UEFA FFP investigation - CAS decision to be announced Monday, 13th July 9.30am BST

[whp.blue]

Vinegar Face himself? Surely not; couldn’t cope with all that ‘financial doping’

As he was always one of if not the best paid Manager in the league, I am sure that is something he would happily step back into.
His Faux morals always had a price tag!

 

[Prophet of Doom]

Am sure he was on 60k a week.

Alan Boksic was the highest paid player in the Premier League when they signed him. Absolute lunacy.

We kept on hearing at the time that Gibson was the best owner in the Premier League. This was utter bollocks based purely on the fact that he was a local load. And to top it off they had the nerve to criticise foreign owners coming into the PL after they had spunked all their dough and staring into the abyss.

It's a complete car crash of a club. How anybody can hold Gibson up as a model owner is ridiculous.

 

[KS55]

Alan Boksic was the highest paid player in the Premier League when they signed him. Absolute lunacy.

We kept on hearing at the time that Gibson was the best owner in the Premier League. This was utter bollocks based purely on the fact that he was a local load. And to top it off they had the nerve to criticise foreign owners coming into the PL after they had spunked all their dough and staring into the abyss.

It's a complete car crash of a club. How anybody can hold Gibson up as a model owner is ridiculous.

Alan Green's three model owners were Gibson and the americans at Sunderland and Villa. All three disasters. While he was praising them, he was denigrating Mansour as someone with a plaything of which he would soon get bored and leave.
Worked out well, eh Alan? Oh and where are you going now the beeb have dropped you?

 

[nmc]

I think Emirates have laid off something like 8k in staff so far?

I wonder which moniker would remain, take precedence?

Emirates clearly has the longer cache and better routes?

I think they’d rebrand as UAE Airlines and probably run most of the operation out of Dubai.

 

[nmc]

Am sure he was on 60k a week.

You may be right - absolutely crazy money.

 

[dickie davies]

Could our friend Mr Wenger be interested in the Newcastle job perhaps ?

Fucking hell!!
The size and padding of his coat when he was in London
How big would it have to be if he was in the North East?

 

[chesterbells]

Alan Green's three model owners were Gibson and the americans at Sunderland and Villa. All three disasters. While he was praising them, he was denigrating Mansour as someone with a plaything of which he would soon get bored and leave.
Worked out well, eh Alan? Oh and where are you going now the beeb have dropped you?

Agree with your sentiments. I suspect they are still employing him on the World Service but hopefully on a minuscule contract, though he is 67 now, so he basically milked the bbc for a full career.

 

[Ardwick Green Blue]

Alan Green's three model owners were Gibson and the americans at Sunderland and Villa. All three disasters. While he was praising them, he was denigrating Mansour as someone with a plaything of which he would soon get bored and leave.
Worked out well, eh Alan? Oh and where are you going now the beeb have dropped you?

There was a compare and contrast piece written by Ollie Holt when he was at the Mirror in which he compared Randy Lerner and Sheikh Mansour. Needless to say, he was fawning all over the saintly Lerner whilst denigrating our owner as a know-nothing playboy. I'll never forget the last line....

Every club should have a Randy Lerner...

 

[Pablo ZZZ Peroni]

I wonder if this will finally see the two airline carriers merge?

It was mooted last year and would seem to make even more sense during this time.

How delicious it would be to see us have a say in pulling the plug on Arsenal and others.

We could always let them use Etihad instead!

I love the idea!

I was party to some info early in lockdown that suggested any merger was most definitely not on the table. With the problems over the last couple of months, who knows...

 

[chesterbells]

There was a compare and contrast piece written by Ollie Holt when he was at the Mirror in which he compared Randy Lerner and Sheikh Mansour. Needless to say, he was fawning all over the saintly Lerner whilst denigrating our owner as a know-nothing playboy. I'll never forget the last line....

Every club should have a Randy Lerner...

That story sums Holt up. Talk about a journalist who is less than the sum of his parts. I still can’t believe how he’s ascended to some kind of ‘top tier’ status in the profession. Not fit to be mentioned alongside the likes of David Walsh or Martin Samuel, that’s for sure.
Never trust a County fan ;-)