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owl in reply to @tbc

Genuine question, I clearly don't follow closely enough, but why are red bull so bad?

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Prole. in reply to @owl

Genuine question, I clearly don't follow closely enough, but why are red bull so bad?

The 50+1 ownership rule is the bedrock of German football clubs. Every club allow fans to become members, RBL subverted it by only allowing a small number of Red Bull employees to become members. Plus the whole buying another club, moving it, buying promotion etc.

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owl in reply to @Prole.

Cheers for the context. Seems of a different moral magnitude to the various managers taking the petro-state dollar, but we all draw our own lines in the sand I guess.

Funny that his first action in the new job may well be to sack his old mate Pep Lijnders.

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