The Fenway group isn’t a state owned group ya dingus. It’s a privately owned company that started in American Sports and literally is nothing a Saudi country owning a club. Vastly different.

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Actually is was Sanchez bringing up the rear for the Jets.

You didn't quote a very important bit of info...

"nine years of litigation..."

Gonna have to wait for the Glazers to sell for that United investigation. Unless the Glazers are up to more bad shit than I’m aware of

One upside… Fan ownership for every club I guess!

Seriously, though, I will have to find out what their loopholes are here, because no one with the kind of money to own a PL club has not had an entity of theirs commit at least one human rights abuse.

They either wrote the rule to somehow make it impossible to connect owners to their nation, or I’m missing something.

You could make a good case that every US President in the last 30yrs has committed war crimes, then tie any political donations by owners to those committing the crimes.

I’m curious to see how deep they are willing to go.

My tax dollars are supporting British sports teams? I knew they were being siphoned into all sorts of American teams, but British ones too?

The US government doesn't own any teams. Massive difference between state officials/ministers/Royal family/wealth fund people and rich businessman from America.

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In this thread “MuH aMErICa”

I like America-bashing as no other when it comes to football but it’s a ridiculous statement in this context. The US government isn’t active in sportswashing.

[edit] and now in this thread: several Americans trying to convince me the US does do sportswashing because army and navy have sport teams. Dear Americans, of course I was talking within the context of the premier league. This thread is about that. I shouldn’t have to explain that but here we are.

Theyre not owned by countries lmao

Both clubs not owned by countries (or investment funds directly tied to countries leaders).

Looks like the UK Government. It's their law

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Name one team in the PL that the US government owns? I can name a couple teams that are owned by Arab/Middle Eastern governments. The owners of Fulham, Everton, and Villa are partially or fully middle eastern. BUT they're not part of the government so they don't get criticisms of the countries they were born in or represent.

Saying that you're X does not automatically mean that you're X. You saying that you're objective in this case is the equivalent of just... you know... lying? I mean, I know you morons tend not to care about lying these days, but did you have to make it so obvious? Be convincing for once in your pathetic life as a Kremlin mouthpiece lmfao

We got weights in fish!

Ted El Passo

This argument always falls so flat because your comparing private citizens of a country to literal sovereign wealth funds operated by the rulers of a state. The difference in the level of accountability for their respective governments atrocities should be obvious

Yeah, you're right, John Henry was the one who okay'd the invasion of Iraq and Kuwait. I've personally seen many congressional meetings where they discuss whether to play a 4-4-2 or a 4-3-1-2.

Pain

Patriots: You’re welcome

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Newcastle is owned directly by the government. The glazers, henry… aren’t in the US government

OK so I assume we will also be sanctioning American owned teams for their war crimes and OF COURSE this is not a pseudo racial vendetta against Arab owned teams...