In modern football, making a profit is more important than winning
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Never before has success been so predictable in the world's most popular sport. It is always the same clubs and their owners who keep winning, making more profits and becoming more powerful. The same goes for tonight's Champions League finalists: Liverpool and Tottenham.
$ 1,000 billion is the amount that the Qatar Investment Authority has to spend, including on sports.
67 meters long is the yacht of Tottenham owner Joe Lewis. Unfortunately, the CL final is not in a port city.
13 percent of Manchester City is owned by the Chinese state-owned China Media Capital and CITIC Capital.
166 billionaires are even richer than Stanley Kroenke, owner of football clubs Arsenal and Colorado Rapids, among others
$ 2.4 billion is the assets of the American Liverpool owner John W. Henry.
J e own a football team that has done well in Europe and the big finale can and you have a boat of 222 feet or a good 67 meters, Aviva III, and then they take the UEFA Champions League final anywhere in the middle of the mainland. In Madrid, and not even in tradition-steeped Bernabéu, but in that concrete bunker outside the city, named after the Chinese media giant Wanda.
The only windfall for Joe Lewis, owner of Tottenham Hotspur: the airport is close by and that is handy for his private jet. He flew in from the Bahamas tax haven, where he lives after he hit his first major financial blow. In September 1992, he catapulted himself into the super-rich by speculating with George Soros on Black Wednesday against the pound (which temporarily stepped out of the European exchange rate mechanism) and became a billionaire. After which he started to buy up football teams with his listed investment company ENIC.
The Englishman Joe Lewis is in position 388 a follower in the category of multi-billionaires. But what about the American John W. Henry, only 838th and barely worth a meager 2.7 billion dollars? In addition to the Boston Red Sox from baseball, that poorman also owns the equally mythical Liverpool FC, Tottenham's opponent in the Champions League final tonight.
Roman Abramovich is even better in the weak wash. He owns Chelsea FC that won the Europa League against Arsenal on Wednesday. Abramovich, who was born in Russia and has been an Israeli citizen since 2018, is worth $ 12.4 billion. He won on Wednesday from Stanley Kroenke, the American who owns the Los Angeles Rams (American football), Denver Nuggets (NBA basketball), Colorado Avalanche (NHL ice hockey) and the Colorado Rapids (MLS football in the US), as well as London. crown jewel Arsenal FC. Abramovich falls just outside the top 100 of the world's richest citizens, but is fifth among the sports billionaires. Kroenke, who owns 8.7 billion dollars, follows in tenth place (167th billionaire overall).
This is the tough reality of top football: who has the biggest, the thickest, who jumps furthest. And how do we make an unpredictable game as predictable as possible and at the same time make a profit. Football as a casino game, with a guaranteed / arranged outcome.
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https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/in-het-moderne-voetbal-is-winst-maken-belangrijker-dan-winnen~b491ef91/ In modern football, making a profit is more important than winning
Sven Franzen image
Never before has success been so predictable in the world's most popular sport. It is always the same clubs and their owners who keep winning, making more profits and becoming more powerful. The same goes for tonight's Champions League finalists: Liverpool and Tottenham.
$ 1,000 billion is the amount that the Qatar Investment Authority has to spend, including on sports.
67 meters long is the yacht of Tottenham owner Joe Lewis. Unfortunately, the CL final is not in a port city.
13 percent of Manchester City is owned by the Chinese state-owned China Media Capital and CITIC Capital.
166 billionaires are even richer than Stanley Kroenke, owner of football clubs Arsenal and Colorado Rapids, among others
$ 2.4 billion is the assets of the American Liverpool owner John W. Henry.
J e own a football team that has done well in Europe and the big finale can and you have a boat of 222 feet or a good 67 meters, Aviva III, and then they take the UEFA Champions League final anywhere in the middle of the mainland. In Madrid, and not even in tradition-steeped Bernabéu, but in that concrete bunker outside the city, named after the Chinese media giant Wanda.
The only windfall for Joe Lewis, owner of Tottenham Hotspur: the airport is close by and that is handy for his private jet. He flew in from the Bahamas tax haven, where he lives after he hit his first major financial blow. In September 1992, he catapulted himself into the super-rich by speculating with George Soros on Black Wednesday against the pound (which temporarily stepped out of the European exchange rate mechanism) and became a billionaire. After which he started to buy up football teams with his listed investment company ENIC.
The Englishman Joe Lewis is in position 388 a follower in the category of multi-billionaires. But what about the American John W. Henry, only 838th and barely worth a meager 2.7 billion dollars? In addition to the Boston Red Sox from baseball, that poorman also owns the equally mythical Liverpool FC, Tottenham's opponent in the Champions League final tonight.
Roman Abramovich is even better in the weak wash. He owns Chelsea FC that won the Europa League against Arsenal on Wednesday. Abramovich, who was born in Russia and has been an Israeli citizen since 2018, is worth $ 12.4 billion. He won on Wednesday from Stanley Kroenke, the American who owns the Los Angeles Rams (American football), Denver Nuggets (NBA basketball), Colorado Avalanche (NHL ice hockey) and the Colorado Rapids (MLS football in the US), as well as London. crown jewel Arsenal FC. Abramovich falls just outside the top 100 of the world's richest citizens, but is fifth among the sports billionaires. Kroenke, who owns 8.7 billion dollars, follows in tenth place (167th billionaire overall).
This is the tough reality of top football: who has the biggest, the thickest, who jumps furthest. And how do we make an unpredictable game as predictable as possible and at the same time make a profit. Football as a casino game, with a guaranteed / arranged outcome.
Continue on
https://www.demorgen.be/nieuws/in-het-moderne-voetbal-is-winst-maken-belangrijker-dan-winnen~b491ef91/