I don't know what you're all moaning about. With all these conflicts of interest I'd say the guy is over qualified to be a member of the UEFA Executive Committee
PSG's Nasser Al-Khelaifi appointed onto UEFA Executive Committee
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This is not worrying. It's been like this for decades.
The worrying thing is that nothing is getting done about it.
With all the ethics tossed out of footballs top body it is a matter of time the saudis enter football soon as well.
Yeah, no conflict of interest here at all.
In time Sepp Blatter is gonna seem like Mother Teresa compared to what's coming
Knee jerk reaction because people here think like: arab name + high position = corruption.
The committee already had David Gill - this guy replaces Ivan Gazidis.. Was there no conflict of interest before?
The committee already had David Gill - this guy replaces Ivan Gazidis.. Was there no conflict of interest before?
What does it matter anyway? All we can do is be outraged on the internets
Indeed. One day some club is bound to form a strategic partnership with the Saudi government.
That's its front.
I think you confuse what others think with what someone who don’t think think. It’s more like this: owner investigated for corruption + position in body incestigating corrupt owners = conflict of interest.
Putting David Gill in there is only confusing.
He looks well qualified for the quality of the organization.
No big deal. The Saudis have entered loads of businesses. Social media apps, startups, electronic products and stuff we use on a daily basis already have Saudi investments in one way or another.
I love football, but somehow i hope it will die out anytime in future. It can't be how it is these days. Many fans will turn their back on this sport.
UEFA (and Fifa) is like one of them bad dreams you can't wake up from
What the feck? Nothing to do with where he’s from or his skin colour, more to do with the fact him and his club have quite clearly never given a feck about Uefas FFP rules and don’t care who knows it. They got a pitiful punishment from uefa for it and now he’s got a job there, it stinks.
Can influence investigations too I think.
This is a story from the Onion right?
That was exactly the first thing I thought when I saw the news. This kind of absurdity is just becoming more and more common.
My mate keeps on saying that at one point in 2016 we entered a parallel timeline where bizarro shit is the norm. I'm starting to believe that he has a point.
I for one am desperately disappointed. I had high hopes that when <enter faceless corrupt official’s name here> was elected UEFA President, that everything would be different.
This has been said for years though yet here we are with ever increasing TV deals, attendances and transfers. Fans are too loyal to walk away that’s the major issue here.
In any other walks of life if a business treated you with such contempt it would have no customers and die.
I have always considered PSG and City as welcome clubs in the European competitive landscape.
The duopoly Barcelona/Real Madrid won 7 out of the last 10 Champions League. Bayern Munich reached the final 3 times, Juventus and Manchester United 2 times each while France only won two times a European trophy in its history. So, I can understand why a lot of people look at PSG with very jaundiced eyes.
It just makes smile to present PSG as a club that corrupts the Beautiful Game while the reality is that:
- the club injects money in the business for the benefit of all the other clubs by overpaying sometimes but not always though
- the club won nothing at the European level since Qatar bought the club in 2011
Champions League Winners
2017-18 Real Madrid Liverpool 3-1
2016-17 Real Madrid Juventus 4-1
2015-16 Real Madrid Atlético Madrid 1-1 (5–3)
2014-15 Barcelona Juventus 3-1
2013-14 Real Madrid Atlético Madrid 4-1
2012-13 Bayern Munich Borussia Dortmund 2-1
2011-12 Chelsea Bayern Munich 1-1 (4–3)
2010-11 Barcelona Manchester United 3-1
2009-10 Internazionale Bayern Munich 2-0
2008-09 Barcelona Manchester United 2-0
Bundesliga winners
2012: Dortmund
2013: Bayern Munich
2014: Bayern Munich
2015: Bayern Munich
2016: Bayern Munich
2017: Bayern Munich
2018: Bayern Munich
Ligue 1 champions
2002: Lyon
2003: Lyon
2004: Lyon
2005: Lyon
2006: Lyon
2007: Lyon
2008: Lyon
....
2013: PSG
2014: PSG
2015: PSG
2016: PSG
2017: Monaco
2018: PSG
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The thing that I don't get about this outrage is that the ECA picked him, the biggest clubs on earth picked him to represent them at UEFA level. I find it very difficult to be outraged when the clubs and their executives have no issue with El Khelaifi.
Well, he's being elected by ECA, so, yeah, it's the big european clubs he bribed, not UEFA
Well, he's being elected by ECA, so, yeah, it's the big european clubs he bribed, not UEFA
For example, PSG has excellent relationship with Celtic Glasgow: Osdonne Edouard has been loaned and then sold to Celtic Glasgow, and Weah has also been loaned this winter.
Another strategy is to fund rival clubs. Qatar Airways was the sponsor of Barcelona and is now the new sponsor of Bayern.
Florentino Perez knows Qatar is important regarding his business in the construction sector.
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I would have no issue to pick him either if he pays me 7 digits.
Then you are the problem. The ECA only care about sustainability, they don't give a damn about sugar daddies and who signs the cheques as long as commitments are fulfilled and that debts aren't left by owners. In the end @Revan is right, there is a divide between what people imagine and what clubs actually want.
The worry there would be the super league plans. But of course, a lot of the big clubs must be looking at ways to challenge the City/PSG corruption model.
Think this is maybe where things need to be addressed:
Agree. If PSG and City start to dominate I can see the others walking away. It's not like they're a major part of the European football story are they?!
PSG were a pretty big European club in the 80s and 90s, a super league would be done through the biggest member of the ECA who are the ones that named Al Khelaifi as their representant. If the big clubs organize a super league PSG and City will be in it without the beginning of a doubt.
Stade de Reims reached two times the final of the European Cup in the 1950s.
Real Madrid reached its first final in 1956, Manchester United in 1968, Juventus in 1973, Bayern Munich in 1974, Liverpool in 1977, Porto in 1987 and Dortmund in 1997.
Times change...
Instant impact.
What?
Oh grow up. They were miles better than us on the day and deserve the victory.
Pretty sure it was a joke
Kimpembe should have been sent off before the goal
Young should have been sent off first half too. The ref was woeful but for both teams.
With all the money these arabs have wouldn't be surprised if they were slipping packets left right and centre, not like there isn't huge precedent for it in football.
I've got to say I'm sick of the sight of all the oil clubs. Both PSG and Man City, an absolute stain on football. Not just for the money they spend but for bringing these corrupt feckers into our game
I've got to say I'm sick of the sight of all the oil clubs. Both PSG and Man City, an absolute stain on football. Not just for the money they spend but for bringing these corrupt feckers into our game