hallamblue
Player Valuation: £40m
If the case is in the capital it'll be Pannick on the streets of London.
I'll get me coat
Man City to sue PL
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If the case is in the capital it'll be Pannick on the streets of London.
I'll get me coat
Having morals is meek? People find city and their ownership obscene and rightly so.
Saint Domingo
Player Valuation: £90m
Which is fine but these people aren’t out there protesting much against City or Newcastle’s takeovers are they? They can own clubs as long as they don’t win stuff?
Where does anyone draw the line? No banks with any ties whatsoever to terrorist groups? That rules out most of them from any involvement in football. Any company that has dealt with any arms manufacturers? They’re all complicit in killing people. God forbid what connections Usmanov or Abramovich may have had.
If I could go back and shut the door on rich billionaires owning PL clubs I would as it’s done the game no favours whatsoever.
Why does the objection seem to come the loudest though the second it’s about whether these state owned teams can spend money to win things? Not enough people are that arsed when Newcastle are finishing 8th but if they start throwing money about and winning trophies suddenly it’s a problem. Does winning to tiles make City’s owners any less repugnant? No, so why do people mention it most when they’re winning stuff. The arguments about whether it’s unfair from a competetive point of view to be state owned, or whether it’s immoral to be state owned at all are completely different, but people seem to want to conflate them. ‘We need regulations to stop uncontrolled spending of state owned clubs’. Why isn’t about them winning, it should be ‘ we need regulations so there’s no state owned clubs’ even if it’s Accrington Stanley they’re buying.
Equally if a Middle Eastern state tried to buy us tomorrow the amount of objections on here would be miniscule, just as it was when an oligarch with connections to Putin was pumping his cash into us.
I’m not saying having these morals is wrong at all, it just seems be a bit convenient that some people, not all, only have a staunch moral problem with it when those teams start winning things. They’re two different discussions but keep getting dragged into the one argument. ‘Its unfair that City are winning because they’re state owned’, no it should be ‘its immoral that City are state owned’, them winning is irrelevant to that argument.
Actually there were protests from Newcastle fans, I believe they are still active. I don't recall any such protests from city fans.
Secondly, marching on the streets is not a requirement to have a legitimate moral objection.
As for where to draw the line, that will depend on the individual and their knowledge of the owners involved. Personally I feel murdering journalists, treating workers as slaves and locking people up for their sexuality would be a tipping point for me. All of that is besides a craven desire for unfettered capitalism to dictate a sport which has already seen it competitiveness diluted by such forces, not for me.
As for the projection of what others in the fan base would do, that's up to them, it's not for me. I love the club and mys days out that revolve around it, I've no desire to exchange sycophancy for trophies.
This is a good point
I honestly don't know how I'd feel if Everton found themselves in a City/Newcastle/PSG situation
My first instinct after years of being an Evertonian would likely be to think "Well then, let's see how we mess THIS one up"
Aside from that though, I'm not sure what I'd do
Probably the same thing I did with 777, which is tell anyone who will listen that it's a bad thing but ultimately fail in achieving anything with it because there's not much a regular person can do when stuff like that happens
Would I have stopped supporting the club if 777 had taken over for instance? I don't think you ever just stop supporting a club outright when you've spent so many years and money on supporting it. Would I have finally jacked in the season ticket and just watched highlights on MOTD from my armchair? Maybe
Would I do similar if we got bought out City style? Who knows. Maybe, maybe not
It's unlikely that I'll ever have to worry about it
Even if the rules were relaxed and every billionaire/trillionaire/country out there could just buy any club they wanted and pump money into it, I'm pretty certain we'd be near the back of the queue. As much as we Evertonians love the club, and as much a positive as the new stadium has potential to be, to the football world at large we're the football equivalent of Pedro Morales during the Hulkamania Era. We used to be Champion, and we still have decent support from our core fan base, but to everyone else we're a washed up journeyman who is there to do jobs for the real stars. Why invest in us when you've got the likes of Roddy Piper, Demolition, The Hart Foundation, Rick Rude, Ultimate Warrior, British Bulldogs etc to choose from instead?
My first instinct after years of being an Evertonian would likely be to think "Well then, let's see how we mess THIS one up"
Aside from that though, I'm not sure what I'd do
Probably the same thing I did with 777, which is tell anyone who will listen that it's a bad thing but ultimately fail in achieving anything with it because there's not much a regular person can do when stuff like that happens
Would I have stopped supporting the club if 777 had taken over for instance? I don't think you ever just stop supporting a club outright when you've spent so many years and money on supporting it. Would I have finally jacked in the season ticket and just watched highlights on MOTD from my armchair? Maybe
Would I do similar if we got bought out City style? Who knows. Maybe, maybe not
It's unlikely that I'll ever have to worry about it
Even if the rules were relaxed and every billionaire/trillionaire/country out there could just buy any club they wanted and pump money into it, I'm pretty certain we'd be near the back of the queue. As much as we Evertonians love the club, and as much a positive as the new stadium has potential to be, to the football world at large we're the football equivalent of Pedro Morales during the Hulkamania Era. We used to be Champion, and we still have decent support from our core fan base, but to everyone else we're a washed up journeyman who is there to do jobs for the real stars. Why invest in us when you've got the likes of Roddy Piper, Demolition, The Hart Foundation, Rick Rude, Ultimate Warrior, British Bulldogs etc to choose from instead?
Drico
Player Valuation: £50m
No issue with this. My issue is who is allowed to own clubs. Nation states are unregulatable. Therefore, they cannot be fit and proper - and that's before we get to head-chopping.
They would do a Vettel when he moved the winner's sign away from Hamilton's car to in front of his own. Well, space where his car should have been.
Are you somewhat insecure?
I can't even
Player Valuation: £950k
I have all my mrs passwords and I have tracking on her car and phone.
I know everything. Absolutely nothing for me to be insecure about.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
@anxiouswarrior where are you?
mmmmsnouts
Player Valuation: £40m
Everton is backing City (for now) because Russia would be trying to do the same thing the Saudis are doing if their money hadn't been run out of the PL.
A new set of owners would likely feel differently.
A new set of owners would likely feel differently.
Bishop Thumpety-Thump
Player Valuation: £15m
Yeah right, there’s a massive six chords in that song (seven if you play E7 instead of E major during the bridge), the entire progression being utilised countless times previously in popular music. If YOU know chords you’ll realise the switch from F major to F minor featured on a number of early McCartney songs, Gallagher is nothing but a musical/lyrical magpie. Good ear for a melody though.
JimmyJeffers
Player Valuation: £70m
Oh yikes