Leeching: To feed, a leech attaches itself to a human or animal through suckers at each end of its body and then eats its host's blood. Leeches can eat six to eight times their body weight, but rather than sinking to the bottom of the body of water, leeches produce a natural anticoagulant or blood thinner, which keeps the blood in them from thickening and clotting and allows them to stay mobile.
Leech consultants optimise performance.
All cutting edge bodies understand the quest to gain robust competitive advantage, they seek leech consultants.
Leeches sit on the threshold between white markets and grey but spend all of their time forensically analysing the grey and, in particular, the black markets.
Especially in mature market late capitalism.
Take football.
No institution, club, bookmaker, agent or association can admit the extent to which insider gambling has spread through the sport like a rampant cancer.
Recent arrests in Australia, Singapore and El Salvador (where five players with more than 50 international appearances are implicated) together with the banning of numerous clubs has to be held at the marketing damage limitation level of "a few bad apples" - activities undertaken by poorly paid fringe players in peripheral territories often influenced by rogue South East Asian underground markets.
But the corruption is far more central to the FIFA Football Family than that.
Yet this cannot be made public and cannot be acknowledged.
Many loci within the game are desperate for this knowledge.
Without such knowledge, people in the "sport" are unable to protect themselves from corruptions perpetrated against their interests.
Strategic defence is the name of the modern game.
Leech consultancy bridges this divide.
We stretch their belief mechanisms regarding the degree of corruption across the football continuum.
To achieve this happy state of affairs, leech consultants attach themselves to individuals in a hierarchy (usually 1 or 2 people) and improve the performance of the body.
They provide sustenance and we provide good health.
Of course, there is a branch of leech consultancy that enacts strategic exploitation but that is an entirely different form of leech consultancy known as the sociopathic.
But one thing is certain.
At least it is not a distorted state of affairs when leech consultancy in partially criminalised sectors is more performative to the system than, say, being a teacher, for example.
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