Tashyboy
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Will be interesting with UEFA now that two red Bull owned teams have qualified for the Champs league. Watching this one with great interest.
UEFA and Red Bull
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ColchesterFC
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"RB Leipzig are also run by Red Bull, but German football rules prohibit a club from having a sponsor in their name."
Surprised the BBC didn't clarify that by saying apart from Bayer Leverkusen, born from the blue collar workers of pharmaceutical company Bayer.
Hosel Fade
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Its an awkward one because of the really really awkward way Leipzig are structured to comply with German league licensing.
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guest100718
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then you'd have to mention PSV too.....and others I'm sure.
Blue in Munich
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I'm sure that as long as the envelope is large enough, UEFA won't have a problem with it.
Bunkermagnet
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Uefa will have to disallow the entry of the lower placed team, so only 1 Red Bull owned team can enter. Those are Red Bulls rules, and strictly enforced..up till now anyway. To change the ruling now would have very serious implications.
BristolMike
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They've got around it so they will both play. It's not actually the ownership that's the problem, it's the influence. I believe last season the board were the same across the 2 teams but they restructured everything and it passed the UEFA test. Not 100% sure on that but pretty sure.
Fofa ruoes state it is ownership regulations.
So ther board issue is irrelevant. Now being UEFA I'm sure they can fudge something. But the current rules should stop both playing.
Bunkermagnet
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You can't have more than 1 team from an owner in the same competition, and the rules state that if 2 teams with the same owner who are eligible for the same comp, the lower qualifying team must forgo their place in the comp. They have been very strict on such rules thus far, and to buckle now would be opening a whole minefield to play on.
larmen
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They did something about it in the German Kicker Magazine
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...g-und-die-uefa-zulassung_der-faktencheck.html
It basically says that Red Bull forfeit ownership of Red Bull Salzburg and it is 'only' the main sponsor now. Therefore they are different. The bigger worry is the financial fair play rule which Leipzig would not be following.
http://www.kicker.de/news/fussball/...g-und-die-uefa-zulassung_der-faktencheck.html
It basically says that Red Bull forfeit ownership of Red Bull Salzburg and it is 'only' the main sponsor now. Therefore they are different. The bigger worry is the financial fair play rule which Leipzig would not be following.
Tashyboy
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well city and a few others fell foul of that and it was big news. What was not big. News was that City got £30 million back for adhering to fair play.
Pin. It really sure what message it sends tbh.
You (any club) break the rules so get fined.
You then hen behave like you should and get given a massive chunk of Money which in theory you can spend on transfers as it's added to your profit. All seems like a weak form of ponishment to me.
