This was obvious.
The media preferred the narrative that βElliot chose Cityβ because itβs exactly what rival fans wanted to hear. But it was never the case.
You could see how much United featured in his interviews. He was clearly bitter that we didnβt put up the money.
115 charges enabled City to overpay Β£130m and offer ridiculous wages. He now regrets it massively.
#MUFC #MCFC
This was obvious.
The media preferred the narrative that βElliot chose Cityβ because itβs exactly what rival fans wanted to hear. But it was never the case.
You could see how much United featured in his interviews. He was clearly bitter that we didnβt put up the money.
115 charges enabled City to overpay Β£130m and offer ridiculous wages. He now regrets it massively.
#MUFC #MCFC
In 2020, nine traders from a small village outside London made $660 million in a single afternoon.
One of them was 22 years old. He made over $100 million.
The day was April 20. Oil had never in history traded below zero. That afternoon, it fell to minus $37 a barrel.
The traders weren't from Goldman Sachs or a giant hedge fund. They worked out of a tiny firm in Essex called Vega Capital, whose website just said "under construction." They were led by a former trading pit veteran whose nickname was "Cuddles."
They were friends. They drove Rolls-Royces and Bentleys, went on holiday to Marbella, and supported West Ham together.
In the video below, the Bloomberg reporters who tracked them down explain what happened.
"I think they made as much money in one day as Apple makes from its international sales in one day."
At 2:08 pm, oil went negative. They had bet on it falling, and every contract paid them on both sides of the trade.
"I can't think of another example where you enter a trade and you get paid on both sides."
Thousands of ordinary investors in a Chinese oil fund lost everything that same day.
And in the final half hour before the price was set, nine guys from Essex were the biggest sellers in the entire market, bigger than the world's largest banks, BP and Shell.
They've been sued in the US for market manipulation and investigated by UK regulators. They say they did nothing wrong.
Was it the greatest trade in history, or did nine friends from Essex push the price of oil below zero?
π¨ Michael Carrick & coaching staff informed by Manchester United of decision to part company. 45yo + main backroom team members already departed Carrington after receiving news. #USMNT boss Mauricio Pochettino lined up to take over at #MUFC@TheAthleticFC https://t.co/hhcmBHj0aC
For those with only a superficial understanding of this here's some more context.
Pinto was convicted of extortion as well as hacking. His motives were far from noble, he was extorting people with hacked information.
He cut a non custodial deal with Portuguese, French and German authorities in exchange for handing over four massive hard drives of hacked information on many European clubs.
The only clubs to have been pursued from his hacks so far are Man City and PSG (both Arab owned).
The threat to his life isn't from either of those clubs, it is from the former "richest woman in Africa" Dos Santos, the daughter of Angolaβs former president and once recognized as Africa's richest woman, was the target of the "Luanda Leaks" in 2020.
It cost her billions. Interpol issued a Red Notice for her arrest, she now lives in exile in Dubai.
His recent foray into the public domain to try to grift money from speaking about City resulted in his protection being removed because one of the conditions of that protection is that he shuts the fuck up.
This is not a story about City but some will try to convince you it is. This journalist flirts with it.
Those hard drives were supposed to locked away and Pinto was supposed to zip it.
However there is once more significant attention being paid to this. That the UK government have decided to stick their heads above the trench will increase the scrutiny and I believe that's the last thing most governing bodies and many clubs in Europe want.
There are many clubs with much to fear from this.
π¨ If Your A City Fan Panicking Over The Premier League Verdic, Don't!! β Premier League Have Made A Massive Mistake: π
Interesting Take π€
#ManCity#PL#Football
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At 19,Jacob Dunne threw one punch outside a bar in Nottingham. The man he hit was James,a 26-year-old trainee paramedic he had never met. James never woke up. Jacob served 13 months. Today,James's mother says she's proud of him.
July 2011. Jacob was in a gang,out celebrating a friend's 18th birthday. Fights were part of a good night out. "You'd talk about it before going out. I hope we get into a bit of a scrap tonight." Everyone gets into fights,he says. "You dust yourself off and you have a laugh about it the next day."
James didn't get to dust himself off. His family turned off his life support.
Jacob pleaded guilty to manslaughter and got 30 months. He was out in 13. His mother,Joan,was furious. "I felt my son's life was worth more than 13 months."
In the video below,they sit next to each other on a morning TV sofa,close enough to touch. Jacob is calm and well-spoken. When he's asked what went through his head when he found out James had died,he answers honestly: "I felt a bit sorry for myself. I was like,how can this happen to me?" Joan sits right next to him while he says it. I kept watching her face. Nothing moved.
She was the one who reached out. Through a restorative justice program,she sent him questions. She just wanted to know what happened that night. He agreed to answer. That one letter turned into years of conversations.
Jacob went to university,studied criminology,and now works with kids who look exactly like he did. Joan says prison did nothing for him. "He came out worse." She thinks she's the one who changed him.
Is Joan the strongest mother you'll ever see,or did she hand her son's killer a second chance her son never got? Would you have written that letter?