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I'm saying the legalities of the situations are completely different. The UK government can decide who it allows to buy assets that are governed by the DCMS and their rules on ownership. Rightly or wrongly.

The UK government can't choose to exclude 1 guy from a list of hundreds from a list that forms part of their commitments to NATO and other allies for supporting Ukraine cos they're massive bloooos. You're comparing apples and oranges.

Of course they can, and its my democratic right as a citizen of this Government to call their corruption / hypocrisy out is it not ?
 
Absolutely. Mine too. But what you can't do is lump it in the same bag as Usmanov and Everton, because it's not the same.

Well it is when the government "pushed" through the Saudi takeover of Newcastle. That should be down to the PL and its policies on fit and proper.

If you look into what has gone down these past 12-18 months you would quickly realise we have been done good and proper and have been used as a tool in a geopolitical conflict.

Yet the club / fans haven't dared speak out.
 
Well it is when the government "pushed" through the Saudi takeover of Newcastle. That should be down to the PL and its policies on fit and proper.

If you look into what has gone down these past 12-18 months you would quickly realise we have been done good and proper and have been used as a tool in a geopolitical conflict.

Yet the club / fans haven't dared speak out.

Right, let's try again.

Saudi and Newcastle: No current sanctions against Saudi means that it comes up on public interest section of DCMS regs, means the government can decide. I think they decided badly.

Usmanov and Everton: Usmanov is on a sanctions list agreed by all NATO member states as well as an international coalition of allies to impede the Russian economy. Alliances mean you all take the same actions to help each other. You can't go to the next NATO summit and say "Yeah, but we're not gonna sanction this guy because we need him to keep buying crap players for a football club". Otherwise, everybody else starts making excpetions and there's no sodding point having the sanctions.
 

Well it is when the government "pushed" through the Saudi takeover of Newcastle. That should be down to the PL and its policies on fit and proper.

If you look into what has gone down these past 12-18 months you would quickly realise we have been done good and proper and have been used as a tool in a geopolitical conflict.

Yet the club / fans haven't dared speak out.

This bit is fantastic. You want Everton as a club and our fans to oppose internationally agreed sanctions against oligarchs from a country that just unilaterally and by choice launched the biggest war in Europe since 1945 so we can keep signing players.

That'd be a great look.
 
As much as I dislike the Kopites could you imagine their fans sitting by whilst their club is made an example of whilst Boris Johnson gifts Newcastle Bin Salman's billions / shady sponsers whilst we face no money and relegation battles ? No chance.

Our response as a club / fanbase to the whole thing has been pitiful and we wonder why the refs/authorities/var/agents/PL etc. take us as a soft touch to make an example out of whenever they choose.
Extremely tame, this has been this way since Heysel really, we just accepted it. It had nothing to do with us, same on playing field, plucky Moyes teams that won nothing being lauded. Useless commercial success, the premier League was our idea and the only team out of the 7 ever presents that never progressed.

Don't get me started on KENWRIGHT, Kirby etc etc, some made noise but didn't get backed. Only last year the Arsenal protest was embarrassing.....

The reds wanted Hicks and Gillette gone and got the job done very quick.
 
Extremely tame, this has been this way since Heysel really, we just accepted it. It had nothing to do with us, same on playing field, plucky Moyes teams that won nothing being lauded. Useless commercial success, the premier League was our idea and the only team out of the 7 ever presents that never progressed.

Don't get me started on KENWRIGHT, Kirby etc etc, some made noise but didn't get backed. Only last year the Arsenal protest was embarrassing.....

The reds wanted Hicks and Gillette gone and got the job done very quick.

The fact they were basically in administration probably accellerated that process.
 

Saudi and Newcastle: No current sanctions against Saudi means that it comes up on public interest section of DCMS regs, means the government can decide. I think they decided badly.

Usmanov and Everton: Usmanov is on a sanctions list agreed by all NATO member states as well as an international coalition of allies to impede the Russian economy. Alliances mean you all take the same actions to help each other. You can't go to the next NATO summit and say "Yeah, but we're not gonna
wonder what the people of afghanistan and libya think of the help nato gave them , they upended both country’s killing god knows how many civilians , theyv got a cheek sanctioning anyone
 
I remain unsure about this Takeover/investment what ever it is to be called. The fact is our club is in a very parlous financial state, virtually no doubt on the edge of insolvency I think. No wonder some rats jumped ship and one more to go.

Look at the problems,

Stadium finance

Ancelotti

Transfer budget

Ongoing expenses like wages etc.
 
I remain unsure about this Takeover/investment what ever it is to be called. The fact is our club is in a very parlous financial state, virtually no doubt on the edge of insolvency I think. No wonder some rats jumped ship and one more to go.

Look at the problems,

Stadium finance

Ancelotti

Transfer budget

Ongoing expenses like wages etc.

If the finances are as bad as you say then it's better to have investment than not, surely?
 

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