jdckelly

It's not a company from SA it's SA. The PL themselves described PIF as a company in SA like. whose chairman happens to be the crown prince of saudi arabia (and as far as I understand he's been making more and more decisions for the country the last few years) and its literally the public investment fund of saudi arabia how the hell can it not be considered an arm of the KSA goverment

If PIF tries to take over the clubs you mentioned, it takes days - not weeks or months - for the PL to sign off on it. We're just plucky ol' Newcastle. Fuck us. no it would take as long because the same issues are in play regarding the piracy. Its not a fucking conspiracy theory to keep newcastle down

why exactly was he sacked from Leicester? Just because of his son being a racist asshole which seems a bit ott though I suppose it worked out well enough for them

one of those things that had to be sorted regardless doesn't say anything about the takeover beyond its taking way longer than anyone expected

no ballon d'or this year for some reason

Also relying on Villa or Bournemouth getting 0 points in order to stay up is a very risky prospect when Bournemouth have Everton and Villa have West Ham, very possible for one (or both) to win those games

Then just wait 8 days, you can have all that lined up and ready to go then. As for West Ham, why? Moyes came in got them safe mostly thanks to some good signings in Jan he was the one pushing for and they already tried the sack the dour british manager "to go to the next level" and ended up in enough of a mess to go crawling back to Moyes saying please bail us out again. West Ham need some stability and foundations laid before they look to improve.

surely something would have been leaked about that with the sacking news if that was the case

the fuck, apart from the west ham game they've been doing reasonably well since restart and were on an upwards trajectory before lockdown hell they were the first side to beat Liverpool this season and the thanks he gets is the boot? Really hope they go down now

hello not quite over yet

what are the odds west ham sack moyes again after tonight now he it looks like he has them safe?

1-0 west ham

too far out to really say anything, will all depend on how things are then

can't really with the euros as a hard deadline to finish the season

I’d imagine the seasons are going to be condensed so similar format to last few months. Long term if we return to the normal fixture routine they’ve sure got to revert but you know what FIFA are like. basically this, seasons are starting late and most of the big european leagues having a fairly limited pre-season (especially if your still in the Champions League) and have to finish in enough time for the euros etc to take place. It'll probably lead to a lot of injuries so presumably 5 subs might help mitigate that to some extent though obviously it majorly favors Man Utd/City etc compared to everyone 8th and below

5 subs extended into next season

Why would it be fucked? It literally says in the next line it shouldn't affect the the takeover. thats what they think but assuming its stavely and co briefing Taylor its also the same lot who were saying "no red flags"; they're either not that bright, self delusional to an extreme or just throw random bs at journalists to keep them happy.

education is the only answer especially in this case as its a bloody kid. Hopefully in 10-20 years he'll look back at this and completely cringe at his behavior

How? Don't see how the PL would be happy with this If they are getting rid of piracy and then getting new investment with a new deal, then I would say they would be happy with that. But they can’t legally get a new deal until the end of next season. Not if they have legally extracted their country from the regional territory, we can't comment on the legalities as we don't know them. Going to have to wait for more information to come out. Surely Bein can't pay the PL for rights for the whole region and then half way through the contract, suddenly the PL sell rights for one of those countries to a different network? It might have no bearing on the takeover but I can't see it being a positive t sounds like a textbook breach of contract which would cost the prem a lot more than they'd get from selling rights to SA on its own next season

i'd argue Qatar/Bein loses face in that scenario as KSA has been able to do what they feel like and bein loses a large rich region from its various tv deals

If the Premier League agree to take Saudi as its own broadcast region and agree to compensate BEIN for their region being reduced in size it could perhaps be possible to do it now. As BEIN would still keep their MENA TV deal at a reduced rate, just speculating of course. would require BeIN to agree to it and well why the hell would they agree to it? Well money, they're in the shit financially and right now they get absolutely nothing for their license from Saudi. They'd be getting a large discount for losing a broadcast area that's completely worthless to them. I just can't see them (or anyone from Qatar) giving KSA an inch in anything regardless of cost to themselves. Hell I sure as hell wouldn't, not with the shit they've been pulling with the piracy and blocking any legal action in KSA to stop it.

If the Premier League agree to take Saudi as its own broadcast region and agree to compensate BEIN for their region being reduced in size it could perhaps be possible to do it now. As BEIN would still keep their MENA TV deal at a reduced rate, just speculating of course. would require BeIN to agree to it and well why the hell would they agree to it?

regardless of any future tv deals it won't change the fact they can't do anything about it for next season as the bein contract would be water tight in that regard

I'll say this for the premier league, they are very good at not letting leaks out since nobody has a clue whats going on or where its at only educated guesses

when your an absolute dictatorship every bit of policy is based on the whims of the dictator and this seems like the kind of move of someone who didn't get their way