For us, apart from the full can, it’s politics that still governs and largely ruins sport, so we are, so to speak, still pretty far behind as far as the trend is concerned. Across the world and Europe there are American billionaires, oligarchs from the East to the even further East, but above all the not only Saudi Arabian oil sheiks, who are primarily interested in football; took control of many prominent clubs there or, in order to popularize the world’s most popular and lucrative ball game at home, greedy discontinued models of superstars were brought into the urbanized desert.
Yes, that was the development of the last few years, which they now apparently want to counteract with proceedings against financial fair play. If I remember correctly, UEFA initiated proceedings against the then newly “oiled” French champions Paris-St. half a decade ago. Germain because of far inflated transfer amounts, i.e. violations of financial fair play, which – due to whatever influence or power – more or less came to nothing.
Who knows, perhaps also because PSG, despite its extremely expensive superstars like Neymar, Messi, Mbappe as well as star coaches, never achieved and exercised the kind of dominance beyond France that the English champions and sheikh club Manchester City have now managed to do after a long start-up period , the formerly smaller local rival, which has outgrown the formerly much more successful city rival under Pep Guardiola. And now the same authorities who summoned the foreign-Arab spirits to turn England into a football paradise are against their own number 1, Manchester City. Literally an arabesque in which the devil is supposed to be cast out with Beelzebub.
I can imagine that not all, but very many (English) clubs, for whom the Citizens have more and more often and increasingly taken away the butter from their bread, are now shouting in a figurative sense: stop the thief! I am very curious to see what will come out of this under the hypocritical pretext of a violated economic equality of opportunity and what punishment the champions and Champions League winners will really have to expect, even exclusion from the Premier League and relegation to the National League was placed in the room.
Whether you like the bald-headed Guardiola as a person and coach or not, I was personally impressed by the fact that he emphasized and assured in an interview that he would sign with the Citizens for a longer period in the event of forced relegation than if he were to win another title or a second one European Cup triumph. If it’s not lip service to put him in the best possible light, then all I can say is: well roared, Catalan lion. At least you show some pizzazz, which is also in your first name. Others could also follow this example!
2023-11-25 12:16:21
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