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Mags embarrassing themselves yet again

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  1. Teessidemackem

    Teessidemackem Well-Known Member

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    abstained?
     
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  3. The Professor

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    These sponsorship deals are something that needed banning a lomg time ago, not a lot of point pretending your trying to enforce ffpthen letting clubs fiddle money through the back door, city have abstained because they are up to the same thing.

    It footballs last chance to save anything left of the english game
     
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  4. Smug in Boots

    Smug in Boots Well-Known Member

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    If the PL can't control the clubs then the lunatics are running the asylum.
     
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  5. flandersmackem

    flandersmackem Well-Known Member

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    It won't be long before Sid James Park is adorned with advertising from Saudi Aramco, SABIC, Saudia Airlines etc etc... Sports Direct will be a thing of the past
     
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  6. The Berk

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    But they’ve got their club back. Foreign owners and a none Geordie manager(soon).
     
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  7. Sunderpitt

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    I recall the thread about how Man City got round sponsorship coming from 3rd parties, eg addidas/Nike or even an airline.Legally nothing could be done about the amount of sponsorship given to Citeh and the sponsors then received a very lucrative deal from another part of the owners many companies not connected to the football club.

    It is going to be very difficult for any governing body to come up with a hard and fast rule on what is a fair commercial amount of sponsorship.
     
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  8. Riever

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    Elite football in this country sold its soul years ago - as long as the lunatic in question is willing to splash billions then they can run the asylum as long as they want.

    The European Super League is an inevitability sadly and the EPL will only have themselves to blame when it happens.
     
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  9. flandersmackem

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    The City sponsorship does make me wonder.....I see adverts around The Etihad Stadium adverting....Etisalat, Damac, Emaar, etc, these are companies who would be only known within The Middle East and specifically the UAE...not sure why they would spend literally Millions on advertising unless it is a way around the rules of FFP....there can be no other reason
     
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    Yep... this is hypothetical (i think) let's suppose Nike give an outrageous amount of sponsorship to a club say £300m.Then let us assume that the overseas aid govt. Dept of the country to which the owner belongs decides to give 50 million shoes to poor African children all purchased from Nike. Unless you had concrete proof of collusion, contracts/emails/recording etc it would be very difficult to prove 'over sponsorship ' had occurred with the intent of circumventing Fair Play Rules.
     
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  11. rb92

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    Well done the Premier League.

    If these ****ers get relegated I will laugh my cock off.
     
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    They'll just hoy another bung to someone, call these deals something else , and carry on besmirching society with their casual barbarity.
     
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    If it’s a decent one Rogers looking for one <laugh>
     
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  14. rowley

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    Yes. That's what happens now. A bunch of timid no marks, in very well paid jobs, whose main role us to keep those jobs.
    They do as they are told by the clubs with the most money , a state of affairs which gets worse each year.
     
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    Its the same with Leicester and King Power. There are only branches of King Power in Thailand (as far as I know) so you'd only shop there if you were visiting. So it would seem its a means of getting extra money in.

    Having said that, the Premier League is massively popular in Thailand and my mate who is married to a Thai girl reckons that makes Thai companies sponsoring Premier League teams worthwhile (also Chang beer sponsoring Everton, for example). So, it might be the same for these UAE companies.
     
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    If SJP is demolished and they're moved across the river they won't even be playing in Newcastle.

    Gateshead Borough Council would sell the stadium, and surrounding parkland, for the right price and conditions imo.

    It has a Metro station 5 minutes walk away and a McDonald's on Felling bypass <laugh>
     
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    Casual barbarity you say. What witchcraft is this ye speak of?
     
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  18. rowley

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    Well not much really is there?

    Just the odd murder of a few political dissidents. The occasional, well quite regular actually, torture of homosexuals. They might repress women of course, but we should try and understand them better. And if they persecute and discriminate against Christians and other religious minorities, well what can you expect? And just because they have a taste for de facto slave labour and an apartheid system that would have made Verwoerd blush, we shouldn't rush to judgement I suppose!
     
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  19. Smug in Boots

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    When a journalist can be squashed like a bug just for putting words on a page you know it's a barbaric culture.

    Just like their team, there's no defence.
     
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  20. The Berk

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    Aye, ya cant beat getting your club back in a different town. :emoticon-0102-bigsm
     
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