How Did We Get Here ?
In some ways, we owe the GPC a huge debt of gratitude because the PL were completely reassured by his incessant piss taking circa 2009. All his 'not in my life time' and 'noisy neighbours' slurs did the trick and also provided a copious amount of MSM content. PL rivals were happy to cash in with inflated transfer fees (Lescott, Santa Cruz, Barry et al). Happy days.
However, by 2013, the PL realised that the GPC had, in fact, gone gaga, and we were well on our way. The red cartel was formed and Prof Wegner was charged with the job of drafting FFP v1.
Unfortunately, a new adversary was about to enter the stage in the form of Qatar. Their takeover of PSG and the creation of Bein Sports by Qatar Sports Investments, may have seemed, to us, nowt to do with ickle City.
However, the rivalry between Qatar and UAE is so acrimonious it almost lead to the outbreak of war until the intervention of Saudi Arabia. The link below provides a recent update on the seriousness of Qatar UAE relations, it's still highly fragile.
Its estimated Bein have paid in total over $2.5b to UEFA for broadcast rights. In case you hadn't noticed, Bein despise City and via Hairy Hands and Gray never ever stop sluring us. In contrast we have paid $0 to UEFA, except for fines.
This all coincided with the UEFA onslaught of attacks that culminated in CAS2020. The PL cartel had assumed the higher authority, i.e., UEFA with Qatari help, would do their dirty work for them.
The PL chipped in a wee bit with the famous hateful 9 letter who were desperate for CAS to decapitate us soon as poss. They were all convinced we would be excluded from the UCL for two years and slapped with huge fines. We know what happened next, as rat boy said in a Freudian slip "the attack was botched."
Surprise, surprise, within days the MSM reported 'new investigations' by the PL had started, culminating in 2023 with the 115/130 shit show. The cosy relationship between PSG and Ligue 1 is in marked contrast to the animosity of the PL and City, typified by cartel man Masters and his "all regimes come and go, eventually" statement.
In some ways we have done incredibly well to get here (World Champions etc) despite the efforts of UEFA, Qatar, the PL red cartel and incessant MSM attacks by paid shills like Twat-Harris/Delooney/Roan, and of course cyber twats like Pinto.
My God I'm starting to think the behind the scenes victories are on a par with the on field excellence.
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