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🚨JUST IN: PSG's sponsorship agreement with Qatar Tourism Authority was reportedly worth between €100M and €200M per year… but may have been OVERSTATED by 7094%.
Independent valuations by Repucom and Octagon estimated the deal's ACTUAL market value at JUST €2.78M annually.
[@Lu_Class_]
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BREAKING: Labour Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds invited Manchester City staff on his British Government India trade trip - despite the club’s convictions for 114 FA rule breaches, including money laundering and fake sponsorship deals (via @Guardian) theguardian.com/football/202…
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If we get radio silence from players and the coach after this then they basically class themselves as Glazers. Martinez has made a stand. Real teammates won't leave him alone
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Danny Simpson works for MUTV and Wayne Rooney’s son is in the academy.
This is why they’re defending the owners…
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🚨🗣️ Paul Scholes on Lisandro Martinez criticizing the Manchester united board:
"For me he is brave and wants the best for this club because if he doesn't wants to win with united, He wouldn't have criticized them on air"
"Some former united players are saying he was wrong to do that but, these former united players don't really care about the club because how can you see what is going on and tell a player that He is wrong to criticize the owners and management"
"Lisandro Martinez has shown how brave he is and I will forever respect him for that"
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If Sir Alex Ferguson were still the manager, Lisandro would never have spoken out because this club would be competing for every trophy, Rio.
Did you even understand what Lisandro was saying? 😭
🚨🗣️ Rio Ferdinand reveals how Sir Alex Ferguson would have reacted to Lisandro Martinez’s Man Utd rant:
"Not a chance.
If that happened in our time… when players spoke out against other players or the hierarchy at the club, they were gone. Roy Keane, a different way. But David Beckham maybe just wasn’t doing the things the manager wanted… gone.
Jaap Stam wrote a book and hammered a couple of players… gone. He was at the peak of his powers, the best centre-back in the league, and Cristiano Ronaldo and Ralf Rangnick as well."
[@rioferdy5 YT]
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The driving reason behind Lisandro Martinez’s comments is fury that Michael Carrick is likely going to lose his job despite not being given the tools to have a fair crack, and players are sick of reset after reset, without questions asked of the people in charge and what direction they’re taking the club in [@MelissaReddy_]
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Hypocrite.
"I think it's awful that he's come out and said that... That does nobody any good at all."
@Carra23 weighs in on Lisandro Martínez's post-match comments following Manchester United's defeat 🗣️
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🚨 BREAKING!
Rob Dorsett is lying to Manchester United fans. He received a brief from Jason Wilcox - one would even say, payment.
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🚨 BREAKING!
No player challenged Lisandro Martinez. The briefs coming out are from Jason Wilcox’s PR team!
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Let's not get this twisted. If you listen to Martinez he actually backs Carrick and doesn't out his current teammates. He states we needed more players for a more demanding season. Pure deflection to take the heat of who he really called out = Wilcox and the owners
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🚨 Manchester City, supposedly the highest-earning club in world football, with revenues even greater than Real Madrid, are STRUGGLING to sell out their Champions League clash against back-to-back winners PSG tonight. 😭
You'd struggle to find another English club that wouldn't sell out its stadium for a European night against opposition of that calibre.
Yet somehow, City are having trouble shifting tickets for one of the biggest fixtures of the season. 🤦♂️💀
Tonight, a state-owned club accused of breaking the rules for over a decade to dominate the Premier League faces a state-owned club that has breached UEFA's financial regulations on its way to dominating French football and eventually dominating Europe.
Both Qatar and the UAE entered football with the same ambition: to win, whatever the cost, while using the sport to improve their nations' images and reputations on the world stage. In doing so, they've driven a coach and horses through regulations designed to protect fair competition.
PSG spent more than £200M on Neymar and £160M on Kylian Mbappé in the same summer, helping fuel an explosion in transfer fees and wages that the rest of football has been desperately trying to keep up with ever since. The knock-on effect has been devastating.
Ligue 1 is now in a financial crisis, while the Premier League, although in a much stronger position, has seen the integrity of more than a decade of competition called into question by Manchester City's financial misconduct.
Pep Guardiola will even be there to support his former side.
This is the Champions League tie Manchester City deserve after their guilty verdict. Two clubs whose rise represents everything wrong with modern football, facing each other on Europe's biggest stage.
This fixture is a microcosm of everything that has gone wrong with the beautiful game.
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It's amazing how nearly every ex player and journalist has massively misread the room on Martinez. Fans are totally with him
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Name the player otherwise this is pure BS to dilute the message. And if that player does exist let's see if they have the balls to come out and slam Martinez
🚨 BREAKING:
There is ANGER and BEMUSEMENT at what Lisandro Martínez said last night, both in the Manchester United boardroom and in the changing room.
At least one other player CHALLENGED him over his comments as the squad got on board the plane to fly back to Manchester.
#MUFC [@RobDorsettSky]
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Beware the spin this morning! Lots focusing on Martinez mistake vs Spurs as a counter. Totally irrelevant. If Zirkzee had said it last night it's still huge. The club is a disgrace! That's the message
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OLIVER HOLT: Man City are poisoning the Premier League - how can Sky Sports and TNT possibly keep broadcasting their matches? trib.al/uiqerPg
