This summer is surely all about getting behind Thomas Frank and letting him stamp his mark on Tottenham’s squad for next season. Yet despite commonsense being freely available here and in many other places, Comcast (Sky Sports) has opted to pursue a route to providing sports news in a deeply questionable manner.
The numbers speak for themselves. Pre-tax profits look like a car crash because people have a habit of voting with their money when it comes to broadcasters.
talkSPORT’s Jamie O’Hara is not a man to swerve reality, and his thoughts are surely what normal fans are thinking. He told TheBoyHotspur earlier today:
Morgan Gibbs-White should go to the PFA, he should sue Nottingham Forest, and he should refuse to train,.
I think Forest are a disgrace, the way they have dealt with the situation is disgusting.
He has signed a contract, and there’s a release clause of 60 million pounds in there. He knows it’s in there, his agent knows it’s in there, and Nottingham Forest know that it’s in there. He has agreed to that contract on those terms, whether he has become a better player at Forest that is worth more than 60 million, that’s on him.
Sky and others put their commercially bankrupting luxury belief values above reality, instead of calling out Evangelos Marinakis for what he is – a man who is way out of his depth.
Tottenham Hotspur are, whatever anyone might wish to project, a well-run business, and seeking to secure a better deal for Nottingham Forest simply isn’t a sound legal position.
As I have been saying for some while now, this ‘protest’ makes very little sense to those of us switched on in respect of business.
This situation is not as Sky and others would have you believe, it’s business, and it looks to all intents and purposes as if the once upon a time broadcaster is out of touch, yet again.