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Credit to @CeltExchange and @ACSOMPOD on this.
The thing that’s most hard hitting is; football clubs need to dream.
We can no longer dream.
The Desmond administration has removed that.
‘We can’t compete in Europe.’
They’ve told us that.
‘We can’t risk the financial future of the club’.
We’re not in danger of that, no one is asking for it and it’s not required to compete.
We refuse to implement a modern football structure. No Sporting Director, never had one. Never will have one under Desmond.
All the Celtic hierarchy do is tell us why we can’t do anything other than scrape by in Scotland.
That is the bankrupt vision that supporters are sick of.
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A travelling puppet show.
They should’ve held it in the Pavilion.
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If you don't understand what David Ornstein is saying here, you will never get it. The structure enforces those successful coaches.
Put them in teams that aren't suitable, they will fail. Build a structure and bring in a coach that suits it. Simple!
Don't go for a coach because he's doing well elsewhere, go for a coach that suits the structure you have in place.
Just one of the worst attempts at patter you’ll ever see.
A defunct trophy 🤔 you must be thinking about your club’s greatest achievement, the Cup Winners Cup.
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English football: one fan base gloating that their club have cooked the books and most fans of other clubs demanding the rules changed so their billionaires can do the same.
Again you have to ask: what does this mean? These players buying into a supposed siege mentality and yet they will be immediately out of the door the moment sanctions are handed down. Fans gloating about it all. Such a bad look for the Premier League.
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I admire Guardiola’s work as much as the next man but the cope here from Guillem is off the charts.
I watched the F1 film with Brad Pitt the other day, and there’s a moment where his character asks to add something to the car that isn’t really in the rules. The FIA punishes it, but the team can still race with the earlier car. It made me think.
In F1, the best teams live at the edge of the regulations. Sometimes the FIA allows what they’ve found, and sometimes it says that goes too far. Occasionally the rules are rewritten afterwards.
Now, City. I’m not defending them. A commission found they entered into sham agreements and broke the spending limits. A sham is an arrangement that isn’t what it claims to be, so that’s a different thing from using a gap nobody had spotted.
City deny it and will appeal. But I find it useful to ask/reflect on how people inside the club see it.
From their point of view, PERHAPS they believe they were doing what elite competitors do: looking at the rules, finding the limits, challenging interpretations and moving faster than the regulatory system.
From the outside, you might look at that and say, “That’s cheating.” From inside the organisation, they might say, “We found something nobody had thought of.”
If you believe you’ve found a way to bring money in, more or less within the rules (and the commission said it was not in the rules and it was cheating), you might tell yourself you’re just being a sharp competitor.
We are all asking “did City cheat?”. But I find this question interesting too: “how did City come to believe they weren’t?”
And understanding a mindset, or trying to, isn’t excusing it.
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Manchester City were found guilty of 114 out of 115 charges by an independent commission. The comparison made is not in the same ball park to the level of rule breaking Man City have committed.
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‘I haven’t downplayed the seriousness of the findings, but the process needs to be independent and it’s incumbent on everybody to let the process run.’
There was a 3-year process and an independent commission found them guilty of all charges.
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The game: Gone.
Today’s arrival fits 😁
ALT Photography of Ronald Araujo arriving at the AXA Training Centre.
ALT Photography of Florian Wirtz arriving at the AXA Training Centre.
ALT Photography of Alisson Becker arriving at the AXA Training Centre.
ALT Photography of Dominik Szoboszlai arriving at the AXA Training Centre.
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Can’t shake the feeling the Man City case is the beginning of the end for football.
A growing consensus that nation states and billionaire pe groups should be able to ‘invest’ as they see fit will create the NBA of football.
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Sportswashing live in public view.
Any shred of remorse given to Man City through political power is the end for the @premierleague.
If it’s not already finished by this.
Exclusive with @AlexDooler @DNair5
UAE officials have warned the UK government that the severity of Man City’s punishment could undermine their appetite for future grand-scale commitments in Britain, according to people familiar with the matter
They consider the Premier League’s actions to have an influence on the bilateral state relationship, the people said, asking not to be identified discussing undisclosed information
The extraordinary pressure comes after Andy Burnham faced criticism, including from within government, for saying Man City’s Abu Dhabi owners should not be disqualified specifically because of the investment they bring to Britain
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