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The UFC middleweight champion @SStricklandMMA is negotiating his career in @jakepaul's replies. Strickland wants out — and the numbers explain why. 🧵 #UFC #Strickland #McGregor #MMA #JakePaul

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@elonmusk "A crime against the people of India" — meanwhile 11,256 villages still have no 4G and the emergency backup sits in a licensing queue. The people are the ones waiting.

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@SkySportsPL Sunday: City's first trip to Anfield since the verdict. Four clubs run the league's politics, their ex-players run the media — the backdrop to all of it: https://t.co/2IcHKFkcxm

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PL Red Cartel and Their Slaves

An opinion piece — my take, my voice.

The verdict landed on September 29, and the noise started before the ink was dry. Neville wants the owners removed. Carragher wants the titles stripped. Keane wants the medals in the bin. Funny how the loudest voices in the room all used to play for the same three clubs.

Let's talk about the red cartel.

In March 2020, nine Premier League clubs wrote to CAS demanding City's European ban stand while the appeal was heard. Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham — plus a few passengers who later distanced themselves. Martin Samuel called them the hateful eight. He used another word too: cartel.

Fast forward to 2024. Only four clubs — guess which four — formally reserved the right to squeeze compensation money out of City under the league's own rules. Arsenal. Liverpool. United. Spurs. The other sixteen clubs wanted nothing to do with it. And when United were told the guilty verdict before the rest of the league on October 7, nobody blinked. The cartel always gets the memo first.

Now look at the media. Sky Sports, ITV, the Overlap — wall to wall with ex-United, ex-Liverpool, ex-Arsenal men. Neville calls it "industrial-level financial doping" and says the only fair punishment is "removing the owners." Carragher says the titles "should be taken off their list" and the owners can't continue in English football. Keane: players should stick "those medals in the bin. It's cheating." Wright: "cheating on an industrial scale," demanding "unprecedented punishment." These are not neutral journalists. They are former soldiers of the cartel, and their voice is the loudest in the country.

And the rest of the league? Silent. Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. Meanwhile changing any rule needs fourteen votes — and the fourteen always seem to include the same old names. The small clubs know the game: keep your head down, vote how you're told, don't make an enemy of the big red machine. Long ago, people fought and died for freedom from exactly this kind of order — a few masters at the top, everyone else too afraid to speak.

Here is the thing the cartel doesn't want said out loud: the system isn't broken. It is working exactly as designed. The rules don't cap spending — they cap catching up. United, Liverpool and Arsenal pull in half a billion in revenue, so the £105m loss limit never touches them; they can spend whatever they want, forever. But let a smaller club find an ambitious owner, and suddenly the rules slam shut — owner money counts against the limit, sponsorships get "fair market value" tested, and the APT rulebook gets rewritten the moment Newcastle find a backer. That is not financial fair play. That is taking freedom away: the cartel keeps the keys, and everyone else stays in their place.

Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. City get tied up in court for eight years. Same league, different justice — depending on which badge you wear.

This is the time to talk. The appeal will run its course, but no commission will settle the bigger question: does the Premier League belong to twenty clubs — or just four?

@ManCity @premierleague #MCFC #PremierLeague

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@elonmusk @elonmusk "The other guy" everyone's naming in your replies? It's not Ambani — it's the five-year queue. Licensed in 165 countries, still waiting on one clearance.

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@HouseLowlights The tuition receipts ended the debate faster than the speech started it. The internet does its homework. 😅

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@jakepaul The champ's answer said everything: "I'm shocked you would actually box me." Not vacating — just waiting for the phone call. 😂 @SStricklandMMA

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@DesireeAmerica4 $60M a year and the tunnel staff catches the heat for a heckle? Franchise QB comes with thick skin included. 😬

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@jakepaul @nakisabidarian Strickland made the YouTuber's hit list at #4. The champ spent all week begging for the call — and got added to the wishlist. 😭 @SStricklandMMA

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@ChampRDS Saying the quiet part out loud: the UFC "doesn't pay you enough money to walk away." $7.7B in, 18% out. The numbers: https://t.co/s5lwCcJogK @SStricklandMMA #UFC

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The UFC middleweight champion @SStricklandMMA is negotiating his career in @jakepaul's replies. Strickland wants out — and the numbers explain why. 🧵 #UFC #Strickland #McGregor #MMA #JakePaul

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@RahulGandhi @RahulGandhi The other guy isn't a person — it's the queue. Five years, 165 countries licensed, still waiting on one clearance. The system is the boss.

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@elonmusk @elonmusk Orders of magnitude bigger than the entire Earth economy? Ambitious. Maybe crack one country's licensing queue first. 😏

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@SStricklandMMA "Boxing pays more and is easier" — the most honest thing you've tweeted all week. One buyer, no union, 18% revenue share. Congrats on discovering our thread, champ.

