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20 minutes ago, sne said:

Current leading offer in the bidding war to become the new shoe sponsor for Erling Haaland is $24m a season apparently. Puma, Nike and Adidas fighting it out.

I'm sure they said the other night grealish was about to sign for puma in a record breaking deal for an English player at around £5m

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If it wasn't bad enough that football is increasingly just a plaything for sports washing theocrats, they're now looking to change the rules to allow them to have multiple clubs playing against each other in the CL.

Gotta catch them all.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uefas-rethink-of-champions-league-multi-club-ownership-rules-could-affect-manchester-united-sale-gp9pq2xzk?shareToken=4f0303425fca741062a770eb46cfa657

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Uefa is considering allowing clubs with the same owner to play in the Champions League simultaneously — a move that could have significant ramifications for the takeover of Manchester United.

Aleksander Ceferin, the president of European football’s governing body, said a rethink of the existing rules was needed and that two options — to keep the ban and prohibit clubs with the same owner playing in the same competition, or to allow them to take part — would be explored.

The two main offers for United have come from owners who have relationships with clubs in France’s top flight. Sir Jim Ratcliffe’s Ineos group also owns Nice, while the other bid has been submitted by Sheikh Jassim bin Hamad al-Thani, the chairman of one of Qatar’s biggest banks, raising concerns about links to the Qatar-owned Paris Saint-Germain.

Asked about the potential conflict with owning two clubs in the same competition, Ceferin said: “We are not thinking about Manchester United only. We’ve had five or six owners of clubs who want to buy another club. We have to see what to do.

“The options are that it stays like that or that we allow them to play in the same competition. I’m not sure yet.

“We have to speak about these regulations and see what to do about it. There is more and more interest in this multi-club ownership. We shouldn’t just say no for the investments for multi-club ownership, but we have to see what kind of rules we set in that case, because the rules have to be strict.”

 

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10 minutes ago, Davkaus said:

If it wasn't bad enough that football is increasingly just a plaything for sports washing theocrats, they're now looking to change the rules to allow them to have multiple clubs playing against each other in the CL.

Gotta catch them all.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/uefas-rethink-of-champions-league-multi-club-ownership-rules-could-affect-manchester-united-sale-gp9pq2xzk?shareToken=4f0303425fca741062a770eb46cfa657

 

Probably not something we can argue about since our owners invested in Guimaraes

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1 minute ago, Zatman said:

Probably not something we can argue about since our owners invested in Guimaraes

Speak for yourself, I'd be looking to ban it entirely not make the rules more liberal

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1 minute ago, Davkaus said:

Speak for yourself, I'd be looking to ban it entirely not make the rules more liberal

Indeed. How can it even pretend to be a sport when you allow the same owner to own two teams in the same competition. The only reason someone wants to own more than one club is a financial one.

Game... gone. Business... here.

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