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Obviously I have no idea about the specifics of football accounting and FFP of both uefa and PL varieties, but the whole thing just smells like books cookin to me. Maybe the classic Loan with a mandatory future fee no longer met some classification that allowed clubs to defer the date of spend, so instead they put in a clause that will absolutely get met no matter what. There is no reason other than creative accounting to put in such an inevitable clause imo.

Chiesa just did the ol smash it off the bar then onto the post. No idea how it didn’t go in.

I know a guy who knows a guy who owns the domain, if anyone has any creative ideas for it

Ayeee. “The FIFA Council confirmed that, in line with the long standing tradition of having all hosts competing at the FIFA World Cup, as well as sporting and operational considerations, the hosts of the FIFA World Cup 2026, namely Canada, Mexico and the USA, will qualify automatically for the final round of the competition, with their slots therefore being deducted from the overall allocation of six assigned to CONCACAF,” it said. “Details will follow in due course regarding the preliminary competitions in all confederations for the FIFA World Cup 2026.”

I think they already confirmed CONCACAF will get more teams in 2026. 6 in total I believe. 3 auto 3 via qualifiers.

Only just saw this! time to get me suit measured. (this is about the only chance I'd have of getting a ticket like, given there's just no way for non-local fans to get one without paying some daft scalper prices)

Maybe. The owner did just give away the company to a trust with the entire purpose of combating climate change, so you'd think they'd have some level of backbone. Not sure where they sit on murderous regimes/sports washing mind. Isn't mentioned on their website.

Somethings tells me that we wouldn't be very high up on Patagonia's list of potential collaborators.

They're pretty blaahhhh... but the lack of FUN88 immediately puts them a step above most everything else they're hawking.

This puppy is discounted right now if anyone is in the market:

Napoli love a shit “special” kit like. Think they make about ten of them a year.

poidh

aye i was scared to say anything because everyone was saying he was class thought he lost the ball more today than in any other match.

Absolutely. The first thing he said upon being announced was "There is quality in this squad. But we have to make them shine. That's the job of me and my staff", immediately discussing getting the best out of the squad and not a word about "doing business" or anything to that effect. There was no chance he was getting any signings of note.

this. They were time-wasting / giving Murphy another opportunity to take the piss. Can't be many games where two subs got subbed. Discman, check the history books.

I'm all for people taking advantage of their mental behaviour, but why do we think they'd be desperate to shift players anyway? They've obviously got a creative accountancy plan in place already, and don't seem to care that much about money. I guess they can't register them all, but I doubt they'll care about letting a few Ross Barkley types rot in the reserves.

Not entirely sure they need much help going off the evidence so far. Be canny if they spend half a billion and the team gets worse.

Never mind its fucked for me either way.

That's an exiting twitter embed issue. If you click through to the tweet, it'll play in its entirety.

Followed by... "remind me how that move worked out" ... reasonably well ?

He's a tall, young, energetic shithouse who knows how to win free kicks and roll on the ground. He's basically the prototype for what Eddie is turning the team into. Sounds like he can't finish for toffee either, so he'll fit in perfectly.

idk.. if I was him I'd have immediately whipped out my best Shearer impression. Fuck not celebrating. It's not like it was his decision to leave. He didn't pull a filthy Gordon, we wanted him to go.

"Steve Bruce joins Neil Warnock as he talks about the end of his time at Newcastle as manager, how he recommended Eddie Howe as his replacement and the negative side of social media." Yorkie if this affects my YouTube algorithms permanently I will hunt you down.

We're only a couple of injuries away from Matt Ritchie's reanimated corpse getting a game. Depth might not take us to the next level, but the level we've made it to right now is about 10 levels higher than most people expected at the start of the season. And I think if we want to maintain that level, we neeeeeed depth.

He had that one nice low cross to the back post and nee fucker was there. Deserved a goal. Not a big fan of SL, but he's been part of the team that has been performing way above expectations, and his shite finishing is certainly not a unique trait amongst our midfielders, going off last night.