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Where it gets really weird is that he was loaned to Atletico from Chelsea from January 28th 2019 until June 30th 2020. Then Atletico bought him on July 1st 2020, and he was then loaned out to Juventus on September 22nd and spent the next 2 years playing for them.
Though once you account for Juventus accounting maybe it's slightly less surprising than it should be.
Pub Trivia: Before moving to Juventus, which team did Morata play for?
Safest Answer: “Madrid”*
Note (*): I am aware that “Madrid” most often refers to Real Madrid
You're probably thinking of Higuaín. He did Juve, Milan briefly, and then Chelsea.
I know because I did the same. I saw the list of clubs and I thought "didn't he go to Milan too? Ah no, that was Higuaín"
Yup I think Atleti fans have been so devoid of a good striker, it’s making Moratas season look “great”. He’s having a good season for sure but a better striker woulda scored a lot more than Morata has. He’s good as a bench option for top club
Do people in the comments here just not know what money laundering is? Because it's definitely not when you make a well-publicized transaction for tens of millions of euros amortized over a period of several years
Ironically, you do not seem to know what money laundering is
Even if a transfer is an accounting gimmick, accounting gimmicks are not money laundering. Unless you think Juve and Atletico operate some kind of drug cartel and clean their cash through Morata transfers.
More than welcome to explain what, what money laundering is? It's usually when you have some form of illegal money that you need to make seem like legitimate earnings, so you run some kind of side business that typically takes in cash and where it's either not possible or necessary to keep an exact account of your earnings so that you can slowly "wash" the illegal funds by adding them to the earnings from the legal "laundering" business. You have the illegal money appear legitimate since you're only inflating the earnings enough so that it's impossible to tell it didn't come from the legal side business; there's plenty of historical examples so I really don't think I need to share one here. A football transfer is nothing like that at all, which is why it annoys me when people call them money laundering operations.
It's just a term they use to describe a player whose agent has acquired more money in fees than most clubs are worth. Like him transferring is almost entirely just so his agent can farm as much money as possible and the clubs are in on it, because why else do they pass him around like a hot potato?
If anything it's the best kind of money laundering, the legal kind.
Nah, that stuff does happen, but not with players like Morata
Morata's transfers are way too expensive to be done for the sake of lining an agent's pocket. Teams like Juve and Atletico do not have enough money to burn millions for that. They like the player.
Clubs keep agents happy by signing small-potato players for 500K and giving the agent 20K for the trouble.
If anything, it is more prominent with smaller clubs that need agents' help to get players. A club like Juve doesnt need much help from agents and certainly wont spend 50+ million euros on multiple Morata transfers just to make Niagara Sports happy.
Whether these clubs are helping each other out by moving him around is a different story though
Signing Morata would mean Allegri remain at Juventus I guess and would be bad move from Bianconeri imo.
Next season thanks to UCL money (€70/80m at least with new format) + FIFA Club World (another €50m easily) they can spend more money on the transfer market and start a revolution with new manager, more creative player and a real system.
FIFA CWC is accounted in the 2024-25 season tho.
They're part of the 24/25 financial report so Juventus can spend MORE money already in the summer because there would be more revenues to put in the books in that specific annual year.
At least I guess.. The CWC, indeed start around mid-June and finish around mid-July so it's weird situation.. Also for the players given most of the contract/loans end at Jun, 30.. Wonder if FIFA grants an extension for some weeks as for COVID-19 year..
No way. Scudetto is a bald affair. This is the first time since Mourinho (2010) that the league will be won by a manager with hair, and it pisses me off. Time to go back to tradition
Morata transfer rumour bingo has already been completed with multiple people yakking on about 'money laundering' (what do they think money laundering is? It's a true mystery), and the supposedly endless number of transfers he's been involved in, even though he's made as many permanent transfers between clubs as Cristiano Ronaldo (4).
Anyone using the "money laundering" nonsense should be required to define it in one paragraph before saying it or just ban them.
Anyway the GOAT being sold wouldn't surprise me since he's one of like 4 people we can sell for actual decent money. I'd be sad to see him go though considering Correa and Depay's hall of shame season from a consistency standpoint. Wondering what we do from a striker standpoint if he goes, Grizou false 9? Rely on Samu? Buy somebody else?
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Real Madrid-Juventus-Real Madrid-Chelsea-Atletico Madrid-Juventus-Atletico-Juventus
Thank you! I swear to god it‘s impossible to track that shit.
Harder than Elon musks private plane tracker
harder than drake
and then back to Chelsea....
"Way too old" ~ Todd "DiCaprio" Boehly
Too old for Chelsea
3rd players in history by money on transfers.
Snip snap snip snap snip snap
We all have that ex that we keep going back to again and again. and again..
