Yup, hence when the PL started to fuck around with City which threatened a £20bn investment into a desperate post-Brexit Britain, the Tories acted to secure part of the investment & a month later the announced IREF to regulate PL football. Coincidence?
Big money talks.
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The UK expects to raise tens of billions of pounds of investment from the United Arab Emirates as it resets its business relationship after last year’s political chaos in Westminster.
Grant Shapps, secretary of state for business, energy and industrial strategy, said on Friday that “political changes” in the UK, which resulted in the country having three prime ministers in a year, had potentially slowed the pace of inward investment from the Gulf state.
During meetings with government official and sovereign funds, Shapps said that UAE investors were focused on going beyond the £6.1bn of investment already made through the five-year £10bn UAE-UK partnership, which was sealed in 2021.
“They [UAE investors] are absolutely certain that they would go to £10bn and beyond,” he said, while the remaining £4bn of inward commitments would be “met and smashed through”.
“There are tens of billions of pounds more of investment which we know is there,” Shapps said. “Things went on hold a bit over the summer and into the autumn but they [UAE investors] were pleased to hear it’s settled down.”
https://www.ft.com/content/04dd14bf-66c3-434c-b21e-505d222a5d68
The UAE were the first to recognise the need to modernise in order to attract inward Western investment as a way of diverging their oil based economy.
I'll only upset you if I challenge any of your points.The important part is that football, unlike golf and boxing is, at heart, a domestic competition. They are, by name, anchored to a location.
The world cups will not be stationary. The customer base will not allow it. Nor will international governments, no matter the money Saudi offer.
It is clear there is a power struggle going on in the sport right now, and how that pans out will determine the path for the next 30 years. We will wait and see on that.
But to have a 'Masters Golf' situation whereby one country keeps a prestigious competition indefinitely is a Saudi pipe dream.
projectriver seems to be suggesting that Everton will be one of the three clubs rumoured to face P&S charges tomorrow
They would be right up against it with another points deduction.
projectriver seems to be suggesting that Everton will be one of the three clubs rumoured to face P&S charges tomorrow
They would be right up against it with another points deduction.
Will they tho they would surely be in separate seasons and will escape relegation this year and will always stand more chance than those coming up of staying up
Forest and Everton.
So have things changed Everton have not been retrospectively docker points and relegated ?The Premier League's timeline was recently punished.
They expect all standard cases to be dealt with by June and applied retrospectively. So Nottm Forest and Everton could be relegated once the season has finished.