Sorry to be ignorant here but these are private companies. What right do the government have to get involved?
The New European Super (borefest) League
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Sorry to be ignorant here but these are private companies. What right do the government have to get involved?
Close. It's Dunkin donuts.
Without money you can't do anything though, most League One sides don't have the finances to compete in the Championship so they go straight back down.. discover/nurture some class talent and a Championship/Premiership side buys them to play in their reserves and loan back out, the only way to really succeed is to get a sugar daddy owner.
plenty, just like they can with uber, google, amazon et al when they choose to
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Sky will do everything they can to push against this as they probably can’t afford the rights. Guarantee you Bezos is involved somewhere.
Theoretically, parliament can pass whatever law it wants with over a 50% majority
fixed that for you
And this new 'competition' solves that how?
This is a moment where the the toys should well and truly come flying out the pram from anyone that truly cares about the game. Burn it to the ground, do not let these parasites steal the game from the people, communities and legends that have made it what it is.
possibly, and if Amazon already have the rights then definitely, but so far it's investment banks like JP Morgan who are being reported as key enablers/financiers etc.
At what point are we going to start breaking up and cracking down on these investment banks. They set food prices, commodity prices etc, manipulate markets at will, have more wealth than many nation states, etc. There's a whole UN whitepaper on the harm they do to developing nations and global food supply. But we seem incapable of suggesting that regulation and anything less than free market capitalism is a good idea. It's nuts.
Against a private company? The repercussions would be enormous. They will stay well clear.
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Yeah, and they’re getting a lovely big share of that financing from Amazon.
They can totally do so. That they're too cowardly to is a different matter. Private companies are not above the law.
If you want an example read up on the origins of housing reform and the creation of the assured shorthold tenancy agreement that currently is the defacto rental agreement in the UK. Created, SFAIK, in no small part, due to the malpractice of a certain property "baron" (in the loosest sense) who ran amok and they felt the law needed tightening to compel him, and those like him, to sort it out or be able to held to account when they inevitably would not.
Ok....so you're saying they could pass a law that means what exactly? Break it down for me...private companies...51% owned by who?
Yeah, it's very similar. All this "greed" talk is true, but that boat well and truly sailed 30 years ago.
And the govt is getting involved (it isn't) like it did then, by saying "oooh this is bad" it's only populist. Next minute it it'll be "oh there's not a lot we can do" and after that it'll be "isn't it fantastic?!".
It doesn't, I'm just pointing out that the current setup is still just as rigged in favour of the 'big teams' it's just not as obvious and there's an illusion of being able to succeed which realistically you can't unless you join in on selling out your club/fans to billionaire owners whose idea of competition is getting together and setting the rules themselves.
If private social media companies can act like a cartel to ban/censor people and cut off their finances and that's apparently okay then why can't football club owners get together to create their own league?
Yes of course they will, which is why I said theoretically. There's no chance they'd do that.
They will stay well clear because they have no grounds to get involved.
read back I've already explained my thoughts twice, I cba repeating it a third time.
I agree