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American owners trying to fundamentally destroy the football pyramid and state owners buying clubs as part of wider geopolitical goals are both clearly bad for football as we know it.

 

We get more flack than others, and as a fan group we're often placed in an impossible position where we are told we have to stop doing something that has run in our families for generations and if we don't and we actually enjoy a 'product' that is immeasurably better than anything we've seen in 20 plus there is blood on our hands. But let's not pretend that none of the criticism of the owners is valid.

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4 minutes ago, Geordie_once_removed said:

American owners trying to fundamentally destroy the football pyramid and state owners buying clubs as part of wider geopolitical goals are both clearly bad for football as we know it.

 

We get more flack than others, and as a fan group we're often placed in an impossible position where we are told we have to stop doing something that has run in our families for generations and if we don't and we actually enjoy a 'product' that is immeasurably better than anything we've seen in 20 plus there is blood on our hands. But let's not pretend that none of the criticism of the owners is valid.

As Eddie says “I’m here for the football” 

ours is only going to get better. Let’s start with smashing the “teeth grinder’s” lot today. :indi:

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1 hour ago, FloydianMag said:

I could have sworn we left the EU a couple of years back and it was one of the reasons the fucking crooked Leave campaign gave was that UK businesses etc would be able to receive state aid? So does the EC have any jurisdiction in the UK and not all UEFA members are EU members.

 

 

 

 

 

There's still rules against levels of state aid with the trade agreement we have with the EU.

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3 minutes ago, Keegans Export said:

The only accusations that could stick would be something like the Sela money actually coming from PIF/KSA directly rather than Sela itself. I think that was/is one of the things they're trying to get Man City on?

That will never happen to us! If it did we deserve the consequences. It won’t by the way. We have smart owners! 

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4 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

There's still rules against levels of state aid with the trade agreement we have with the EU.

We don’t receive state aid and perhaps you could link the Trade and Cooperation agreement with the EU and the relevant section on State Aid? I can’t be arsed to go through the agreement.

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3 minutes ago, FloydianMag said:

We don’t receive state aid and perhaps you could link the Trade and Cooperation agreement with the EU and the relevant section on State Aid? I can’t be arsed to go through the agreement.

 

You bloody do it since you brought it up.

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5 minutes ago, El Prontonise said:

 

You bloody do it since you brought it up.

Had a quick look, it mainly applies to goods between the UK and NI w2hich is still in the EUSM.

 

https://www.economy-ni.gov.uk/articles/state-aid-and-subsidy-control-after-eu-exit

 

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/complying-with-the-uks-international-obligations-on-subsidy-control-guidance-for-public-authorities/guidance-on-the-scope-and-application-of-article-10-of-the-windsor-framework

 

 

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Take it with a pinch of salt, Nick Harris wrote this pile of shite so that says it all really.

 

The new rules may or may not apply to the PL.

 

Theyve been in force since June and the article can’t confirm if any state funds come from the UAE.

 

As for the commission investigation, the commission was asked by Harris and they gave a generic reply that they look into all situations where state aid may inflate markets. But the article boldly states however the commission may open an investigation.

 

It’s just a shite article from Sportingcel and surprise surprise the Daily fucking Mail.

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...since the end of the transition period whereby EU State aid law ceased to apply to any aid granted by the UK except where it affects trade between Northern Ireland and the EU that is subject to the Windsor Framework.

Source https://cms-lawnow.com/en/ealerts/2023/06/revised-guidance-on-the-application-of-eu-state-aid-rules-in-the-uk-post-brexit#:~:text=The revised EC Notice%2C which,EU that is subject to

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2 hours ago, duo said:

I don't see PSG mentioned which I find strange.

 

They are briefly mentioned in the article

 

"It’s likely there has been a complaint about City and Newcastle from La Liga now that the FSR is up and running. La Liga president Javier Tebas has long been a critic of what he calls ‘state-funded clubs’ including City.

 

La Liga declined to comment, although they confirmed recently they had made a formal complaint to the EC about state aid unfairly helping Paris Saint-Germain, who are in effect owned and funded by the government of Qatar."

 

 

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7 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

 

They are briefly mentioned in the article

 

"It’s likely there has been a complaint about City and Newcastle from La Liga now that the FSR is up and running. La Liga president Javier Tebas has long been a critic of what he calls ‘state-funded clubs’ including City.

 

La Liga declined to comment, although they confirmed recently they had made a formal complaint to the EC about state aid unfairly helping Paris Saint-Germain, who are in effect owned and funded by the government of Qatar."

 

 

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“Peter you’ve lost the news!”

 

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24 minutes ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

 

They are briefly mentioned in the article

 

"It’s likely there has been a complaint about City and Newcastle from La Liga now that the FSR is up and running. La Liga president Javier Tebas has long been a critic of what he calls ‘state-funded clubs’ including City.

 

La Liga declined to comment, although they confirmed recently they had made a formal complaint to the EC about state aid unfairly helping Paris Saint-Germain, who are in effect owned and funded by the government of Qatar."

 

 

Well PSG owns the ECA, so any complaint against them is useless. 

 

They were the big winners of the Superleague fiasco. 

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2 hours ago, Geordie Ahmed said:

 

They are briefly mentioned in the article

 

"It’s likely there has been a complaint about City and Newcastle from La Liga now that the FSR is up and running. La Liga president Javier Tebas has long been a critic of what he calls ‘state-funded clubs’ including City.

 

La Liga declined to comment, although they confirmed recently they had made a formal complaint to the EC about state aid unfairly helping Paris Saint-Germain, who are in effect owned and funded by the government of Qatar."

 

 

How much ‘state funding’ have we actually received?  There will be a current investment figure.  I bet it’s still in the tens of millions.

 

Rather less than when Real Madrid sold its training ground to the Spanish govt to pay for a nine-figure debt. 

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