AND a massive ally for UK . (See what I did there.)Diplomatic immunity for a start ;)
AND a massive ally for UK . (See what I did there.)Diplomatic immunity for a start ;)
MorePer game cost of new PL deal:£6.2m.
Per game cost of old deal agreed in 2018:£8.5m.
Old value adjusted for inflation: £10.6m.
The bubble has burst.
The headline figure is bigger in the deal just announced but purely on the back of more live games.
Yes, City are one of the reasons why the deals have risen so much since 2012. Even Scudamore acknowledged it.
The problem for the PL is that the "value" of the package is likely to be contractually reduced in the absence of City and/or Chelsea.
The big 6 games attract the highest viewing figures.
If only United, Arsenal, Liverpool and Spurs it means just 12 "big" games per season.
A normal Big 6 is 30 "big" games per seaon.
Some difference that...
There is a "smart bomb" , scorched earth last resort button (reasonably decent sources). Only time and a grossly detrimental finding will tell though.
In the meantime it's just forum tennis.
But Murdoch et al are ok?
Not like you to be dramaticIf the club were found guilty on all charges - which would need the PL to pull something game changing out of their folders - then it would be incredibly difficult for the executive team to stay on. You’d be talking about one of the UKs biggest frauds in recent history, you don’t just carry on as if nothing happened. There would undoubtedly also be a strong push to disbar SM as an owner.
Now it would take something like extraordinary for the club to be found guilty on all charges, and of course the status of the executive team would then be very low on the list of issues to resolve.
Pathetic.If the club were found guilty on all charges - which would need the PL to pull something game changing out of their folders - then it would be incredibly difficult for the executive team to stay on. You’d be talking about one of the UKs biggest frauds in recent history, you don’t just carry on as if nothing happened. There would undoubtedly also be a strong push to disbar SM as an owner.
Now it would take something like extraordinary for the club to be found guilty on all charges, and of course the status of the executive team would then be very low on the list of issues to resolve.
Are you sure about that? It would seem counter-productive to do so but there's very little about these proceedings that follows logic or common sense.
It’s a big if whether we get expelled - but I’m quite sure the red teams don’t give a flying fuck about what happens to City or Chelsea.The P/L idiot who pressed the button on these charges is the only head that should roll. Untold damage and potential damage to a successful model.
Ill thought through and incredibly childish and stupid.
I bet even the red clubs are thinking shit, where/how does this end.
You are right it all seems counter-intuitive. Anyone ready for a conspiracy theory that would explain it all?
Masters is a plant from the usual suspects to destroy the PL from the inside, prepare public opinion for an ESL and make sure it happens. How is that?
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