Look like the Anzhi "project" is over

DaveyCakes

Anzhi Makhachkala have announed a major restructuring, with the annual budget being cut from $180 to $50-70. Looks likes most of the big names will be put up for sale....

http://rt.com/news/russian-football-anzhi-sell-134/

http://fc-anji.ru/news/ru/club_news/informacionnoe_soobshhenie_o_strategii_razvitija_kluba/
(Official club statement in Russian)

Oat23

Delighted for Denisov. Sold out for a big paycheck and he's heading back out the door a few weeks later .

godtabh

didnt achieve much

EdenHazard

They were going nowhere anytime fast.

GavRedKing

He lost 375 million in a day of his 7 Billion fortune?

In the grand scale of things thats not that much for a guy worth 7 billion.

Someones going to pick up a good player in Willian when hes sold.

Francie Barrett

GavRedKing wrote: »

He lost 375 million in a day of his 7 Billion fortune?

In the grand scale of things thats not that much for a guy worth 7 billion.

Someones going to pick up a good player in Willian when hes sold.

One of these day's it will be Roman pulling out of Chelsea

GavRedKing

Francie Barrett wrote: »

One of these day's it will be Roman pulling out of Chelsea

Could be but in the short term he wont, in his 10 years hes invested more into Chelsea then the Anzhi owner and lost about 35-40% of his wealth at its highest through various ventures and such.

At his highest he was worth about 17billion hes down to about 9billion now.

Roman and Chelsea are here to stay for the foreseeable future unfortunately for some.

messinkiapina

Great. Hopefully more sugar daddy owners will follow suit before the sport becomes a complete mockery.

Moneymaker

Wtf is a 'project' anyway?

Really bugs me that players/managers etc of seemingly every club these days goes on and on about a 'project'.

Is it just me that's bothered by that?

Vic Vinegar

Moneymaker wrote: »

Wtf is a 'project' anyway?

Really bugs me that players/managers etc of seemingly every club these days goes on and on about a 'project'.

Is it just me that's bothered by that?

Nah, me too. It's an incredibly daft phrase.

EdenHazard

Moneymaker wrote: »

Wtf is a 'project' anyway?

Really bugs me that players/managers etc of seemingly every club these days goes on and on about a 'project'.

Is it just me that's bothered by that?

Can see where you are coming from tbh. I suppose you could argue that Martino at Barcelona doesn't have a 'project', he's just there to keep the status quo whereas a club that comes from nothing but then has high hopes such as Anzhi had could be seen as more of a project...but yeah defo an annoying football cliché

Turtyturd

Moneymaker wrote: »

Wtf is a 'project' anyway?

Really bugs me that players/managers etc of seemingly every club these days goes on and on about a 'project'.

Is it just me that's bothered by that?

You just don't understand the philosophy of it.


Another irritating word in football.

Seaneh

Oat23 wrote: »

Delighted for Denisov. Sold out for a big paycheck and he's heading back out the door a few weeks later .

You mean he got a massive signing on fee and massive wages and if tghey do sell him he will get a massive pay off?

Looks like he's doing pretty well for himself!

Seaneh

Monaco, PSG, Man City, Chelsea and the rest are all going to follow suit eventually.

The_Kew_Tour

Seaneh wrote: »

Monaco, PSG, Man City, Chelsea and the rest are all going to follow suit eventually.

please God:pac:

GavRedKing

Theres a lot more money in the EPL then Ligue 1 so I wouldnt hold my breath regarding City or Chelsea.

I reckon PSG and Monaco will fall before the English clubs.

Oat23

Seaneh wrote: »

You mean he got a massive signing on fee and massive wages and if tghey do sell him he will get a massive pay off?

Looks like he's doing pretty well for himself!

He forced his way out of the club he has been at since he was a kid to go to a smaller team for more money. Now he is being kicked out of there after a few weeks and will probably sign with a team who's prospects aren't close to Anji/Zenit unless he decides to uproot his family and leave Russia.

He was already rich and a hero at Zenit. He might have enough money to buy another bentley now, but he has f*ck all else because of his actions.

Bit of a headcase too so good luck to whoever does sign him.

