Weirdest Owner In Football

[@normharr]

Truly one of the most phygital zealand videos of all time

[@ninjalectualx]

My AI says that's a word but my grandfather says it isn't

[@scythian12]

TBF this is also a word that certain top automotive designers love for some reason 😬

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

He's had a plethora of them recently, it's like he's besotted

[@lemon_tek9531]

@@alliedatheistalliance6776 I'm gonna start using besotted quite often now. Like, sorry I can't do it now, I'm besotted

[@OrlanKrylo]

This guy has a PhD in yapanomics, now he has a club

[@Eric_Hunt194]

I'm really glad he worked out a way to say plethora... it means a lot.

[@RealMagicClan]

Perfect.

[@Rumborumbo87]

'Who the f**k are these people dude........' That part cracked me up

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

I was extremely offended by that, as I am Sir Eric Peacock 😤

[@ictchris]

He initially tagged "Central Highlands Council", who are in Australia, rather than Highland Council, where Inverness is. Going by public records, none of his companies have any money. One of his companies has taken out a loan (unspecified ammount) from a Jersey-based financial company. If he has money, this must be it. For those who don't know, Jersey is a tax haven, very limited information of any type coming through.

[@MattOlsen294]

An Aussie here. You can excuse me for losing my shit when I saw Bentleigh Greens (one of the more well known clubs in our second tier) and Telstra (our single biggest telecommunications network) come up in this video lmao

[@Galaxy6913]

Dude, having A man who either is Australian, or has worked for a long time in Australia knowing more than you about a local club is wild. We must be smart or he is very stupid.

[@ramp0649]

yeah telstra caught me out as another aussie (i am not very far into aussie soccer big afl fan expected bentleigh to be from like a scottish or lower leaguesin britain not from morrabin of all places

[@SkyHighSkylar]

as an aussie, i went mental and audibly yelled “BENTLEIGH GREENS??” and probably looked like that one meme with the dude pointing at the screen

[@McPilch]

Bentleigh is a neighbouring suburb for me, so yeah I was like, "OMG, I'm famous!" 😂

[@AIeksejs]

The statement about people who post a lot on LinkedIn is SO true 🤣 It comes over so self loving egocentric and fits very well to this guy his personality

[@adam_94]

Congrats on making the local news (Press and Journal) in Inverness, being described as "Popular American KZbinr".

[@Eric_Hunt194]

The opposite of brevity (when it comes to language) is verbosity. Unrelated, I took Inverness Caley Thistle to the semi finals of the Champions League in five seasons in Football Manager, back when it was still called Championship Manager.

[@prothello]

-v, to be brief

[@mikkysteaders]

*New video from Zealand* “So I just bought Inverness Caledonian Thistle”

[@Derek-qu8qi]

11:22 “standing against the rail for most of the game”. The Caledonian Stadium is a 7,500 all seater stadium. It was a top flight stadium for about 15 years and you can’t have traditional terraces in top flight stadiums since the Taylor Report. It’s not a stereotypical third tier stadium.

[@BartonFinksBox]

7,750 in the lower leagues, because we can reopen a wee terrace opposite the main stand

[@nathanjohnwilliamson7675]

@@BartonFinksBoxlooking in the bright side I suppose

[@copious983]

AHA!!! It's a speech bubble, a speech bubble for the frog that Z plans to use at some time

[@Derek-qu8qi]

There’s been nothing in the Scottish mainstream media questioning this. It’s gone under the radar except for that pointless bbc article. This looks like another Craig Whyte oldco Rangers event to me.

[@ErwinDerks-j7v]

Remember, it was an Irish journalist who first wrote about the Rangers tax case and that White was a con. The SMSM began to write about it, when Rangers went bust. So don't expect anything from them.

[@INVCOMPS]

Can you please keep us this good work. Thank you from many Inverness C T fans . Keep digging

[@neil1982]

A guy with no money, no real interest or love for the club (since he only just found out it exists) sounds like a brilliant choice for a club owner.

