Jackie Broon

Otherwise know as Shrodinger's black cat theory.

Maybe, but I can't see what's going to change, there is no incentive for the government to allow it and it would be massively unpopular with people they want to appeal to. We still don't have 3pm Saturday televised matches, they're not going to suddenly let PL clubs sell their own TV rights.

I can’t see that happening, the government shat themselves at the level of reaction against it when they tried and it’s clear that they will legislate to prevent English clubs from joining a ESL if they need to, and there is no viable ESL without the English clubs.

It's incredibly short-sighted by the clubs who are pushing for it, the more stringent the owners and directors and FFP rules they force through the more likely it is that they'll be challenged as anti-competitive and it'll all come crashing down.

Might be wrong but I get the impression it's actually Lille who are holding out with Milan, for them to match our transfer offer, rather than him.

Btw, not quite all systems a-okay, there's still need to submit a tree survey, a invasive plant species survey / eradication plan (if they want to avoid a pre-commencement condition for that) and wait until at least 21st June for responses from the other landowner/s, but the potential major stumbling blocks all seem to have been dealt with.

The bat survey is now online and concludes that there are no bat roosts within the building.

I don't think they even did that at the time. From what I can gather the club was previously incorporated as FC Red Bull Salzburg and Red Bull had rights to appoint and remove members of the board of the club. Then in 2016, before the UEFA investigation, they created a new holding company FC Red Bull Salzburg GmbH and Red Bull didn't directly have rights to appoint and remove members of the board through that company. The article below details that and changes that were made to satisfy UEFA, which didn't include 'relinquishing ownership'. According to the article, and the linked UEFA decision, they were satisfied with the existing ownership arrangement subject to some changes to management and sponsorship. It seems that the whole 'relinquishing ownership' thing was based on those arrangements already put in place a couple of years before. https://www.asser.nl/SportsLaw/Blog/post/multi-club-ownership-in-european-football-part-ii-the-concept-of-decisive-influence-in-the-red-bull-case-by-tomas-grell

But from what I can find they just transferred the ownership to another company owned by them, in the way that we're owned by St James Holdings Ltd, which is owned by the consortium.

That's what was said but everything seems to suggest that they are still owned by Red Bull.

The rules are essentially the same for UEFA competitions but UEFA have taken a lenient position on them, allowing Red Bull Salzberg and Red Bull Leipzig to compete, and play each other, in the Europa League after they were satisfied that there was sufficient separation between their management structures. That is despite two clubs in the same ownership competing in the same competition being pretty clearly contrary to the letter of their rules: 5.01 c. No individual or legal entity may have control or influence over more than one club participating in a UEFA club competition, such control or influence being defined in this context as: i. holding a majority of the shareholders’ voting rights; ii. having the right to appoint or remove a majority of the members of the administrative, management or supervisory body of the club; ii. being a shareholder and alone controlling a majority of the shareholders’ voting rights pursuant to an agreement entered into with other shareholders of the club; or iv. being able to exercise by any means a decisive influence in the decision-making of the club.

It'll be the Ameobi chant I reckon.

And their training ground is actually 20 miles outside of the city, near to Lake Maggiore.

not yet, we should see the bat survey posted on their website when the Council receive it but nothing yet.

Latest update: seems that they fucked up the ownership certificate in the application form, completing certificate A which is for when the applicant is the sole owner of all of the application site, that must not have been correct because they’ve now submitted a revised application form with ownership certificate B completed. Certificate B is for when all or part of the application site is owned by other people. I suspected that was the case when I first looked at the application because it seems likely that the access is in shared ownership. What this means is that the application timescale restarts from day 0 and the Council will need to allow 21 days from the day they were served notice for the other landowner/s to comment. Again, this is a frustratingly common mistake by agents who never seem to grasp the importance of ensuring the land ownership declaration is correct and that the onus is entirely on them for that.

I think there will be plenty of interest for the players we're looking to shift. We don't really have any Rodwells, our unwanted players pretty much all will be seen by other clubs as being good solid pros who aren't quite up to the level we're aiming for. We might have to subsidise some wages a bit but I think there'll be plenty of takers for all of the players we want rid of.

Or the Europa League or the Opel Conference. There is a precedent where UEFA have accepted that the two Red Bull teams can compete in the same European competition if sufficient separation between them is demonstrated. Otherwise, if UEFA don't accept that, the team with the lower UEFA coefficient ranking would not be allowed to play in the competition, which would be us at the moment.

It wasn't, it was a fake account unfortunately.

Which is likely to be the only time he's been asked. He might've just been letting us down gently.

Although, there's definitely some Shola in the mix too.

I'm talking in comparison to captain calamity. I think his form has been up and down this season but Burnley fans still seem to rate him and there's no question that he's more comfortable on the ball than Lascelles.

Tarkowski is a far better player than Lascelles, particularly in relation to what Howe wants from his central defenders in terms of being comfortable on the ball.

That's due to the fact that the club holds the player's registration, it's actually the player's registration that is being bought and sold.