Which clubs do you hate? (5 Viewers)
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The men who STOPPED PSG from scoring a sixth goal in the UCL final.
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I really can’t stand what’s happened with some of the biggest clubs in football.
Newcastle United is basically a vehicle for Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which groups like Amnesty International have already called out as an attempt to polish up the kingdom’s image.
Manchester City isn’t much better, bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi United Group and used as a soft power project for the UAE. City Football Group owns a whole web of teams — Girona, Troyes, Melbourne City, New York City FC, Palermo, and more — and conveniently shifts players around, which looks a lot like bending Financial Fair Play rules.
And then there’s PSG, effectively a marketing arm of Qatar through Qatar Sports Investments, which became even more obvious during and after the 2022 World Cup.
When you add Qatar’s World Cup, Russia’s 2018 tournament and 2014 Olympics, and now Saudi Arabia pushing for the 2034 World Cup, it’s all the same pattern: regimes throwing money at football to distract from their human rights records. Honestly, it makes me dislike these clubs more and more.
You’ve got these multi-club ownership models that just feel like another way to cheat the system. Red Bull does the same with Leipzig and Salzburg, moving players between them like it’s nothing, while Chelsea’s new owners are starting to build their own network with Strasbourg. Smaller clubs can’t compete with that kind of setup, and UEFA never seems consistent in enforcing their own rules. It just makes the game feel less fair and way more about money than football.
Newcastle United is basically a vehicle for Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund, which groups like Amnesty International have already called out as an attempt to polish up the kingdom’s image.
Manchester City isn’t much better, bankrolled by the Abu Dhabi United Group and used as a soft power project for the UAE. City Football Group owns a whole web of teams — Girona, Troyes, Melbourne City, New York City FC, Palermo, and more — and conveniently shifts players around, which looks a lot like bending Financial Fair Play rules.
And then there’s PSG, effectively a marketing arm of Qatar through Qatar Sports Investments, which became even more obvious during and after the 2022 World Cup.
When you add Qatar’s World Cup, Russia’s 2018 tournament and 2014 Olympics, and now Saudi Arabia pushing for the 2034 World Cup, it’s all the same pattern: regimes throwing money at football to distract from their human rights records. Honestly, it makes me dislike these clubs more and more.
You’ve got these multi-club ownership models that just feel like another way to cheat the system. Red Bull does the same with Leipzig and Salzburg, moving players between them like it’s nothing, while Chelsea’s new owners are starting to build their own network with Strasbourg. Smaller clubs can’t compete with that kind of setup, and UEFA never seems consistent in enforcing their own rules. It just makes the game feel less fair and way more about money than football.
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