Heraclitus asserted that most human beings live in a sleep and a false
dream of the world, in constant disharmony.
Enter, stage left, His Excellency, Doctor Thaksin Shinawatra, lover of
the poor, an ethical beacon for all lesser mortals.
The situation at Manchester City is becoming a soap opera. We all
understand that everything is going to end in tears but we are unable
to tear ourselves away from the climax of the plot.
Just how crazy are the levels to which His Excellency might stoop?
Think Feng Shui, and you will be in the right area (see below).
Having lost the support of a good number of Manchester City fans
following his disgraceful treatment of Sven Goran Eriksson, His
Excellency is working hard to regain their trust, which he so
foolishly threw away.
Noel Gallagher thinks His Excellency is "a bit of a nutcase" while we
think Cervantes sums up Shinawatra the best: "One minute, they looked
upon him to be in his senses, and the next, they thought he had lost
them all; so that they could not resolve what degree to assign him
between madness and sound judgement".
In this extensive post, we address three key areas relating to the
2008/09 brand of the English Premiership.
Firstly, we assess the weaknesses in the financing of the clubs in the
Premiership that are reliant on hyperowners, oligarchs and/or global
criminals for their fiscal foundations. We reveal which clubs are most
at risk of suffering in the current credit crunch climate, where no
banks are willing to lend to highly leveraged businesses. Nor, indeed,
anyone else.
Secondly, we focus specifically on Manchester City because our recent
privileged access to leaks from within the club and information from
our contact in Bangkok, reveal that His Excellency is going to be
keeping us very entertained over the coming months.
And, thirdly, we provide an intuitive overview of all Premiership
clubs for the coming season. As part of our new business Trade
Markets Data (TMD), we are establishing an Independent Ratings Agency
covering the transfer markets, the holistic financial stabilities of
the clubs and the fundamental parameters that determine the real
evaluations for both of these areas. Of course, TMD will be much more
than this but, now that I have got a top agent in place, we are
holding back on most of the finer details so that our market launch
will have even greater substance and impact.
In this third section of this post, we will provide a buy/sell rating
for all the Premiership teams, and this will be updated on the eve of
the new season when all the transfer and managerial activity has been
completed.
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