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we all thought hugo vianas arrival as director of football meant that amorim was to follow. well that ain't happening. although it would be funny if it did.

i didn't mean with respect to bruno. what i meant was, no city fans really know who viana is (obviously some pretend to) so the targets we all thought city had are probably further from the mark than normal.

don't think city will make any moves on bruno. they would have done it in the summer if they were interested. i don't think city were ever interested. great player though. whether january or summer we seem to be linked with zubimendi, ederson (of atalanta), wirtz, musiala the arrival of hugo viana may shake that up though. echeverri arrives from river plate in january

i see you guys are having the twitter to bluesky discussions too. same going on on bluemoon don't think anybody wants to go to bluesky its just nobody wants to stay on twitter so its happening my experience is that bluesky is really quiet and behind everything else with news i do quite like the starter pack concept and the lack of adds, but now i'm on there i can ignore it.

maybe it's an age thing but i find myself confused by a big white rectangle

Confused, did your grandfather fight in WW2 or didn't he?

this APT stuff confuses me. if you or i sign a contract and one clause is incorrect i thought it invalidated the entire contract, not just that clause. i don't know. so if, as has been shown to be the case, a clause in the apt rules is incorrect, shouldn't that invalidate the apt rules? i don't know. i suspect not as the media tell us the PL won the case. anyway city were refused 2 deals by PL under APT rules. city take it to tribunal. tribunal say some rules are unlawful. city given permission to seek compensation i don't get how the PL could have won this case yet the loser is allowed to seek compensation. maybe there's a little spin in play. on all sides. it won't happen but i would love city to get compensation and then donate the award to local grass roots football.

i think everton will be okay. didn't someone say that shareholder loans may need to be turned into equity and is that not the direction of everton anyway?

i suspect you're on a watch and see brief. But i would love it if you raised a compensation request the moment ours completes.

used to be football was beautiful all the time then came rules and regulation written by hundreds of monkeys on typewriters and now surprise surprise football is in turmoil maybe this is the NFL secretly buying into clubs, trying to destroy soccer, so that American Football can take over the world. nah despite the obvious existence of a cartel, i'm not a conspiracy theorist.

stefan borson on talksport now

who knows how they'll resolve it. it's a mess though. clubs with shareholder loans will quite reasonably say we followed the rules. clubs without shareholder loans will say they were disadvantaged. don't see how rules can be backdated. best guess is some sort of amnesty for the past and some sort of new rules. open warfare amongst the 20 PL clubs at their next meet up. maybe some fisticuffs. the premier league started this and only have themselves to blame.

interest free shareholder loans it transpires, are a form of financial doping. so thats, everton, arsenal, livarpool, brighton, bournemouth all cheating thanks to the tyranny of the majority. embarassing.

bottom line. the ruling shows that the premier league have been using underhand tactics.

Martin Samuel... - “The tyranny of the majority,” City argued, and everybody sneered. It’s called democracy, they chorused. Well, yes and no. First past the post is democracy too, yet the tyranny of the majority is why your vote will never count if you are a Labour voter in a safe Conservative seat, or vice versa. - It’s the ruination of football, the destruction of the English game, that will be the argument. No, it’s not. City’s dominance is still scheduled to end pretty much the year Pep Guardiola walks out the door - as of 2023, Brighton held shareholder loans of £302.8million. Charging interest at between eight and ten per cent would put £66-84million on their PSR calculation and will now have to be factored in going forward. - Everton, for instance, have £451million in shareholder loans, equating to as much as £104million on their PSR calculation. Arsenal have £258million, working out to a potential addition of £62.5million. - it was three judges, not City, who studied it and saw through it