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Colos Short and Curlies

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  1. nah he was just a dick, no playing up to a role at all.
  2. You're missing a bit here, buying a football club is not reducing the choice or reducing the market for customers in a way it would if Tesco took over Sainsbury. The comparison you would need to look at here would be the City owners now buying up the likes of Oldham, Blackburn etc and merging them all into the City umbrella so they become reserve teams or the grounds used for training purposes only. What the City owners have done is come into an industry and offer a premium to purchase the best that is available. That would be fine in pretty much any industry. The problem is with the rules that the PL and UEFA have now put in place that restrict the ability of others to do the same. You can look at whether City have played by PL rules but that is a matter between them and not competition law. The more I think about this the more I'm coming down on a FFP challenge never seeing a court room. If you look at cases on competition law they take forever to get through the system. The UEFA/PL lawyers know that there is at least a 50% chance the rules would be deemed illegal and operate them based on clubs voting them in. What will happen on a challenge is that they will make some quick changes that will soften FMV rules to allow a certain amount of related investment and will change the punishments to be a fine on first breach with an allowance of mitigating circumstances to be remedied within a 12 month period (so for example Forest would be let off by showing the value of player sales after the 1st July etc)
  3. Who do people think the best villain has been in the premier league era? I don’t mean truly awful individuals but those who absolutely play up to the role (or try to). Klopp thinks he is being a clever antagonist but he is in reality just a poor human being. for me it’s 100% Jose as a manager and probably Vinny Jones as a player
  4. If he can’t lift them for 10 games to get a European spot then I think questions do need to be asked unfortunately. i think a lot here are underestimating the risk of players leaving if we don’t get Europe. Not through them requesting transfers necessarily but we in a weak place when others come knocking
  5. to be fair no closer than Kenny or Ruud did
  6. that would be different, he’s got a contract already and we’d be a very sticky wicket trying anything there
  7. the change in formation. Is welcomed, May as well try something different. Dan Burn at wingback beggars belief mind, but watch him now have an absolute stormer
  8. It would be brand ambassador type of work, but yes. it’s happened since day dot, look how many of our players wore Asics back in the day. This would simply be totally coincidental partnerships with companies who are willing to pay too dollar for premier league footballer endorsements.
  9. the allegation here though is that he was being paid by a related party for work done for the club. all we would have to do is to not have restrictions in contracts on who they can do work for and the link is broken. it may be incredibly grey but it would be almost impossible for the league to legislate against
  10. I don’t see how. players currently have 3rd party sponsorships etc and act as ambassadors for brands. that relationship is outside of their contract with a club. if they tried to go down the line of restricting what players can do they’d be straight in court. The stumbling block would be getting players on board with it edit and if they tried to set an artificial salary it causes all sorts issues with them essentially setting a minimum premier league salary
  11. I don’t see how they can. as long as the salaries aren’t funnelled back into the club and there are 2 contracts in place there is nothing that could be done. theyd be telling players what they can earn and also telling clubs that footballers have a minimum wage. Good luck with that in court
  12. I half in jest suggesting that we half all of our player wages but allow them to be ambassadors for pit companies who can pay them whatever they like. would be untouchable by the premier league
  13. if it’s found to be against competition law in the uk it is bound to also the case in a EU court
  14. Forest and Everton will be waiting for a punishment and then will challenge it. most challenges to laws come from defending a position or a penalty, it’s much more difficult to take a concept to court. theres probably something under the bonnet of most clubs that isn’t totally on the level so why put your head up until you need to? City in particular will have practices that they don’t want out in public, so they just tie the process up in knots
  15. The exact scenario I hope the club would avoid this time around. They came out and backed Eddie for the long term a few weeks ago, they either have to stick to that or if they now have concerns act at the end of the season. none of this 5-10 games next season bollocks
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