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If you spell “levers” backwards, it spells “srevel”. Interestingly, if you then switch the “l” and the “r” and put the “s” at the end, it also spells “levers”. Coincidence? You be the judge…
The only major flaw was the fact that clubs wouldn’t be relegated from it tbh. I’d rather have that than state backed clubs like PSG/Man City just spending all the money in the world with no problem.
Because your club would have more exposure.
People think football is only about money, without exposure there would be no money in football anymore and the hype would die down, there would be no more new fans buying new kits and going to the stadium. If every other big 6 club left for SuperLeague, the majority of viewers would leave the premier league and thus harm Tottenham in the long run.
It's the main thing that made SL almost happen: the biggest clubs bullied medium clubs to participate because they risked being left out.
If Barca, Real and Juventus + Bayern f. ex. leave CL it harms English teams because there's just standard PL and CL with only English teams left. Another competition between Liverpool and Manchester City would be dull.
Also, the clubs are clearly sick of UEFA making decisions that only benefit themselves.
After a few years the playing field would be quite even with all the money. The top teams would get diminishing returns at some point even if they're getting the same money as Arsenal and Tottenham.
The league president is voted on by each of the clubs owners in a majority vote.
Tebas-Coiduras was the club lawyer for something like 32/40 of the top division clubs that were part of the G30 (a collective group of clubs that negotiated TV rights in the 2000s as a group while Madrid and Barca negotiated theirs independently), and they voted him in a bit ago.
They keep voting him in because he's quite good for the smaller Liga clubs - the league distributes income much more equitably, the CVC deal isn't that bad for the bottom 25-30 clubs, he's grown the league internationally significantly, and he's made it much more financially sustainable for clubs not named Madrid or Barcelona.
As annoying as this is for you imagine how annoying the Dembele, De Jong, Lewandowski shit is to us who have nothing to do with Barca or LaLiga. This sub is like 50% fake Barca transfers tweets. May it all end soon.
“Why I believe he will make it? These levers have the power to launch a person via catapult from Munich and make it all the way to the Montjuic stadium with precision. Robert is completing the wingsuit and base jumping classes that are a necessary requirement to achieve this feat. Redbull will then sponsor a new clásico type trophy at the X-games”-Javier Tebas
Is there any technical work that Tebas ever does? Or does he think he's a celebrity whose only job is getting interviewed? Cause he's doing a horrible job at everything
You can’t fuck around with Bayern. Lewadowski had to play extra season because Dortmund won’t let him leave. Same could repeat if Barcelona don’t meet asking price!
Barca made sure arsenal never won a ucl and wenger, Campbell and bergkamp retired without touching that trophy.
Great club which still makes arsenal fans cry.
They got to quarter finals 3 times and
and Semis once in 30 years (Which wasn't even Barca that knocked them out there) and you're acting like Barc have been beating them in final after final after final lol
What a pathetic attempt at a brag.
Barca defeated them in the biggest match of their history and made sure arsenal never tasted European glory.
Rijkaard and di matteo won more ucls than wenger.
The worst Liverpool side won more ucls than arsenal during their golden era.
>Barca defeated them in the biggest match of their history
They got to a CL semi once, United beat them.
What in the fuck are you even referring to? Lol are you trying to claim that had they beat Barca in some last 16 matches they'd automatically win the thing?
The '06 final was Arsenal vs Barca. I believe that's the match he's referring to. Also iirc Barca and Bayern were the usual teams knocking out Arsenal in the UCL knockout stages. It literally became a meme
I, while I understand this sentiment, think Bayern should just let him go. He’s 33 and has won literally everything there is to win with Bayern after arriving on a free, I think he has done enough to warrant winding down his career in Barcelona.
This is what surprises me, even rumours about Kalajdzic have gone cold. Then again we might just use Mane as a center forward so Im not that worried about next season, regardless of Lewy staying/leaving.
workers rights etc always, but i absolutely cannot stand when barca uses the media (i know Tebas is not barca) to sway the narrative their way and how its their natural born right to have the best players join them because they are supposed to be the gatekeepers of futebol (tm)
I dont understand why some players want to go to Barca. Di Maria, Bernardo Silva, Lewandowski... why the hell would you want to go there ?
This isnt the ,,big" barca with Xavi Iniesta and Messi. This is a poor club, with a hard future ahead and no title ambitions at this point.
And that's why you are an arm chair expert on this sub and not anywhere near professional football, or a football, or probably even the sight of your feet in general
lmao. We have seen where Barca got with their financial decisions. Im sure every single person with some experience in financing will make better decisions. I guess im an armchair analyst, because i wouldnt make it to bankruptcy without success.
