Premier League 23/24 Thread
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I saw bits of it on a phone at a BBQ. It looked like the typical Real game in a CL, they get out played, the other team dont take their chances and Real get two chances and score.
Much as we call Arsenal "lucky", Real in the CL is an entirely different league of luck.
Yer boy from Dortmund scores that one on one, the shot that hits the post goes in and it's a totally different game. City score any of the 27 chances they missed in the quarter final and Real lose. Courtious doesn't have the game of his life and save more shots than any keeper in CL/Euorpean cup final history and Real lose the last final to Pool. Ramos doesn't dislocate Salah's shoulder, Karius doesn't get concussed, and who knows what happens in the first Pool Real final. Ramos doesn't equalise in the 96th minute against Atleti and Real sure as **** lose. Etc., etc., etc.
When their luck turns they won't win a game for 20 years, and I'll love every second of it.
Ohhh and the last manager to beat Real in a European final?
A young Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen!
Much as we call Arsenal "lucky", Real in the CL is an entirely different league of luck.
Yer boy from Dortmund scores that one on one, the shot that hits the post goes in and it's a totally different game. City score any of the 27 chances they missed in the quarter final and Real lose. Courtious doesn't have the game of his life and save more shots than any keeper in CL/Euorpean cup final history and Real lose the last final to Pool. Ramos doesn't dislocate Salah's shoulder, Karius doesn't get concussed, and who knows what happens in the first Pool Real final. Ramos doesn't equalise in the 96th minute against Atleti and Real sure as **** lose. Etc., etc., etc.
When their luck turns they won't win a game for 20 years, and I'll love every second of it.
Ohhh and the last manager to beat Real in a European final?
A young Alex Ferguson at Aberdeen!
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Yeap Cup' Winners' Cup final 1983!
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Man City fighting against the "tyranny of the majority"
Bless their little cotton socks, the plucky underdogs are taking a stance against the tyrants
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...against-premier-league-over-sponsorship-rules
Bless their little cotton socks, the plucky underdogs are taking a stance against the tyrants
https://www.theguardian.com/footbal...against-premier-league-over-sponsorship-rules
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There basically admitting that they've cheated but don't agree with the rules they've broken. Best form of defence is attack.
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It's purely coincidence that the club that definitely hasn't broken the rules, 115 times, sues claiming the rules aren't fair. And that the club that had won 6 of the last 7 PL's sues saying the rules have disadvantaged them.
I saw someone say that you only do stuff like that if you know the punishment for the 115 charges is going to be bloody severe. I hope they are right, and City lose the case and are ****** down to the regional leagues and stripped of every title, trophy and Pound of prize money.
I saw someone say that you only do stuff like that if you know the punishment for the 115 charges is going to be bloody severe. I hope they are right, and City lose the case and are ****** down to the regional leagues and stripped of every title, trophy and Pound of prize money.
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Man City's revenue in 2008 was £21 million, last set of accounts showed a revenue of £720 million……that's some growth in 16 years.
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Don't be ridiculous- did you not read the article, they're simply the Everyman, the oppressed, the minnows
Chelsea sign Kellyman from Villa for 19m. A player who has played six times for Villa and came through their youth system.
Villa sign Maatsen from Chelsea for 35m. Another player, who very coincidentally came through Chelsea's youth system.
Both deals go through days before the deadline.
It's really weird because both players fees go down a pure profit in this year's accounts and the fees get written off ("Amortised" to used the accounting term) over (normally the length of the contract but as Kellyman signed a 6yr deal, it's the maximum allowed by the PL now, ie….) five years. It's ALMOST as if both clubs had problems complying with FFP this yr and with the deadline being Sunday night, they agreed to sell each other a youth team product player they didn't need/want at inflated prices. Thus allowing both to book a large 'profit' in this years' accounts and offset the cost over 5yrs.
Add in Chelsea "selling" their hotels to a company owned by their owners and very conveniently including an ongoing "management fee"….which DEFINITELY wont be for exactly the same amount as the hotels used to make in profit (or possibly more thus allowing the owners to report the hotels as loss making for tax purposes) it's almost as if clubs are taking the utter piss and using any and every trick in the book to get round FFP.
Watch the PL come down on them like a tonne of briiiii……ooohhh, wait. There's more chance of me winning Miss World than those useless fuckers doing anything
Villa sign Maatsen from Chelsea for 35m. Another player, who very coincidentally came through Chelsea's youth system.
Both deals go through days before the deadline.
It's really weird because both players fees go down a pure profit in this year's accounts and the fees get written off ("Amortised" to used the accounting term) over (normally the length of the contract but as Kellyman signed a 6yr deal, it's the maximum allowed by the PL now, ie….) five years. It's ALMOST as if both clubs had problems complying with FFP this yr and with the deadline being Sunday night, they agreed to sell each other a youth team product player they didn't need/want at inflated prices. Thus allowing both to book a large 'profit' in this years' accounts and offset the cost over 5yrs.
Add in Chelsea "selling" their hotels to a company owned by their owners and very conveniently including an ongoing "management fee"….which DEFINITELY wont be for exactly the same amount as the hotels used to make in profit (or possibly more thus allowing the owners to report the hotels as loss making for tax purposes) it's almost as if clubs are taking the utter piss and using any and every trick in the book to get round FFP.
Watch the PL come down on them like a tonne of briiiii……ooohhh, wait. There's more chance of me winning Miss World than those useless fuckers doing anything
It's the bare-faced way Chelsea do all of this, that really tops this off. Awful club, cheating their way around everything. Very disappointing to see a club like Villa joining in with this. Good that the other clubs are starting to pipe up about this...
Agreed. Chelsea are owned by a crowd who made their money in Private Equity (PE) and what they are doing now is straight out of the PE play book. My money is on them using every trick in the book and then in 3 or 4 years time when all the **** is about to hit the fan they will list Chelsea on the stock market, after tarting them up to make them look appealing, and then leave all the mugs who buy shares (probably Chelsea fans) to eat the huge **** sandwich that club will be.
I will have no sympathy with Chelsea fans, they are a hateful horrible shower, but I don't like to see PE boys get away with **** like that time and time again. They, PE, are the evil side of capitalism.
I will have no sympathy with Chelsea fans, they are a hateful horrible shower, but I don't like to see PE boys get away with **** like that time and time again. They, PE, are the evil side of capitalism.
