Kimbo

The 30 point deduction if they sign up to something like this again interests me, because the original threat was expulsion from the premier league. So have they just negotiated themselves into a position where they can be in both leagues? £20m and 30 points would be fuck all compared to the upside.

There will be no energy from the broadcasters either. They went from "Disgusting! Worst thing to ever happen! Football genocide!" to business as usual in the space of about 2 weeks. Maybe Neville will have a whine somewhere, but that's it.

Fines are ok with me as long as they’re big enough to cause serious discomfort. These fines probably won’t be big enough to buy half an Emil Krafth. None of them will be calling off their transfers of Kane, Haaland, Sancho, or whoever.

At some point I expect Zaha's stance to be the dominant one. I wouldn't be surprised if it was widespread already but players don't want the attention that comes with stopping it.

Have these Romanians got a bet on England winning or something.

Alex Bruce will report you to talksport for that.

Southgate does come across well. I could picture him storming the interview process for a middle management job in the civil service.

Stupid move from him, a better job will pop up soon enough.

They should save themselves the embarrassment.

I was hoping Lampard would powerbomb them into the championship tbh.

Surprising one tbh. I suppose he must be desperate to stay in the PL.

Old firm fans never got their head around the order of things in modern football. They’re “big clubs” with a big history that have found themselves in a minnow league, just like Red Star Belgrade and many other clubs around Europe. I expect they see themselves as above clubs like that.

I wish we could hound them out.

Warms my heart that Fergie was there to witness the defeat.

If I had a favourite Spanish club it would be Villarreal. They seem like a proper club, with a great little stadium, and nice looking shirts.

Get in and fuck off

Well if he gets sacked he gets sacked, but I don't see why he would want to leave as a failure to go to a club that's a step down.

Going from PSG to Spurs would be absurd, especially with him just arriving. He should have a full season at PSG and get a couple of trophies under his belt, then move on to another top club in one of the top leagues. Spurs would be a bizarre backward step.

The amount of grief he gets for not winning trophies at Spurs is a joke. It’s Spurs. They have 2 league titles in their entire history, they have never been an elite club, regardless of what narrative the broadcasters want to push on us. If he fails to win things at PSG then that would be a big deal.

These Bruce’s are too thin skinned for top level sport, they should step away for their own good. How are they going to cope with fans in the stadium?

Really hope Fulham don’t get promoted next year, they’re utter garbage and gave up ages ago.

This was a silver lining on what has been possibly the least interesting or enjoyable season in my lifetime. Thanks Sunderland.

Werner why even bother celebrating that

We’ve gone from talking about big fines for the ESL 6, to “it’s not nice to punish them”, to talking about them competing for a new 100-150m striker. Shit sport.