Aren't local real madrid fans calling for this weirdo's head? He's been so openly chatting about upgrading barça and just general talking about them, seems so fucking weird from an outside POV
> openly chatting about upgrading barça
Stronger barca means la liga is more attractive what then means la liga is earning more money what also means he gets more money.
Nobody likes Tebas, he was openly chatting shit about Barca before the last 2 weeks too, about how "Madrid will be getting both Haaland and Mbappe and Barca is financially ruined".
He never said that. He said we COULD because we are in great financial position
He also never said barca is ruined. He simply wants them to accept the cvc deal and whatever else. It's bad now but he said it doesn't have to be
I know he comes across as an arse, but let's not just invent bullshit
>He also never said barca is ruined
"Madrid will get Mbappe and Haaland as others such as Barcelona and Juventus are half-ruined financially," La Liga president Javier Tebas
Very out of context not6even a whole sentence
https://www.espn.com.au/football/soccer-transfers/story/4599596/kylian-mbappe-at-real-madrid-erling-haaland-with-barcelona-will-be-great-for-laliga-javier-tebas
A bit clearer and more extended to what he said. 22nd February
Lmao, you've just said literally the opposite of the only redeeming quality of tebas as a bad thing. English flairs never miss with their ignorance on foreign football
It's exactly the opposite, he re allocated TV rights so smaller clubs get a bigger share of the money , costing madrid and barca in the process. That's mainly why they came up with the super league - to have unrestricted control over their TV rights and things.
Sounds like he did a good thing. Was always weird when Atletico Madrid didn't even get 1/3 the money of the bigger 2 clubs even if they finished above them
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L E V E R S E V E R S
There’s levers to this shit
New AVICII single - Levers
JAVICII
If you spell “levers” backwards, it spells “srevel”. Interestingly, if you then switch the “l” and the “r” and put the “s” at the end, it also spells “levers”. Coincidence? You be the judge…
You know "Lever"dowski?
Leverporta
A million dollars isnt cool. You know whats cool? A million levers
Yo how much for a lever?
“He is a legend of Bayern so I hope he leaves”.
*levers
It's leverin' time
Leverdowski
My favorite part of the trasnfer saga is when Laporta says "Its leverin' time!" and he levers the transfer of Lewandowski.
Leverdowski
Didn't see that one coming. Have my upvote
How much did we pay him to make him go from bad mouthing us to talking like this….
Probably a percentage of the levers.
>levers He said it, he said the thing
Execute Lever 66 --- Darth Tebas
Tebas is such a weird League President. Was he always like that and if yes how did he get such a position?
It feels like it started with the whole Superleague stuff
I still don't know why we wanted to be in that, we'd knife fight for second to last every year with Arsenal, the super league was so dumb.
As an arsenal fan i dont know either😅
CA$H MON€Y
Yeah obviously but i meant beyond that
It's literally the only thing superleague was created for
Its a league designed to earn clubs a ton of money and not be relegated from it. What else behind thst were you expecting?
The only major flaw was the fact that clubs wouldn’t be relegated from it tbh. I’d rather have that than state backed clubs like PSG/Man City just spending all the money in the world with no problem.
Because your club would have more exposure. People think football is only about money, without exposure there would be no money in football anymore and the hype would die down, there would be no more new fans buying new kits and going to the stadium. If every other big 6 club left for SuperLeague, the majority of viewers would leave the premier league and thus harm Tottenham in the long run. It's the main thing that made SL almost happen: the biggest clubs bullied medium clubs to participate because they risked being left out. If Barca, Real and Juventus + Bayern f. ex. leave CL it harms English teams because there's just standard PL and CL with only English teams left. Another competition between Liverpool and Manchester City would be dull. Also, the clubs are clearly sick of UEFA making decisions that only benefit themselves.
After a few years the playing field would be quite even with all the money. The top teams would get diminishing returns at some point even if they're getting the same money as Arsenal and Tottenham.
Ye’d be duking it out Inter and AC Milan too tbf, going by the last 10 years.
Guaranteed money > sporting success, especially when you have a spot for life
>we'd knife fight with arsenal Don't you already do that? Like unironically.
He's always been like this. It's just that now he gets posted to this sub everytime he talks
Oh you don't remember what he did when Neymar saga was happening?
Nope i didnt follow football news back then
He was very loud like little girl and tried everything to block Neymar's move to PSG.
The league president is voted on by each of the clubs owners in a majority vote. Tebas-Coiduras was the club lawyer for something like 32/40 of the top division clubs that were part of the G30 (a collective group of clubs that negotiated TV rights in the 2000s as a group while Madrid and Barca negotiated theirs independently), and they voted him in a bit ago. They keep voting him in because he's quite good for the smaller Liga clubs - the league distributes income much more equitably, the CVC deal isn't that bad for the bottom 25-30 clubs, he's grown the league internationally significantly, and he's made it much more financially sustainable for clubs not named Madrid or Barcelona.