[@AzureStarline]

"are you using bing?" XD

[@lukefarrell6769]

Inverness also made the greatest News Headline years ago after pulling off a huge cup-shock.... "Super-Cali-Go-Ballistic-Celtic-Are-Atrocious"!!

[@ictchris]

I've supported Caley since we were in the league and the last year or so has been an utter nightmare. When this was announced it took me one Google search to uncover massive red flags about this guy, our board clearly didn't even do that. I can see this all falling through when he needs to actually hand over some money.

[@3TRSH]

Watched with my headphones on so I could cross the phygital barrier with the homie Zealand

[@ErwinDerks-j7v]

It's all the fault of the SFA. They removed the rules for a fit and proper owner last year. This all gives me "Gregg White Motherwell born Billionaire" vibes.

[@daviddavid2890]

Poor man's Craig White was my first impression of the guy when I first read about him buying Caley

[@ultra2sound]

When are you interviewing him?

[@777jimothy]

This is the football equivalent of Elizabeth Holmes at Theronos 😂

[@largechips]

He accidentally tagged the "Central Highlands Council" which is in central Tasmania, Australia and only has about 1,500 people living in it! Also Bentleigh Greens is a semi-pro club in South Eastern Melbourne, Australia and Telstra is the largest Telecommunications company in Australia. How these even get mentioned in a video about Inverness CT is absolutely wild.

[@RadioactiveJarqe]

7:50 Telstra is basically the T-Mobile of Australia. The job he had there is extremely prestigious and I have no clue what the hell it has to do with Inverness

[@vreeze33]

I did an internship for someone like this. These kinds of people constantly make things bigger than they are, lie frequently, and think that they're a genius.

[@eirakari]

Not gonna lie, I chuckled every time you mentioned Entertainment 720 😅

[@blablaproducties]

Website design is my passion

[@MrKEVINCAMPBELL]

the take overs been cancelled a local guys taking over

[@JuanNunez2023]

So you're saying I can own a Football club?

[@Mythriak_]

Zealand just deep roasting both LinkedIn and the TED coach talk mindset just made me like he much more

[@maxl.b.m.y.g.5918]

This guy doesn’t have access to search engines

[@bbrom03]

New Zealandism upload LFG!

[@hisham_hm]

Prolixity. The opposite of brevity is prolixity. You're welcome!

[@beatleshomie6954]

I live less than an hour away from Inverness, this is massive for me

[@vamoswpd]

3 and a half minutes to get into the topic, no one is more engaging than our lord Zealand

[@normharr]

but how the fuck did this dude get the money to buy the team? racketeering?

[@KingEddo8]

I'm saying a front man for a group of shady investors or con group. Something like that

[@lukascph]

He probably didn't. But so far, nobody has asked him to actually cough it up.

[@BartonFinksBox]

Jersey based debt. I'm not joking

[@daviddavid2890]

Just an "entrepreneur" and possible crypto ho who magics imaginary money out of thin air.

[@BPaulthegreat]

I like how he created a Wish version of 777 Partners

[@HCR_Motorhead]

How does anyone not know Inverness CT? They were the reason behind the best news headline ever, "Super Caley go ballistic, Celtic are atrocious."

[@Shifty_]

I have to admit, this video made me get phygital with myself 😤

[@earlhemmingwayt7029]

Did you know the flag of Mozambique is the only flag (of a nation) to include a weapon of modern times on it? An AK-47

[@ProfessionalNonce]

Modern weapons yes,but Eswatini has 2 spears if we are talking about all types

[@anarkyster]

@@ProfessionalNonce As does Kenya.

[@alliedatheistalliance6776]

You can use a maple leaf as a weapon if you're creative about it

[@pjkerrigan20]

@@anarkysternot to mention Angola, which has a sick ass machete on their flag

[@bionicgeekgrrl]

At 18:43 it shows Jimmy Nguyen as one of the Executives. A quick google suggests he was involved with Bitcoin, if that doesn't red flag the whole thing I'm not sure what else is. The only way it would be worse is if he was also an AI-bro to go with being a Crpyto-bro.

[@saturnz428]

Chat GPT ahhh speech

[@rossanderson1892]

As a fan of a team in the SPFL, I'm hoping this is just funny and not tragic. Because there is never any joy in seeing a team do badly enough to not exist.