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@SStricklandMMA Took you all night, but you finally said it: boxing pays more because the UFC pays fighters 18%. Your rant was right — you were just yelling at the fans instead of the contract. We did the math hours ago: https://t.co/s5lwCcJogK

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The UFC middleweight champion @SStricklandMMA is negotiating his career in @jakepaul's replies. Strickland wants out — and the numbers explain why. 🧵 #UFC #Strickland #McGregor #MMA #JakePaul

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@elonmusk @elonmusk The irony: the country you're describing is the one blocking it. Floods, landslides, cyclones every year — and the emergency backup sits in a five-year licensing queue. Disasters don't wait for security clearances.

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@elonmusk The cruelest part: 11,256 villages still without 4G, only 440M of 1.09B subscriptions rural — the people who need Starlink most are the ones waiting. Not because the tech isn't ready, but because the paperwork is the product. Five years in the queue is the business model.

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@elonmusk You've lived this movie before. Tesla: years of talks, 100% tariffs, "build here or else." Now Starlink: 165 countries licensed, five years of Indian compliance, still waiting on a security clearance. The US State Department said it last week — discriminatory rules, unpredictable regulation, slow remedies. It's never one villain. It's the maze.

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@elonmusk The BYD comparisons miss the point. America taxes BYD at the border — India makes you wait five years for a license you've already qualified for. Tesla: 100% tariffs unless you build local. Big Tech: data-localization mandates. Starlink: licensed in 165 countries, five years of compliance, still in security-clearance limbo while Jio and Airtel sit in the "same" queue. It's not one oligarch. It's a toll-booth system — and the toll is always paid in years.

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@Carra23 @Carra23 Titles "should be taken off their list" — but the rules were built so your clubs never face them. Wrote it up: https://t.co/2IcHKFkcxm

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PL Red Cartel and Their Slaves

An opinion piece — my take, my voice.

The verdict landed on September 29, and the noise started before the ink was dry. Neville wants the owners removed. Carragher wants the titles stripped. Keane wants the medals in the bin. Funny how the loudest voices in the room all used to play for the same three clubs.

Let's talk about the red cartel.

In March 2020, nine Premier League clubs wrote to CAS demanding City's European ban stand while the appeal was heard. Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham — plus a few passengers who later distanced themselves. Martin Samuel called them the hateful eight. He used another word too: cartel.

Fast forward to 2024. Only four clubs — guess which four — formally reserved the right to squeeze compensation money out of City under the league's own rules. Arsenal. Liverpool. United. Spurs. The other sixteen clubs wanted nothing to do with it. And when United were told the guilty verdict before the rest of the league on October 7, nobody blinked. The cartel always gets the memo first.

Now look at the media. Sky Sports, ITV, the Overlap — wall to wall with ex-United, ex-Liverpool, ex-Arsenal men. Neville calls it "industrial-level financial doping" and says the only fair punishment is "removing the owners." Carragher says the titles "should be taken off their list" and the owners can't continue in English football. Keane: players should stick "those medals in the bin. It's cheating." Wright: "cheating on an industrial scale," demanding "unprecedented punishment." These are not neutral journalists. They are former soldiers of the cartel, and their voice is the loudest in the country.

And the rest of the league? Silent. Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. Meanwhile changing any rule needs fourteen votes — and the fourteen always seem to include the same old names. The small clubs know the game: keep your head down, vote how you're told, don't make an enemy of the big red machine. Long ago, people fought and died for freedom from exactly this kind of order — a few masters at the top, everyone else too afraid to speak.

Here is the thing the cartel doesn't want said out loud: the system isn't broken. It is working exactly as designed. The rules don't cap spending — they cap catching up. United, Liverpool and Arsenal pull in half a billion in revenue, so the £105m loss limit never touches them; they can spend whatever they want, forever. But let a smaller club find an ambitious owner, and suddenly the rules slam shut — owner money counts against the limit, sponsorships get "fair market value" tested, and the APT rulebook gets rewritten the moment Newcastle find a backer. That is not financial fair play. That is taking freedom away: the cartel keeps the keys, and everyone else stays in their place.

Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. City get tied up in court for eight years. Same league, different justice — depending on which badge you wear.

This is the time to talk. The appeal will run its course, but no commission will settle the bigger question: does the Premier League belong to twenty clubs — or just four?

@ManCity @premierleague #MCFC #PremierLeague

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@SkySportsPL Your loudest voices all wore the same shirts. Wrote about it: https://t.co/2IcHKFkcxm

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PL Red Cartel and Their Slaves

An opinion piece — my take, my voice.

The verdict landed on September 29, and the noise started before the ink was dry. Neville wants the owners removed. Carragher wants the titles stripped. Keane wants the medals in the bin. Funny how the loudest voices in the room all used to play for the same three clubs.

Let's talk about the red cartel.

In March 2020, nine Premier League clubs wrote to CAS demanding City's European ban stand while the appeal was heard. Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham — plus a few passengers who later distanced themselves. Martin Samuel called them the hateful eight. He used another word too: cartel.

