Dr Jinx

@nbthree3 is that you Ben?

Good lad! Even if he is poking a little fun at the club too ? wonder if Mbappe will think the cold is an issue if this takeover ever goes through

The PL have to submit their case on why the CAT should be shut down. Don’t expect any news to come of this for at least a few weeks. The judge will have to look over what I presume will be a mountain of paperwork and then the club will also be able to make a case for why it should, but I don’t know what happens there. Maybe someone else can answer that?

“And then I told him the logo needed a drop shadow”

I've seen them too! Side topic question, how did you end up being a regular poster on this board? ?

I’ve seen plenty of Man Utd supporters bitch and moan about him, especially the day after the Europa final. Couldn’t believe what I was seeing to be honest.

Not getting the hate for OGS, more so by their own fans. They've just had a very decent season, especially how they finished it. People like Pogba looking interested again. The post Ferguson hangover was always going to be brutal for them and they slipped to be an almost unrecognisable side to what they were. It’s a long way back from that.. managers with better cv’s on paper couldn’t do it (LVG, Jose) but OGS has done well imo.. they need season on season improvements to be real challengers again. It’s small increments at this point. 2/3 good signings. The supporters are the issue here, feel absolutely entitled to be winning silverware with absolutely no cop on that they had a once in a century institution in Ferguson, who didn’t have to deal with a league that was as competitive in the early 90’s, he had time to build that up that they aren’t prepared to give to anyone else.

This thread was always going to get toxic before the PL submit their evidence for the jurisdiction challenge. A big long wait with zero news getting out. That's the 11th.. God knows how long the judge will take to deliberate over that. Everything you see on here, twitter etc is just noise between now and then.

The judge said that Barclays had acted deceptively and improperly but didn't award her any damages on some technicality. So she basically wasn't wrong in her case.. She just didn't have enough to nail them.

It's gotten tetchy this week, I knew it would. We're a week away from things actually happening. It still doesn't help, feels like am in purgatory. Maybe I died last year of Covid and the punishment for all my sins is a never ending takeover, Ben Jacobs, Like Edwards, Caulkin and that awful Keith chap, oh and the bum chums on Wraiths show. It's fucking awful. I nearly don't want a takeover just so these prats won't claim it as their own victory. How have we allowed such a rabble to represent us? Surely there's brighter folk who could step in?

I think it's a simplification to say they couldn't agree on who to test. The consortium put forward their relevant nominations who all would have flown through the test based on its normal criteria. The issue is an agenda by the PL to sort out copyright infringement, so by requesting a state to be a director (which is unprecedented) hoping that they could gain leverage. There's nowhere in their rulebook that covers this so they have acted well outside the bounds on their test. They should have disqualified PIF based on their assumptions.

Voila. Also @Stifler Calvert typeface.

Mike Ashley.

Don't worry man, it's just a mock up. I'll see if there's a general consensus on what colours work best and I'll do a revision at some point tomorrow.

Might be a bit too green but overall I don't think the round badge is as bad as terrible as had initially thought. The current one is perfectly fine though, I only wish it would be sewed into the jerseys like they were in the 90's.. The printed on one looks gash, especially arou d the ribbon part.

Yeah I done it earlier. The idea of a round badge but keeping the best bits of the current one seemed interesting to attempt. The green on the seahorses is a nod to the city coat of arms.

My guess is the PL will load the judge with "evidence" to support their claim. The more the better as far as they are concerned. Delay tactics again. No idea how the judge will side with it. If it gets thrown out the game is up but if it continues they'll see another delay as a win, especially if arbitration is going their way. We need to tip the balance in our favour soon.

I'd say him and Dummett reek of whiskey and piss when they turn up to training.

Agreed. He's put together some of the best football this league has ever seen. The very rare occasion they can't score against a team defending well they look vulnerable at the back but it's always tiny margins.

Chelsea are a good side like.. If they had replaced their keeper sooner they would have been in with a chance in the league. Seems they have City's number. Havertz has been class tonight

Both options have their merits. Giving a team an incentive to go away from home and look to score is important but then it can backfire too for second leg matches. It should probably be left alone on reflection. Or maybe use it to level the playing fields a bit.. away goals rule doesn't count for seeded teams?

Watched it, well much of it. I found Keith to be quite belittling in his attitude towards Ben, who made his points quite well, but then he is an experienced journalist/pundit so he should be making his points better. Keith seemed so desperate to be right that he just sort of kept rephrasing the same questions over and over again without ever getting anywhere. I suppose if he was actually being accused of leaking info that clears up things but it doesn't prove anything one way or the other that the PL did something illegal. Things get leaked to journalists all the time, that's how stories break. We didn't learn anything really, well maybe to be wary of breaking news next week.. The point remains, it's all on how the judge rules in the jurisdiction claim. We're not winning arbitration. Even if the CAT case is weak, the PL won't want any sensitive info coming out that makes them look bad. This is why they could settle. We lose the jurisdiction and the whole thing is dead in the water.

Every Premier League club signs up to the PL's rules and regulations. Including the owners and directors test. The section about who should be a director or more specifically a person with a controlling interest is quite clear, including the information a party looking to purchase a club should provide. They didn't approve the takeover because the consortium would not agree that the KSA should be a director. That's where it stopped. The only way we win this case is if they can prove emphatically that KSA would have no controlling interest in the running of the club, and by extension that they don't have autonomy over the PIF. Which is absurd. The back door to this is if they can provide evidence that the PL were conspiring with others against the interests of the club. That's the only grey area where we could get them to back down. Time will tell if they have a smoking gun.

That's actually not what we want. One of the reasons of bringing about an expedited CAT case was for disclosure and evidence that they could use in the arbitration case and to put them under massive pressure. It suits the PL to have the arbitration go first as it's all behind closed doors. Plus it's also the case they are more likely to win.