A group of former Premier League footballers say that they have lost tens of millions of pounds because of poor financial advice.
The footballers were advised by the Norton Briggs Group in the 1990s and 2000s. The players lost amounts between one and forty-two million pounds each, although fortunately these losses can be offset against other profits for tax purposes.
We managed to corner Art Daly and Barry Lovejoy, who ran NBG. They deny any wrongdoing and say that they were always on the ball. They told us: ‘At all times, NBG advised the footballers in good faith and set out the risks and opportunities both before and after any investment was agreed. We back our advice 110% - front and centre. We definitely expected to make a net profit. We are surprised that our clients are now facing penalties.'
One footballer told us, ‘I wish we’d invested in bogus shares, or imaginary gold mines, or pretend vintage wines or NFTs or even the NFT, or dodgy real estate. Any of those would have been a better story. I don’t get any bragging rights from telling people that millions of pounds of my money was wasted on investments in top British football clubs, and that I got bugger all back.’
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US President Donald Trump could be transferred to the other side before the transfer window closes. Suggestions that he has already gone have been denied by all sides, but there are strong rumours of him going for a medical recently.
His current cosy little club of sycophants has said that he is a very important player for them wide on the right and that he is not going anywhere. But, many believe that even if he does go, the club is likely to dismiss stories of his departure as fake news and carry on as if he was still there.
Similarly, the manager of the club where many think his destiny lies has denied that Trump has joined or is about to join his former playing partner Jeffrey Epstein there. Standing just outside the entrance of the club many leagues below his current one, a reporter claimed to have seen Trump arriving as a passenger in a golf buggy a week or so ago. Others believe it may have been more recent than that, or possibly didn’t happen at all.
Another potential destination that Trump himself has suggested he’d be delighted to join has declared no interest whatsoever. The highest club in the stratosphere simply stated that Trump is not their kind of player, adding that he wouldn’t fit in there at all.
Whether Trump has already gone or is about to go, it is believed that his current club consider JD Vance to be incapable of stepping into Trump’s shoes. It has been suggested that they may bring in Vladimir Putin on an emergency loan.
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