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@SwedishRumble Just one caveat - the EFL doesn't accept blindly the teams that are relegated from the PL, because they also have a fit & proper test that the owners/directors have to pass. City* having been relegated due to crass fraud would obviously in the eyes of anyone would fail said test
@IRaiderette And it well can be, but in all honesty - a 4 year college degree in cosmetology? If someone wants to do it, fair for them, but getting a student loan for a trade that doesn't pay very well is not good business sense.
@IRaiderette and now we have an acute shortage of skilled labour to man these positions. When I went to school, the same teachers would identify if you were uni material or not, and then (with your parents) take a decision to guide you to trade school or university.
@IRaiderette Mesopotamian Pole Dancing etc., and were saddled with debt without a job in their field so that they could pay it back. Meanwhile, well paid trades like electricians, bricklayers, plumbers, etc. aged and aged and aged until they all had retired (2/3)
BMG polling just out has shown what percentage of the public would consider voting for a Restore Britain candidate at the next general election.
An astonishing 29.6% for Restore Britain.
The figure for Reform? 29.5%. Labour on 32.5%.
Restore Britain can win the next election.
I set a camera really close to the launch pad to get this shot. It was a sound activated trigger since it wasn’t safe for me to stand here.
That’s all 33 Raptor engines performing nominally as Starship heads to orbit for the first time.
@MiddyGaroppolo Aye, Brock Bowers is a generational player like Gale Sayers, Barry Sanders, Walter Payton, etc. Truly a great athlete who (if healthy) will rewrite the record books.
@GGee1000@johnmerro1 Well, for starters they wouldn't have any of their star players; under EFL PSR rules (if the EFL accepts them), they wouldn't be able to make their payroll, so you're looking at a player fire sale, which all proceeds may end up forfeit for paying financial penalties.
@Nasified7@GraemeBailey@TEAMtalk Let alone that - due to the EFL's PSR rules, there's no way they would be able to pay his wages, so he'd be sold in no time. Actually, this would apply to their whole team...
@inHighburyN5 The EFL has a fit & proper test for all teams, so they would be well within their rights to not accept City* into the EFL seeing that they have been found guilty of fraud. That would mean that they would have to drop down to tier 6 of the National League. That would bankrupt them
🚨 Dortmund sporting director on the record about the 2022 Haaland sale:
“Manchester City never wanted the real number out. That was the first condition they put on the table. Not the release clause everyone printed. The full package.
Officially it was reported as £51 million because that was the figure written into the clause and that was the figure they asked us to stand by.
Internally it was a completely different conversation. When you add the guaranteed payments, the structured extras and what was agreed around the player’s camp, we were looking at something close to €250 million all-in.
That is more than PSG paid for Neymar in 2017. City knew that. We knew that. They did not want Europe talking about it.
They were very clear: if Dortmund confirmed anything above the clause, the deal would become politically messy for them. So there was a private understanding.
We stay silent on the real total. They stay silent. A few people in the media were steered toward the £51m line and that became the official story
I am not going to sit here four years later and pretend we sold the best young striker in Europe for pocket money. We did not. City paid what they had to pay to get him. They just did not want the world to see the receipt.”