Kanj

It’s not shit. It’s good on the players imo.

Fantastic kit tbh

The fuck can’t we just play a CB in that actual position. Play Watts there ffs.

Ludwig the GOAT

Announced before Wednesday. My guess.

Greatest poster of all time has returned, my big mate Deputy Dawg!

Hahaha love this.

Rather have Josh King

the PL could just work to grant Saudi their own rights for a cost that would then be used to compensate beIN - i mean that is a simple as you could make it.

Best kit we've had in years. They kept it simple and gave us everything we wanted (even down to the white Puma logo and not a "black cat"), people still complain. If we have red numbers it will be perfection. 2017/18 was the best we've had in years. Yep, 17/18 was perfection. i was actually a fan of the 18/19 kit because for some reason the white socks were cool to me (IDK why). This current one seems pretty fly too.

Good kit tbh

Howling

Nice article by Douglas - here's to hoping the silence from the buying party is more about NDA and trying to not fuck it up like their friends in the gov't down there

I like it more than the current kit

So strange that it's been the conventional way of distributing sports broadcast packages across most of the Middle East, Spanish-speaking Latin America and vast swathes of Africa for decades. So strange! Yes, it is strange because it seems like a completely backward way to offer content. What if a French company outbid all UK companies and took Bundesliga, La Liga, Formula 1, NFL and only allowed you to watch it via their set top box or online subscription service? What if within that time frame relations between France and UK went completely backwards? It's not an issue to you Penn, because you're sitting at your home far away from the area. I'm not defending Saudi in this, I'm just saying it's fucking odd when you think about it deep down. Put yourself in their shoes. But if that's how the rights are sold, that's how they're sold. If you can't watch something for some reason, tough shit. You have no intrinsic human right to watch football matches. I mean, most of the 3pm games are available in countries which are NOT the UK, but we can't watch them. That's just how life works. We have the right to watch the things we have the rights to, that's it. People in China can watch different PL games to people in Spain, who see different games to people in MENA. Everything is packaged up and sold as the PL wish, and there's fuck all any of us can do about it (legally). We, or indeed any of those countries, certainly can't just decide to rip up the agreements that the PL legally struck with any country or territory just because we don't like the deal's impact on us. That's nonsense. And yes the way the PL offer out content IS backwards. It has been for years. It will continue to be so for years because their objective isn't to offer what works best for the consumer but to maximise their own revenue. Watching SA devalue BeIN's contract by unilaterally banning them from broadcasting in the largest country in the region they hold the rights to is NEVER going to go down well with the PL. A company, the PL, whose sole purpose is to maximise revenue, has watched one of its major rights holders have their rights massively devalued and are then have the country who did that ask them to approve their ownership of Newcastle. I can completely understand why the PL are somewhat reluctant to do this. You can't watch them but somehow find a way to do so. I'm not arguing with you on the PL's point of view either, totally makes sense too. Just trying to think clearly about this whole thing (which is a fucking mess). I would like to know if the countries within the region agreed to be part of this or not. I assume they did, but not sure.

So strange that it's been the conventional way of distributing sports broadcast packages across most of the Middle East, Spanish-speaking Latin America and vast swathes of Africa for decades. So strange! Yes, it is strange because it seems like a completely backward way to offer content. What if a French company outbid all UK companies and took Bundesliga, La Liga, Formula 1, NFL and only allowed you to watch it via their set top box or online subscription service? What if within that time frame relations between France and UK went completely backwards? It's not an issue to you Penn, because you're sitting at your home far away from the area. I'm not defending Saudi in this, I'm just saying it's fucking odd when you think about it deep down. Put yourself in their shoes.

The rhetoric coming out is clearly being fed by Qatari sources. MA, as it stands today has a deal he spent ages negotiating waiting for the PL to approve it; he's been satisfied on every other front with it or we'd haven't gotten this far. The Mauriss thing smells of Qatari involvement as well and not something MA cooked up on his own. In any case, the BeIN sports ban and their monopoly on sport in the MENA region is bonkers when you just sit back and distill that; again the idea that the PL can sell rights that cover multiple countries who have a long history of conflict among each other from political / religion just does not make much sense. 1) Saudi have shut down BeOutQ in late 2019 - now a platform in place to stop piracy post WTO report [if PL are still hung up over this, fair enough] - This should address BeIN Piracy complaints going forward, in theory 3) Saudi have every right to ban BeIN from operating in it's country, but it does impact their population from watching football legally until rights are open again in 2 years - Saudi want to bid on their own rights for next season and potentially rival the BeIN bid for the region - Saudi conflict with Qatar is bigger than sports rights, its history, its culture, its religion - Again very strange that the PL would have rights for an entire region of multiple countries that aren't allies 4) Seems like PIF have been answering everything they can to get this done. Are clearly the most capitalized. 5) UK and Saudi political relationship is important. How will Saudi react to a failed test that has been so highly publicized?

Manorpark's positive attitude is refreshing.

Hope Matty departs for Germany or Italy tbh.

Didn’t realize until last few days that BeIn monopolizes the region. That’s insane to force upon individual countries and when you couple that with the politics of the region it’s hardly unreasonable position to take if you don’t want to have to pay them for this.

I’m on team manor park.

Tuesday is generally doomsday in the news cycle right?

I miss Sheikh Khaled and his pal who whats app'd fans

It's nice to see the PL care more about a media partner than their beloved "member clubs" and the fans and people who support them. Modern football is such a fucking bore.

There's absolutely no way a company that sells over-the-air antennas has the money to buy a Premier League club. Qatar have to be funding this