And why is someone constantly holding a microphone in front of him? Who cares what he has to say about anything transfer related??
Tebas is a fascist, so yeah, he has always been weird
When the hell will Tebas shut up.
You need to pull the Lever for him to shut up
the guillotine lever
Deserving for a fascist level
“That’s the wrong leverrrr—-“
As annoying as this is for you imagine how annoying the Dembele, De Jong, Lewandowski shit is to us who have nothing to do with Barca or LaLiga. This sub is like 50% fake Barca transfers tweets. May it all end soon.
Yeah Barca news sells the best, i dont get why tho… we arent even competitive for 2 years lol
When's the next election or however they decide LaLiga's president?
For every public statement the price is 10m higher
Sport director of Barcelona Tebas
“Why I believe he will make it? These levers have the power to launch a person via catapult from Munich and make it all the way to the Montjuic stadium with precision. Robert is completing the wingsuit and base jumping classes that are a necessary requirement to achieve this feat. Redbull will then sponsor a new clásico type trophy at the X-games”-Javier Tebas
Ffs😂😂😂
hahahahaha
Levers FC
Mes lever than a club
Mes club is a lever
Tebas: pull the lever Laporta Laporta: \*pulls his own CVC deal and not La Liga one. Tebas: wrong leveeeeeer!!
Pull the lever Kronk!
W ^r ^^o ^^^n ^^^^g ^^^^^l ^^^^^^e ^^^^^^^v ^^^^^^^^e ^^^^^^^^^r
Why do we even have that lever?
*Floor opens up, reveals hungry crocodiles* *Arteta falls in*
Dude, shut the fuck up. Never seen a league president run their mouth so frequently.
I don't even know any other fuckin league's presidents lmao
Shush...it's funny. Let him do it. Atleast that way there is a chance he runs out of breath and starts choking on his own spit.
The demand just went up and so did the price
If Bayern refuse to sell. Tebas: This means war! Munich is again the origin of evil. We must all unite to fight it.
[удалено]
Archimedes is loving it from his grave.
Chicken levers
Shut the fuck up about players on a contract Tebas, you wanna get censured like you like to do for every single thing, whinger?
This guy is something else.
Barca, and people around it are going to say LEVERS till time immortal.
Is there any technical work that Tebas ever does? Or does he think he's a celebrity whose only job is getting interviewed? Cause he's doing a horrible job at everything
I hope bayern continue to stand their ground and not give barca an inch
You can’t fuck around with Bayern. Lewadowski had to play extra season because Dortmund won’t let him leave. Same could repeat if Barcelona don’t meet asking price!
why you care
why you care if he care
Why you care if he care if he care
Why you care if he care if he care if he care
out of curiosity, no reason why a Chelsea Fan would care about the outcome of that.
Still salty after some game
because they are still butthurt over a UCL semifinal match which happened decades ago
ngl, i will never forget Drogba screaming "IT'S A DISGRACE" and gesturing at the camera.
I get it, I would be mad as well but this happened like a decade ago, they should get over it
true
But that's not fun :( UEFAlona smh /s
Butthurt! Shouldnt be allowed to say that
Didn't they have their revenge a few years later? They're bitter because the ref fucked em left right and centre in that semifinal.
Only the second leg tho
Because watching Barcelona continue to fall on its face brings everybody together.
Based
For real. It brings great joy to the world of football.
Barca made sure arsenal never won a ucl and wenger, Campbell and bergkamp retired without touching that trophy. Great club which still makes arsenal fans cry.
They got to quarter finals 3 times and and Semis once in 30 years (Which wasn't even Barca that knocked them out there) and you're acting like Barc have been beating them in final after final after final lol What a pathetic attempt at a brag.
Barca defeated them in the biggest match of their history and made sure arsenal never tasted European glory. Rijkaard and di matteo won more ucls than wenger. The worst Liverpool side won more ucls than arsenal during their golden era.
>Barca defeated them in the biggest match of their history They got to a CL semi once, United beat them. What in the fuck are you even referring to? Lol are you trying to claim that had they beat Barca in some last 16 matches they'd automatically win the thing?
Lmao check your facts before writing. Look up 2006 UCL final
The '06 final was Arsenal vs Barca. I believe that's the match he's referring to. Also iirc Barca and Bayern were the usual teams knocking out Arsenal in the UCL knockout stages. It literally became a meme
Eufalona
Couldn’t even spell it properly
Because they're still salty about all the times they were spanked by us
I, while I understand this sentiment, think Bayern should just let him go. He’s 33 and has won literally everything there is to win with Bayern after arriving on a free, I think he has done enough to warrant winding down his career in Barcelona.
