Premier League worried Brexit will harm league’s global popularity and damage competitive nature

[yorkie1999]

8 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

I thought there was a Politics etc thread - this seems to have gone down that route, and I could do without it.

Last throw of the dice init, tried to turn the country against brexit with boring stuff that no ones really interested in, now they’re picking on football.

[HighPeakFox]

22 minutes ago, yorkie1999 said:

Last throw of the dice init, tried to turn the country against brexit with boring stuff that no ones really interested in, now they’re picking on football.

I'm here for football, not your or anybody else's political opinion.

[Mr Mister]

Brexit is one of the great Tory follies that has ruined Britain. 

[Guest MattP]

20 minutes ago, Mr Mister said:

Brexit is one of the great Tory follies that has ruined Britain. 

Yet the leader of the Labour party voted against the Lisbon, Maastricht treaties and the common market.

 

That's sort of where your argument falls down.

Edited 5 September 2018 by MattP

[Dan]

I don't want Brexit to threaten the competitive nature of one team winning the league by JUST 19 points.

[Nickfosse]

7 hours ago, MattP said:

Yet the leader of the Labour party voted against the Lisbon, Maastricht treaties and the common market.

 

That's sort of where your argument falls down.

Not really, despite Corbyn’s dislike of Brussels, his party would never allow him to have held a referendum. 

As an expert political commentator such as yourself (and I mean that genuinely not sarcastically), you know as well as I do that the referendum was Cameron’s attempt to solve an internal Conservative party dispute that had dragged on for decades. 

 

Back to the football, honestly don’t think Brexit will make any substantial changes to football in this country except to Club administrators whose job will become slightly more complicated. 

[Voll Blau]

The problem is that I've read it's just going to entrench the top clubs because they'll be able to sign players who are already big names, as they'll get work permits, whereas we'd have been prohibited from signing the likes of Mahrez and Kante etc. Therefore it could actually make the league less competitive. Whether that's what actually happens is another matter, but it would be a great shame if that's how it turned out.

[sylofox]

Bit of a none debate atm as I see it. Until we get a solid cast iron plan from parliament no one knows what will happen. 

[ARTY_FOX]

They ruined the competitive nature by ensuring the top teams stay at the top a while go... 

[Strokes]

3 hours ago, Nickfosse said:

Not really, despite Corbyn’s dislike of Brussels, his party would never allow him to have held a referendum. 

As an expert political commentator such as yourself (and I mean that genuinely not sarcastically), you know as well as I do that the referendum was Cameron’s attempt to solve an internal Conservative party dispute that had dragged on for decades. 

 

Back to the football, honestly don’t think Brexit will make any substantial changes to football in this country except to Club administrators whose job will become slightly more complicated. 

Both labour and the Liberals Democrats have had referendums on EU treaties with in manifestos over the past two decades. To say it’s purely a Tory issue is fallacy.

[murphy]

1 hour ago, Voll Blau said:

The problem is that I've read it's just going to entrench the top clubs because they'll be able to sign players who are already big names, as they'll get work permits, whereas we'd have been prohibited from signing the likes of Mahrez and Kante etc. Therefore it could actually make the league less competitive. Whether that's what actually happens is another matter, but it would be a great shame if that's how it turned out.

But Mahrez is Algerian.  Does it mean that we didn't need a work permit because he came from a French club or does it just go on nationality?

 

We needed a work permit for Soyuncu (Turkish) despite coming from a German club.

 

 

 

Edit - I can answer my own question - Mahrez was born in France.  As you were.

Edited 6 September 2018 by murphy

[yorkie1999]

12 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

I'm here for football, not your or anybody else's political opinion.

Good Lad

[Ted Maul]

Absolute non-story, the least of our worries.

[Ian Nacho]

Just journalists making work for themselves.

[fuchsntf]

19 hours ago, davieG said:

That's their problem not mine.

If we moved threads because they changed from the original intent we'd  be moving a lot of topics. Should we merge those that get filled with puns to the joke thread?

gud on ya!!  Tell these unseeing,blind to indifference bullies,where to go...!!I

 

[TonyN11]

I can’t remember, what came first

the brexit vote or the greatest story ever told?

[TonyN11]

Or were they the same thing?

[TonyN11]

12 hours ago, Nickfosse said:

Not really, despite Corbyn’s dislike of Brussels, his party would never allow him to have held a referendum. 

As an expert political commentator such as yourself (and I mean that genuinely not sarcastically), you know as well as I do that the referendum was Cameron’s attempt to solve an internal Conservative party dispute that had dragged on for decades. 

 

Back to the football, honestly don’t think Brexit will make any substantial changes to football in this country except to Club administrators whose job will become slightly more complicated. 

Agreed, the TV companies have more influence

[GloverFox]

Complete and utter non-story ..... bring on the football, oh sorry but bloody Sky have nailed the UEFA Nations competition as well! ....  

[Wymsey]

More of a chance the top-six or so will form a breakaway league from the rest of the PL members in order to form their own potential tournaments etc, than Brexit likely to affect the PL massively.

 

Am some clubs could well 'bend around the rules', somehow, to avoid any complications with Brexit to get what they want.

Edited 7 September 2018 by Wymeswold fox

[gw_leics772]

On 05/09/2018 at 23:14, HighPeakFox said:

I'm here for football, not your or anybody else's political opinion.

Probably best to steer clear then chap.

As much as we would like it to, things don't fit neatly into little boxes. Everything needs to he viewed in context as I keep trying to tell my div of a business partner. This happened because of this, this and this. Not in isolation.

God what a random tangent I have taken.

 

You're welcome ?

Edited 7 September 2018 by gw_leics772
Mis spelt our Lord and saviour name ???

[Dan]

On 06/09/2018 at 11:21, murphy said:

But Mahrez is Algerian.  Does it mean that we didn't need a work permit because he came from a French club or does it just go on nationality?

 

We needed a work permit for Soyuncu (Turkish) despite coming from a German club.

 

 

 

Edit - I can answer my own question - Mahrez was born in France.  As you were.

It's a mix of both nationality (their FIFA ranking) and how many games they've played internationally in the last few years. Mahrez would probably struggle now as he didn't have the caps.

 

I do think they'll probably change the rules though. I think now the rule is you've got to play 75% of the last two years' games for an international side ranked 70th or above. That would rule a lot of players out, even your likes of Iborra.

[les-tah]

On 05/09/2018 at 14:52, murphy said:

Some journalists will do anything to portray Brexit as armagheddon.  How many African players are there in the PL?  Doesn't seem to stop them being signed.

 

Non story,

100% SCARE MONGERING.

[les-tah]

1 hour ago, Wymeswold fox said:

More of a chance the top-six or so will form a breakaway league from the rest of the PL members in order to form their own potential tournaments etc, than Brexit likely to affect the PL massively.

 

Am some clubs could well 'bend around the rules', somehow, to avoid any complications with Brexit to get what they want.

Then the champions league becomes non existent. Its in no ones best interest for this to happen.  

[HighPeakFox]

46 minutes ago, gw_leics772 said:

Probably best to steer clear then chap.

As much as we would like it to, things don't fit neatly into little boxes. Everything needs to he viewed in context as I keep trying to tell my div of a business partner. This happened because of this, this and this. Not in isolation.

God what a random tangent I have taken.

 

You're welcome ?

I know - I'm just resisting countering people weighing in with irrelevances about Brexit, because then that's derailing the topic further, which is rightly objected to.