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Probably better for all concerned if they lead with City against Arsenal as the first game back, Villa vs Sheffield United seems a bit anticlimactic

Allowed? Who’s going to stop them behind closed doors? Not sure about the Qataris buying Leeds. What happens when they get to Champions League? well if RB Leipzig can play Red Bull Salzburg in the Europa League it probably isn't that big a deal to get around

Which Monday? 12th monday in smarch

iirc that had nowt to do with the premier league blocking it but the competitions authority in the uk

I think he'd rather the 300 odd million

I highly doubt it. First of all they still have the MENA region rights. It’s not like this has suddenly gone away from them. Piracy issues would be happening regardless and something they would be working on. The difference is that instead of people providing a stream on a website or through Android boxes, you have one that is for country to use. You have to remember that this piracy only occurred because BeIN stopped broadcasting is Saudi Arabia and the UAE because they wished to back their governments political campaign. actually SA and UAE banned BeIN because of the economic blockade they started against Qatar, UAE restored it but insofar as I can tell its still banned in SA.

Nah PL want this likely more than anyone. The money its brings, more open doors for TV Deals and exposure they won't want to turn it away even if they don't like the moral issues. don't agree on the basis of bad pr of even being remotely associated with SA and the piracy issue, it raises awkward questions for them if they're bringing court cases against SA and going to the WTO about them but then just wave them through a few months later. Plus if they really wanted this deal it would have been ratified by now

as a side note its rather depressing for football in general that its not something like SA's human rights record, bombing of yemen or just that a fucking country shouldn't be allowed to own a football club putting this under any threat but instead its about a danger to premier league tv money from the piracy issue. Fuck modern football and everything it stands for

Ok, then it’s not a developed story. The article states that the WTO appears are the same ones filed to the Premier League a month ago. The same ones that it has already been reported that is unlikely to impact the sale of the club. The author of the article today has even said it likely won’t result in the takeover being blocked. It’s not a non-story, but it’s not a developed story, and write of the article even admits that title of it is misleading. that may have been what was reported but here we are and its still not ratified, I think its a reasonable assumption to make that this report is clearly having some impact even in just slowing it down and while the headline may be a bit overblown fact is the premier league (and other governance bodies) are less than pleased with how SA has treated the piracy issue so they're going to go into as much detail as possible.

guardians report says this

well its reasonably big news regardless of if football was a thing in England or not atm but yeah take one look at any papers sport section in the last few months and its fairly barren so of coarse they're going to leap on some actual news to report on

That's two responses from him and Richardson who both said this and have backtracked a bit. doubt anyone even ashley or Stavley and co really know what the premier league is going to do

I've really felt since the start the premier league really would rather not let this go through because of the piracy issue alone, dunno if this WTO report will provide them the cover legally they need to reject it so wait and see

I honestly cannot fathom how this sort of work can take this long to get through. They must be working through a page of documentation a day. Its paper work, emails and phone calls. If they don't have the resources to give the time it needs due to 'project restart', they should have hired a private firm to work it. I'm in the wrong racket. I'd get less time than this to design, implement and deploy something that automated this whole thing. yeah this is highly complex legal and financial stuff involving different legal codes as SA is involved it was always going to take a fair bit of time and thats without taking into account a pandemic and trying to work out something to finish the league to put off potential refunds in the hundered of millions of pounds to tv companies and then you have the 20 premier league clubs squablling on how to finish the league. And your surprised its taking a while? And ultimately its a secondary priority for the league right now because once again the largest Pandemic in 100 years they have more important things to do right now and whether or not some rich saudis take over a club can wait

tbh I really don't envy trying to be a sports journalist or broadcaster right now, even nostalgia can only fill so much time and the covid news is repetitive

why is anyone paying the slightest bit of attention to what richard keys says on anything

this line from the guardians report confuses me https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/may/22/manchester-united-sues-football-manager-makers-over-use-of-name

if they win its sets a precedent and every club who don't have a licencing deal with them directly or via their league will be suing them

Have I missed something? Why does Keith Bishop always crop up? because he's apparently some pr mastermind able to puppet the entire world media to his whims instead of someone not very good at his job since the very most you'll get towards ashley from any nufc is a frustrated tolerance and the vast majority hate him

because the premier league is a members club and everyone has an equal say on things (hence the problems in deciding anything about how a restart will work) Yeah but they don’t get a say in who owns another club surely. maybe not a direct say (I have no idea how they run things) but to pretend having some clubs expressing concerns or whatever would have no influence on the process is naive. Doubt its much out of concern of oh no super rich dude is coming in and more negative pr from being even remotely associated with SA and the piracy issue

because the premier league is a members club and everyone has an equal say on things (hence the problems in deciding anything about how a restart will work)