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That's not bad by modern standards I read somewhere the deal to go to Arsenal was sealed by an enormous signing on fee. Curious to know what is considered as such these days. hardly unusual since its a free transfer though not a good look when they've sacked 55 people because of "costs" just this week

What's he done? https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/53687308 I’m guessing that’s what neesy is referring to no ones coming out of that mess looking remotely good. Why the hell did Real stop his move to China, jesus whats he cost them just in wages in the last year and clearly Zidane wants nothing to do with him anymore

nevermind an armpit saved them, god I fucking hate VAR

yikes what a bad goal to concede

less transparency and more chance to make shit up

they do need better depth at cb so someone who can play instead of Laporte at (in theory) a similar enough level with the amount of games City will be playing is hardly unreasonable. They do need another cb imo just so they can get rid of otamendi unless they have a lot of faith in Eric Garcia to start coming into the team

Wouldn't like the sound of that at all if I were an Arsenal fan. Dunno. Still better than our approach: I'd honestly trust the headless chicken a lot more than Kia Joorabchin, a dead chicken at least won't drain 10's of millions of pounds into his own pocket and park his useless players on fat contracts at the club

Ake to City done

while I'm not in the slightest bit surprised they haven't commented officially I am surprised theres not been some story in one of the newspapers starting with "an unnamed premier league source" or some such hasn't appeared yet to give out their version of events

eh don't mind Fulham personally, nothing exciting about them coming up but I like Parker and I like Mitro so why not

haha nice to see the fulham keeper literally manhandling the goalscorer to try and waste time

on the one hand yeah they did bottle it but only after an utterly ridiculous run post lockdown to get them in that position to begin with what was it 9 wins in a row?

lovely goal that

City always seem to get their business done fairly sharpish almost every other club around could take a lesson or two from that though I suppose it is easier with a blank cheque

looking at any comment section is generally a mistake

you'd think so but Brentfords playoff record is brutal

to newcastle fans maybe but to anybody else not really

however when that country would have an 80% stake in a club and it would have no influence at all on the running of the club? I find that difficult to believe so lord knows what the premier league think on it.

Yeah true, was a bit like Torres in that respect where he'd levelled off a bit before a big transfer. Still crazy how shit he's been at Man Utd though. not really surprising when you look at his summers from 2014-2017; 2014 world cup, 2015 copa america, 2016 copa america 2017 confederations cup, dude has basically little to no rest time for 4 years thats going to take a toll on a player

because he's acting like a private individual compared to the investment arm of the saudi state, also for the record he also would have done the O&D test with the EFL not the premier league, not sure what the process is for dealing with that via promotion

Honestly not that big a fan of him personally

Essentially there wasn’t anything wrong with our bid that other clubs owners haven’t been found guilty of. The problem they had was that the big clubs are pissing themselves because they have already seen how Man City, Chelsea, and to a lesser extent Blackburn were able to overthrow them in the past with more money than them. They don’t mind the likes of Villa and Wolves having owners who have money to say they can compete, but not actually threaten the established clubs. Having enough money to make those established clubs also rans is a no no. I also highly suspect that Masters was awaiting a bribe, or waiting for one higher than BeIN/Qatar were offering, which wasn’t going to happen. You don’t get to have the career at the ECB and Premier League for as long as he has without expecting some brown envelopes to come across your desk for business deals to be finalised. and that is the biggest load of bullshit i've seen in this thread which is impressive. Go on name what other premier league club owners have been even accused of facilitating a massive piracy operation? LOL. Oh the widow! Oh the rotten head chopping Saudis! Actually fuck that, those rotters broke piracy laws which might have threatened the job of daughter friend shagging middle aged tv presenters. Oh I find the fact all the evil shit SA gets up to is irrelevant to any potential takeover to be rather disturbing but we can only deal with facts and the only things the premier league gave half a shit about was beoutq. Though all the rest of the evil shit they get up to should automatically disqualify them

Essentially there wasn’t anything wrong with our bid that other clubs owners haven’t been found guilty of. The problem they had was that the big clubs are pissing themselves because they have already seen how Man City, Chelsea, and to a lesser extent Blackburn were able to overthrow them in the past with more money than them. They don’t mind the likes of Villa and Wolves having owners who have money to say they can compete, but not actually threaten the established clubs. Having enough money to make those established clubs also rans is a no no. I also highly suspect that Masters was awaiting a bribe, or waiting for one higher than BeIN/Qatar were offering, which wasn’t going to happen. You don’t get to have the career at the ECB and Premier League for as long as he has without expecting some brown envelopes to come across your desk for business deals to be finalised. and that is the biggest load of bullshit i've seen in this thread which is impressive. Go on name what other premier league club owners have been even accused of facilitating a massive piracy operation?

I’ve posted this previously but it will give you a pretty big clue. https://offthepitch.com/a/manchester-united-and-liverpool-given-special-access-vet-chief-executive-candidates Why did the previous two resign ? first choice just decided she didn't want the job iirc. Second dude got caught up in some scandal before he could take up the job

pretty much my view though obviously the premier league should have made some sort of decision rather than dither around for months on end. If you were feeling charitable you might say they were giving them a chance to rectify the issues but at some point you have to just make a fucking decision, having it go on indefinitely and leave a club in complete paralysis is just wrong.