Recent content by Ibn Battuta

This discussion will always be flawed because the genius of Makelele cannot be proven by individual stats or youtube highlights. You have to base yourself on those who watched him play week in week out and have a good memory and more importantly understand football. Makelele was one of the...

Fotball fans are quite the breed.

Mercury red. Ridiculous challenge that.

Ramsdale TAA-Cancelo-James-Dalot-Dias Salah-Neto-De Bruyne-Mount Jesus Bench: Steele, Greenwood, Andras, Taylor. Thoughts?

Why are you acting as if we have to go back that far to count Britain’s crimes? You were part of the invasion of Iraq, which was of one of the worst crimes committed against humanity. You can probably find people in the EPL with stronger ties to the British government than Abramovich has to the...

They are really saying nothing at all here. Point one and two are bare minimum efforts. Invest in the club to keep at tops? Of course, why would you invest to keep at mid-table? Point three they have no say in. Point 4 is the only one if any substance. But even there it is very pink skies at...

What is wrong with having Saudi owners that are not directly linked with government activities? In this case, one would prefer them over the Americans. If you want to look at human rights abuses, the Saudi's are playing in the mini leagues compared with the US. So point invalid.

British media are some sensionalist bastards. With the Daily Mail the prize donkey of them all. Hyperbole headline after hyperbole headline.

Might go down as the most underrated player in history. No hyperbole in that statement. I can’t think of another player so severely underrated.

I wouldn’t swap him for Trent. And Liverpool wouldn’t swap Trent for him either I presume. That’s the tale of the matter.

Same reason Bill Gates would sell all his assets if he lived in China and the US was in a tit for tat retaliation war with the country.

Matchday revenue is becoming increasingly less relevant then it was before. The digital revolution has made sure of that. I am not so sure having a 80,000 seater stadium is such a massive competitive advantage anymore.

The world is not black and white my friend. You can condemn Russia for obvious war crimes and at the same time say it is not right to send people to the gulag based on weak or unsubstantiated claims.

If Chelsea is worth 3bn but has a debt of 1,5bn, then any potential buyer would only pay 1,5bn cash to take over the club. If Chelsea is worth 3 bn but has no debt, any potential buyer would have to pay 3bn cash. This is because in scenario 1 you are basically taking on 1,5bn in debt. if you...

Did you just try to make an unfavourable comparison between Abramovich and Kissinger? Read up on history. Friendly advice despite your foul language. You are putting your massive ignoricance on display.