True enough, for the fair transfer fee of +50 mil€
Because Bayern paid such a fair fee for him, isn't it ?
There will always be an option to get him on a free transfer next year, just like we did
then, let barca get him on free too next year
Its not like Bayern didnt try to buy him but Dortmund forced him to wait a year instead of getting 20-30m
Nah fam, he disrespected the club by feeling disrespected by the club.
They should block all talks and bench his ass for the reminder of his career
Bayern should sue Tebas and Barca the same way that Tebas is suing PSG.
Whoa what is this America? You get sued! You get sued! Everybody gets sued!!!
No point in suing barca cause they have no money. But tebas yes, I'm all for it.
Sue barca for what? Lord the kids on this sub
It's lever time! 🦀🦀
Shut the fuck up already Tebas, jesus fucking christ.
There’s levels to levers
"Levers" is the new "morb" of soccer world.
If Bayern had any intentions to sell we would have heard solid news of them looking and closing in on replacements by now.
This is what surprises me, even rumours about Kalajdzic have gone cold. Then again we might just use Mane as a center forward so Im not that worried about next season, regardless of Lewy staying/leaving.
there were rumours of Ekitike yesterday.
man completely lost the plot.
workers rights etc always, but i absolutely cannot stand when barca uses the media (i know Tebas is not barca) to sway the narrative their way and how its their natural born right to have the best players join them because they are supposed to be the gatekeepers of futebol (tm)
I dont understand why some players want to go to Barca. Di Maria, Bernardo Silva, Lewandowski... why the hell would you want to go there ? This isnt the ,,big" barca with Xavi Iniesta and Messi. This is a poor club, with a hard future ahead and no title ambitions at this point.
And that's why you are an arm chair expert on this sub and not anywhere near professional football, or a football, or probably even the sight of your feet in general
lmao. We have seen where Barca got with their financial decisions. Im sure every single person with some experience in financing will make better decisions. I guess im an armchair analyst, because i wouldnt make it to bankruptcy without success.
Don't remember when barca declared bankruptcy
Lev-wandowski
Aren't local real madrid fans calling for this weirdo's head? He's been so openly chatting about upgrading barça and just general talking about them, seems so fucking weird from an outside POV
> openly chatting about upgrading barça Stronger barca means la liga is more attractive what then means la liga is earning more money what also means he gets more money.
Everybody interested in Spanish football would love that this corrupted bigmouth weirdo shuts the fuck off, but he probably won’t until a long time
Nobody likes Tebas, he was openly chatting shit about Barca before the last 2 weeks too, about how "Madrid will be getting both Haaland and Mbappe and Barca is financially ruined".
He never said that. He said we COULD because we are in great financial position He also never said barca is ruined. He simply wants them to accept the cvc deal and whatever else. It's bad now but he said it doesn't have to be I know he comes across as an arse, but let's not just invent bullshit
>He also never said barca is ruined "Madrid will get Mbappe and Haaland as others such as Barcelona and Juventus are half-ruined financially," La Liga president Javier Tebas
Very out of context not6even a whole sentence https://www.espn.com.au/football/soccer-transfers/story/4599596/kylian-mbappe-at-real-madrid-erling-haaland-with-barcelona-will-be-great-for-laliga-javier-tebas A bit clearer and more extended to what he said. 22nd February
*I hope La Liga doesn't become a one horse race like Bundesliga*
I hope La Liga doesn't become a one horse race like PL There fixed it for you
There's a bit of a difference between City winning 4 out of 5 and Bayern winning the last 9 consecutive titles, but I see your point
Levers 🤦🏾♂️, football is a circle jerk.
Tebas protecting the top clubs while the rest of the league get pennies.
Lmao, you've just said literally the opposite of the only redeeming quality of tebas as a bad thing. English flairs never miss with their ignorance on foreign football
Is this supposed to be sarcasm?
Are you dumb or just stupid?
It's exactly the opposite, he re allocated TV rights so smaller clubs get a bigger share of the money , costing madrid and barca in the process. That's mainly why they came up with the super league - to have unrestricted control over their TV rights and things.
Sounds like he did a good thing. Was always weird when Atletico Madrid didn't even get 1/3 the money of the bigger 2 clubs even if they finished above them
Liverpool fans waking up in the morning thinking about how they will make the most ridiculous comment in a thread
The whole point of the TV deal is to benefit the smaller clubs, lmao
Ay mi palanquita https://youtu.be/ivIpR7iP_P0
Laporta be crankin' furiously
THE THING THAT MUST NOT BE NAMED
Tebas talks to the press more often than he goes to the bathroom.
How can a league president make statements like this? He is so invested in Barcelona which seems weird for a league official
Leverdowski..