Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyon
Peter Kenyonis a British businessman who has served as the chief executive of English Premier League clubs Manchester United Football Club and Chelsea Football Club, where he has been involved in contentious transfer dealings...
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The Premier League is a great product, one of the best in the world, and gets fantastic exposure on TV, but we can't become complacent,
afford arsenal became breaking club decided element ignore playing quality united youth
The quality of our youth development was poor. United were the best. Arsenal became very successful. We couldn't afford to ignore it. We decided to go for it in our own inimitable style. There's an element of playing catch-up, and we have elbowed a few. We are doing what they have been doing forever. There is just another club breaking up that cartel.
critical factor
Our sponsorship program, which is really an important factor of that (record revenue), is critical to us going forward,
commercial human
From a commercial viewpoint, I'm not concerned. We're all human and we all like to be liked.
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With the talent that's on the pitch for both teams, it's going to be tremendous football. That's what the Champions League is all about. Bringing the best teams together.
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We have the Vodafone contract, we are back in Europe and we will make sure the mix is proper with success on the pitch.
happy percent
I am 100 percent happy with him. It is just fabrication.
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These figures reflect the continuing restructuring of the business which we began in 2003-4.
mean thinking turkeys
I think it's important to remember the tensions between Turkey and Russia predate this jet shoot down by some time. I mean, Russia's long been Bashar al-Assad's strongest backer.
military turkeys warning
We are seeing reports that NATO's sending early warning radar planes and German military personnel to Turkey. That might reduce the chances of another incident like this jet shoot down. And obviously both NATO and the U.S. are pressing their ally Turkey to urgently deescalate the situation.
turkeys worst-case-scenario russia
Turkey's NATO membership is one thing that is forestalling the worst-case scenario - open conflict between Russia and Turkey - because neither Moscow nor the West wants a Russian NATO conflict to erupt.
russia views play
here are problems with the Turkish products inside Russia and the tourism going down. People are worried about that. But the really big economic weapons, oil and especially natural gas, those have not been brought into play yet - mostly in the form of threat so far. So basically the view from here is that, yeah, things are getting bad, but they could still get much, much worse.
mistake apology israel
He [Erdogan] has crept up to the edge talking about mistakes by pilots. But he also knows that with leaders like himself and Vladimir Putin, apologies may not be the answer. Just look at Israel. Prime Minister Netanyahu apologized years ago to Erdogan over this incident off the coast of Gaza in which Turkish people died onboard an aid ship. And only just now is that relationship at least in talks to be improved.
suicide hero character
And it would be a bit out of character. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan may have started out as a reformer, but he really enjoys being seen as a larger-than-life tough-guy figure. He doesn't go on photographed hunting expeditions, for instance. But he does have hero moments, such as when his convoy stopped in the middle of the Bosphorus Bridge and he allegedly talked down a jumper, prevented him from committing suicide.