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tAny other business and football at Premier level is nothing more than a business, if a new investor comes forward and wants to inject £XXM he's quite at liberty to do so assuming the board/shareholders agree. (Not the FCA or whoever).
OK it sounds like sour grapes and a conspiracy to maintain the level and superiority of certain clubs with big european/world names but what else can it be?
Hammer Everton (good idea) and Forest but allow the likes of Man U/Man C/ Chelsea/Arsenal/Spurs sqeeze through the regs unscathed because they're big names.
On a different subject, my FB is getting bombarded on a minute by minute basis from different sources suggesting we're buying virtually ever player within the Premiership/Championship/League 1&2/La Liga/Bundasleag/etc etc until Chelsea apparently step in and offer more. We should run a sweep.
OK it sounds like sour grapes and a conspiracy to maintain the level and superiority of certain clubs with big european/world names but what else can it be?
Hammer Everton (good idea) and Forest but allow the likes of Man U/Man C/ Chelsea/Arsenal/Spurs sqeeze through the regs unscathed because they're big names.
On a different subject, my FB is getting bombarded on a minute by minute basis from different sources suggesting we're buying virtually ever player within the Premiership/Championship/League 1&2/La Liga/Bundasleag/etc etc until Chelsea apparently step in and offer more. We should run a sweep.
Skyedriver said:
Any other business and football at Premier level is nothing more than a business, if a new investor comes forward and wants to inject £XXM he's quite at liberty to do so assuming the board/shareholders agree. (Not the FCA or whoever).
OK it sounds like sour grapes and a conspiracy to maintain the level and superiority of certain clubs with big european/world names but what else can it be?
Hammer Everton (good idea) and Forest but allow the likes of Man U/Man C/ Chelsea/Arsenal/Spurs sqeeze through the regs unscathed because they're big names.
On a different subject, my FB is getting bombarded on a minute by minute basis from different sources suggesting we're buying virtually ever player within the Premiership/Championship/League 1&2/La Liga/Bundasleag/etc etc until Chelsea apparently step in and offer more. We should run a sweep.
I was genuinely thinking of collating all the nonsense from the BBC gossip pages over the next month or so to see how many of them come true.OK it sounds like sour grapes and a conspiracy to maintain the level and superiority of certain clubs with big european/world names but what else can it be?
Hammer Everton (good idea) and Forest but allow the likes of Man U/Man C/ Chelsea/Arsenal/Spurs sqeeze through the regs unscathed because they're big names.
On a different subject, my FB is getting bombarded on a minute by minute basis from different sources suggesting we're buying virtually ever player within the Premiership/Championship/League 1&2/La Liga/Bundasleag/etc etc until Chelsea apparently step in and offer more. We should run a sweep.
Xenoous said:
Thoughts on the new kit? I'm finding it a bit underwhelming. Not a fan of the overly large Adidas logo either...
Agree - needed to be more differential from the previous Castore kit. Neckline isn’t great, Adidas logo is too big and I think we should go back to the five stripe front. 
This....isn't great
https://archive.is/CbqVI
Paywall free version of this article from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5545510/2024/06/1...
Essentially Noon are allegedly using suppliers with incredibly poor labour treatment. NY Times spoke with 12 workers and across their testimony hit all 11 of the ILO's forced labour indicators. Given NUFC (and Manchester City), along with every UK company have to have a modern slavery commitment which this would seemingly breach, this is a proper issue I think.
Noon sponsorship is worth c £7.5m per season
Noon clearly have refuted the article but this feels challenging
https://archive.is/CbqVI
Paywall free version of this article from the NY Times: https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/5545510/2024/06/1...
Essentially Noon are allegedly using suppliers with incredibly poor labour treatment. NY Times spoke with 12 workers and across their testimony hit all 11 of the ILO's forced labour indicators. Given NUFC (and Manchester City), along with every UK company have to have a modern slavery commitment which this would seemingly breach, this is a proper issue I think.
Noon sponsorship is worth c £7.5m per season
Noon clearly have refuted the article but this feels challenging
TameRacingDriver said:
His fitness record doesn't look great but hopefully he will be good for us. Gassing Station | Football | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff