TheBrownBottle

2018 is when the investigations started. Keep up.

It’s not ‘if I say so’. It’s a fact. Man City are state-owned and funded by oil wealth. NUFC are state-owned. Separation is a load of bollocks, particularly when you’re dealing with dictatorships. Tell yourself whatever fairy tales you need so that those nasty Man Utd fans having a pop don’t get you down. But Man City’s success is entirely down to the oil wealth of a tiny dictatorship, which has in all likelihood spent the last decade operating outside the rules that others have had to follow.

Yep, and NUFC are owner 80% by PIF, not the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. Pull the other one man; if there’s any group of supporters who knows what a load of bollocks the ‘Abu Dhabi Group’ being separate from the city state of Abu Dhabi is, it is us. The govt manages Abu Dhabi group.

I thought the High Court had already rejected an appeal from the Commercial Court a couple of years ago?

I don’t think it is racist at all to question state ownership of football clubs - particularly when those states are dictatorships with appalling human rights records

Or a threat against journalists by a dictatorship’s collection of paid hands in an attempt to silence them. It’s a PL tribunal not a criminal trial.

Probably - but such a move would only anchor NUFC in the future.

If NUFC are at the head of that group, that’s not exactly suggestive of them being confident in increasing revenues in line with the clubs at the top …

20 points deduction for the crime of being Leeds seems reasonable to me

Which Liverpool offer? I haven’t seen owt about that

Yep, agreed - I’m definitely not an advocate for the current rules. But this wouldn’t be someone being forced out of the club - they knew what they were doing having that clause inserted. I also doubt that it was the club who made it public knowledge.

The club would need to sell if another club meets the asking price and Bruno agrees to go FFP regs didn’t force Bruno and his agent to insert that clause into his new deal …

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It’s not based on three-year rolling losses anymore - it’s based on % of turnover.

Makes sense - thanks Matt

We know what the differences are though - they’re not a secret.

Christ, how many players are we selling to fund that lot

Aye, 5-0 was the scoreline I was thinking too.

We’ve packed him off on gardening leave - we’ve stopped him from working. Perhaps he could argue that this is detrimental to his career? In terms of transfers - in all honesty I’ve always been curious to see what would happen if a player took a club to court for that very thing. Transfer fees were always a weird derogation of employment law.

I thought UK Corporate Governance practice limited notice periods to one year maximum for executives (this is from memory like - it happened to a director of a firm I used to work for) - and I would have thought Ashworth could take the club to tribunal if he thought he could show that the notice period is unreasonable. I’m struggling to see a judge agreeing that an 18 month notice period for a senior administrator is reasonable.

In all honesty I wouldn’t be too sure of that - punitive clauses in contracts are not enforceable in England, regardless of them being inserted into a contract or not, and he might be able to claim against us stopping him from working.

Arbitrators can’t, courts can. But exactly as you’ve said it would likely cause delays to get a court involved.

Yes, of course Man Utd would have been. The fact that the silly cunt who did nowt at Nice is now trying to rebuild Glazer FC on the cheap and thinks that administrators are the route back says it all. Watching him crash and burn is going to be hugely satisfying.

Adjudicators don’t normally look kindly upon parties who refuse arbitration tbf - I agree the club may view delays as being of benefit to us and detrimental to Man Ure. But the whole ‘demand £20m or tell them to get fucked’ has now gone for a Burton.

Arbitration doesn’t usually favour clubs demanding big fees with little previous evidence of big fees. I’m willing to bet if the arbitration panel rules before any agreement we don’t get much more than we paid Brighton. Certainly the club holding out for a ten figure sum is likely down the shitter - that strategy only works if Ashworth doesn’t take the steps he is doing now In all honesty, Ashworth is coming across as the biggest cunt of all here