So you would introduce a rule. You acknowledge it's obviously discriminatory. You believe that this is a positive thing and that no person or body seeking to buy a club would take the PL to court to have the rule struck out? Presumably you believe that because you think there's no domestic or international laws against an organisation having discriminatory procedures?
The Super League would find it very hard to survive imho , yes it would have the financial backing from TV deals and sponsors but those "best players" aren`t home bred they come from teams such as us , all the lower leagues provide the next De Bruyne or Haaland MacAllister Caicedo and it`s teams down the pecking order who would earn from those sales .
Well Russians are effectively barred from PL club ownership and thats working and fine by me. I'd have zero objections to barring the likes of the Saudis and other murderous and sketchy middle eastern governments using the PL as a pissing contest.
A good reminder that our ‘par’ position in terms of wages is 15th, the position Leicester currently occupy although you could argue that had they not signed such a good player on loan from a top six team, they’d be lower.
Every PL club ranked by their annual wage bill - the difference between 1st and 20th is crazy
Manchester United should be doing so much better considering how much they spend on wages 💰 😳www.givemesport.com
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It doesn’t have to be a particular country, although boycotts have always occurred in sport.
Well, because it's obviously discriminatory to have a rule like the one you suggest which bars people from particular countries from owning a club. The first hint of a legal challenge and the whole thing would collapse
Fit and proper owners teste have been talked about for ages but never implemented. Why? The problem as I see it is who would be excluded? Maybe you could put something in place which would exclude Putin as he’s globally sanctioned. Also someone with an unspent conviction for fraud in this country.
But how could you go wider than that? How can you introduce subjectivity in a way which couldn’t be easily challenged? Remember the PL have allowed someone to own a club who its widely understood to have ordered a journalist to be murdered in an embassy and cut up with a bonesaw
The thing about rules is that by their very nature they are often discriminatory, thats the point of introducing a rule. Sometimes its good to discriminate to deny undesirable people or countries the opportunities to continue their unfair and criminal practices, you make it sound like a bad thing, its not. You think the Saudis would let me stroll in and buy a Saudi football club and start pissing on their chips? Plenty of countries have laws to prevent foreign ownership of businesses and state interference and that is what we have now in the PL. Man City and Newcastle are both effectively owned and run by nation states at least one of which has stated they are happy to use sportswashing to further their aims, if you think thats fine and we should just let them get on with it because of your short sighted view on rules and discriminination i don't think many on here if anyone at all will agree with you.
Sadly I don't think we can rule out any British government, be it a Labour government or a Conservative one with more integrity than Johnson's, approving a club takeover by a human rights abuser *if* the two countries are on good terms.
Yes and if someone has an unspent conviction for money laundering, that's the sort of thing you can likely include.
It's less about whether it's my opinion. We operate in a rules based country. Saudi Arabia is very different
That means we’ll win the PL every year - Europe again, Europe again, Europe again, ole, ole, ole!It's not just them, is it? I would be quite happy to see the back of any club that isn't owned by a lifelong local fan.
I've said on here before, I'd be very happy with the super league going ahead if it meant the likes of Man City, Man Utd, Chelsea, Arsenal, Liverpool and any of those greedy clubs disappearing never to return, and what's left of the football league restructured in a fairer and sustainable way. Obviously lots of ifs and buts in there, but essentially no problem with Man City going.
If Man Citeh ever vacated the PL.
But it probably won't be like that. If the clubs get their way, the European Super League would run alongside the domestic competitions.
We'd still get knocked out in the semis.
