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Abrahamovic and Berlusconi on the road to Damascus?

  • 30-08-2009 8:59am
    #1
    therecklessone
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    http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/sport/football/european_football/article6813001.ece
    Michel Platini, the Uefa president, yesterday named Roman Abramovich among the leading instigators of his campaign for “financial fair play” in European football.

    Platini identified Chelsea’s billionaire Russian owner, along with Silvio Berlusconi, the AC Milan owner and Prime Minister of Italy, as examples of club proprietors who wanted Uefa to end the inflation in transfer fees and salaries held responsible for increasing debts.

    With England in a dominant position in the Champions League and two recent winners, Manchester United and Liverpool, carrying hundreds of millions of pounds of debt each, it is widely perceived that Uefa’s agenda is aimed at the Premier League. Platini denied this. “I have to do what is best for the 53 countries,” he said. But he did add that Abramovich was one of those to whom he had promised to “do something about it”.

    Necks like a jockey's bollox.


Comments

  • #2
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Feck sake.
    It was these guys who started the "inflation" all off.
    Twas grand when they were the big boys but not any more.


  • #3
    Fuhrer
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    I guess its easier to call for tighter finances once youve bought your team


  • #4
    thorbarry
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    jaysis, how can anyone take these jokers seriously?


  • #5
    gosplan
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    Big huge steaming piles of manure on Platini for pandering to this ****.

    I have lost all respect for anything he did as a footballer.


  • #6
    LuckyLloyd
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    A+ Thread title!! :)


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  • #7
    Mossy Monk
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    Accolades for the boys.


  • #8
    mike65
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    Quick, pull up the drawbridge!


  • #9
    HalloweenJack
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    gosplan wrote: »
    I have lost all respect for anything he did as a footballer.
    Why?

    What he did on the pitch has nothing to do with what he does now.


  • #10
    CHD
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    Platini talks too much.


  • #11
    Tom10
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    Anybody that works in football associations seems to talk nothing but nonsense. Some of the stuff Blatter has come out with has been mind boggling haha


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  • #12
    kippy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 18,984 ✭✭✭✭kippy


    Tom10 wrote: »
    Anybody that works in football associations seems to talk nothing but nonsense. Some of the stuff Blatter has come out with has been mind boggling haha
    You've got to wonder are these guys just "figureheads" for the associations they speak for, with all the actual decision making being done by others.
    If everything these guys talked about became reality football would be a mess.


  • #13
    Tom10
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 736 ✭✭✭Tom10


    No I do think they wield a lot of power but the clubs are probably there to say no to some of their more outlandish ideas. I mean money is power and its the big clubs with most of that.

    Blatter does seem to control where the world cup goes after all. He changed the rules so he could get it held in South Africa - as he wants the whole world to have the world cup.


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