bit worried about the friends we have, 8 clubs worked with PL against us, red cartel the main enemies but the other 5 dont like us either.
then Che, New, Eve supported us, so that leaves 8 teams who might on the fence to decide which way to lean.
Spurs surprise not in the 8 in this APT case trying to throw us under the bus, but you can bet Levy happy with any negative outcome on City so I would say 9 against us, 3 with us and maybe Forest so its 9 vs 5 with 6 clubs still to decide 3 of them promoted ones, and other three some of these 6 might abstain again on any big decision like happened in past. meaning even 11-12 votes could be enough.
we deffo not have numbers to push through some rules we want to happen and its a tight thing to even stop some rules being voted we dont want.
we are really hated and many have been brainwashed about City, Newcastle and Arab owners in general. lot of owners in lesser clubs dont wanna here a promoted team having rich owners ready to invest and stay in PL for 5-10 years rather than be a club that relegates soon after promotion. Newcastle pose danger for both set of teams, they are overtaking teams fighting for 7-8-9-10. with potential to overtake 3-4-5-6th as well instead of the mainly 13-18. places they did in Ashley era.
and they rather stop us then not cement in current status quo, and happy to play second fiddle to red cartel for cosy 7th-15th places year in year out. we re asking team to have dreams and bit of risk when they dont have any ambition, dreams just pure self interest and the safe option currently available.
Newcastle currently great example of the rules in work, they would need further serious investment in the squad to really take on CL teams and continued investment for years to challenge for title every season alongside great decisions made on staff, transfer etc. but they hit a limit, certainly could not properly spent to do this, they may add Guehi which would blow most of their available limit, but in the meantime their rivals can add much more quality money spent. nothing fair about this.