Bungs, third party ownership, agents working both sides of a deal, deals getting made so people can line their pockets not improve the team... all rife, according to this:
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/oct/09/world-football-endemically-corrupt-player-transfers-agents
I bet Hibs have been stung by this in the past, and our money has gone to fund some guy's trash lifestyle.
What can be done about it?
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08-11-2016 07:55 PM #1
Football is 'endemically' corrupt
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08-11-2016 08:23 PM #2This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
It's a bit like one of those "experts from such and such university have found that blah blah... following a 6 month study" type reports.
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08-11-2016 09:32 PM #3This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Where there's vast amounts of money (and in a poorly/loosely regulated environment) there's too gonna be someone trying to get a slice of the action some In less ethical ways than others.
The money sloshing about in Football is it having a net benefit? And if so to whom? The genie is out the bottle tho."We know the people who have invested so far are simple fans." Vladimir Romanov - Scotsman 10th December 2012
"Romanov was like a breath of fresh air - laced with cyanide." Me.
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08-11-2016 09:46 PM #4This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Here's a good aricle from a few years back http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/article-2069651/Why-does-football-waste-209m-agents-Patrick-Collins.html?ito=email_share_mobile-mastheadLast edited by tamig; 08-11-2016 at 09:54 PM.
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08-11-2016 10:36 PM #5This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
How would we feel, for example, if it was shown that a Hibs manager signed a player due to a bung? We expect these employees of our club to carry out their jobs to the best of their ability.
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08-11-2016 11:56 PM #6This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Aye, first time was in 1887.
Football has always had corruption and vultures.
Globalised sport now so its on a global scale. Seems like the norm these days.
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09-11-2016 11:54 AM #7
Football is a disgusting cesspit of greed and corruption ... it probably always has been, but the difference is we have gone from a player being lured to a club with the promise of a car and a semi detached house to millions and millions being sucked out of the game by greedy players and bloodsucking agents.
I heard somewhere a day or two ago that the amount of money Real Madrid are paying to keep a hold of Ronaldo and Bale swallows up the clubs whole budget ....... where the hell is the rest of the money coming from to pay the rest of the players then?
Crooks and charlatans the bloody lot of them.
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09-11-2016 12:18 PM #8
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Our rivals Dundee United had a deal with Macnamara where he made money from sales of players, hence all the best players ended up at Celtic causing their demise into Championship with us!!!!
And that was a known case how many others have slipped under the radar???
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09-11-2016 01:12 PM #9This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
As you say, who knows how many other managers have been on the make but have kept it a secret?
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09-11-2016 01:15 PM #10
Remember when Jim Duffy managed Hibs and signed a couple of duds from Dundee shortly after moving from them. I was told that it was to get his payoff from Dundee.
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09-11-2016 01:21 PM #11This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Did he not sign all of his players through the same agent? It would explain a few of the signings right enough.
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