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when the entire takeover has centered around piracy and tv rights and by banning bein KSA have just dropped the value of beins rights in the MENA region significantly

social media really has made everything worse and for very limited benefit, ban the whole thing nothing of value will be lost.

what makes it worse is they started the whole investigation after the 5 year time bar which makes them look even more incompetent as they are somehow unaware of their own rules

it reigned supreme either way since FFP was a pull up the ladder behind the big clubs move

that humilating for UEFA, hell argument to be made it kills FFP

City - A Southampton - H Everton - A Not a chance its unlikely but City have a cup semi final which is obviously far more important to them than a random league match so they'll rotate the team and Southampton and Everton while decent since the return have nowt to play for (and a potential top 10 finish is not a great motivating factor)

city southampton and everton (order may not be correct), not impossible they could get 6 points, everton and southampton have nowt to play for ultimately

mostly because how bad chelsea, spurs, arsenal and man utd have been to varying degrees

what a moron

RIP complete legend

assuming they can go ahead, not exactly a guarantee in the current climate

why did it take so long? isn't there a disciplinary panel surely they could have met via zoom or whatever to sort all the bans out once football restarted

stranger things have happened but no I will not be donating to my bookies retirement fund

Will completely ruin the game Hyperbole much? Maybe a little aye When each team are potentially changing half their outfield players in a game I’m just gonna lose interest. It just puts me in mind of a friendly and how the game tends to die out when a load of subs are made. secondary and obv less important as a betting man, markets like goalscorers, players carded etc are gonna be less of an interest as it’s now more than likely a player will be subbed early I can understand the 5 subs just now because of 3 games in a week just now, other than I just don’t see the need tbh it might be necessary next season too, they have to try and fit in a full season before around the middle of may with the euros coming up after and they're going to be starting a month late (probably) and thats without a proper preseason or even much of a break after this season ends. Theres going to be a lot of midweek games for all teams and then theres the european competitions for some teams and god help them if theres a second wave

yeah thats not going away and neither is the "water break" (which actually I don't mind so much)

Germany's rule was drawn up when there was no private ownership already in place (apart from particular clubs, Leverkusen etc). You can't put the genie back in the bottle here. oh I know (and hell even in German its hardly fool proof with RB Leipzig as an example) but one can dream or at the very least ban fucking countries from getting involved since it drags all the geopolitical baggage with them You'd think states not being able to own clubs would have been a pretty easy rule to put in place. unfortunately it involves getting 14/20 clubs to agree to put it in place when the only thought going through the respective owners minds is "well what if some random rich gulf country wants to throw money at me for my club don't want to close the door on that"

Germany's rule was drawn up when there was no private ownership already in place (apart from particular clubs, Leverkusen etc). You can't put the genie back in the bottle here. oh I know (and hell even in German its hardly fool proof with RB Leipzig as an example) but one can dream or at the very least ban fucking countries from getting involved since it drags all the geopolitical baggage with them

god just wish they'd introduce the 50+1 rule as they have in germany to avoid shit like this.

iirc they tightened the ODT a bit a few years ago, the early version seemed literally just a rubber stamping exercise as evidenced by the number of owners portsmouth went through while still in the prem in one season

forgot welbeck played for watford tbh

Haven’t they already relented with the anti piracy measures they have put in place. Yeah he mentioned that and it's certainly a start. He said ideally the best thing for SA to do is kind of build a relationship with Bein and play by the book. (allowing Bein to have broadcast rights in SA for example) However this is highly unlikely due to the massive political issues between them. It's all very confusing and yoi can see why this is taking an absolute age to get passed by the PL. What a load of bollocks, political relations between 2 country’s has fuck all to do with the premier league and the O&D test, and shouldn’t have even been mentioned by the premier league to PCP and the PIF, I hope they absolutely rinse the PL if this takes much longer all part of the fun when nations are allowed to buy football clubs

but then they wouldn't get as much money from sky/bt/whatever is their logic. Personally I wouldn't see the harm in giving terrestrial tv one game a week (last pick obviously) but it ain't happening without the uk government forcing it via legislation

most of the league falls into that bracket at the moment

There is actually. which clubs have been getting around by selling the grounds to the owner for big money which filled the gap in the clubs ffp finances to avoid punishment. pity for Villa they already pulled that trick so they're fairly screwed if they go down after spending 140m to probably go back down