Think you are a bit thick mate - the onus is not on the commission to call in all 300+ of City’s sponsors.
City themselves have ample opportunity to put their main sponsor - Ethihad - in front of the commission and didn’t.
Etihad is the UAE; the UAE is City.
This is some psycho political move
@a_brns_@afc_N7k This is what’s fucking baffling. When Saudi tried to buy the PGA, the US told them to fuck off as it’s a huge cultural asset.
Andy has caved at the first hurdle because they built some leasehold flats for him in Manchester.
@a_brns_ I think even if they get it overturned at the High Court or something, the rest of the Prem are going to reincorporate the league or something. You can’t operate with these guys around the table.
@wright010619@Carl_M79 I think what City / the UAE are trying to lay the ground work for is a high court appeal on the grounds that the Independent Commission did not seriously consider critical material evidence
@MoSurrey@TheRealFbloke Independent Commission reviewed the evidence.
City had over 42 days to counter the evidence. They themselves didn’t call Ethihad, their main fucking sponsor?
funny thing is, burnham did exactly that just two days ago. said he’d wait and review the report and not jump to conclusions. and weirdly, it seems after considering the absolutely excoriating judgement - his one conclusion is how good CFG have been for manchester. fuck off lol
@TomY9825@JoulsonMUFC@SteveF_Content The onus is on City in this process to call their own witnesses. The fact that they didn’t suggests either: 1) They didn’t think they need to 2) This is a political move
@jimmymcbride1 I think if City ‘win’, the Prem will be reformed - there’s no way the clubs can be in a league with them if they are going to act in such bad faith.
This is going to end with Premier League reforming without City - there’s no chance the rest of the clubs can carry on with City in the league, regardless of the outcome.
@TheRealFbloke@KeithCh83361639@etihad They did a 42 evidence process and invited City to invite all relevant parties.
Why wouldn’t City call its main sponsor - seems like an absolute braindead thing not to do.
@Muppetiers And the PM decides he's going to fall in behind the other state - absolute pisstake. He should stand up for the national interest. The Prem is our biggest cultural export.
@PabloPicante6@OyedijoToyese@_Tobolos_ What, like how Liverpool did it in the last 15 years? We sold our best players, had a near 0 net spend, and made good decisions on and off the pitch.
Or how the likes of yourselves, Palace and Newcastle are winning their first trophies in decades.
@LastBlairite@CharlotDearling What’s more neoliberal / Thatcherite / Blairite than allowing foreign capital to trammel over rules and regulations for some growth (flats in Manchester)
@CFCDaily@baidinho10@MattDebonoAC He’s not even sitting on the fence. Judgement was absolutely scathing and he’s saying that it would be a shame to lose them, but he can’t get ‘more involved’???
@jim_keoghan Liverpool were close to bankruptcy; had to sell our best players over and over again; had to make great decisions to get to the top; and only still won a league title and a European cups
City are not ‘competing’; they are buying the game outright you absolute rube.