The on topic thread 4.0

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European Super League: Fresh plans for 80-team competition announced by chief executive Bernd Reichart

A new-look European Super League would be based on sporting performance only with no permanent members, A22 chief executive Bernd Reichart told German newspaper Die Welt; teams would be guaranteed a minimum of 14 matches per season; LaLiga call plans selfish and greed-driven

www.skysports.com

Didn't someone say this was definitely dead the other day?

 

[moomba]

Who said anything about Man City?

PMSL

 

[moomba]

 

[moomba]

Well this is awkward.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

City have found a bank to hide the ongoing transactions between Abu Dhabi and City's sponsors?

 

[moomba]

PMSL

 

[moomba]

 

[Bostonian]

That guy literally just described sportswashing.

 

[moomba]

That guy literally just described sportswashing.

LOL. If you say so.

 

[moomba]

 

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Daddy buys me lots of nice candy but Mummy never does, she just takes me to the mean old dentist to fix these mysterious holes in my teeth.

 

[Bostonian]

LOL. If you say so.

Why else would Authoritarian regimes pretend they give a shit about another nations people who they are ideologically opposed too?

The goodness of their Authoritarian hearts?

 

[moomba]

Daddy buys me lots of nice candy but Mummy never does, she just takes me to the mean old dentist to fix these mysterious holes in my teeth.

What a weird analogy.

 

[moomba]

Why else would Authoritarian regimes pretend they give a s**t about another nations people who they are ideologically opposed too?

The goodness of their Authoritarian hearts?

No-one cares why the developments have been done, they've been done and the community has benefited from it (as I suspect has Mansour).

The area around Beswick/Ardwick is unrecognisable from when I first came to Manchester.

What have the Glazers down for United or Manchester?

I certainly understand those with human rights issues (or squabbles as I like to call them), but those that think the Glazer model of football ownership is preferable to Mansour, they can get to ****.

 

[Zidane98]

City have found a bank to hide the ongoing transactions between Abu Dhabi and City's sponsors?

Id be careful with that sort of quote. Could be construed as racism by some.

 

[moomba]

Id be careful with that sort of quote. Could be construred as racism by some.

Cant see why, it wasn't a racist comment.

 

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European Super League: Fresh plans for 80-team competition announced by chief executive Bernd Reichart

A new-look European Super League would be based on sporting performance only with no permanent members, A22 chief executive Bernd Reichart told German newspaper Die Welt; teams would be guaranteed a minimum of 14 matches per season; LaLiga call plans selfish and greed-driven

www.skysports.com

Didn't someone say this was definitely dead the other day?

It was never dead as long as the EPL's financial might outstrips the other European leagues. Note how the only clubs that backed out were all English.

 

[chef]

 

[Bostonian]

No-one cares why the developments have been done, they've been done and the community has benefited from it (as I suspect has Mansour).

That's setting some low moral standards.

The area around Beswick/Ardwick is unrecognisable from when I first came to Manchester.

What have the Glazers down for United or Manchester?

I certainly understand those with human rights issues (or squabbles as I like to call them), but those that think the Glazer model of football ownership is preferable to Mansour, they can get to *.

Or neither of those models are any good is also an answer.

 

[Sozabarus]

I thought Moomba hated strawman arguments? Yes the Glazers are bad owners, no one has ever said differently. It’s completely irrelevant though.

 

[moomba]

That's setting some low moral standards.

You seem to have totally missed the point.

It wasn't about who you would want in charge of a club, it was about which is a better model. An owner that comes in, spends their own money on infrastructure and the local community, or one that buys a club with the clubs own money, takes out dividends and spends nothing on the club infrastructure.

Mansour vs Glazer wasn't the question.

Or neither of those models are any good is also an answer.

A shit answer, but you are right. It is an answer.

 

[moomba]

I thought Moomba hated strawman arguments? Yes the Glazers are bad owners, no one has ever said differently. It’s completely irrelevant though.

I would have thought different styles of ownership of football clubs is kind of relevant in an on topic football thread.

It was a letter I saw, and it resonated.

Not sure how that makes it a strawman argument, but there you go.

 

[Bojan KantKick]

City going through their PR repertoire....
1. We are innocent and look forward to clearing our name
2. FFP shouldn't exist so therefore we don't have to follow the rules that we've signed up for
3. Would you prefer our owners or the Glazers
4. Rags and Dippers

 

[moomba]

City going through their PR repertoire....
1. We are innocent and look forward to clearing our name
2. FFP shouldn't exist so therefore we don't have to follow the rules that we've signed up for
3. Would you prefer our owners or the Glazers
4. Rags and Dippers

PMSL, I really don't think BigFooty has been chosen as the primary front for a PR battle.

And I really don't think a letter to the editor will have any impact on anyone, other than it being a letter I quite liked.

Lesson learned I guess.

1. No idea what will happen
2. Right and wrong. Have consistently said if the league prove their case the we'll have to face the consequences.
3. Ours
4. Neither is an answer

 

[moomba]

FWIW I do hope that everything I post isn't going to be assessed in the context of the case. If I thought the letter was relevant to the case I would have posted it in that thread.

But it's not, so I didn't.