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Mags selling their stadium to themselves


Black Cat Gypsy said:
Have Hope and Edwards said anything on this? If it was us, they'd be plastering it over social media.
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Like the Dicanio days- fascist salute that’s bad, really bad can’t be ignored bad.

Saudi Arabia’s human rights record- that’s ok that’s misinformation and misunderstanding cos the team will try so that’s good! Really good.

This kind of whataboutery will be at play I guess but just stadiums etc not mass murdering stuff
Dadsarmy73 said:
Be funny when the Saudis sell up but keep a hold of the stadium
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Insert Daffy Duck pulling himself daft meme right here
 
robbied2 said:
But the clubs also vote when the changes come in, the clubs hold all the power. They do exactly what tgey want
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So then hes a puppet who the FA (yeah right) should get rid of with their golden share. I agree with you that nothing will change unless he massively messes up though.
 
FoldingStars said:
So then hes a puppet who the FA (yeah right) should get rid of with their golden share. I agree with you that nothing will change unless he massively messes up though.
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Well he is a puppet working for the clubs, sorting out tv deals, ownership issues, but he doesn't make any rules up and he's nothing to do with the F.A
 
Scotty 1978 said:
Looks like they’re being ran terribly bad
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I wouldnt say that, ultimately to compete you have to take a loss now.

They've won a league cup and finished in the CL twice. Leicester won a league title and FA Cup and look at their financial woes.

The root issue is the PL since 1992 has been about unrestricted capitalism and spending money to win things. Since 2012 FFP was introduced to stop another Man City / PSG but the issue with that is those rules allow clubs with already big revenues a massive advantage in which in order to compete against them clubs teams like Everton, Villa, Sunderland, Forest, Newcastle etc have to spend a good chunk of money which ultimately leads to losses on the books and PSR breaches as our revenues will never be as high as those clubs above us.

Which in reality means the rules do stop clubs from competing in the long term and is probably why the middle pack in the league is so congested right now as clubs cant outspend their rivals too the extent needed to push away yet teams like Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, City etc can.
 
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robbied2 said:
Well he is a puppet working for the clubs, sorting out tv deals, ownership issues, but he doesn't make any rules up and he's nothing to do with the F.A
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But the FA has a golden share within the EPL that they never use, which they could and should. He is the same puppet that said hes seen documentation that guarantees PIF and the Saudi state are 2 different entities and not linked yet US courts were told they are the same. So whilst hes doing great for the club owners for football as a whole and its fans I'd argue hes not doing great, and really for the long term of the sport I'd argue he isnt doing great either. Gone slightly off topic though.
 
EverBlue86 said:
I wouldnt say that, ultimately to compete you have to take a loss now.

They've won a league cup and finished in the CL twice. Leicester won a league title and FA Cup and look at their financial woes.

The root issue is the PL since 1992 has been about unrestricted capitalism and spending money to win things. Since 2012 FFP was introduced to stop another Man City / PSG but the issue with that is those rules allow clubs with already big revenues a massive advantage in which in order to compete against them clubs teams like Everton, Villa, Sunderland, Forest, Newcastle etc have to spend a good chunk of money which ultimately leads to losses on the books and PSR breaches as our revenues will never be as high as those clubs above us.

Which in reality means the rules do stop clubs from competing in the long term and is probably why the middle pack in the league is so congested right now as clubs cant outspend their rivals too the extent needed to push away yet teams like Man Utd, Arsenal, Liverpool, City etc can.
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That would happen under most systems. Unrestricted capitalism, PSR. Unless there was an American draft style system or a rule everyone could only spend the same.

I’d bring in a salary cap. You can only spend certain percentage on salaries with 3/4 players falling outside the cap. Gives you the balance of paying top whack for the best players in transfer fees and wages but not totally blowing everyone out the water.
 
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