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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)

yeah probably, still would have to transfer the money and whatever final bits of legal corporate stuff that needs doing and why bother announcing anything until its all done and dusted not like theres a big rush atm

He’s taken a club from dying on its arse near the bottom of the 4th tier, to a respectable lower mid-table Premier League team who play good football. It’s going against him a bit this season but he’s been class imo. Could be a case of being there for too long, most managers (with a few obvious exceptions) do have a shelf life at a club where the same methods just don't work as well anymore

who is he and why should I think he knows anything?

Truly the pits. Awful post. Only when she takes it up with Uber, Disney and Facebook then she can have the green light for a go at us. Whole thing stinks of Qatari influence tbqh. I have to agree with this, it's getting sad and desperate on her part now. It feels, for me, like she's overly focusing on one area of Saudi investment to the point of fanaticism, possibly on behalf of someone else's agenda. Sending repeated requests to the FA isn't on, the first should have been enough for them to consider it. That said, I guess I'm a bit black and white (if you'll excuse the pun), in that my thinking is while her plight may be upsetting for her, it doesn't concern me. I'm honest enough to admit that and I'd rather have all the pluses of the Saudis buying the Toon and investing in the area than worry about whether a guy whose background nobody knows fully, who may or may not have been killed on a direct order from a national head of state, to which there isn't actually any proven, hard evidence (perhaps for obvious reasons). Sorry, but that's just how I feel about it, does it make me a bad person? I don't think so, maybe in the eyes of some and that's their prerogative. In the mean time, this takeover is being drawn out for no good reason. its being drawn out as its a complicated case with many many concerns (including a court case this year from the premier league itself against SA) about who's getting involved and more importantly the planet is in the middle of a pandemic and the premier league is doing the equivalent of trying to herd cats by trying to get the twenty clubs to agree on some kind of plan to restart the league and also dealing with possible refund of tv money because of the shut down not to mention probable reductions in tv money in future deals. They have rather a lot on their plate atm and I'd imagine this takeover is rather low on the priority list

The guardian seem to hate this takeover like. That's a few negative stories they've gone with now. I can't possible imagine any reason The Guardian might not be on board with Saudi Arabia buying a premier league club.....