BamberBridgeBlue
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Liverpool FC target Manchester City employees for new staff and proceed to essentially steal their database of scouting prompting City to rush through the signings of Fernandinho and Navas, and you think it isn’t interesting?A bit of credit to those journalists who have pursued this story.
The interesting aspect for me is not really the limited press coverage, which I think we all now expect, but the response of football's authorities. What are the Premier League, UEFA and FIFA going to do?
I doubt City could use this directly in the on-going arbitration case but it's context; the competitive nature of football and the role of football's authorities in that competition, is illuminating. Consider the investigations and scrutiny of all Manchester City's business, and then compare it to the nature of the offence reported here.
Liverpool fans must be cringing with embarrassment at how their holier than thou club has been exposed.
Yeah, doubt it would’ve been mentioned if it were the other way around and we tried to jump in on the Luis Suarez signing. There’d be calls for City to be banned from transfers for 3 years. Whether you find it interesting isn’t the issue. It’s the reaction (or lack of) to Liverpool doing this versus how the press may (would) have reacted had it been Manchester City’s plagiarism.