[@black.sasuke.uchiha]

The names involved have all these nondescript roles at certain companies, some of which I’ve never heard of. And they tend to bounce from one business venture to the next, in quick succession. The next part of this story, you’re gonna find somebody who is the international financial growth account supervisor at a company called Vloxum Enterprises Limited or something. LoL.

[@simonragnar6413]

"The grander vision"🤣🤣

[@jerrythewang]

I believe the word you’re looking for is “loquacious”

[@anirudhraghavarachuri9989]

I go down that hole - Zealand, 2024

[@AMPR45]

“Sustainable” just means he’s going to move the team.

[@nevelbell]

As a Caley fan, it's a fucking nightmare! Please somebody wake me up!!!

[@jonathanlang7294]

They where in the final of the Scottish Cup two seasons ago it's good to see the SFA still have not implemented a fit and proper ownership test for club owners Scotland is wide open for roges like this guy to come in and buy our football clubs for how knows what purpose

[@CabbageSim]

the opposite of brevity can be verbosity

[@karljennerjahn1378]

10:54 Is golden commentary

[@OhJustSomeRandomGuy]

Yo, if this guy can buy a club with negative money, surely you can own a team, too Zealand.

[@beerguy177]

Mohamed El Fayed putting up a Micheal Jackson statue outside fulham fc was pretty weird 😂

[@buhddæh]

I now learned the word phygital. Thank you, Zealand. Trust me bro

[@Derek-qu8qi]

10:41 John Colocoon? It’s pronounced John Colhoon.

[@rossc7332]

I support a team that was in Inverness’s league last season, been many times up there. From what I’ve seen the club has been in shambles for a few years now. This new guy coming in seems like it’s going down that bad route again. They were quite a big team in Scotland so for them to go this far down is a big fall from grace. p.s Duncan Ferguson signed his own son, lol. And he sits on the bench as they have no budget for players it seems.

[@Mateus_Carvalho]

...so Calley is going under.

[@VantommHD]

This is why we got 50+1

[@usf1250]

Reminds me of the time that random dude almost bought the NY islanders without any money

[@Rafaws02]

ahhh, the smell of money laundering during the morning!

[@BALHAM69]

Good watch. What is different between chad and Romania flag then?😅 For those interested in owning a football team; for only £5, €5 / $5 you can own a share Fan ownership in Clapton CFC a team in East London near West Ham Olympic stadium.😮 Does anyone know if they are on football manager? Could we see Zealand buy their membership share as a project for this new season? Or make a video on them? Edit update Well done Zealand on finding a uk government website called company house Who show you business and companies in uk. We shall see if this sale gets approved by Scottish football yes.

[@al99795]

Chad blue is slightly darker

[@BALHAM69]

@@al99795 did you google this?😂 Yea, no worries Thank you 😊

[@LiftandCoa]

as a german the idea of membership SHARES makes me angry at several levels Its almost like someone has tried to make a parody of fan ownership

[@BALHAM69]

@@LiftandCoa one share means one vote It is a fully owned fan owned team

[@99dndd]

Can I own it phygically?

[@deanm7774]

Pause...I could have a 'real' good shot at naming that '02 team. It was played in my home city of Glasgow and Zidane scored that ridiculous volley from R. Larcos's cross! Finally some juicy Scottish crap 👍✌️❤️

[@gakster29]

Yo. Get your mf'in 84 Lumber news

[@rockotyson6111]

Bing catching strays 😂

[@troytheboy1985]

Zealand got that KZbin pennies he should put a bid in

[@edwardkelly3280]

Dude Mbappe became an owner of SM Caen

[@matthewbishenden1032]

Sort us out Zealand 🙏

[@Tom-lt8yh]

Ketan "Waffle" Makwana 😂 4:53

[@TheWoodTink]

He also tweeted thanks.to Central Highland Council.....in Australia

[@DeathByKappa]

Seventy7 Ventures has been dissolved by the way. It hasn't existed since May.

