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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 14/10/2026

He’s probably never going to give us an ‘8’, but if he can maintain ‘6.5-7.5’, that’s fine.

Performance review time for Nicholas!!

What a difference having a centre forward on the pitch makes…..

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Yes, but also, football should not be a contest to see who can spend the most. It should be to see who can build the best team in comparison with peers, operating within similar constraints.

The North Bank: An Arsenal Podcast @northbankpod.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

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I wonder why we need financial regulation? Probably Arteta's fault... or the Red Cartel... 🙄 Majority of clubs on edge of 'financial disaster' - regulator - www.bbc.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Independent regulator report says English football finances are 'dangerously exposed'

English football's finances are "dangerously exposed, with the majority of clubs living on the edge of financial disaster", a new report says.

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The rules were the same for everyone. So nobody had an advantage over anyone if they adhered to the rules.as I did apologise not surem hat your complaint is. Your central argument that a club who spent 15 years being raided by city and clawing its way back is in a cartel is still nonsense. Goodbye.

rules.as

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Like I said. I checked again and I was wrong. They were interest free. That was within the rules prevailing at the time.

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Just checked again, and you are right they were interest free. Of course the rules at the time allowed that.

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"Do you think he has the balls to call out the Arsenal owners on the £300 million in interest-free loans?" The loans were given at market interest rates and reported in all financial statements accordingly. Claiming they were interest-free is either idiotic or a lie.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Idiotic claims, easily disproven do not advance your case. They just make you easier to ignore.

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I wonder what the City greats of the 70's make of this. They had some truly magnificent players who earned their medals. Their memory too is tarnished.

Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

I have read that the auditors ahve claimed the numbers they were given misrepresented the facts. If thats the case, I would expect them to sue as well, if not, it looks like they too are complicit.

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Sue @sueafc.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The SFO and HMRC should be both conducting an investigation into the club and the auditors. It's been announced today that Deloitte's in Cyprus, Abrmavitch's auditors, cooked the books enabling him to hide his assets. I feel City's auditors must have been complicit.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

Thats a fair shout, but, like a lot of goals, that was one of a series of poor plays. Special mention must also go to the fact that the ball should never have got the far, and among those at fault for that was Rice.

Lewis @lgambrose.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

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NEW: Our brains create shortcuts, and those shortcuts are the only thing that stopped you from loving Noni Madueke on a day when he was Arsenal's most dangerous player:

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Priors

Knowing too much before kick-off means we see too little during the game

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Billy Carpenter @billycarpy.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

— Enzo offside for winner, unanimously ruled error by KMI — Bruno G denied pen (+ Maatsen second yellow), unanimously ruled error by KMI — Phantom pen against Konsa, unanimously ruled error by KMI — Gravenberch sent off for two soft yellows, 0:0 becomes 3:0 It's a lot so early in the season.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

These tnt AI graphics and analysis are pretty cool……..

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Wilful ignorance is pretty easy when you a paid to perform it.

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Nice !! Interspersed with a checkerboard booing scheme organised with the stadium screen just for an occasional change of pace? ‘Sections 10, 43, 68, Now upper tier, lower tier, east, west, all together!’ We could run competitions between stadiums….

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State sponsored snuff films. No words.

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State sponsored snuff films. What a world we have created.

Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Looking at a graph earlier it seems 1 in 8 pounds was paid by a sponsor the rest was illegal. Imagine the team that they assemble with 1/8th of the money.

Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Imagine the team they would have built if the had 1/8th the amount of money to spend, then tell me again about how they earned the trophies they won.....

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Trust the Process 👊🏻 This is a lovely announcement video from Arsenal 🔴⚪🥹

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Rohan Patel @gunnerohan.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

TH14 🤝🏽 PV4! ❤️🤍 What a sight to behold! 🥲

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

So in the last week alone I find he has been interfering with the rules again, presumably to help a mate for his vote, and from Rui Pinto that he is elbow deep in the Sham City CAS case. As bent as an angle iron.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I don't believe that. I have not been misled. At no point have I implied that the State of Israel has been driving out non-jews from within the borders of Israel. These are all assumptions on your part. As for the illegal settlements, the West Bank, and Gaza, those are different matters.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I think exactly the opposite.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Such as Catalans, Basques, Scots, Aboriginal peoples, Native Canadians, and Americans, etc. etc. Agreed. I don't see that argument actualised very often. I also don't see that it should come at the expense of others living there.

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Exactly, no one does for any of the examples i cited, her response was nonsense as I said. Good night.

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Quite the opposite Nick. This was the point I made to start with, a direct refutation of the claim I responded to. I’m not sure what you intended, but you intervened, not me. Enjoy the rest of your evening.

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What, to live alongside those they have displaced, sharing the space and its governance, or to violently displace them?

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I don’t know who you are, but the claim that I responded to was that a group lays claim to territory now based on their residence there in antiquity. I simply pointed out that virtually the whole world would be subject to the same claims by different peoples.

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Nonsense. The US and its citizens have no intention of returning all lands to the ancestral owners, anymore than anywhere else does. It’s nonsense and you know it.

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Now make the same case for indigenous Americans, Celtic Europeans, aboriginal Australians, Māori New Zealanders, and so on.

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Great shout. First in a field of ? , one ?

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still looking for a center forward though....

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No, I don't think so. By the way, the news out of Barcelona is interesting don't you think?

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Prashant 🌊 @prasshant.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

I fear not expelling them will. Who wants to play with cheats in a poison competition with dodgy finance, dogy refs, and now enforcment. Either they are thrown out, or the clean clubs should think hard about leaving.

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Gus Fring’s impact: 🍗 Built Los Pollos Hermanos into a success, creating jobs 🤝 Supported local law enforcement & community 📈 Generated millions 💵 🧹 Maintained some of the cleanest restaurant in America 🩺 Helped contributing Walter White's cancer treatment. Legacy bigger than a drug mafia.

Sheikh Mansour's impact on Britain and Manchester goes far beyond football:

Helped rescue Barclays during the financial crisis

Thousands of new homes in

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Major regeneration of East Manchester

Helped deliver the £365M Co-op Live

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New hotels and commercial developments

Thousands of jobs created

Bought City's first FA Cup trophy and

donated it to the National Football

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Transformed #ManCity into a global football powerhouse

A legacy far bigger than football.

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Doesn’t seem to mention that pillaging competitors like Villa, Spurs and us, helped them solidify their position. Further paying high prices meant that the top Echelon were even more expensive and therefore multiple buys were beyond any budget but theirs.

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Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 02/10/2026

Exclusive (if you didn't read last weekend's FT) 😉

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Markgpope @markgpope.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

And to test the accounting trail in the sponsoring companies that show the transaction. Going from 15m (subsidised in one year), to 85 m in the next year (without subsidy). Let’s see the books. I imagine the relevant tax authorities would like that too.