Colos Short and Curlies Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Is the PL funded by the taxpayer at all? Just wondered what kind of leverage the U.K. government might have over this as I’m sure they’d tacitly want it to go through for economic/ geopolitical reasons The UK government won’t want the Saudis pissed of given the billions they spend here every year. The government can’t/won’t get involved but they can lean on the PL, not that we’ll get to know about it. Yes but what leverage can they use to lean on the PL. If there is no real leverage the PL don’t have to listen. Policing? Or just threaten to send HMRC round to every club and every facet of the Premier League to do a full anal cavity search type audit Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Forgive me, but is anyone else as bored with all this speculation, accusation, insinuation etc as I am? I'm just going to try live a normal life and wait for an announcement. Positive or negative. Nothing I can do about it..... I've said that many a time but still find myself on Twitter and on here all day from getting up at 5am for work until going to sleep at 10-11. 1 thing I will say mind, I'm not remotely interested in project restart or any of our games. Literally just don't care about either. If this falls through it'll end my love of football completely. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
marki Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 other clubs have no infuence what so ever on any outcme , if they did the pl would be seen in the same corrupt light as fifa Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Holden Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Forgive me, but is anyone else as bored with all this speculation, accusation, insinuation etc as I am? I'm just going to try live a normal life and wait for an announcement. Positive or negative. Nothing I can do about it..... I've said that many a time but still find myself on Twitter and on here all day from getting up at 5am for work until going to sleep at 10-11. 1 thing I will say mind, I'm not remotely interested in project restart or any of our games. Literally just don't care about either. If this falls through it'll end my love of football completely. Bet it doesnt Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
toontownman Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Forgive me, but is anyone else as bored with all this speculation, accusation, insinuation etc as I am? I'm just going to try live a normal life and wait for an announcement. Positive or negative. Nothing I can do about it..... "Try to live a normal life, try to live a normal life.." *Steps out of his house, drives to work*... "where is everyone?" The best thing to do its to try and ignore it as you say. It is more irritating now than a month or two ago but I am past the excitement and non stop page refresh stage. It is likely the only thing interesting for some people during this pandemic though. Seeing as we aren't in the positive thread, maybe the PL will just wait until we lose a few games and are hovering above relegation. Then they will announce its rejected. A jolly thought. Still think it is all good though. Just no idea when they will announce it. Logic is out of the window at this point. I haven't wavered from thinking this will get approved though. PL still just trying to save face and look the best they can before approving it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jinky Jim Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Just noticed that this thread has just overtaken the Rafa Benitez Thread.....don’t know why but I’m taking that as a good sign in the takeover Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scoot Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Forgive me, but is anyone else as bored with all this speculation, accusation, insinuation etc as I am? I'm just going to try live a normal life and wait for an announcement. Positive or negative. Nothing I can do about it..... I've said that many a time but still find myself on Twitter and on here all day from getting up at 5am for work until going to sleep at 10-11. 1 thing I will say mind, I'm not remotely interested in project restart or any of our games. Literally just don't care about either. If this falls through it'll end my love of football completely. Bet it doesnt Hard to say long term to be honest but jesus christ it will take a while to come around from it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Scotty66 Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Football Law saying he will do a write up on all of this hopefully tomorrow 👍 Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
LV Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Forgive me, but is anyone else as bored with all this speculation, accusation, insinuation etc as I am? I'm just going to try live a normal life and wait for an announcement. Positive or negative. Nothing I can do about it..... I've said that many a time but still find myself on Twitter and on here all day from getting up at 5am for work until going to sleep at 10-11. 1 thing I will say mind, I'm not remotely interested in project restart or any of our games. Literally just don't care about either. If this falls through it'll end my love of football completely. I’m with you on the second bit. Couldn’t give a monkey’s cuss. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
GWN Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Are we now saying that this takeover looks like being... a toss of a coin? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Are we now saying that this takeover looks like being... a toss of a coin? Doesn't really matter what we think it looks like. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Despite saying he was taking a break from it earlier, he’s back again. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest godzilla Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Despite saying he was taking a break from it earlier, he’s back again. can't help himself can he, utter cunt that he is Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Judge Holden Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Despite saying he was taking a break from it earlier, he’s back again. Appears he's trying to justify his tweet from this morning where he said he was informed the report was extremely hard on KSA. or something along those lines. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Relentless rectangle! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Relentless rectangle! OT but my son called me a rectangle last night, no idea where he's got that from but pissed myself Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
HaydnNUFC Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Are we now saying that this takeover looks like being... a toss of a coin? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ikon Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Relentless rectangle! OT but my son called me a rectangle last night, no idea where he's got that from but pissed myself Cant blame him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dokko Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Relentless rectangle! OT but my son called me a rectangle last night, no idea where he's got that from but pissed myself Cant blame him Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Jinx Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 Well overall I think the day could have gone a lot worse. Seems to me the PL still have a bit of leverage with KSA and that’s ultimately what the hold up is. How can it benefit them to approve it? I think an assurance to make a similar bid that Qatar did for PL rights next time round will be happening in back channels. Dastardly Dick Masters didn’t claw his way up from the cricket board to where he is now by not being as corrupt as everyone that’s gone before him. I’m certain of it Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whitley mag Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 He’s determined to piss on our chips. The headline does say complicit as opposed to behind it, which you could say is correct. However not sure what point he’s trying to prove here. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kanji Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 nice job mansplaining, Luke Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wilson Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 If they did indeed ignore 9 requests from the PL to help shut it down, I suppose that does make them complicit and it's also something that the PL would (understandably) find hard to move on from. Again though, that's something all parties obviously already knew beforehand. It's pointless trying to second guess anything right now Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Prophet Posted June 16, 2020 Share Posted June 16, 2020 So there are obviously different legal interpretations of this, but ultimately the most important interpretation is that of the PL - and they haven't rejected it out of hand. Based on this, I have absolutely no idea why a professional journalist would go out if his way to shove his version of events down others throats. He's at best got a chip on his shoulder, just a total helmet by the looks if it though. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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