13 Feb 2026 22:53:22
This is probably a daft question so bear with me. So we remain in financial difficulties and last year we managed to dodge a bullet by the club effectively selling the women's team to themselves.
My question is with the shirt sponsorship deal coming up for negotiation could the club not effectively do something similar this year by effectively sponsoring
itself?
Basically sell the rights for an over inflated price to one of your subsidiaries and make some of our financial worries disappear? You probably can't do this and even if you can it's at best practice but we need to find ways to remove the financial straight jacket that's being applied to clubs other than the big six?
14 Feb 2026 06:41:19
This would be great if we could wrangle it, I do think there are some restrictions though, I’d imagine it’s a bit like selling the stadium and the women’s team where we had to stick to market value. I do think we will have a juicy sponsorship deal if we can get top 5
14 Feb 2026 08:11:45
Like Whack said, any deal with related parties is subject to independent review. Man City failed with their bid to scrap that rule and I agree with the decision.