Sounds like @Kopstar may have been earwigging or not telling us the truth about his day job 
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Went to see the thread and I’m blocked by that Mobyhaque guy 
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Nothing else really said in the thread except a quote from Paratici. And other people joking about PSG
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Found it interesting that Messi’s signing on fee has been paid in party in crypto currency. Must help them avoid FFP. Suspect we will see more of this from the sport washers.
I really wish football fans united against clubs like City, PSG and Chelsea. Someone with a bit of creativity could start a chant that had negative connotations for sportswashing that opposing clubs would sing when they faced one of these teams, to remind the owners that sportswashing is fooling no-one. If a Sheikh is willing to invest so much time and money into improving their image through a football team(s), then imagine how damaging 60k fans singing about them and the 100m TV audience taking that in will have? Right now the fan on the street laughs off what City are doing in a “well what can you do?” kind of way.
I know we make it a thing not to sing about other clubs, except “the fuck of Chelsea FC” song, but we really should make an exception for something that is damaging the sport so irreparably.
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Truth is many (most?) fans probably don’t really care. They just want someone at their club splashing the cash like those owners do.
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How will this help PSG avoid FFP?
It matters not a jot in which currency a club pays a player. It all counts as expenditure.
So, even if PSG paid Messi in Matebele wood beads it would still count in the FFP calculation. 
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It’s also a currency that is fluid and difficult to follow. It’s why most govts are still struggling with how to deal with it; inc on taxation.
Why wouldn’t PSG just pay it in conventional cash if it didn’t matter. Imo it very much matters.
Furthermore, how many of us supported Blackburn in their challenge to Utd?
It’s a game that has always had people from the outside looking to come in and invest money. I dont think these projects are uniformly seen as bad. Historically where it has been viewed as such is when it is done at the expense of the tradition and wants of the existing fans, which is why the like of Walker were so well regarded in the game.
More recently, I think the sums of money being used are so much greater that they’ve actually become destabilizing. Jack Walker was simply competing with Utd and Liverpool for players. Early 2000s Chelsea were blowing sides out of the water. Secondly, as football has become more lucrative, the cost of entry for owners has become higher and so there is more of a focus on the source of the money that is being used. This is what makes a guy who owns Del Monte foods something that it’s possible to enjoy (Cragnotti’s Lazio in the 90s) compared to money coming from a group who owns humans.
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That’s different then. City would never do that.
Once you have acquired the currency, it can be difficult to follow. But the initial acquisition of crypto-currency, is a different matter. You have to pay hard cash to acquire bitcoin, and the transaction would be recorded in PSG’s accounts.
Presumably Messi asked for payment in that way, and PSG obliged. From PSG’s perspective it made no difference.They would have had to pay hard cash to acquire the cryptocurrency, and that transaction would have been as transparent as if they’d paid Messi directly with the cash.
In any case, had PSG intended the payment in Bitcoin to Messi to be covert, to slip under the FFP radar so to speak, they would hardly make the fact public knowledge.
That would rather defeat the objective. 
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But the crypto is PSGs own. They are litteraly printing their own money. One of their ‘tokens’ is currently 40odd dollars. How much can psg inflate/deflate their own coin? They have full influence over the currency.
Anyway I’m just somewhat sceptical about it. Not crypto,l in general, but its use in this instance.
Maybe we can just grant a few shares to mbappe.
Worth noting…