I believe we now have evidence of FIFA's World Cup ticketing shell game: FIFA is colluding with third-party resale platforms for its own supply management.
Look at this SeatGeek map (secondary market!) for Saudi Arabia vs Cape Verde. The circled areas are not random single resale tickets, but large, contiguous blocks of seats: entire rows and swaths in sections 101/102, 112/113, 119/120, 134–137, 139, ...
The blue circles appeared weeks ago, then the purple blocks suddenly showed up a day or two ago, and the red blocks seem to have appeared recently too.
That's not what ordinary fan or even commercial scalper resale looks like who resell pairs, fours, and scattered seats. Instead, this looks like inventory being dumped in bulk onto secondary markets, at prices below FIFA's official site.
Why doesn't FIFA just lower prices on its own site Probably because official price cuts could trigger refund demands, chargebacks, or consumer-protection headaches from fans who already bought at much higher prices.
Instead FIFA keeps official prices high, avoids openly admitting the market-clearing price is lower, and moves unsold inventory through third-party resale platforms instead.
Unfortunately, expect us to lose our 3-5 best players this summer!😭
Vital we get every last penny for them & not sell on the cheap!
Then we’ve got to deal with all the crap coming back from loan spells & the crap that sat in the stands all last season!😩
Hectic summer.. #bafc
“reinvest the transfer profit into our club, stadium and First Team playing squad..”
Tbh with our current debt, the club and stadium can wait another year unless vital.
Another extremely tough season coming up, this money needs reinvesting purely on the playing squad #bafc
Striker Jake Beesley will complete a move to Bradford City for an undisclosed fee upon the opening of the summer transfer window.
The 29-year-old netted 13 goals in all competitions last season, winning the Players’ Player of the Year award.
Men's First Team Head Coach Gary Bowyer: "Last summer we recruited a player who we believed was a top striker in League One and needed the opportunity to show it. He was brought in to provide experience, goals and hunger to the team and he has done exactly that."
Sporting Director Richard Dorman: "We will continue to reinvest the transfer profit into our club, stadium and First Team playing squad to move towards building a stronger and sustainable club in the future.”
We'd like to wish Jake the best for the future. #TheBrewers
Je suis parisien mais il faut remettre un peu de contexte et garder un minimum d'objectivité.
Le PSG évolue dans une époque du foot où Arsenal était à un penalty de réaliser le doublé LDC + PL.
Le PSG n'a aligné son équipe type qu'une seule fois cette saison et c'était en finale.
Ils ont le luxe de pouvoir gérer leur effectif toute l'année, se reposer en championnat et même décaler des matchs pour arriver dans les meilleures conditions en LDC.
De son côté, Barcelone 2015 a battu successivement les champions d'Angleterre, d'Allemagne, de France et d'Italie, tout en disputant plus de 60 matchs ensemble au cours de la saison.
Le Barça 2015 était clairement plus fort.
PSG what a team, they’re most likely winning in again next season since they found the glitch of benching players in Ligue 1 and focusing on UCL.
No other Elite team in Europe can do that.
Final was full of fraud checks and stinkers. Got me thinking how Yamal is genuinely the only one whose stocks have stayed intact despite 3 straight UCL eliminations.
He wasn't poor, anonymous, or rattled in any of those games man. That's what makes it so crazy. He's so far ahead