[@LiftandCoa]

1:45 Im sorry Zealand... but this is exactly what normal people think of twitter and its regular users.... lol

[@acidbronson9712]

Speaking of collecting mostly stupid information, I feel like Zealand is probably quite decent at Jeopardy!

[@Qoracao]

Are you using BING?!? I actually lolled

[@DeeEditor1]

Ketan Makwana sounds exactly like some bobo i used to work with😂

[@Schm1dtstorm]

If the sale has been finalized does that mean he actually had money to give them? Even if that is true, did the previous owner(s) of ICTFC just not do any sort of background on the guy? Hopefully the league vetoes the sale.

[@dat_sneckie_boi6375]

Our CEO is a halfwitted imbicile who despises the fans and forgot to order seats at Tynecastle when he was in charge there. Really not the brightest bulb in the drawer

[@TheRandiestMexican]

Did Morpheus from The Matrix write this intro?

[@deathpacito290]

0:25 who gonna tell him

[@viniciussecioso7274]

Wait, is Seventy7 logo literally just the Vought logo from the boys????

[@Worldsportstalk24]

No but it is very close lmao

[@GustavoNDias]

It must be a rule, if you own a Scummy Club Owning Group you must include the number 7 in their name First 777 partners now 77 Ventures

[@SuperJNG18]

Zealand knows about third-tier Scottish club owners but doesn’t know to say “based on” instead of “based off.”

[@alejandromurdoch8197]

If you want a rabbit hole pls cover my boys CCMFC incredible stories all over the club

[@TempusFugit366]

It says "Samsports". I think that's a typo and the c is missing.

[@georgemcdermott9657]

Bing!!! pmsl

[@maryannedouglas]

Aaawww, i love InverCalley 😢 So sad what's happening to them. InverCalley Go Ballistic, Celtic are Atrocious!!!

[@TheMrMantequilla]

You know every flag huh? Sounds like you need to be on “Fun with flags”. Popular flag show

[@SeranaTheStudent]

Scammers be scamming

[@spoder22]

5:59 Kronk?

[@JoeMercersWay]

Sure is going to innovate... ...Inverness are going out of business quicker than it takes Zealand to finish a video about them going out of business.

[@chicabu67]

The weirdest onwer of a football club isn't john textor then i am crazy

[@ganaed]

Ok. But what's going on in the second division in Zimbabwe??

[@harshdeepsingh4612]

And now mbappe is a club owner

[@brockg6194]

He's a grifter just hoping to be appointed CEO of a legit company one day after "running" his shell companies.

[@alexanderjacobsen7382]

Damnit

[@420booth]

Just on Jim Ratcliff..he wanted in anywhere, he wasn't fixed on Utd. I believe he was interested in Chelsea and is a Chelsea fan (unfortunately)

[@spacedoge6540]

Didn't he try to buy Barca too?

[@talisenamell]

As a Rangers fan this dude is screaming White to me so please Caley or the SFA block this

[@KingEddo8]

I wouldn't even put Whyte this low. At least Whyte was already known to a certain level at the point he bought Rangers 😂

[@Hamlet517]

Day 5 of asking Zealand to make a video about the MLS vs Liga MX game!

[@therealking6202]

I went to the Earthquakes v. Chivas game. It was LIT!!!

[@Card_lol]

This sounds like an n64 game but it probably isnt. Ik the j league had a game on the n64

[@Hamlet517]

@@therealking6202 sadly Chivas lost and I'm saying that as a Club America Fan.

[@therealking6202]

@@Card_lol League's Cup.

[@jayleon81]

Your talking about leagues cup?

[@craigratio]

Colquhoun is pronounced “Kul-hoon” I don’t know why the qu is silent.

[@zachhughes8546]

I just found an article written about this man www.strathspey-herald.co.uk/sport/meet-the-new-owner-of-inverness-caley-thistle-356659/ He claims to own Hayes and Yeading but when I searched the gov.uk page for Hayes and Yeading he isn't listed in the people section. I'm from the US so maybe I don't understand how it works, but he is lying about his club ownership to a journalist and it took me 30 seconds to verify the information.

[@TheeSuperJazzer]

The clubs fucked 😂