I agree with you to a certain extent, my gripe with the Sheikh way is their style, there are degrees to this, these guys dealing are vulgar in their nature. It's all plastic, fake, and in very bad taste: just like Dubai.
Berlusconi/Agneli used their own money not state infinite pool money. You cannot compete with state owned company's. Even Abramovich had connection with russian state, he would be even richer if he could "breach" aluminum industry, but every week someone got poisened, he backed out.
this, plus there are levels to the wealth of the owners. state funded clubs shouldn't exist. wealthy owners always existed in football and it's normal, but qatari and saudi ownership completely flipped the script
they also don't give a crap about rules. i'm 99% sure that if everton committed the same financial tricks that city did, they'd be already relegated to the lowest possible division. meanwhile the pl has been sleeping on the city case for a while
i'll always root against city and psg, unless they play against inda
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The story changes, but the reality doesn’t: all three clubs rely(ied) on massive capital to dominate football. City and Chelsea found a new model later on though, Juventus didn't and went from scandal to scandal and its owners decide to focus on F1. It was just in different times, and the Semites of City and Slavs at Chelsea were willing to put more money in it and quicker. That's why the Prem grew, and Serie Zzz isn't growing.
I still think there's too much bias in this. FIAT has a history of making war vehicles for Mussolini and had financial support at some point in its history. It;s also goverment backing. It helped the company and the family to become richer. Exor nowadays is located in my beloved Amsterdam because of tax reasons. It's not a charity organization by any means.
I've seen these messages over and over again. I personally think we look at the Agnelli's different just because they wore fancy pin striped suits in the pictures and were sipping on espresso's we consider them more classy than a Sheikh with a djaleba on sipping tea and not showing his wife or a Slav looking like a bond villain with no fashion sense. People conflate the origin of money with the legitimacy of the club’s success, even if all three clubs are heavily funded from ultra-rich owners. All three have dirty money and rich owners, making it a bit hypocritical.
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