Being owned by a country is probably worse in fairness. The recent talk of Manchester United being bought by Saudi Arabia is depressing. There's a risk of countries using football clubs for soft power which would really take the fun out the game for some of us.
He was always rubbish that's why he left Liverpool and Sunderland signed him at his worst, even after a loan period.
12 Palace will provide little opposition.
I am against this kind off sponsorship, Cillet bang Huddersfield AFC. Not going to happen.
If Karma worked in football then Huddersfield would be top and Leeds would be in the National league and, Laurent Depoitre would score and Adama Diakhaby would stop drifting wide and play more central. Would also love to see Hogg play more advance attacking roles and Lowe (sorry for lack of accent) get forward more with Christopher.
Yeah, I'm not questioning the football side of those clubs rather the unsightliness of clubs- which have their own heritage and culture- being named in such a way as to advertise. I imagine most of us would be gutted if it happened to our clubs. St James's Park nearly being renamed as the "Sports Direct Stadium" was bad enough to attract controversy. It would've been disastrous if it had been to rename the club to something relating to that company.
Being honest everyone calls and refers to our home stadium as the McAlpine stadium.
Excellent question.
Leipzig were created by Red Bull just a few years back. They haven’t replaced any heritage or culture. Not sure about Salzburg.
That's a fair point. I assumed they were all previously existing clubs which they bought, although Vimes's post on Salzburg conforms more to my assumption than Leipzig.
I'm pretty sure Leipzig bought a club as well.
AFAIK they just bought someone’s playing rights.
that is absolute world-class cheating from Lacazette.