OFFICIAL 2023-24 FOOTY THREAD ⚽️: Real Madrid does it again

[rolaholic]

Relax. I was talking about them dressing the same

Was pretty obvious what you were saying

He's dresses like a xennial MJ.

Baggy is trendy again though with these kids bringing the early to mid 2000's back

 

[Bantz Lord T]

I want La Bombonera to be one of host stadiums but man does it need some TLC.

No way. That place is a glorified dump and a public safety hazard. They had to close part of it for a match the other day because the government forced them to. Boca will need financial assistance to renovate it because they are broke.

 

[Coupé It]

Relax. I was talking about them dressing the same

We ever get an explanation as to why Ronaldinho was smuggling fake passports tho?

TF was Ronaldinho doing? That story was so crazy

 

[fluid hips]

We ever get an explanation as to why Ronaldinho was smuggling fake passports tho?

TF was Ronaldinho doing? That story was so crazy

Paraguay was desperate to be relevant again. Whole country fell off when it comes to footy

 

[rolaholic]

Thought this was super random until I read that the Emir is an 80's baby , grew up during the Fergie golden era so it makes sense.

Apparently they'll have Gulf competition though







Either one of them would probably love getting one over Abu Dhabi...

 

[fluid hips]

Football clubs have become a bigger flex than expensive cars etc in the gulf states

 

[Belgium]

Football clubs have become a bigger flex than expensive cars etc in the gulf states

Wealthy people in the gulf states are wild. They've long been past expensive cars.

The following experience always stuck with me because it perfectly shows the level of absurdity.
As some might know, I sell social media usernames as a side hustle.
I had done a couple deals with a very wealthy Saudi, who was known to have paid others a combined $15000 for two 1 letter Instagram usernames for himself and his brother. The one for himself was the username "G", the other one was "K" if I recall correctly. He also purchased his alias "Sad" (his actual name is Saeed) on every platform.
Since I wasn't a total stranger, I at one point asked him about the sudden massive spike in interest from wealthy gulf state individuals in buying the rarest and most expensive username possible.

This was a conversation that took place at least 3 years ago I think, probably 4.
What this Saeed told me was that for people like him, wealthy gulf state residents, everyone in his circle has a Lambo, a Ferrari, a tiger, ...
However a username is of course unique, and they can be extremely rare. To this guy, him owning the IG username "G" was the biggest flex he could show off.
After all there's only a very limited amount of 1 letter usernames that can exist, and further limited due to some being banned, owned by IG staff, or simply owned by someone unwilling to sell.
His IG "G" got hacked by another wealthy arab and the first thing he did was put out an offer of $10k for another 1 letter IG username.

I'm sure if you were to look up every 1 letter username on IG, besides the ones that are owned by celebs or banned due to account theft/selling/hacking, you'll note quite a few of them are owned by a wealthy arab.
For example, this one was very obviously bought.
https://www.instagram.com/h/

Loads of the 1 letters are banned though, and I can vouch that an overwhelming majority were bought by wealthy people from gulf states. A common issue was that these people would constantly hire hackers (sim-swapping, social engineering, ...) to try and steal them from eachother.

 

[worldbeefreeg]

Qatar gonna bring Mbappe to Old Trafford. City losing all their trophies. Our bantz era gonna have more trophies than Pool & Tottenham after City get hit.

Who would have thought these clubs would completely flip places in tbe span of 6 months?

WATTBA!

 

[rolaholic]

 

[rolaholic]

Barca?



Who?

 

[jape]

Barca?

doubt it. barca barely had the room to register gavi as a first team player. additions were completely off the table
tebas shut that down

 

[jape]

broke europa league club is bigger than all your american english qatari oil lever billionaire teams

 

[rolaholic]

Rumors that INEOS have bowed out of the bidding, ME/Gulf money probably blew Sir Jim out of the water

 

[rolaholic]

Ouch

 

[Coupé It]

Paraguay was desperate to be relevant again. Whole country fell off when it comes to footy

How is it Paraguay’s fault Ronaldinho tried to enter the country with a fake Paraguayan passport?

Were they supposed to just let him in?

 

[cs02132]

Smh
Oil daddies here to save the day again

 

[sonoftony]

How is it Paraguay’s fault Ronaldinho tried to enter the country with a fake Paraguayan passport?

Were they supposed to just let him in?

he'd be one of those guys that'll get a pass. He ain't outchea hurting people

 

[DripNick]

Were they supposed to just let him in?

Just off joga bonito strength

 

[jape]

footy fans hoping for oil club levers takeovers is nasty but this is the state of club football now

 

[jape]

Just off joga bonito strength

fax
should have global citizenship

 

[rolaholic]

footy fans hoping for oil club levers takeovers is nasty but this is the state of club football now

Don't think footy fans have any say at all in who buys clubs nowadays, especially for big clubs.

There's also only a select few groups of individuals or institutions on the planet capable of even affording some of these valuations so the buyers pool is infitinitely smaller and filled with plenty of moral ambiguity

Whether it's Americans/Chinese/Gulf Arab buyers, it's real hard for anyone's hands to be clean at that level

 

[LA Diggler]

 

[jking0821]

family worth $335BILLION!!!!!!!

 

[Coupé It]

Just off joga bonito strength

Na

F That

 

[rolaholic]

Yea looking like it's gonna come down to either more Americans or Gulf money...

Not ideal but guess realistic with the amount of money required

Sir Jim's got money but these other consortiums have that x dozens . It's not just the club valuation, they'll need to upgrade/replace OT as well which will cost a ton on top of the club price.