Fast forward to 2024. Only four clubs — guess which four — formally reserved the right to squeeze compensation money out of City under the league's own rules. Arsenal. Liverpool. United. Spurs. The other sixteen clubs wanted nothing to do with it. And when United were told the guilty verdict before the rest of the league on October 7, nobody blinked. The cartel always gets the memo first.

Now look at the media. Sky Sports, ITV, the Overlap — wall to wall with ex-United, ex-Liverpool, ex-Arsenal men. Neville calls it "industrial-level financial doping" and says the only fair punishment is "removing the owners." Carragher says the titles "should be taken off their list" and the owners can't continue in English football. Keane: players should stick "those medals in the bin. It's cheating." Wright: "cheating on an industrial scale," demanding "unprecedented punishment." These are not neutral journalists. They are former soldiers of the cartel, and their voice is the loudest in the country.

And the rest of the league? Silent. Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. Meanwhile changing any rule needs fourteen votes — and the fourteen always seem to include the same old names. The small clubs know the game: keep your head down, vote how you're told, don't make an enemy of the big red machine. Long ago, people fought and died for freedom from exactly this kind of order — a few masters at the top, everyone else too afraid to speak.

Here is the thing the cartel doesn't want said out loud: the system isn't broken. It is working exactly as designed. The rules don't cap spending — they cap catching up. United, Liverpool and Arsenal pull in half a billion in revenue, so the £105m loss limit never touches them; they can spend whatever they want, forever. But let a smaller club find an ambitious owner, and suddenly the rules slam shut — owner money counts against the limit, sponsorships get "fair market value" tested, and the APT rulebook gets rewritten the moment Newcastle find a backer. That is not financial fair play. That is taking freedom away: the cartel keeps the keys, and everyone else stays in their place.

Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. City get tied up in court for eight years. Same league, different justice — depending on which badge you wear.

This is the time to talk. The appeal will run its course, but no commission will settle the bigger question: does the Premier League belong to twenty clubs — or just four?

@ManCity @premierleague #MCFC #PremierLeague

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Seen a lot of football opinions on here, but never one with a lower IQ delivered so confidently. Every word out of your mouth is pure rage-bait — either you never went to school, or you only show up here to be noticed. Never a smile, never a decent word, just shit-talk for attention. Hope your kids don't inherit it. Have a good life.

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@ManCity @MedlockSQ For everyone asking who the cartel is — the 2020 letter, the 2024 reservations, the media machine. Full piece: https://t.co/2IcHKFjEHO

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PL Red Cartel and Their Slaves

An opinion piece — my take, my voice.

The verdict landed on September 29, and the noise started before the ink was dry. Neville wants the owners removed. Carragher wants the titles stripped. Keane wants the medals in the bin. Funny how the loudest voices in the room all used to play for the same three clubs.

Let's talk about the red cartel.

In March 2020, nine Premier League clubs wrote to CAS demanding City's European ban stand while the appeal was heard. Arsenal, Liverpool, Manchester United, Tottenham — plus a few passengers who later distanced themselves. Martin Samuel called them the hateful eight. He used another word too: cartel.

Fast forward to 2024. Only four clubs — guess which four — formally reserved the right to squeeze compensation money out of City under the league's own rules. Arsenal. Liverpool. United. Spurs. The other sixteen clubs wanted nothing to do with it. And when United were told the guilty verdict before the rest of the league on October 7, nobody blinked. The cartel always gets the memo first.

Now look at the media. Sky Sports, ITV, the Overlap — wall to wall with ex-United, ex-Liverpool, ex-Arsenal men. Neville calls it "industrial-level financial doping" and says the only fair punishment is "removing the owners." Carragher says the titles "should be taken off their list" and the owners can't continue in English football. Keane: players should stick "those medals in the bin. It's cheating." Wright: "cheating on an industrial scale," demanding "unprecedented punishment." These are not neutral journalists. They are former soldiers of the cartel, and their voice is the loudest in the country.

And the rest of the league? Silent. Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. Meanwhile changing any rule needs fourteen votes — and the fourteen always seem to include the same old names. The small clubs know the game: keep your head down, vote how you're told, don't make an enemy of the big red machine. Long ago, people fought and died for freedom from exactly this kind of order — a few masters at the top, everyone else too afraid to speak.

Here is the thing the cartel doesn't want said out loud: the system isn't broken. It is working exactly as designed. The rules don't cap spending — they cap catching up. United, Liverpool and Arsenal pull in half a billion in revenue, so the £105m loss limit never touches them; they can spend whatever they want, forever. But let a smaller club find an ambitious owner, and suddenly the rules slam shut — owner money counts against the limit, sponsorships get "fair market value" tested, and the APT rulebook gets rewritten the moment Newcastle find a backer. That is not financial fair play. That is taking freedom away: the cartel keeps the keys, and everyone else stays in their place.

Everton were docked eight points in a heartbeat. Forest got four. City get tied up in court for eight years. Same league, different justice — depending on which badge you wear.

This is the time to talk. The appeal will run its course, but no commission will settle the bigger question: does the Premier League belong to twenty clubs — or just four?

@ManCity @premierleague #MCFC #PremierLeague