City launch legal action against the Premier League | Club & PL reach settlement | Proceedings dropped (p1147)

[Millwallawayveteran1988]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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Spot on.

 

[ysmsa]

The media will have 2 stories ready to go. Either, we're guilty, or we're guilty but 'got away with it'. I don't expect whatever happens there will be any use of words like cleared, vindicated or innocent.

If she floats she's a witch etc etc

 

[journolud]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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Waiting for the archive thingamibob but no way should United ever be in a title race ever again please. Unless it’s league one

 

[chaddblue]

The media will have 2 stories ready to go. Either, we're guilty, or we're guilty but 'got away with it'. I don't expect whatever happens there will be any use of words like cleared, vindicated or innocent.

hopefully if the latter happens, that’s the point where city start chucking writs around like confetti

 

[halfcenturyup]

Waiting for the archive thingamibob but no way should United ever be in a title race ever again please. Unless it’s league one

https://archive.ph/T4TJ9

And yes, spot on.

 

[Silva2021]

They've already started with their government intervention narrative. It's the best face saving excuse they can come up with to explain why their Dastardly schemes to stop City are falling apart like a cheap suit...

TBF to them we had a lawyer who charged money to do his job, it was very unfair of us.

 

[jrb]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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Oh Martin Samuel, the truth will come out.

If there were no regulations around profitability and sustainability or financial fair play, Manchester City would just win the league every year. That is the argument. It’s wholly false. Forest, who fell foul of PSR, are what can happen if smaller clubs are allowed to dream. They become a pest to all those who feel entitled. As for Manchester City, if they don’t win the league this year it won’t be because of noble red tape. It will be the usual myriad collection of factors including injuries to key players such as Rodri, or maybe the mental toll it takes to remain at the top. There is a reason nobody had won more than three titles straight until City made it four last year. Pep Guardiola admitted the celebrations at getting over the line were so great his players were still suffering the effects when they faced Manchester United in the FA Cup final. And if the fourth is the hardest title any team has ever won, then five is harder still. It isn’t PSR that might stop City running away with the league again — it’s football.

 

[mancity dan]

This bit was spot on.

Imagine the contest there would be at the top if every club could operate to its potential, rather than have the dead hand of Premier League chief executive Richard Masters and his ever-expanding team of lawyers hovering over their accounts.

 

[93.20]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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He sums it up perfectly. It's almost as though Samuel is the judge outlining the case for acquittal. All of us can see this, many other fans are coming around to the same view too. There is no real justification for this 115 nonsense - let the truth be out and eternal damnation for the cartel clubs.

 

[bluealf]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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When laid out like that the casual reader should be in no doubt the clear and obvious agenda the red cartel and their puppet 'Masters' have to keep the other teams in their lane.

 

[bluealf]

Though he mentions the rags should be in the title race but fails to mention the deal they got so they didn't fail PSR in the first place, also, the fact they did spend a good amount on players again but they got injured.

 

[Grassland Blue]

It has always annoyed me that some clubs are just in the league to make up the numbers and defer to the rags (mostly) as they are the "bestest ever".
Why aren't they criticised for their lack of ambition?
Their fans are just being rinsed imo.
Yet City have the temerity to want to win stuff and they are vilified.

 

[Ric]

Interesting to see a high profile KC like Nick De Marco backing up what Martin Samuel said. Obviously he has skin in the game, but does feel like the discontent is growing.

 

[Oldham Exile]

Interesting to see a high profile KC like Nick De Marco backing up what Martin Samuel said. Obviously he has skin in the game, but does feel like the discontent is growing.

Well - that's going to boil some piss on rawk and sadcafe. They seek to get everyone to dismiss what Martin Samuel writes - of course he is a shill and his son works for City.................

It's a coping mechanism for them.

But they will net be able to so easily dismiss De Marco - and looking at the comments, perhaps we can hope that the penny is starting to drop for non-cartel fans

 

[BeerIsTheBest]

Interesting to see a high profile KC like Nick De Marco backing up what Martin Samuel said. Obviously he has skin in the game, but does feel like the discontent is growing.

Now two on Santa’s list for a visit Christmas Eve.

Hard to retain any journalistic credibility when the facts are screaming at you to stop typing shit. Bet we could all write a list of those who will be last to turn….if ever.

 

[KS55]

Another great article by Martin Samuel making the cartel have it.

Forest proving this is good title race – but Newcastle and United should be in it too

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Another fine article from Martin, clearly demonstrating the nonsense of PSR. What strikes me is that the case is so obvious you have to wonder why in the vast array of journos he stands alone as a sensible voice. Such a pity that, according to the Telegraph, we lost our case against PSR.

 

[Newman Noggs]

Interesting to see a high profile KC like Nick De Marco backing up what Martin Samuel said. Obviously he has skin in the game, but does feel like the discontent is growing.

We've all been telling him this since 2013. Glad he's caught up.

 

[Stoned Rose]

Interesting to see a high profile KC like Nick De Marco backing up what Martin Samuel said. Obviously he has skin in the game, but does feel like the discontent is growing.

Quality. Penny dropping.

 

[StillBluessinceHydeRoad]

The only criticism I have of Martin Samuel's article concerns his discussion of the role of Sir Jim's investment in the rags. Samuel is right to argue that the rags could be involved in the title race if Ineos were allowed to finance the changes needed at the club - but PSR prevents this. This is far too charitable to Sir Jim. There is much more evidence to show that Sir Jim put money into the club BECAUSE the rules would NOT allow him to finance any real change. There is no evidence of any real disagreement with the Glazers and no real evidence of a desire to spend, no desire of real unhappiness with the rules. What we have seen with his other clubs is rather a determination to cut costs and increase profitability at a cost of bringing no success on the field. At the swamp we have seen an emphasis on cutting costs coupled with the worst start to a league season since ... Sir Jim is the kind of "investor" that PSR attracts ... a hard faced "what's in it for me? ... "loads a momey" wide boy. Pay no tax, put nowt in, make a packet and stuff the rest.

 

[Plays By Sense Of Smell]

We've all been telling him this since 2013. Glad he's caught up.

KC you say??

Maybe his brain has that gearing system you used to find on Italian tanks…