Reply With QuoteTowards paying the legal fees for 115Originally Posted by Daffydd
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Do we know where the paltry £10m goes to?
Grassroots football or a worthy charity I expect?
First Team
Towards paying the legal fees for 115
First Team
You'd hope not - gut says it will be, but there's been an ownership change there, whereas with Man City it will be about punishing the regime that is still in charge - so slightly different circumstances.
That said, everyone is terrified of Man City's lawyers, wealth etc so not expecting much.
Rowdy Yates
It runs far deeper than lawyers. See the below for some of facts on the ground.
Petrodollars..!!!
The Premier League isn't a Football league anymore... it just isn't.
Let's be honest with ourselves, lads. The Premier League stopped being a football league about the same time Sheikh Mansour stopped being a football fan. It's a global asset class now. A financial instrument with a fixture list attached.
When sovereign wealth funds from the UAE or Saudi Arabia deploy billions into UK infrastructure, they're not scouting for a right back or a DM. They're buying political leverage. It;s geopolitics.
The Foreign Office and the the cabinet have already let this slip - accidentally, like they always do - even The Guardian and The Athletic have done some digging. Neither paper is exactly neutral, fair enough, but the analysis is sound. The UK government is bricking itself over the Newcastle and Man City cases, because they know what everyone who's been paying attention already knows.. if the Premier League actually nukes City, they're they're insulting a key strategic ally in the Middle East.
The Yanks and the Gulf and the Dollar - the actual owners
More than half of the Premier League is American-owned now. City themselves around 20%. Private equity boys who look at the NFL and see the model...closed shop, no promotion, no relegation, pure profit extraction. The league purely as a content product. The fans as a revenue stream. We see it even at Anfield now - the empty seats, the prawn sandwiches, the fan experience zones. It's no accident, it's the owners vision.
The Gulf model = limitless spending - or 'sportswashing' if you want to use the Anglo Saxon colonial trope.... prestige, soft power. The American model is profit maximisation - extraction. Those two philosophies should not exist inside the same rulebook forever. One side wants to spend infinity. The other wants a closed shop where everyone's rich but nobody's actually trying. It's like putting a seasoned kopite and a hedge fund manager in a room and asking them to agree on what football is for FFS.
The crux of it - and this is the bit that all mainstream coverage (and thus most fans in here) refuse to mention - is that the United States needs these Gulf regimes stable to keep the Petrodollar system alive. Oil traded in dollars. The whole architecture of American economic dominance. That's the real game. So you've got the UK government in the middle, trying to keep Washington happy, trying to keep Riyadh and Abu Dhabi sweet, while 115 - or is hundreds of charges against City just sit there, while everybody stares at everybody else and nobody pulls the trigger.
...shows his class...
Iran reportedly attacking the Gulf States could destabilise the regimes?
All precipitated by the good old USA.
And Israel.
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