UEFA chief labels Man United and Chelsea as ‘cheats’
by stresster on June 6th, 2008
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And to be fair, he does have a point. Michel Platini was a great player in his day and he doesn’t hold back when it comes to speaking out over the issues that are currently blighting the game of football. One of these happens to be certain English clubs who get themselves into a ridiculous amount of debt in order to sign the world’s best players and pay them extraordinary salaries. The Daily Mail reports that the Frenchman wants to stop the likes of Man United and Chelsea ‘cheating’ the system.
Platini has also started a crusade to rid the Premier League of debt-ridden clubs, branding the Chelsea v Manchester United Champions League Final as a battle of the “cheats”.
He said: “Look at the deficits of Chelsea and Manchester United. FIFA and UEFA are going to have to combat that because, today, it is the ones who cheat who win.
“We are starting to work on this. It’s a race for money. The passion in England is exceptional and hooliganism has been fought but, as for the rest, we are going to have to find something.”
Indeed, that’s what makes a club such as Arsenal more likeable - their attempt to balance the books at every turn, even if it means losing players due to having a salary structure in place. While some clubs are always going to be bigger than others, this foreign investment that Chelsea and United are enjoying widens the gap between themselves and the rest of the teams in Premier League and Champions League.
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Tagged Under: Arsenal FC, Chelsea FC, FIFA, Manchester United, Michel Platini, UEFA
dogmanstar - June 6th, 2008 at 4:20 pm
Oh now I just can’t wait for all the fuck-wit scousers and gooners to come on here and justify this article.
pete - June 6th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Well Monsiuer Platini is obviously completely brain dead and good footballer he may have been, but business man or accountant he is not. Man Utd borrowed £700 million against the assets of the club which is valued in excess of £1.5 billion so no problem there. Chelsea don’t have any debts at all!! It’s a privately owned company, the owner paid off all the debts when he took over. The £500 million spent ( which includes the intial purchase of the club and it’s freehold in Fulham in London one of the most sought after pieces of world real estate!!!) is on the books as an interest free loan.
Do keep up, next you’ll be telling me Sep Blatters 6+5 proposal is to help the England national team….
James Bennett - June 6th, 2008 at 4:32 pm
How the fuck are united cheating, not a single fan wanted to be bought out and burdened with a huge debt that had put my season ticket up 40%, but no one from uafa stopped the gimps from buying us, so stop talking shit now you cunt, and get back to sucking blatters cock!!
Matt - June 6th, 2008 at 4:33 pm
Arsenal will be more likeable when they start fielding more than ONE English player in their team. Until then, quit the ‘holier than thou’ attitude. At least Man U and Chelsea can’t be challenged on the number of English players in their team, and as for Platini, if foreign players want to come and play in the English league because its the most exciting league to be in, what right does he have to stop them ? Also someone please tell him that for a while now, there’s been more money in the German leagues so he should get his facts right.
Chris8218 - June 6th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
Is Platini not aware that the elite clubs in the other top leagues, namely Spanish and Italian also have clubs that have huge debts? Seems like he and Blatter love trageting only Premier league clubs
Anonymous - June 6th, 2008 at 5:09 pm
but yet UEFA contribute to the financial mismatch through the great cash cow that is the champions league
even the difference in money between the CL and Uefa Cup is enormous, so they are plowing money into the top 4 every year, allowing them to pay the best wages and sign the best players, so they finish in the top 4 again
BW POSITIVE - June 6th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
MAN UTD ISNT IN DEBT, but the owners themselves, which reflects onto the club. Platini is a prat, and his points REEK OF BITTERNESS as he has always been a strong opposer to English football. The fella that wrote this article who said he has a point is a nob head! Typical rival fan, hiding behind a completely unneccessary outburst to put shame on 2 clearly superior clubs. Arsenal are losing their stars NOT because they balance books, but because the board are a group of stringent, greedy men who use Wengers ability to sign youth, as a means of mining unpolihed diamonds and making a mint! Would that bald twat have said Man Utd were indebt BEFORE the Gingers bought the club, COURSE NOT!!!!! Chelsea are only “indebt” as a means of the annual running of the club, and Roman has already spoken of the demand to cut the squad and they WILL ACHIEVE THIS INSTANTLY. The clubs books are backed by the billionaire, and ALL big money signings were NOT payed for by the club, but by the big man himself. You complete w*nkers, if you dont know your football, DONT BACKUP A MAN THAT WOULD HAVE OUR LEAGUE NO BETTER THAN THE CHAMPIONSHIP IF HE HAD A WAY. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Simon - June 6th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
They tried to enforce something similar awhile back but when they discovered all the top teams like Real and Barca had huge debts they backed down.
There has always been a consipiracy in Europe with regards to English clubs. There has hardly been British winners for the European footballer of the year award. Owen was the first in 20 years. Dalglish didn’t get a look in when Liverpool were the top team in Europe in the 70’s and 80’s and was a superior player to Platini himself. If his name was Dalglishio he would have got it for sure.
Keegan got it two years running when he was at Hamburg. Liverpool were European champions at the time.
Dogmanstar..your a prick.
BW POSITIVE - June 6th, 2008 at 5:30 pm
Simon, completety back you up. THERE IS a counter balance working against anything English. Platini said they are CURRENTLY working on a way to prevent English clubs dominating europe. Doesnt anyone realise this is clearly their 6+5 ridiculous plan. Wish they would just fck off man and leave our league to blossom. The old boys hate the fact that their beloved Serie A has become dilluted, weak and a bore to watch. To actually say the english wont be missed when everyone but the dog is sympathetic as to the absence of the 3 lions. BITTER LITTLE BALD FVCKER !!!
