Today's Football

[ShaunWhite]

As usual all the partisan England money made the opposition great value.
0-1, hedged up, job done, dinero fácil

[Safeway]

As usual all the partisan England money made the opposition great value.
0-1, hedged up, job done, dinero fácil

On the match odds I'm seeing £0.3m on England and £1.7m on Spain.
Not too sure about partisan money

[Euler]

Much better 2nd half from England. Pressed better, more tackles.

[Euler]

Well done England, amazing.

[LeTiss]

Another misfiring bot I notice.

Wexford (W) vs Shamrock (W) tonight at 6pm

£101,000 traded at 1.04 for Over 2.5 Goals

This seems to be happening quite regularly lately

[jamesedwards]

Another misfiring bot I notice.

Wexford (W) vs Shamrock (W) tonight at 6pm

£101,000 traded at 1.04 for Over 2.5 Goals

This seems to be happening quite regularly lately

To make it worse, it's the half time 2.5g market too.

Nobody seems to be trying to offload any of it. And now with the new graphs you can see it all went through at the same time, 07:23:28 so looks like all one trade. Perhaps it's a deliberate movement of money?

[LeTiss]

It's very strange mate. I've noticed it a lot recently. When I load up football markets and sort into volume......there's quite often 1 obscure market with a huge amount of money traded

[jamesedwards]

It's very strange mate. I've noticed it a lot recently. When I load up football markets and sort into volume......there's quite often 1 obscure market with a huge amount of money traded

Could have sworn is was half time 2.5g when I looked earlier, but now seems to be full time 2.5g. Perhaps I am going senile in my old age.

[Dublin_Flyer]

The Shamrock Rovers Womens team got a new manager recently, Stephanie Zambra (Formerly Roche) She scored a worldie that was nominated for the Puskas award a few years ago and Ronaldo and Messi were caught on camera oogling her legs at the ceremony. If it was a media scraping bot placing bets/trades over mentions that's about the only thing you'll hear about either of those womens teams.

That's a bit of a reach though, I'd go with jamesedwards view of deliberate movement of money/money laundering.

[Leb]

Another misfiring bot I notice.

Wexford (W) vs Shamrock (W) tonight at 6pm

£101,000 traded at 1.04 for Over 2.5 Goals

This seems to be happening quite regularly lately

To make it worse, it's the half time 2.5g market too.

Nobody seems to be trying to offload any of it. And now with the new graphs you can see it all went through at the same time, 07:23:28 so looks like all one trade. Perhaps it's a deliberate movement of money?

There has been speculation that syndicate accounts conveniently lose to private accounts every now and then, which don’t have to pay corporate tax. In many sports, you sometimes see £300,000 in turnover when the normal would be around £3,000. This has gone on for so long that it’s probably not a case of criminal money laundering as such. Or the mates just like generating massive turnover between themselves on some market, which then pops up on the front page — without either of them actually having any real risk on the outcome.

[jamesedwards]

Another misfiring bot I notice.

Wexford (W) vs Shamrock (W) tonight at 6pm

£101,000 traded at 1.04 for Over 2.5 Goals

This seems to be happening quite regularly lately

It's a winner! Full time 2-1.

[Euler]

Betfair compliance are usually pretty hot on this sort of thing.

[Kai]

Just 3 days to go until the Community Shield kicks off the new season

Not everyone seems to be ready for it, their prices could still move quite a bit... Newcastle are having an absolute mare in the transfer market, lost out on every single target and wouldn't surprise me if they get completely rinsed for Nicolas Jackson at this point, if that's their next target

I'm not sure if what their owners are trying to do is even possible anymore, Chelsea did it first and it's water under the Bridge now, while City's fate is still in limbo... I've paid St James' Park a visit the day before the cup final and the only real talking point was a legend from 70 years ago when they've won their last domestic trophy, they very much needed this one. CL football and a trophy is massive, but the next step will be brutal. I also loved seeing Palace lift their first one as well, that's what footy should be about really.

But I still find Chelsea's scattergun recruitment a bit annoying, they just seem to be hoarding every young player with potential they can get their hands on, there still doesn't seem much planning on how they fit into the actual squad or the system. Almost feels like FOMO buying because they've missed out on so many generational talents in recent years. There was obviously Salah, then Kevin de Bruyne, they also released Declan Rice, plus Musiala, and probably more... Meanwhile, offloading homegrown players that cost £0 to produce but count as 100% profit on the books. It might be smart business but its annoying

[jamesedwards]

But I still find Chelsea's scattergun recruitment a bit annoying, they just seem to be hoarding every young player with potential they can get their hands on, there still doesn't seem much planning on how they fit into the actual squad or the system. Almost feels like FOMO buying because they've missed out on so many generational talents in recent years. There was obviously Salah, then Kevin de Bruyne, they also released Declan Rice, plus Musiala, and probably more... Meanwhile, offloading homegrown players that cost £0 to produce but count as 100% profit on the books. It might be smart business but its annoying

The little I have followed what Chelsea have been up to, they seem to be basing their whole PSR-avoidance plan on extremely long term player contracts and amortisation. It might seem smart now, but surely this is going to come back to bite them in the arse in 5+ years time when they're still covering the cost of players they're buying now? Probably I'm being too simplistic.

[Kai]

But I still find Chelsea's scattergun recruitment a bit annoying, they just seem to be hoarding every young player with potential they can get their hands on, there still doesn't seem much planning on how they fit into the actual squad or the system. Almost feels like FOMO buying because they've missed out on so many generational talents in recent years. There was obviously Salah, then Kevin de Bruyne, they also released Declan Rice, plus Musiala, and probably more... Meanwhile, offloading homegrown players that cost £0 to produce but count as 100% profit on the books. It might be smart business but its annoying

The little I have followed what Chelsea have been up to, they seem to be basing their whole PSR-avoidance plan on extremely long term player contracts and amortisation. It might seem smart now, but surely this is going to come back to bite them in the arse in 5+ years time when they're still covering the cost of players they're buying now? Probably I'm being too simplistic.

Yeah, I'm no financial expert either but they've been abusing amortisation to stockpile high potential players. Until UEFA closed their little loophole, so clubs can no longer spread a transfer fee across more than five years of a player's contract. The other key factor is Abramovich writing off the 1.5b debt that the club owed him, that gave them a healthy platform to just keep spending.

They say they're building a legacy with their Vision 2030 academy project, but it just seems like they're interested in player trading to squeeze max long term value out of them.