Originally Published December 28th 2023 for For Green Fields clients
Today's offering for Messi and Maradona clients is a Europe-wide listing of dodgy goalkeepers and other players (inspired by Nathan Collins and Jordan Pickford last evening).
Some players are willingly corrupt, others are persuaded to be corrupt and the majority experience a degree of coercion: "If you don't play to our bidding, we will destroy your career".
This mafia tactic works as players put their life first and there is so little difference in quality between the vast bulk of the playing population.
Messi doesn't have to be corrupt to succeed, nor 2023's top goalscorer Ronaldo, but the bog standard have to be performative to the systemic corruption.
Goalkeepers are a major focus of organised crime as mistakes are frequently game-changing but defenders giving away three goals or getting red carded in the early phases or giving away a late game-changing penalty also feature, as does the non-trying forward aka the Michael Owen Effect.
In the twisted world of systemic shenanigans, a player's value may increase if they are willingly corrupted as they energise insider trading possibilities via the short selling of their team in the market place over and over again.
The databases are on the new Australian server and are stratified into three layers dependent on the frequency of their corrupted output.
We also share a configurative construct suggesting how often a player can underperform without the corruption becoming evident to policing, analytical and whistleblowing entities.
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