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They already got the World Cup. Why waste more money and effort? That was always their priority with regards to football. PIF isn’t the Royal family; it’s essentially a conglomerate of different organizations each needing to be successful in their own right while competing for funding from the same pot.

Palmer as a xenomorph as he looks like his breath would be honking.

You've guessed it, from those clues.

It's not niche, everybody loves Alien/Aliens. Nobody is Bishop as Bishop is a good guy (synthetic). Ash however, the club are full of Ash bots and Carter Burkes.

Forest (H) will be on Sunday 5th as they’re in the Conference League the Thursday before.

Hard power - I mean physical - buying influence. They become a major partner to UEFA and potentially the PL and the dynamics change. Champions League was sponsored by Gazprom for ages man. If a PIF company is in that position we’ll never get kicked out of the CL for non financial compliance if that’s a priority. Saudi leaned on Boris Johnson to get the sale done with a very fair concession. Saudi have clearly influenced FIFA. If they want to they can lean on UEFA too. UEFA are easy to lean on too, their biggest risk remains a mega club owned breakaway league. Old money clubs are the main agitators of that.

We need to stop buying players from the premier league as we end up with is completely protracted deals that don’t get over the line. It’s like a deliberate plan and all played out in a very public manner.

PSG were bought for about half of what Ashley had paid for NUFC four years earlier, and were a midtable club for most of their short history before takeover. They were never considered a big club in European terms, and never had OM or Lyon’s status in France. They were bought to buy Platini’s support for the 2022 WC bid.

Hard power is the military Maybe I missed it, but I don't remember Qatar bombing UEFA HQ.

Just seen we’re on TNT first weekend, so I’d say actually a VERY high chance the Liverpool game is Sunday.

Hard to say, depends what order the TNT/Sky get first dibs on games. Assume Sky first, then TNT then rest Sky. Which case, Sky will want Everton game on TV for first pick, then it’s our game against Liverpool and City/Spurs the TNT pick. Which you would expect TNT to pick ours.

We have legal council that says we can’t copy perfectly compliant moves other clubs already do? That doesn’t make sense. Villa are about to do it too. Not true at all. PSG won 2 league titles prior to Qatar investment. Qualified for the CL 5 times. Prior to Qatar they were nowhere near the top 3 French football team and not one of the biggest in the word. Man City have been cheating im talking about copying an established legal precedence. We were even last to do those dodgy transfers which is a big reason we got the worst deals. We’ve only leveraged PIF Saudi clubs once for player sales. We aren’t seeing the full force of PIF in action to succeed which is a choice. Not the end of the world. They are still engaged and invested. things have gone well in the pitch so I can’t imagine they feel a massive need to pivot approach. Both City and PSG had cycles of failure before changing approach. And that was with fewer obstacles.

Yep. If they don’t have at least 5 points after those, then they’re fucked early doors.

What's the chances of the Liverpool (H) on the 23rd of August being moved to Sunday 24th?

No Martinez for Villa first game of the season if still with them. Every cloud…

They absolutely were not. They had a couple of big name stars at intervals, but always sold them. They were never one of the biggest clubs in the world, they weren’t even in the top 2 biggest clubs in France.

Those games after UCL are killers, bar Fulham at home. Need to address squad depth urgently or it’s just so many dropped points to teams we shouldn’t. Sunderland (A) Sunday Midday, after a hard slog away in UCL is giving me jitters already.

If anyone disputes a transfer fee for Joelinton, set up a projector at the hearing, show the entire Carabao Cup final and then show some "highlights" of Fabinho's last season at Liverpool. Joelinton's fair fee with be at least double what Fabinho went for.

That would have been much better, with the NUFn badge.

Every club has that blueprint now that Chelsea have set out, i can only imagine that we're not going that route because of legal council we've had. OR.. the owners are dead set on turning us into a force gradually and tiny step by tiny step. We won't get that consistency until we start making the right appointments to support the manager.

I’m saying they did a good job pal.