Host of @tplmufc - available on Apple, Spotify & YouTube Semi-retired football writer, editor & presenter - previously 90min & SI
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I've never seen anything like it. Only just turned 16 and achieved precisely nothing at senior level to this point.
His camp are putting hugely undue pressure on a kid who is unbelievably talented but for the sake of his own development, just needs to get his head down and play when he gets the chance.
Even before he's made a senior appearance the pressure has 100x'd. Crazy management.
🚨🏴 𝐁𝐑𝐄𝐀𝐊𝐈𝐍𝐆 | JJ Gabriel (16) has very, very high financial demands. The request is a 7-figure salary, at least €1m a year, reports @sport. 💰
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Some perspective on the money OUT of Man Utd because of the Glazers' LBO vs the money IN to Man City via sham sponsorships.
There has not been a level playing field.
New @tplmufc with @thePoS_007 out now.
Some really good info from Jamie. Check it out.
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Scott Saunders retweeted
Earlier this week, United's loan notes set out an intended path to new ownership and stadium financing bit.ly/4dc7ATK
Today: the financial strategy behind getting there.
Cash operating costs are down £53mn. But the more interesting story is where the money is going instead: fewer non-football staff, more players, and a cost base pointed at revenue.
Five takeaways from United's FY26 results bit.ly/4hDtlNr
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When you think about all the absolutely mind blowing aspects of this Man City case, is it not the craziest thing that the CEO has had to deny that he’s a robot
Ferran Soriano says ‘no-blink’ Man City video was not made with AI
thetimes.com/article/e4edf79…
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A must listen. I keep thinking it can’t get any more ridiculous and then @sportingintel reels off something else they did 😂 staggering
‘Organised and Clear’ - Sham City Transfers Podcast special with Nick Harris.
🔻UK’s greatest sporting scandal
🔻Abu Dhabi’s ‘irrefutable evidence’
🔻City’s guilt an opportunity for the Premier League
🔻Manchester City headed to National League, Abu Dhabi removed as owners? What should the punishment be?
🔻Burnham’s repeated errors
🔻How Abu Dhabi lean on PMs
🔻City new defence: The Crown Prince’s Court
🔻£1bn+ damages case?
🔻HMRC monitoring City
🔻Guardiola’s stained legacy
🔻Why UEFA lost at CAS
🔻Rui Pinto + Villain
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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Brand new @tplmufc out now with @thePoS_007
New stadium is in the plans. But does it open the door for the Glazers to leave and for Man Utd's debt to be removed?!
Explained in Jamie's Substack and at the links below ⬇️
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Watch, listen, read and subscriber here - excellent stuff from @thePoS_007:
youtube.com/watch?v=kY4VpKej…
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
open.spotify.com/episode/0W6…
spgoals.substack.com/p/can-i…
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Are we being deliberately obtuse now? Is this the stage we’ve reached? 😂
🚨 | Premier League clubs with government/state-linked sponsors:
Arsenal — Emirates
Arsenal — Saint Lucia Tourism Authority
Aston Villa — Visit Rwanda
Chelsea — Oman Air
Liverpool — Visit Maldives
Manchester United — Malaysia Airlines
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Outstanding 👏
⏰ FT | 🏴 2-1 🇳🇴
NOW THAT'S WHAT I CALL A RESULT 🤩
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ALT Full-Time: Cymru 2-1 Norway
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The emails are the killer. They knew what they were doing was wrong as they were doing it and still did it anyway….for years.
Their argument makes no sense
Cause if it was all above board that the money was coming from Abu Dhabi then why would they have to disguise it as coming in to the club as sponsorship payments?
You don’t reroute genuine income and label it as coming from different sources than it came from
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⚖️INSIDE MANCHESTER CITY'S APPEAL
💸Club to argue Abu Dhabi government - rather than owners - behind sponsorship deal top-ups
🧮'Irrefutable evidence' is bank statements showing transfers from govt to sponsors
💻Hacked emails were 'false assumptions' rather than a concoction
🗣️Use of 'sham' and time taken also thought to form part of defence
dailymail.com/sport/football…
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All of a sudden United’s Glazer LBO is a problem for City fans while it’s been a joke point for them the entire time - while United fans have been protesting against them for over 20 years.
Funny that we’ve arrived here isn’t it?
Man City’s owners made one crucial mistake: they used their OWN money to invest in the club.
If they’d borrowed that £900m in the club’s name and piled up £1bn+ of debt like Man United’s owners, apparently that would’ve been “sustainable.”
One is seen to be sustainable. The other one isn’t.
The funny part is which is which.
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Spot on.
I openly laugh at people complaining that the Red Cartel introduced FFP/PSR to prevent smaller clubs from growing (FFP was introduced to prevent smaller clubs, who often spent beyond their means from getting liquidated & data has shown that the process has been a success).
The PL should be thankful to the so-called Red Cartel because without Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal agreeing to share the TV money equally, the PL wouldn't have become the best league in the world. Had it been a La Liga system of proportionate distribution, your Brightons, Palaces, Bournemouths would have been no better than the Deportivos, Levantes and Elches.
So they ought to be very careful about how they punish Man City. Because if these 3 decide to walk away after losing faith in the integrity of the league, the league is done.
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The collective psychosis among the professional class of pundits and ex players here is becoming truly bizarre. There is no scenario in which Guardiola isn’t tainted by this. To suggest anything else is delusion.
"His work is NOT tainted" ❌🏆
🎙️ @GuillemBalague says a finding on Man City is not a finding on Pep
#BBCFootball #ManCity
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So @tplmufc has been taken over by talk about City and the Premier League this week. Had to be done.
Plenty of reaction out now on the usual channels. For any of the old 90min watchers, today I was joined by @HarrySymeou to run through the PL's statement.
Links below!
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We talk through the outrageous numbers, our reactions to the statement and why expulsion has to be on the table.
YT: youtu.be/caIbc8SKNUI
Spotify: open.spotify.com/show/0hS1UG…
Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcas…
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