6 + 2 Point Deductions

[Timbucktoo]

Must be ticket sales. Or Chanel 5 tv rights

FIFA brown envelopes at the back of the stadium car park.

 

[windymiller]

I was an advocate for independent Government regulation, after the total arse that masters and the pl have made of PSR and how they tried to kill Everton but let the scabs away with absolute murder.

Seriously having second thoughts now, and don’t think anything will really change, after the great start Tory boy kier and his cronies have made of running the country since getting in.

We've got government regulators of the water and rail industries, how's that going? I'm not sure why anybody thinks a government regulator will be effective.

 

[Marcus Kendall]

Perhaps even worse is the fact that the prize money is so huge yet nobody cares about it. I don't know a single person who's been following it and I had no idea it was still going on.

It's a Saudi Arabian funded competition (DAZN) makes it even more appalling with it being blood money

 

[mahermi1]

We've got government regulators of the water and rail industries, how's that going? I'm not sure why anybody thinks a government regulator will be effective.

Well for a start they may not have favourites, untouchable teams.
Thames Water have been awful, private companies are not always the answer they have to have regulators. The problem being are the regulators good enough and fit for purpose.

 

[NathDogg]

We've got government regulators of the water and rail industries, how's that going? I'm not sure why anybody thinks a government regulator will be effective.

Agreed, I think I was just hoping for better than the current corrupt nonsense we have.

 

[windymiller]

Well for a start they may not have favourites, untouchable teams.
Thames Water have been awful, private companies are not always the answer they have to have regulators. The problem being are the regulators good enough and fit for purpose.

The regulators have been absolutely toothless with the water companies. Thames Water have stripped tens of billions out of that company, saddled it with unmanageable and enormous debts, and have run the infrastructure into the ground. And what did the regulator do? Give them fines orders of magnitude less than the dividends they were pulling out of the company. Pathetic. The same will happen in football. A government regulator isn't going to stand up to the Abu Dhabi royal family, for example.

 

[mahermi1]

The regulators have been absolutely toothless with the water companies. Thames Water have stripped tens of billions out of that company, saddled it with unmanageable and enormous debts, and have run the infrastructure into the ground. And what did the regulator do? Give them fines orders of magnitude less than the dividends they were pulling out of the company. Pathetic. The same will happen in football. A government regulator isn't going to stand up to the Abu Dhabi royal family, for example.

Can see where you're coming from and agree, but if there were no regulators have to think it would be even worse.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

The same will happen in football. A government regulator isn't going to stand up to the Abu Dhabi royal family, for example.

Or cause diplomatic tensions by investigating Saudi PIF dealings. Shouldn’t have been allowed to get to this stage.

 

[The binman chronicles]

Ancelotti being handed a prison sentence (even without having to go) will get the PL investigators on the case to see what the small print rules are on employing a known felon.

Incoming transfer ban.

 

[windymiller]

Or cause diplomatic tensions by investigating Saudi PIF dealings. Shouldn’t have been allowed to get to this stage.

I suppose the argument would be that a regulator might have blocked that takeover but the way Boris Johnson was crawling all over the Saudis at the time I really don't think that would've been the case.

 

[JimmyJeffers]

I suppose the argument would be that a regulator might have blocked that takeover but the way Boris Johnson was crawling all over the Saudis at the time I really don't think that would've been the case.

Aye the government was clearly involved in pushing it through.

 

[Yarrgh]

We've got government regulators of the water and rail industries, how's that going? I'm not sure why anybody thinks a government regulator will be effective.

Just another parasite on the bloated cadaver that was the beautiful game.

 

[Bebeto]

Just another cup entry that ruins domestic competition for every other fan of every other club. There should be no such ruinous prize money, it should be about the honour. Idiots.

It will for sure ruin their season...no way they will be able to compete all season with such a quick turnaround. Of course this is chelsea we are talking about, so who knows they might sign 11 new fresh players.

 

[chrismpw]

It will for sure ruin their season...no way they will be able to compete all season with such a quick turnaround. Of course this is chelsea we are talking about, so who knows they might sign 11 new fresh players.

This is exactly what they'll be able to do, with the cash and psr. Its why its ruins any real sporting competition.

 

[Neiler]

This is ridiculous, our entire turnover last year was somehere in and around £180 mill. There kid deal per year is more then 50% of our entire turnover.

Man City agree Premier League record £1bn kit deal

Manchester City extend their kit partnership with Puma for at least 10 years, with the contract understood to be worth a minimum of £1bn, making it the largest deal in the Premier League.

www.bbc.com