TheBrownBottle

I’m glad for Greece - totally deserved that one

Nick Pope saves that Actually, I reckon John Ruddy saves that

Undeserved

Just thinking this. Sell Lancaster Gate and fund a proper fucking manager. They’re on to squander this group.

Schoolboy defending

Yeah, I remember him saying this - after we’d signed long term deals for our kit and main shirt sponsorships which were a lot less than those of the Sky six. There is nothing stopping the club from signing one year deals with PIF-linked firms and upping them the following year.

I think they’re terrified of taking pot shots at a GK of his stature

Solanke comes on to confirm the narrative that what you need to get capped is sign for a big club

Yep, I’m betting precisely that. The club has been hyper-compliant so far.

These aren’t the rules that were in place in 2014, and Man City are accused of some pretty serious things tbf.

Of course! When it comes to those running football - which includes our own ownership - I’m not a beacon of positivity or reverence. My scepticism would boil down to the ongoing lack of sponsorship deals from KSA, including for things which seem so easy to have pushed through (training ground / kit, stadium, etc). We haven’t done the low-hanging fruit, but we’ve got massive deals which the PL has blocked? My suspicion (and it can be only that) is that part of the PL waving the takeover through was guarantees of precisely this nature. It might go some way to explain why the ownership has been so inert for so long.

Agreed - it should be straightforward, provided that the PL had rejected previous potential sponsorship deals. We’ll find out soon enough if this has happened. I’m betting it hasn’t.

Yep, the new APT rules will be interested - and how they’ll be enforced. Can’t see them rushing this - they’ll want to make absolutely sure that they’re in line with any legal requirements. It would be hugely damaging to be challenged - and lose - again.

They’d need proof of sponsorship deals they had lined up and rejected

The solution isn’t playing our best player out of position

One day - and that day may never come - I might work out why a cadre of NUFC supporters insist on trying to move potentially one of the world’s best centre forwards into a deep-lying role or to the wing to accommodate a centre forward who isn’t close to his level …

Can’t be arsed to read a ‘no shit Sherlock’ piece by that berk

Yep But I also suspect that the Eastham v NUFC ruling re retain and transfer would knacker it quickly

There are a lot of problems with that - it could prove hugely damaging to young players’ careers and development if they’re trapped at a club with no possibly of getting out.

Sure, they definitely will. And if they did then they have a case. Just saying that there hasn’t been a squeak about this - its just conjecture.

Man City do, where’s ours? I don’t give two shites if Man City have it. It’s us I’m concerned about.

I never said nowt would come of it - I said it wasn’t the magic bullet and the rules wouldn’t come crashing down as a result. And they haven’t, and we’re no closer to getting crazy sponsorship money than we were this time last week.

APT in line with commercial law as a concept, but they need to amend elements of the existing rules? It’s hardly blown to pieces. Man City still look to be in serious bother re the other charges. The PL as a collective still votes on its own rules - they’ll adjust them in accordance with the ruling, which takes us back to January 2024. Last I checked, we weren’t exactly knocking overvalued sponsorships out of the park until February.

Doesn’t look remotely like that tbf

You’d actually have to have proof of a rejection of a sponsorship offer, not simply a supposition. Have we had sponsorships rejected by the PL?