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  1. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

    Naughty Emirates Marketing Project - Spot of Compo??

    It would be suicidal. After Burnham’s comments, journalists are rightly sniffing around that whole relationship now. There’s no way they can do anything. I also think if UAE want to withdraw from profitable investment opportunities in the UK, we can offer that same opportunity to their gulf...
  2. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    https://apple.news/AMFQKeEIeQ76IRg447yj0Ow Not sure if folks can get Apple News but this is what I was driving at above. This story has just come out minutes ago in the Telegraph. The idea that Etihad took government funding was denied in Etihad’s case to the US Gov years ago. Quite how...
  3. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    They are banking on the idea that the Independent Commission misunderstood how money moves in the Gulf. Put aside the ludicrous idea that the government and the owners of City are different entities, it is a line of argument that has been looked at and dismissed. They also falsified evidence...
  4. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Fair enough. I certainly think City are screwed in any case way beyond a £100m fine. But I would absolutely support all the other clubs applying whatever pressure they can to get the sanctions as impactful as possible, One other thing I have been thinking about while looking into this…if the...
  5. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Can you see UAE on the whole spending serious diplomatic capital in order to pressure another world leader to influence the sanction of a soft power asset they control, when that world leader actually has no power or influence over the sanctions themselves? And can you see that leader expending...
  6. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Ha - I know this is just European qualifications but so much of the reporting has been how much Liverpool missed out on because of the close title race (was it 2 title races?) but clearly us and Everton have missed out on ample opportunity here to better establish ourselves in the upper echelon...
  7. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Yeah, I agree. Reading his original statement back today, it just looks completely effing mad. On pretty much the day that it is explained why City are guilty of the biggest fraud our game has ever seen, he feels the need to equate them to Everton as also being unfairly treated. Completely...
  8. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    If you were any of those clubs wouldn’t go against City if only to have one rival for a CL place thrown out? They may all have owners with similar ambitions to spend as much as possible, but what unites them all isn’t the desire to spend the money, it’s their frustration that they can’t spend...
  9. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    I think the issue with that is, it leaves City open an avenue of appeal on fairness / due process. Essentially if you kick them out of the league that way, they will claim bias and it opens up a route for them to argue about due process and competition which might actually be legally sound...
  10. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Glad he’s cleared that up.
  11. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Yeah, I’m actually not worried that Burnham is actually going to do anything here either. His comments were just extremely ill judged. Very odd. But there’s nothing he can do. One, the government has no power over an independent panel. Two, if it ever leaked that anyone was putting pressure on...
  12. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    They did offer this defence during the investigation, and the PL rejected it. City are saying that the panel ‘didn’t understand’ but it just isn’t true. It’s not based on a misunderstanding, it’s not based on a lack of knowledge of gulf business practices, it is based on the fact that they...
  13. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    And also…investment in the local area to buy goodwill of normal folk is also exactly the point of a sports washing project. It’s nice for the people that benefitted from it that it happened, but the only reason it happened in that area and not somewhere else was because they were part of a much...
  14. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Was thinking the same thing, my head is going to ‘what’s to stop the deserved punishment happening now?’ which is why I was curious to understand City’s arguments in more detail. Surely even if there is diplomatic pressure or anything else, what stops the clubs saying nah, this is flimflam...
  15. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Was just playing around with Claude AI to try and synthesize the argument from City’s POV, test the likelihood of success on appeal, understand what Soriano means by misunderstanding. This is what was shared: We actually know City's main argument now, because the commission's decision...
  16. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Makes me wonder how deep Burnham was in with foreign money, how much leverage do they really have over him, the UK? How much future investment is planned by UAE that they now might withdraw? Can the UK Gov actually influence the judges at all in this way if UAE made clear investment would slow...
  17. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Good point here which may make his comments make a bit more sense.
  18. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Genuinely. For someone who has made such an effort to be seen to be in tune with public opinion, these are very strange comments. I’d like to think it’s because of the Manchester association, he knows how much the investment has made the local area improve etc. But it does make me wonder if some...
  19. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Actually think his comments are completely thick as well. I would understand thanking the owners for the investment into the area he was responsible for, but the stuff about Everton’s punishment, ‘I think most people now think we were unfairly treated’ is just…..what? Most people I’ve seen...
  20. SissokoWasGood (BoL)

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    Agreed, all of this stuff about points over multiple seasons feels extremely light based on the charges. I think it comes from the fact that the scale of the cheating is so large and unprecedented, and because of City’s insistence on being ‘COMPLETELY INNOCENT OF ALL CHARGES’ just messes up how...
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