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NUFC July 2021.

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jlaws said:
I am sure they have a strong case to say it is anti-competitive to stop them receiving a cash injection to allow them to compete with other teams but at the same time when the proposed owners have been pirating (and apparently still are) the very product that brings all the wealth to the game then you can see it is not a smooth ride. Why can all these mags on twitter not see this? Why would the 19 other owners want to sit at the table with someone that put hundreds of millions of TV rights at risk? Do KSA represent intellectual property rights? Of course they don't - I recall a figure of 47% for business software piracy. When I deliver courses in UAE not a single laptop has licensed Windows or Office - it's endemic. The EPL is based on TV rights.
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My point has always been this. They accuse Masters and the EPL of being corrupt and in the pockets of the "Big 6". But they have never provided any evidence of it...

Masters and the EPL are about money, and the global status of their product. They want 20 teams of Mbappes and Messis and 20 teams with massive support. Their dream situation is a league where every club is full of superstars drawing in global audiences for every televised game. There is zero logic in them "protecting the big 6". Right now the big 6 are the big draw. A big 8 is a bigger draw and a big 10 even better for them

They wouldn't block a Saudi takeover and the potential TV deals it might bring for nothing. They'd love it. There is much more to this than just a desire to make the league boring and predictable.

Jeff Bezos, The Sultan of Brunei or Elon Musk could buy any Premier league club they wanted I suspect. Regardless what the "big 6" have to say.
The fact that Staveley and the Saudis can't says more about them than it does the Premier League and its processes
 
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Redandwhitedust said:
I used to think that, but I not so sure now. The big player in all this, the Saudis, have hardly said a word. If they were serious about still wanting to buy the club, I think they'd have released a statement to put the pressure on all parties to get something done.

They haven't.
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This. There's all manner of ways they could have laundered the purchasing vehicle for this and yet they haven't. It's long dead - it's just in the interests of Staveley and Ashley to keep doing a Weekend at Bernie's on the corpse.
 
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