecting the Middle East with the West 🤝

The shadowy world of finance and large money flows

#ReubanBrothers know this game 🌴💰 #NUFC #SA

⤵️Other billionaire sports owners↔️Connections💸🌐
Back to Saudi-UAE-Qatar-Egypt-Israel-Iran 🌍

They are the big players in that region and their relations ebb & flow as alliances are shaped & enemy lines drawn

They have a big influence on oil, finance, culture & shaping the power structure of the ME ✈️🔫

Enter Keyes & Gray ⚽️
Who would have thought #Keyes & #Gray would be cultural ambassadors 🤪 but they rocked up in #Qatar after struggling with the burgeoning #Values movement in the west & became the faces of #beINSPORTS ⚽️📺💸

Qatar bought #EPL exclusive rights & English footy was exported to ME
I mentioned the ebb & flow in relations between Middle East neighbours...

Well, remember when comedy mob boss #Trump took his first tour of the region?

And next thing there's a blockade in #Qatar

Odd! 🧐

Remember Don's son-in-law #Kushner 💸

#Israel #Pegasus #NSO 📱🏢🏗️💸
This is where the shadow world of unofficial envoys, bankers, brokers, chancers, crooks, money launderers, weapons traffickers, back-channel spooks & shysters really play their parts!

#GulfCup ⚽️


#Trump #Nadar #Dmitriev #Prince #Kushner #Epstein #Barrack
Anyway, the relations, actions and fuckery shift during the timeline from 2008 - today BUT football has remained a consistent theme.

Bit like USA's struggles with China at the moment, we live in a globalised word BUT we don't have uniform values / rules!

theguardian.com/football/2020/…
Smart new players in the ME understand Soft Power/Cultural influences

#aljazeeraenglish #beINSPORTS in Qatar have led the way

When Saudi, UAE, Bahrain & Egypt pulled their coup (with the acquiescence of Trump) it would be the start of troubles that impact #EPL #NUFC

#Leverage
@threadreaderapp Could you unroll please?
#ELP #UAE #MiddleEast

Ties in with the thread 🧵 above...

#Football #Finance #PremierLeague #KSA #UAE #Qatar

Good example of those people

Good insight into the people described in the thread above⤴️

#TheivesWorld #DarkMoney #MoneyFlows #Kleptocracies #Dictatorships #Trump #Underworld #LicitEconomy #WorldOrder #Shifts #Democracy #AuthoritarianRegimes #Bankers #PE #TomBarrack #Offshore
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