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Something not to cheer up you Arsenal fans - BBC Sport - Arsenal's Gervinho given three-game ban after red card
No.A good marketing plan from Etihad can justify all of that. The idea that there's a "market price" is a bit erroneous because in this case Etihad have signed up for a ten-year deal; they could quite justifiably say they are basing the price on future expectations of City's performance, which could mean the annual price will be at a discount to the market in the latter half of the deal. This is unlikely, but its not illegal and not unreasonable.
This is the problem UEFA has; it will be impossible to define market price for long-term deals, and sponsorship is one of the areas they don't really want to interfere with; tinkering with cost-side of football is one thing, but they want to maximise the attractiveness of football for sponorship because don't forget UEFA are in the "get juicy sponsors" game themselves.
No.
Shitty doesn't have Arsenal's EPL and European trackrecord.
Sponsorship deals of this size are in large part due to international pedigree, Arsenal has some of it City doesn't.
As for numbers that UEFA can look at to back that up: If Real or ManU ( the biggest names in Football) can show deals that are bigger than this, than the City deal might be considered fair.
If those clubs don't have any deal that bring in comparable cash ( or any other Club for that matter) than it's not a sponsorship deal but a big bag o'cash to buy succes with.
Replaced with another teenager, because that's been working thus far :|
Touchline ban (The Deebs' way)
Ban the manager from the ground
Assign a FiFa official to the manager as a shadow
For the duration of the match they are always within earshot and record everything
Send the recording to FiFa to analyse
(If manager wants a shit FiFa official goes with him etc)
This is a fucking farce. Arsehole Wanker is clearly communicating his wishes.
The whole rules around a touchline ban are shit, just ban the manager from the stadium full stop. Not being allowed into the dressing room until 15 minutes after the match???? wtf is all that abuot it's not like he can do anything when the full time whistle blows.
Shit rule and a shit ban, all because he questioned the fact Barca constantly get decisions no other club the the world get!!
Arsenal looked frail in defence last night, nerves?? god knows but they need to sharpen up fast.
Keeping from stadium = easy communication. Wont be the first time a manager stayed away from the stadium and then was on the phone the whole match. Just means they dont get the full overview and reliant on their staff for info.
Maybe it was a stupid ban to give, but when it is not abided by after given they need to enforce it else all managers will just do the same and wait till UEFA phone to stop them
Short of putting managers in a holding cell, there's no realistic way they're going to stop them communicating with the bench anyway. It's a stupid rule.
Keeping from stadium = easy communication. Wont be the first time a manager stayed away from the stadium and then was on the phone the whole match. Just means they dont get the full overview and reliant on their staff for info.
Maybe it was a stupid ban to give, but when it is not abided by after given they need to enforce it else all managers will just do the same and wait till UEFA phone to stop them
All managers do it already UEFA should just call it the touchline ban that it is. Unless you strip search the manager then sit him in a sound proof room he will always be able to pass information on. And Wenger is far from the first to use an assistant to make changes but people like bitching about him so that's why there is all this fuss.
Sigh, read my post. Assign an official to shadow the manager for the duration of the match. Problem solved.