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Lewis Hall: When does a rumour become a plain lie? ๐คฅ๐ฐ
โScrolling through the BBC Sport website this morning on my break, I was staggered to see that they're back to reporting on Manchester United looking at Lewis Hall. ๐ณ It genuinely made me blink involuntarily a little bit, like I might be seeing things! ๐โ
โThe story read that the Manchester side "will revisit a deal for Newcastle and England left back Lewis Hall, who is keen to move to Old Trafford".
โSo, quite a lot to unpick in so few words there... ๐๐
โ1. What "Deal"?! ๐คทโโ๏ธ๐ญ
โFirstly, I'd ask what deal? I didn't realise that there was a deal in the first place! ๐คจ I'm aware that as a mere fan I have no special insight into the goings-on inside St. James' Park ๐๏ธ, but I cannot recall a 'deal' ever being on the table.
โI remember that the mediaโespecially a certain Manchester United podcast ๐๏ธโwere practically salivating ๐คค all last summer about them trying to get Hall, but nothing about an actual "deal" Almost like it could just be a figment of someone's imagination... ๐งโโ๏ธโจ
โ2. "Keen to Move"? Give Over! ๐
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โHall clearly isn't "keen on a move to Old Trafford". In fact, he's explicitly said signing his contract was "an extremely proud moment" โ๏ธ๐ค๐ค and stated that staying at Newcastle was a "no brainer", adding that it was "an absolute pleasure" to play for Newcastle. โฝ๐ฅ
โHis family links to the club are well known ๐จโ๐ฉโ๐ฆ, and every single performance seems not only to enhance his reputation ๐, but cement his place as a hugely important player for us. ๐งฑโญ
โโI'm absolutely sick of seeing these ridiculous links; even more so when it feels like common knowledge that Manchester United wouldn't be willing to pay anywhere near what we'd ask! ๐ฐ๐ซ
โJust give it a rest, man! ๐ฃ๏ธ๐
#NUFC #NUFCNews #Newcastle #EPL #ManUtd
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Five years ago today, celebrating the Newcastle United takeover with a Black Velvet, following the case I worked on against the Premier League.
One of my longest and often most challenging sports law cases, but also one of the most enjoyable and memorable.
#Newcastle #NUFC #sportslaw #sportslawyer
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City are being punished for being financially stable and having enough cash flow to run their club, so if we are punishing city for breaking FFP because their owners are pumping money to ensure the club runs smoothly, why is it okay for the Glazers to leverage our club in over ยฃ1.1b in debt? Why is the Premier league saying nothing or doing nothing about this?
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In 2023, Gary Neville admitted that the โEstablishment Eliteโ ie, Manchester United, Arsenal and Liverpool pushed through the FFP rules because they donโt like the idea of clubs like Blackburn, Chelsea and Manchester City pumping money into football and challenging them.
Gary also admitted "The whole FFP thing needs challenging!"
Gary appears to have gone quiet on this subject now this s**** hit the fan at Manchester City.
๐จ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐โ๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐
According to The Athletic, during the Premier Leagueโs investigation into Manchester City:
โข City initially placed disclosed documents on a server that allowed the club to TRACK who accessed the material.
โข The system reportedly did NOT allow investigators to copy and paste text, significantly slowing down the review process.
โข After further legal disputes, the documents were eventually moved to a more accessible platform.
โข The independent commission later concluded that City had made โconcerted efforts to stop and frustrate the Premier League investigation.โ
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So if City's owners had borrowed massively and just loaded the club with debt, over the period in question, the club would still have had all their success, but would not have these charges hanging over them.
Just take a moment to think about that one.
It's bizarre.
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๐ต Evertonโs PSR breach in 2021/22
ยฃ19.5m over the PSR limit
Docked 10 points reduced to 6 points on appeal
๐ด Manchester United 2021/22
ยฃ149.7m over the PSR limit
- Allowed ยฃ35m in exceptional costs for the INEOS/Sir Jim Ratcliffe share sale
- Allowed to claim an exceptional ยฃ40m Covid allowance that no other club could claim, which was the exact amount they needed to stay under the ยฃ105m PSR loss limit ๐ค
Two different sets of rulesโฆ.
