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Basically the same as what the PL did when PIF were trying to buy us until they got battered by our lawyers in the CAT hearing and then shit themselves about their snide behaviour being revealed so approved the takeover

Only thing worse than being talked about, is not being talked about. Amirite ?

The APT rules were rolled out as soon as our takeover went through, with one aim in mind NUFC were 2nd bottom of the league, winless, with a bare bones staff, bare bones facilities, huge commercial revenue decline and a fraud in the dug out. Likely to be relegated for the 3rd time in 14 years of Ashley ownership. So the PL and a majority of PL clubs immediately cut off a potential source of finance that could potentially be used to make NUFC competitive again. They cut it off because they were scared we MIGHT use it It doesn't get more anti-competitive than that. The entire PL plan was designed to stifle competition and maintain the status quo.

All of this rigmarole and PL dirty laundry being aired in public because a small number of clubs at the top conspire with the PL to keep themselves at the top, whilst the rest are happy to just nod along and be on the gravy train As others have said, it does make you start to question what other shady deals have gone on behind the scenes to ensure equilibrium is maintained. I'm looking at you VAR....

Aye, but then his money is still tied up in his own Brighton shares I'm on about how he gets his £300m investment out of the club, if he wanted to reduce the £300m that is currently a loan that can be recalled but under new rules might have to be equity To release his equity he needs to either sell shares to a 3rd party, or pay himself in cash via a dividend and take a tax hit

If he issues new shares and sells them to a 3rd party then he's still diluting the ownership and he's no longer in full control of Brighton. I think that's how it works innit

I'm no Gordon Gekko so there's a decent chance this isn't right..... But if Bloom switches from loan to equity, doesn't that mean he has to sell a stake / all of the club to ever release that equity Whereas, if it's a loan he can recall it and his ownership of all the shares in Brighton isn't affected

According to the PL and a majority of PL clubs, the prospect of NUFC becoming competitive under PIF was actually anti-competitive and had to be blocked instantly An Ashley owned NUFC whose stated aim was to not be competitive, that’s not anti-competitive in the PL’s eyes It’s 1984 doublespeak or Animal Farm’s “all animals are equal but some are more equal than others”. An established elite keeping the proles in their place. Samuel’s article sums it up perfectly: City’s owners are not the first to throw money at a project and, it is to be hoped, they won’t be the last. Yet PSR behaves as if investment is bad, as if that drive to squeeze every last drop to achieve is actually the problem. Every financial constraint further cements an established elite — and even that wasn’t enough. So new rules were drafted to ward off, and warn off, interlopers

what a shellfish attitude, TBG was shrimply floating a new idea and you’ve krilled the vibe

So 11 x PL clubs propose a new rule that says any club that wears black n white stripes must give a 5 goal head start in every PL game they play, and the PL put it to vote and it passes by majority Therefore NUFC just have to accept that new rule, because it’s the PL’s competition and they and their members decide the rules of the competition?

That’s the clubs who backed the PL over City in their case We’re on about the 11 x clubs who 2 days after NUFC takeover were emailing the PL asking for an urgent meeting where they subsequently agreed to change the financial rules to restrict NUFC

We had Charnley, an overpromoted lickspittle paid a pittance (compared to his industry peers) doing the combined jobs of at least 5-10 Director level employees

Also, we were a club that had been hollowed out to its bare bones, declining massively on and off the pitch for 14 years This wasn't a rich club getting richer, it was a club that had been fucked over by a parasitic owner getting the chance to rebuild and compete again. And 11 x PL teams and the PL itself schemed away to stop it happening

Staveley talked openly about Spurs and Liverpool being the two biggest anti-NUFC protagonists Beyond that it's just educated guess work on the rest

We were 2 days into a takeover and hadn't even started spending any money or making sponsorship deals and yet 11 x clubs were already scheming behind the scenes with the PL to block our financial capabilities Gang of cunts

Also interesting in that Samuel article that he says the PL delayed making any decisions on whether to approve Man City's recent sponsorship deals, effectively just kicking a decision down the road and hoping it'd go away Which was their exact approach to PIF's attempts to buy NUFC, didn't knock it back but also wouldn't approve it It wasn't until our lawyers battered them in the CAT hearing on 29th Sept 2021 that the PL finally had no option but to set the wheels in motion for the takeover to happen Today's documents once again show the PL to be proper sketchy, a corrupt organisation who will do whatever the cartel clubs want, in order to keep those clubs in the strongest possible position

Billy Hogan Daniel Levy Both have 10 letter names

my pet spaniel is a registered supporter and he'd cause ball chasing carnage if he ever got into SJP on a match day

a ticket link that can be emailed to anyone in the world and then downloaded onto a phone is a tout's wet dream there should be a mechanism in place to transfer tickets between people, but the same way ST's are forwarded you have to be a registered supporter (not a member) to receive the transferred ticket and then there's an evidence trail to see who bought the ticket originally and who they transferred it to wouldn't stop touts, but it'd be easier to identify them

Who else thinks it's Daniel Levy that's been redacted.....

5 calendar days, but 2 of those 5 days were a Saturday and Sunday. And the takeover went through on the evening of the 7th, so that day doesn't count either. So it actually only took 2 working days from NUFC takeover to an email request on behalf of 11 x clubs for a vote to ban related party transactions There's only one thing that's "anti-competitive" and it's the desire from 11 x PL clubs and the PL itself to put rules in place that were purely to stop NUFC from being competitive

Nee surprisies that your name is whiteline

Similar to last season when I got flagged for having about 10 Friends & Family connections and got blocked from buying tickets Only found out by ringing the box office, they told me to delete some F&F and I got back in the mix

Practice, practice, practice And do loads of whizz