IncognitoMan

Always thought it was a serious waste for someone of eto'o class playing out there. Hopefully he comes back to a main European league

Seaneh

Oat23 wrote: »

He forced his way out of the club he has been at since he was a kid to go to a smaller team for more money. Now he is being kicked out of there after a few weeks and will probably sign with a team who's prospects aren't close to Anji/Zenit unless he decides to uproot his family and leave Russia.

He was already rich and a hero at Zenit. He might have enough money to buy another bentley now, but he has f*ck all else because of his actions.

Bit of a headcase too so good luck to whoever does sign him.

I find it hard to have any sympathy for Zenazi St. Petersburg to be perfectly honest...

Seaneh

Lacina Traoré will be a good signing for whoever picks him up.

6'8", quick feet, strong, eye for goal and not afraid to work hard.

Unplayable when he's on form to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2We8-yRzd2s

GavRedKing

Seaneh wrote: »

Lacina Traoré will be a good signing for whoever picks him up.

6'8", quick feet, strong, eye for goal and not afraid to work hard.

Unplayable when he's on form to be honest.

He was my FM13 legend, agreed with ya though, wherever he ends up he'll be a good buy.

Moneymaker

IncognitoMan wrote: »

Always thought it was a serious waste for someone of eto'o class playing out there. Hopefully he comes back to a main European league

Yeah he wasn't that old when he moved either(30 I think?) and he was still banging them in at Inter. Could definitely do a job for someone decent.

GTR63

Seaneh wrote: »

Monaco, PSG, Man City, Chelsea and the rest are all going to follow suit eventually.

So will Berlusconi.........oh wait he already has.

Zico

Unless Abrahmovic and the Arabs are heavily leveraged into Potash the mental money will keep flowing in Western Europe.

GavRedKing

Zico wrote: »

Unless Abrahmovic and the Arabs are heavily leveraged into Potash the mental money will keep flowing in Western Europe.

Let the good times roll.

Oat23

Seaneh wrote: »

I find it hard to have any sympathy for Zenazi St. Petersburg to be perfectly honest...

We were discussing the player, not the club though.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Sure they'll find it next to impossible to off load these lads, they're probably on huge wages for agreeing to go there in the first place. They'll obviously have a contract signed so the players won't just leave because the owner wants them too, especially not Eto'o, heard he's on over €200,000 a week :eek: No other club would pay him that much, he's there for the long haul.

Seaneh

GTR63 wrote: »

So will Berlusconi.........oh wait he already has.

He's still loaded, he's just a tight Auld git now :-P

Seaneh

THFC wrote: »

Sure they'll find it next to impossible to off load these lads, they're probably on huge wages for agreeing to go there in the first place. They'll obviously have a contract signed so the players won't just leave because the owner wants them too, especially not Eto'o, heard he's on over €200,000 a week :eek: No other club would pay him that much, he's there for the long haul.

I see China or mls in Eto'o's future.

Big Pussy Bonpensiero

Seaneh wrote: »

I see China or mls in Eto'o's future.

Or the middle-east even. Can't see him back in Europe anyway! And I don't blame him in the slightest. He should take every penny he can get.

CSF

Scoff all we want, but this could happen to any of the sugardaddy owned teams any day. Bad ownership model.

I am pie

The difference between Anzhi and some other sugar daddy clubs is that they were hardly likely to gather international fans to grow their fanbase, unlikely to become much of prospect for selling merchandise and attracting visitors to the stadium etc.

It always was a project about local or regional pride, at least robbing roman had the sense to launder his money abroad, he had better sense than to try and turn Siberia FC into world beaters. The arabs are trying to project their power into Europe, clubs are merchanding and PR opportunities for them. They have to do something to make themselves appear modern, relevant and successful to counter some of the other bad press that comes out of the region.

GTR63

Seaneh wrote: »

He's still loaded, he's just a tight Auld git now :-P

Tight like the women he pays for

CSF

I am pie wrote: »

The difference between Anzhi and some other sugar daddy clubs is that they were hardly likely to gather international fans to grow their fanbase, unlikely to become much of prospect for selling merchandise and attracting visitors to the stadium etc.

It always was a project about local or regional pride, at least robbing roman had the sense to launder his money abroad, he had better sense than to try and turn Siberia FC into world beaters. The arabs are trying to project their power into Europe, clubs are merchanding and PR opportunities for them. They have to do something to make themselves appear modern, relevant and successful to counter some of the other bad press that comes out of the region.

There probably still comes a point when it ceases to be worthwhile.