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And don't be so laughmakingly thick as too (sic) try to impress grown-ups by posting anally illiterate ****e when you're drunk. Silly prat.

 

Of course the two things are linked, if we are rooted to the foot of the table with 10 games to go then we are potentialy ( quite likely ) to be in the championship next season without all the premier league money.
However if we do a Leicester and with 10 games to go we are at the top and almost certain to be in the champions league our value will be much higher.

 

This Shoes chap obviously doesn't know half as much as he seems so desperate to appear he does.

 

Is City a larger, more complex business than Twitter? They expect things to be sorted somewhat faster.


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencet...onclude-sale-deliberations-month-sources.html

 

This is a nationally important sale, crucial to the economic and social wellbeing of the UK

Absolute ****e!

 

I hope you stamped your feet when you typed that Dennis. Fair comment from Mr shoes though.i think we've all had a virtual slap

 

To be fair to Shoes, his statement has some merit. Just look at the delays in Hinckley Point due to the involvement of the Chinese and reassurances required.

If the premier league can vote on matters based on its 20 owners then it seems sensible that some care would be taken to assess those owners (you could end up with a situation where 15 owners vote to relocate the league to China or something).

 

Shoes did make some sensible points among the bluster, but overlooked a very important point - WE REALLY WANT THEM TO **** OFF NOW. Hence the impatience. Enough is enough. Clearly the sale isn't going to happen in the immediate future as things stands, but we just WANT THEM TO **** OFF NOW.

 

Hinckley Point is an £18bn project, it's a nuclear plant, it is clearly of national importance. Hull City is a football club, half the nation wouldn't register if it went bust and I would argue it provides very little in the way of 'social wellbeing', whatever that is.

I'm not arguing against the FA's 'fit and proper' role, I know takeovers take ages, and Mr Shoes post did have some merit, except for the single preposterous statement I highlighted.

 

If Hull City stay up this season and Wolves and Aston Villa get promoted we could end up with 4 Premier league clubs owned by the Chinese with a minority interest by the Chinese government in a fifth. Within 10 years the Premier League could be controlled by the Chinese. Mr Shoes may have gone over the top but his point is valid. Given the revenues generated by the sale of TV rights abroad both the Premier League and the British government will have an interest in its future, of which Hull City is an important part.

As to social well-being that depends on what the British economy is like post-Brexit and how much of it is owned and controlled by the Chinese.

 

****ing chinese, coming over here, taking our national game... should **** off back to the orient!
BASTARDS!
<smirk>

 

A bit of hyperbole never hurt in making a point ;-)



What I said, beneath the rhetoric, was that football is a national institution and a business that is of national importance (going beyond cash).

So, the sale and future ownership is of a genuine concern at a national level, and Chinese investment in any major U.K. Institution is a big deal. When I said critical I meant the league as a whole and any team in the EPL is a part of a business that (seriously) is the equivalent of say a grade one listed building.
It's about our identity and culture as well, so the sale and buyers are vetted beyond just cash and criminal level.

I do know a lot more about what vetting consists of, and when you have states with dodgy governments buying up our heritage then things aren't always straightforward.

And, yes, I am very much generalising...

 

glad you speak for me.

 

I wasn't including you. As usual, you stand on your own.

 

In the corner.

 

**** me they're buying Orient too??????????

 

The Premiership makes up part of the important soft cultural power of the UK, along with Harry Potter, James Bond, and The Rolling Stones. It's good that people all over the world associate these things with the UK, it means they watch, read and listen to our cultural output and we benefit from the revenue all this generates. In comparison, if you ask people what they think about Belgium they would probably say white beer, chocolate and *****philes. Big difference.

 

Or the last.

 

Belgium was the first place I had mayonnaise on chips
I still do therefore it was culturally important to me (obviously not when they're with fish, but chips on their own or with gammon or similar are great with mayo)

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