jonnyboy316
Player Valuation: £35m
Rights and Media funding limited have a negative pledge clause. They can insist on being paid back before further debt is taken on. Reason the MSP deal fell apart.
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Only while the Oligarchy are persona non grata.
It will be someone else’s turn in the barrel in due course, my money is on the Saudis in a few years should they join BRICS and that group start to threaten the US financial hegemony.
A soon as the Ukraine conflict is resumed, Uncle Uzzy et al will be welcomed back with open arms. Yes the likes of the Gruniard will continue to poke away at some of them, but they have too much cash for the capitalist in the west to leave them out in the cold imho.
Tony’s Carp
Player Valuation: £50m
While this is all true, there's no resolution in sight in Ukraine and if we are waiting for Uncle Alisher's tap to be turned back on Everton will be finished long before the war is.
hippopotamus
Player Valuation: £1.5m
Thankfully the days of "Uncle Uzzy" are over. I hope to see the fat monstrosity in the International Criminal Court.
sheikh, rattle and roll
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
sheikh, rattle and roll
If most clubs in the PL were owned by a gulf state it would be a level playing field - every club minted, no FFP or budget advantages for certain privileged clubs, no kenwrights or oystons running clubs into the ground etc.
The gulf between the rich and poor has never been greater - you have Chelsea spending a billion in the same competition as a club that 2 summers ago could only spend £1.7m.
Invite every Shiekh/SWF in and level the playing field. No doubt those calling for no more middle eastern investment are Arsenal, Chelsea, Man Utd, Liverpool and Spurs - I wonder why !
Simon Buttle
Player Valuation: £50m
Our financial misgivings are 100% self inflicted, we have no business plan (never have had) and no recruitment strategy (regardless of DoF/manager) that is the reason we have no money to spend, nothing else. Chelsea have exploited every loophole they can and have gambled massively on a CL finish this season. Now should they not get that CL finish then they are going to be in monumental amounts of trouble from a financial point of view. It's a huge risk they have taken but you have to take risk in football these days. One of our issues is always we go for the PL proven route with everything and won't take risks and its never really worked for us.
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Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
Probably not insurmountable but that could be very awkward indeed.
jonnyboy316
Player Valuation: £35m
For a gulf state potentially not but for a US investment firm clearly it was
Yarrgh
Player Valuation: £70m
My worry is we sell to a Chinese investor a few days before China invades Taiwan and gets the new people sanctioned.
ForeverBlue92
Player Valuation: £80m
Even so my friend FFP is a complete farcical system - the gap has never been bigger between the elite and those below.
The current system essentially means you and I will not live to see Everton or a well run club like Brighton who doesn't spend oodles of dough win a PL title outside of some absolute freak 5000/1 season thats only been seen once since the PL era began in 92.
Every club owned by a Shiekh = every club has the same level of finance, FFP would be scrapped because it would be hammered in the courts by the richest lawyers in the world, all clubs would be ran by professionals, all clubs owners would invest in infrastructure and the local areas and ultimately everyone having money would mean the clubs with the best recruitment system would have the best teams as no one could outspend one another. The end result is the closest we could get to an actual fair competition outside of a full on transfer and salary cap system across the board for all clubs regardless of revenue/owner wealth which will never happen.
There is a reason why clubs like Utd and Liverpool didnt want the Newcastle takeover to happen - they're not guaranteed their cushy CL spot/lucrative sponsors anymore.
These cats are the future of the sporting world (not just football look at boxing, golf, F1). We either move with the times or we stagnate like we did in the 90's rather than evolve with the clubs around us.
People still acting like this is about whether or not we win titles or not, and as if anyone is even thinking about that for a single second at this current time 
Mrk
Player Valuation: £40m
What the hell are you on about? Every club owned by a Sheikh? lollol
What happens when championship clubs get promoted? A forced sale to a Sheikh picked out of a hat so we meet the 'must-be-a-sheikh' criteria?
And if every club was owned by a Sheikh, what do you think would happen to the English game? And have you considered that there's equally large gaps in the wealth of Sheikhs?
Bonkers.