Anonymous - June 6th, 2008 at 5:35 pm
british press = fuckwits
BW POSITIVE - June 6th, 2008 at 5:39 pm
Chris8218, “seems like”. DURRR. What rock did you just crawl from under. Are you a teenager ? Because only them lot have NO IDEA about football. Blatter and Platini ARE 100% AGENDA motivated against the English league. They always have been. Its been moted, noted, and yet forgotten. Jack Warner admitted it, that the entire top tier in football is stained with corruption and an anti english attitude. But our FA bald big wigs have balls like RAISINS and do FCK ALL! Its time we spoke out and acussed FIFA AND EUFA of having an agenda. What happened when the champions league quarter final fixtures were leaked and exposed, NOTHING. Because people are lazy, unambitious and think anything just doesnt account to them and sit like pig in sh1t whilst the world moves around them! Those men are plotting, by default the introduction of new regulations that will have a massively drastic effect on this league. And the majority of our “fans” or chavs in disguise, sit and actually AGREE with some of their sh1te. EW, article writer….Bill ya mother for me !
BW POSITIVE - June 6th, 2008 at 5:40 pm
Anon, WTF does the ENGLISH press have ANYTHING to do with Platinis onslaught. You are the EXACT prototype of the muppet I speak of…Not having a single clue yet so judgemental and opinion with no direction or relativity. The fabric of your response being “d1ck” or something teenage chav like. Go grow some pubes man!
l dabo - June 6th, 2008 at 6:52 pm
that comment is just egocentric. i did not expect such from a figure like him. Who says other countries and individual clubs should not do the same.
l dabo - June 6th, 2008 at 6:55 pm
ITS SAD HEARING SUCH FROM HIM. HE SHOULD NOT BE JELOUSE.
dogmanstar - June 6th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Simon wrote “There has always been a consipiracy in Europe with regards to English clubs.”
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Not surprisingly this stems from 1985 when a certain team’s fans ran amock causing the death of 39 Italians.
Anonymous - June 6th, 2008 at 10:04 pm
Platini is a fool. He is bitter because France do not produce football stars! How many of the french national team or domestic players are actually french. Majority are north africans that have been given citizenships and visa’s to work in france just to support the french leauges and national side. Even the great Zidane isn’t french. he is north african algerian. He should be addressing that problem of his nations policy of stealing foriegn players for their national team. Which other world cup nation does that! Now that is really cheating!
Anonymous - June 6th, 2008 at 10:28 pm
this is a fantastic article,platini is no idiot he is telling it like it is, teams should have to balance the books,how can teams compete for players equally if say villa offer £40,000 a week then along come man u or chelsea & offer £80,000 per week where is the player going to go?the debt man u are in is around £650m-£700m & with chelsea’s income from there ground about 43,000 capacity they would be lucky to finish in the top six.A rule should be brought in to stop all this free spending its spoiling the premier league.there should also be a cap on players wages i mean footballer’s now are treated like pop stars.if you went to a concert and the artist didn’t perform you’d get your money back most off us all go to games week in week out when some of our players dont perform they should give their money back the wages now are ridiculous!.
dogmanstar is a cock - June 6th, 2008 at 10:34 pm
dogmanstar your the only fuck-wit on here.
Deranged - June 6th, 2008 at 11:52 pm
dogmanstar, they must hate the English. Why didn’t they just ban the said English team who killed the 39 Italians, and not all clubs, and for five years. Did you see footage of that match, the italian fans were blameless were they. We all know the Italians are no angels, didn’t man u fans have a bit of an altercation not so long ago, was that man u’s fault.
The Press - June 7th, 2008 at 9:13 am
The reason for Platini’s barely disguised loathing of English football is related to heysal but not for the deaths of fans because that happens more regularly in Scotland, Germany, Holland, Poland, Russia and Croatia. His obsession is that the English fans robbed him of his moment of glory. Heysal is remembered only for the tragedy and not as Platini’s finest moment. His insane vanity has never aloowed him to forgive English football since and he should be relieved of his post at UEFA.
As for his specific rant this time, he may be correct with Chelsea and Man City, whose owners have artificially increased their value. but he’s absolutely wrong about Man Utd, where the debt wasn’t incurred by the club and has no influence on the playing side. he’s wrong about Liverpool, who are being hindered by the Americans and have been starved of funds for players and the new stadium.
Unfortunately, Platini is an idiot when it comes to England.
Moses - June 7th, 2008 at 12:39 pm
i am a gunner but i disagree with platini totally,his main aim is to destroy the premierleague,why has he not mentioned barca,real,inter and milan.
ronaldo = bottler - June 8th, 2008 at 10:44 am
i have to say he’s got a point. but he’s directing it in a wrong way. yes man u and chelsea are cheats but on the pitch more than off it.
consider steve bennett ! and the fact fergie gets away with all that he does, they appear to get away with everything, they sold out first by becoming a plc first, and it was utd who beck-ham-ised the premiership turning it into a catwalk.
so in my view utd are the biggest cheats on and off the pitch, chelsea are too but in a much smaller way.
dogmanstar is a bellend, but he’s probably being supporting utd since this season so cut him some slack.
(not a pool fan)