I certainly remember there being something bizarre about it. It wasn’t a small sum either from memory
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Power shift well and truly underway. Me 'eads fallen off.
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The club also revealed that the Russian billionaire Alisher Usmanov, a business partner of the majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, has strengthened his ties with the club after agreeing to pay £30m up front for an exclusive option on naming rights for their new stadium. Usmanov’s holding company USM already sponsors Everton’s training ground.
Dodgy dodgy.
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I assume the Russian billionaire made his money from fossil fuels which is amusing if you think about building over sea water.
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Usmanov built his wealth through metal and mining operations, and investments,[3] and is the majority shareholder of Metalloinvest, a Russian industrial conglomerate, which consolidated in 2006 JSC Metalloinvest’s assets (the Mikhailovsky GOK and the Ural Steel) with those of Gazmetall JSC (the Lebedinsky GOK and the Oskol Electrometallurgical Plant).[4]
He owns the Kommersant publishing house. He is also a co‑owner of Russia’s second-largest mobile telephone operator, MegaFon, and co-owner of the Mail.Ru group,[5] the largest internet company in the Russian-speaking world,[6] which owns stakes in popular web portals like Odnoklassniki, VKontakte and others. Usmanov is the largest investor of Digital Sky Technologies (“DST”) funds, and holds shares in a number of international technology companies.[7] Usmanov eventually teamed up with Yuri Milner.[8]
Ah right, just one of those who took advantage of the mass sell off of The Russian state.
Vultures
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Digne signs a new deal until 2025.
Good news for them.
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Anyone else see the liking to Southall…
Kingsway Tunnel breakthrough - under the River Mersey 1970
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No, that guy’s not a bin man!
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Clubs have to take responsibility here. I’ve said before that it would be a huge drain on a clubs resources to have permanent security at their players homes. They are very often specifically targeted due to their wealth and general isolation from friends and family.
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I was thinking Pickford had something to do with the robbery but it was armed robbery so it can’t be him.
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And he’d drop all the loot
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He’ll be more successful at dishing out footed r̶o̶b̶b̶e̶r̶y injury.
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…Unless it was Short Armed Robbery…! :0))
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It’s worrying that it’s armed, the spate of robberies we had a few years back were when the player and family were usually at games.
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Altrincham is in Greater Manchester isn’t it? Dirty, robbing, thieving Mancs!! And they sing songs about us.
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Now Flappy… U know what it feels like…an armless incident was it??
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Have you got your COVID shot!!!
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