Get rid of glazers and all the other blood sucking leeches from the game. The PL/FA won't get a better opportunity because its in there own interest and most of the fans will be agreeable with the decision.
The Premier League/FA should kick out all the billionaire owners
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Good idea. They totally won't be sued to death if they tried doing that.
Do we ask them nicely to leave?
The government can use its sovereign powers and nationalise the clubs and then release them immediately after.
The OP's sentiment is silly but the rule about a minimum level of fan ownership from Germany is a good one and should be adopted in the UK.
Just get rid of all the American owners. They are the ones in charge of this.
Clubs in Germany can only be 49% owned by commercial investors. I wish we had the same.
Americans are taking over Britain, just accept this fate.
Samid you old dog you. You know we'd fecking overrun this place. You twats did before, how hard could it be?
It works for them. But you can’t retrospectively impose this on businesses.
Yes you can, if government get involved they can basically do whatever they please. I don't know where this idea seems to have come from that businesses are somehow all powerful.
no UK government would do this. Technically it’s possible, of course, but there’s zero chance of it happening in reality. Ergo my definitive statement.
Yes... yes!
Wait, so the government would buy the clubs at going rate, then immediately give them away?
There's a reason clubs are owned by billionaires - because they are worth hundreds of millions.
I can only imagine there's a misunderstanding of basic economics here
Yeah let's do that.. Ring up Putin and ask him how he would do this..
Nationalization refers to the action of a government taking control of a company or industry, which generally occurs without compensation for the loss of the net worth of seized assets and potential income. The action may be the result of a nation's attempt to consolidate power, resentment of foreign ownership of industries representing significant importance to local economies or to prop up failing industries.
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/n/nationalization.asp
Again, basic economics. It is illegal in the EU and UK to "confiscate" property that is legally owned without sufficient reason.
In short, your copy and paste response is nonsense. You can't just "nationalise'" things for free, or else the government would be sued heavily and for good reason.
This is the UK, not the Soviet Union.
I fully support this, comrade. Leicester's would most likely have to go too
The main person behind this, and first President of the ESL is Perez he’s not the owner of Real Madrid just the president who seems to have been there forever
Just because politicians arse lick big corporations doesn't mean governments are powerless. The government can tomorrow pass a law in parliament banning foreign ownership in football and the club owners can't do shit about it. Nationalization is recognized by international law aswell. Sufficient reason is that it is "public purpose". Check the following link and learn what powers governments have:
In May 2019, Labour announced its detailed plan to nationalise electricity and gas transmission and distribution companies. The plan, entitled “Bringing Energy Home”, provides that the nationalisation would be effected by an Act of Parliament with a two-step process: (i) the assets are transferred into public ownership; and (ii) provision is made for compensating the former owners through a bond issuance by the Treasury. Labour has previously stated that the compensation should relate to the book value of the companies, but in Bringing Energy Home, it explicitly stated that the level of compensation should be decided by Parliament.
Article 1 of Protocol 1 to the ECHR (incorporated into English law under the Human Rights Act 1998), which affords individuals and companies the right to peaceful enjoyment of their possessions. Under the Article, the UK would have the right to nationalise assets, but only insofar as this is “in the public interest and subject to the conditions provided for by law and by the general principles of international law”. While these principles give Member States a wide margin of appreciation as to what constitutes “in the public interest” so as to allow for nationalisation, these principles also provide a right to reasonable compensation for affected parties. Previous case law provides that:
• Compensation must be of an amount reasonably related to the value of the property.
• Compensation does not necessarily entail the full market value of the property if the legitimate objective of the public interest justifies less than full reimbursement
• The valuation method for calculating compensation must be “manifestly reasonable”, although in practice the European Court of Human Rights (“ECtHR”) has granted national authorities wide discretion in this area and will generally respect their approach unless it is “manifestly without reasonable foundation”
As far as UK not being Soviet Union is concerned, you should read up on pre & post war nationalisation of various industries by the british government through various acts of parliament where private businesses were taken over for a pittance in "public interest". Power of a government is the same everywhere whether it is the UK, Soviet Union or Timbuktu.
Agree. Historical English clubs being bought by imposters that don't even know how offside works that are now planning to destroy our league and our clubs history is fecking unacceptable.
It would be great if they did but it will never happen. It would have been much easier to not allow foreign billionaires and Oil states to buy English football clubs in the first place but the PL and FA didn't give a feck. This has been inevitable for about 20 years. They allowed them in so they shouldn't be surprised that they want to completely change English football.
The FA or the PL can’t. At best this is a political topic and I don’t know if it’s really possible.
Haha what?
They are privately owned companies, what the feck are you on about?
Luckily, the courts would say the government to feck themselves, and then government would need to pay fess to those clubs.
Clubs are private businesses, not nuclear weapons that endanger the security of the country. There are thousands of clubs in England, if 6 want to leave, they will leave and the government can do feck all about it.
It´s really something to see Boris Johnson advocate that clubs shouldn´t break from their partnering organizations because they aren´t happy with their deal..
Hmm, RB Leipzig, something.
Even if this was possible, not a chance in hell it happens. Have you even considered the damage to a country's reputation a move like this will cause? It would far, far outweigh any gain of keeping 6 football clubs.
Nationalising the premier league would cost about 10-15 billion and you'd end up with a farcical situations like United still owing 400mil on bank loans used to purchase itself, while being nolonger owned by the people that walked away with 3billion.
Everybody thinks the PL are opposing this out of the goodness of their hearts 
They're just pissed off there won't be as much money for them. They want the billionaires. They just want them in their own league.
They're just pissed off there won't be as much money for them. They want the billionaires. They just want them in their own league.
Leipzig have basically created the rule but that just means it isn't perfect, not that it isn't still a good idea.
Governments won't do a thing. If they threatened to, current moral victors Chelsea and City will be the first to get back onto the ESL bandwagon.
Same with the governmentsEverybody thinks the PL are opposing this out of the goodness of their hearts
They're just pissed off there won't be as much money for them. They want the billionaires. They just want them in their own league.
Yeah UK gov are reliant on American businesses and also America, they will not do anything to harm this.
I hope Roman Abrahamovic and sheik mansour does not fall into the category of leeches.
They have done more for the clubs than they have gotten back.
The last thing we want is an era of Manchester United dominance unchallenged.