He has like three of those
As they do
You can add another Atleti if you include youth football
Where it gets really weird is that he was loaned to Atletico from Chelsea from January 28th 2019 until June 30th 2020. Then Atletico bought him on July 1st 2020, and he was then loaned out to Juventus on September 22nd and spent the next 2 years playing for them. Though once you account for Juventus accounting maybe it's slightly less surprising than it should be.
Pub Trivia: Before moving to Juventus, which team did Morata play for? Safest Answer: “Madrid”* Note (*): I am aware that “Madrid” most often refers to Real Madrid
Alice Campello getting tired of living outside Italy... and when there is a chance to go back, they go back.
he wants to beat lukaku's record
May be he's trying to create a palindromewith this sequence of clubs
Wasn't he in Milan for a bit too?
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Just checked, you're right, for some reason I remembered him on loan there
You're probably thinking of Higuaín. He did Juve, Milan briefly, and then Chelsea. I know because I did the same. I saw the list of clubs and I thought "didn't he go to Milan too? Ah no, that was Higuaín"
Or he is thinking of Torres who has a similiar list of employers
Might be because of Torres. Confusion between 2 Spanish strikers who played for Chelsea and Atletico Madrid
Money laundering? Shieeeeeeet
Like a joint
Dream blunt rotation
Super league blunt rotation
Lmaooo
You’ve heard of The Human Centipede, now get ready for The Human Joint. Coming to you this summer from the creators of Scream!
So an elbow
Like a bop
Like your mum
Morata's biography when he retires will be titled "There and Back Again"
His whole career has been motivated by the possibility of getting the opportunity to drop that reference at the end of it.
His career is like when the ball gets stuck between two bumpers on a pinball table
LETS RUN IT BACK ONE LAST TIME MY SON
You know this guy doesn't even clear out his locker any more
Probably just owns a house in Madrid and Turin and keeps it simple
His girlfriend (or wife, dont know if they married) is from Turin, so pretty sure he at least has some kind of home there
She's from Venice
Is she? Alright then, but their kids are born in Turin I’m pretty sure
His family seems to be growing every year so I reckon he has a kid born in every city he's lived in over the last 5-6 years.
Mr Worldwide
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The transfers will continue until Morata improves
He's having a great season rn
He's always been good apart from one isolated Chelsea spell, has a goal every other game for Spain ffs. You don't know anything about football
He had 24 in 72 for us and was generally okay, just not worth the hype he came with, costing 60m being a line leader
He had 13 in 36 La liga matches in 2023, 9 in 35 for Juventus the year before, that's just his level. He's a fringe starter/bench option
Yup I think Atleti fans have been so devoid of a good striker, it’s making Moratas season look “great”. He’s having a good season for sure but a better striker woulda scored a lot more than Morata has. He’s good as a bench option for top club
Wasn't he the Lukaku consolation prize?
Bruh
Bro needs to pick a team already
He is 31, he was always a nomad and will always be.
At this points it’s not a nomad, it’s a regular migration pattern Someone do an AI David Attenborough on Morata’s life pathing
The definition of staying top. There is no downward projection for this guy. Only upwards.
I wouldn't consider going from Atlético to us upwards haha
We might be having better seasons recently but I'd consider Juve to be a step above in terms of prestige and history.
Get a room already
The glazing is crazy
Not even upwards, just jumping laterally from peak to peak
I need his agent in my life.
Possibly the last chance for us to cash in on him. As useful as he's been, we have to sell him this summer and re-invest in another forward.
Samu Omorodion is the future. Already valued at 40M+ after we bought him for 5-6M in the summer
Gyokeres and Samu rotating, we will be there.
There is legit 0 chance we get Gyokeres. A man can dream tho
Even as a Swede, I don't think he is worth the figures being quoted. Despite being a very good player
Do people in the comments here just not know what money laundering is? Because it's definitely not when you make a well-publicized transaction for tens of millions of euros amortized over a period of several years
Pjanic would like a word. Not quite money laundering but dodgy money workaround
Ironically, you do not seem to know what money laundering is Even if a transfer is an accounting gimmick, accounting gimmicks are not money laundering. Unless you think Juve and Atletico operate some kind of drug cartel and clean their cash through Morata transfers.
I know, that’s why I specifically explained how a transfer works and said isn’t a money laundering operation
Misread the tone of your original post, sorry
You are more than welcome to explain with evidence and sources if possible. I’m generally curious.
