“Simon Jordan’s got a lot of respect from football/City fans”.
WTF?! Is he high?
Yes I've no idea who he's been talking to on the terraces at away games lol.
“Simon Jordan’s got a lot of respect from football/City fans”.
WTF?! Is he high?
Thanks for the response and that previous post was excellent. I think this is a critical aspect of the whole saga. If the PL attempt a line of attack that somehow invalidates a revenue source its high stakes. I'd be interested to see the Profit/Loss bottom line for the all years within the scope of the charges. IIRC after the initial heavy losses pre FFP we declared very low losses in some years and eventually modest profits, but always within the FFP thresholds. The worst case scenario would be financial years being "reclassified" as FFP non compliant. My guess is this is the main line of attack by the PL lawyers.The rest of the big 6 show Arsenal have just done poor negotiations on their side. They are getting the same as Chelsea and Spurs do for just their shirts. If I remember right, they tied themselves into a 15 year deal on the stadium naming rights and underestimated what they could ask for when they did it. The shirt and stadium deals have been extended since then though and they are the biggest club in London still. Maybe it was the lack of CL football and success that limited their cards in negotiations that played a part in that.
I've done a post on this before which includes information about what United were/are getting for naming rights for Carrington(who even United pundits say is shoddy and in need of a revamp). As well as comparing other clubs stadium deals, Barca, Atletico etc: https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/media-thread-2021-22.351471/post-14751010
less than what Haaland supposedly cost City£7 billion to demolish & build a park & ride scheme in Trafford.
I think Noel and Liam Gallagher popped up on this thread so here's an extended version of the interview he did on talksport, worth a watch
Unfortunately unless you read this forum the majority of City fans know nothing about the way the media generally are polarized.Yes I've no idea who he's been talking to on the terraces at away games lol.
Totally brilliant... thanks so much for posting it.
JJ
Unless co-operation is clearly defined in the PL rules then even that is on "load of ole bollox" territory.I agree with you that the non-cooperation charge is a likely outcome. It fulfils the prime objective of labelling us as cheats, and therefore our achievements invalid. Since the layman who knows no different will simply assume that we were guilty of all charges and only got off by not cooperating. The same as getting off because things are time-barred, people just think, "Yeah but that's a technicality, obviously they are guilty really".
And whilst a correspondingly minor financial penalty (i.e. fine) from the PL might not be significant, the damage to our reputation and ability to secure more lucrative sponsorships, would be. The PL will have achieved its aims of damaging us.
As I understand it, CAS determined that Etihad is not a related party? (An easy determination to make, since there are objective tests as to whether a party is related or not.)
If that is indeed the case, then Etihad as an unrelated party pays what it likes and that is by definition is fair value, i.e. A sponsorship deal is only worth what someone is prepared to pay for it, and provided they are an unrelated party, whatever they are prepared to pay, is fair value. We could get a sponsorship deal from Elon Musk for £10bn a year and that would be fair value, if Musk was daft enough to pay it.
Bottom line is, provided Etihad is deemed a non-related party, they can pay us what on earth they like and there is fuck all the PL or anyone else can do about it.
SustainedObjection ;)