๐จ ๐๐๐: Emirati officials have warned the UK government that the severity of ruling on Man City could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale UK commitments, and consider the Premier Leagueโs actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship.
UK government officials are equally frustrated by the conduct of UAE counterparts and believe some in the Gulf nation must have been aware of the extent of Man City's wrongdoing, even while insisting there was nothing untoward.
[ via @business ]
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Arsenal employed a rapist for years, their manager openly backed him, fans didn't budge. Where was the outrage?
Chelsea admitted to breaching 74 charges, including illegal payments to players, agents, third parties. Where was the outrage?
United have accumulated over 1bn debt, continue to borrow more and more. Where was the outrage?
Liverpool admitted to hacking into a team's scouting system and continued having a front-of-shirt sponsor accused of terrorist financing. Where was the outrage?
City's owners put their own money in their business? Outrage.
Go on lad ๐ #NUFC
Getting a lot of Manchester United fans in the mentions today lecturing about money, so here's a quick history lesson.
Albert Quixall 1958, British record. Denis Law 1962, British record. Gordon McQueen 1978, British record. Bryan Robson 1981, British record, two years after the first ever ยฃ1m transfer in this country. Pallister 1989, record fee for a defender. Keane 1993, British record. Andy Cole 1995, British record, bought off US in January to stop us winning the league. Van Nistelrooy AND Veron in 2001, two British records in one year. Ferdinand 2002, world record for a defender. Di Maria 2014, British record. Pogba 2016, world record on the entire planet. Maguire 2019, world record for a defender AGAIN.
For sixty years, when United wanted a player, the price went up for everyone else. They've broken the British transfer record more than any club in history.
Since Ferguson left: ยฃ1.43 BILLION spent. Zero titles. Net debt over a billion dollars, and their owners' takeover model has since been banned by the Premier League for loading debt onto clubs.
Lads, Man city have broke the rules, but lets not pretend you're not the moral guardians of football finance. ๐ค๐ค
#NUFC #MUFC
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Newcastle fans, youโre not spectators in this argument. Youโre literally Exhibit A.
You have one of the richest ownership groups in football and youโve ended up selling Isak to Liverpool, Gordon to Barcelona and Bruno to Arsenal.
How exactly are you supposed to catch the clubs you keep selling your best players to?
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Martin Samuels nails it:
In my opinion Evertonians should NOT fall into the trap of saying City should get a massive points deduction
A points deduction was NOT on the table when clubs voted for PSR
The points deduction was concocted by Masters and the corrupt clubs to get @Everton relegated
So not staying in that little shithole village down the road then. I wonder why....๐ค
#NUFC
Leeds v Newcastle #NUFC
Right under our noses the Russians have developed a more advanced version of @powerslap โ๐๐
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This actually takes place in Romania:
instagram.com/reel/Cq7d7qmAQโฆ
HT, play kids expect schoolboy errors. Thats why EH left he could see what was going to happen. A blind man on a galloping horse could.
Worst window ever ๐ญ
Fkn mountain to climb and wait until we play a decent side it'll be a fkn cricket score. #NUFC
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Successfully survived a 12 hour ban to return to Taxi Jay getting rumbled yet again.
So aside from calling people sausage relentlessly, setting ยฃ500 bounties on people, intimidating woman, cross dressing and spreading made up stories, heโs also a scammer.
Sensational.
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๐ณ๐จ ๐ก๐๐ช: These images of Mikel Arteta are going VIRAL across social media.
Arteta can be seen leaving his technical area, walking past the fourth official who just lets it happen, and continuing all the way towards the halfway line during the match vs Chelsea.
Fans are questioning why action is rarely taken over Arteta repeatedly moving so far outside his technical area and running down the touchline.
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The viral image circulating in this post is AI-generated, not a real photograph. The image contains several visual glitches typical of AI generation, such as a linesman with four legs and distorted players. x.com/nigel_b_golf/sโฆ