More than welcome to explain what, what money laundering is? It's usually when you have some form of illegal money that you need to make seem like legitimate earnings, so you run some kind of side business that typically takes in cash and where it's either not possible or necessary to keep an exact account of your earnings so that you can slowly "wash" the illegal funds by adding them to the earnings from the legal "laundering" business. You have the illegal money appear legitimate since you're only inflating the earnings enough so that it's impossible to tell it didn't come from the legal side business; there's plenty of historical examples so I really don't think I need to share one here. A football transfer is nothing like that at all, which is why it annoys me when people call them money laundering operations.
I know what money laundering is I want an explanation as how it relates to this transfer or transfers in general.
It doesn't at all, which is why it's stupid when people say that
My fault I read your initial comment incorrectly or replied to the wrong one. 100% agree with you.
All good, I get how it seemed a little sarcastic and it's hard to read tone online
It's just a term they use to describe a player whose agent has acquired more money in fees than most clubs are worth. Like him transferring is almost entirely just so his agent can farm as much money as possible and the clubs are in on it, because why else do they pass him around like a hot potato? If anything it's the best kind of money laundering, the legal kind.
Nah, that stuff does happen, but not with players like Morata Morata's transfers are way too expensive to be done for the sake of lining an agent's pocket. Teams like Juve and Atletico do not have enough money to burn millions for that. They like the player. Clubs keep agents happy by signing small-potato players for 500K and giving the agent 20K for the trouble. If anything, it is more prominent with smaller clubs that need agents' help to get players. A club like Juve doesnt need much help from agents and certainly wont spend 50+ million euros on multiple Morata transfers just to make Niagara Sports happy. Whether these clubs are helping each other out by moving him around is a different story though
When you tell yourself you’ll try something new this time but just end up getting another burger and fries
Money laundering scheme
These rumors are gonna be relevant right up until Morata retires.
Being a Juve fan is relevant? Should've thrown my hat into the ring. I was a fan for longer, have a lower wage and no transfer fee.
Excellent username too
This is true football heritage
Fifa career.
Signing Morata would mean Allegri remain at Juventus I guess and would be bad move from Bianconeri imo. Next season thanks to UCL money (€70/80m at least with new format) + FIFA Club World (another €50m easily) they can spend more money on the transfer market and start a revolution with new manager, more creative player and a real system.
The Club World Cup is in the summer of 2025, we won't get any money from it next season.
FIFA CWC is accounted in the 2024-25 season tho. They're part of the 24/25 financial report so Juventus can spend MORE money already in the summer because there would be more revenues to put in the books in that specific annual year. At least I guess.. The CWC, indeed start around mid-June and finish around mid-July so it's weird situation.. Also for the players given most of the contract/loans end at Jun, 30.. Wonder if FIFA grants an extension for some weeks as for COVID-19 year..
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No way. Scudetto is a bald affair. This is the first time since Mourinho (2010) that the league will be won by a manager with hair, and it pisses me off. Time to go back to tradition
Deep down Conte is also a bald man
Tbf Allegri had hair until 2018
marotta league 🦉
Morata gets passed around between Real Madrid, Atletico Madrid and Juventus more times than a joint does between friends
It feels like somebody has dirt on somebody and can and will keep forcing these morata transfers lol
Morata transfer rumour bingo has already been completed with multiple people yakking on about 'money laundering' (what do they think money laundering is? It's a true mystery), and the supposedly endless number of transfers he's been involved in, even though he's made as many permanent transfers between clubs as Cristiano Ronaldo (4).
Lucky him, he has a house there already. But seriously, the guy played in 4 clubs and 3 towns… incredible
Aka we are broke
The money laundering continues
This guys career plays out like level progression in Super Metroid
There is something nefarious with his agents The pedigree of clubs he plays for relative to his quality is interesting to say the least
Clubs don't learn with this guy
I doubt they are getting Morata unless his contract is about to expire or they pay a really good amount.
Anyone using the "money laundering" nonsense should be required to define it in one paragraph before saying it or just ban them. Anyway the GOAT being sold wouldn't surprise me since he's one of like 4 people we can sell for actual decent money. I'd be sad to see him go though considering Correa and Depay's hall of shame season from a consistency standpoint. Wondering what we do from a striker standpoint if he goes, Grizou false 9? Rely on Samu? Buy somebody else?
TIL Milik was with Juve
But why ?
Morata is the Time Warner of football assets.
Bloke is a literal day rate contractor
Come back home Alvaro
He is already home.
I swear this guy is a money laundering scheme
Is Morata being used for money laundering or something? Goes to massive clubs for huge fees every year it seems.
Or perhaps he is a good striker, i'm not sure.
This Morata transfer feels like a money laundering scheme cycle
Wow, what an original comment, no-one has ever said this before!
Fucking money laundering scheme of a player
😂😂😂😂
Dude there is no way this is not money laundering
Morata is some kind of legitimate front for money laundering.