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Have to hope he gets a couple more signings in this month, this season goes reasonably well, and sometime in the next 10 months Ashley finds a buyer. It's probably the only scenario where this could end well.

That would be miserable. Window should open June 1 (or maybe even a week or two earlier depending on the year) and close July 31 everywhere. Maybe in a WC year it goes back a week, but really it doesn't matter. Only four countries really play into mid-July, technology removes any barriers that maybe used to exist, and medicals can happen anywhere. It would be great for new seasons to start with settled squads.

Fenerbahçe'de transfer operation is running. Yellow-dark blue officials go to Madrid this morning. Managers are expected to meet for a Lucas Perez transfer. Fenerbahce continues to work to make reinforcements for the staff. General Secretary and Press Spokesman Mahmut Uslu and Administrative Manager Hasan Çetinkaya will go to Madrid in the morning to negotiate. Managers are expected to meet with Arsenal's Lucas Perez. The negotiations between Yellow Lacivertliler and Perez were continuing.

In the 90s it was not easy to follow English football from the US, especially as a child who couldn't go to bars and without a satellite subscription. The New York Times used to list the results a day or two later and my grandma would send me clippings in the mail from UK papers. I think there was some soccer channel on AOL too, but Soccernet.com (which was acquired by ESPN and is now espnfc.com) was a miracle. Suddenly there was news and scores and tables whenever I wanted. Here it is in the wayback machine: https://web.archive.org/web/19990429031910/http://www.soccernet.com:80/english/nufc/index.html When my grandparents used to visit, my grandpa (who has never used a computer in his life) was amazed I could look up the scores without teletext. "How'd Rotherham do? ... what about United (Sheffield)? ... Wednesday? ... Barnsley?" and on it went. I loved breaking the news to him.

This would be spectacular news. Have been calling for this for ages. Don't think it could ever just be a PL or England thing though. Would need to be handled by UEFA or FIFA in reality. Edit: the only news article I can find is Pulis complaining about the transfer window and saying this should be the case.

TVG are a decent regional outlet. Not sure how they might know that, though.

Good luck with that.

Should have seen the state of these draft sites a couple years ago. Our league uses Togga now, better than the official site for draft format.

This is what I'm expecting. Followed by optimism heading into Huddersfield, at which point we'll come crashing down to earth / into crisis.

You can specify which one to use. But that would be expecting them to have a competent setup.

It's about the sitter he missed against Villa two seasons ago.

As time goes on the true meaning of this quote is becoming clearer and it's pretty grim.

My impression of Adrian is he was decent a couple years ago and has declined. That's probably mostly informed by fantasy stats though. Maybe Bilic just doesn't rate him?

He needs to do something to make up for this... http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/siem-de-jong-admits-miss-10629748

As someone who watches American sports, i'm against Salary caps mainly because the money would go to the owners instead of the players. However if possible i wouldn't be against some sort of cap on transfer fees. The big clubs would never agree to it though. IMO level playing field is much more important to a fan than whether it's the owners or players getting the money. That said it will never happen in football outside the US. Sad. Nothing sad about it. Players in sports with a wage cap are being exploited. I would limit the number of players a club can have on its books over a certain age. Players registered, club is allowed to have a small quota outside of that. Any other player should be allowed to transfer clubs - with the buying club only having to fork up 80% of remaining contract as a transfer fee. And limit buy-back clauses to 12 months. Making it simply a glorified loan with potential mutual benefits. It depends on the wage cap. Mediocre NBA players make big money and very few in the NBA are suffering. But the best players would probably earn more right? As far as I understand that wage cap is influenced by a teams revenue, or not? The league's revenue, which is why the NBA salary cap went through the roof after the latest national TV contracts. A team can go over the cap though, they just have to pay a luxury tax. This is where big market teams (NY (), LA, Miami, etc. have an advantage because they have higher local revenues, although this is becoming less of a factor the same way gate receipts have become largely inconsequential to Premier League clubs. The number one priority should be banning intra-league loans and also putting a cap on the number of players a club can have on loan. This would help prevent both the Chelsea scenario and feeder clubs in other countries.

Not sure about the official site, but usually one person each week plays a fake team that gets the average of all the other players scores. The better answer to this is don't have an odd number.

It's really only the NFL that's like that. The other major sports have guaranteed contracts. Here's an extreme example of this going bad, courtesy of the New York Mets: Every July 1 he cashes another check. Is it true the talk I heard while I lived in NY that the Mets took that awful deal because the owner had invested all his money on Madoff's scheme? Yup, he thought he was getting like 10% on all his investments with Madoff, which would have outpaced the interest owed to Bonilla. All things considered it may be the worst financial deal in the history of sports.

It's really only the NFL that's like that. The other major sports have guaranteed contracts. Here's an extreme example of this going bad, courtesy of the New York Mets: Every July 1 he cashes another check.

Ridiculous that Liverpool paid 8.5m for Coutinho in 2013. Now might sell him for 90-100m.

Goalkeepers are still very affordable, despite the crazy market. Absolutely no reason to not get someone significantly better than what we have.

I've been running a draft league for a couple years now. We run the draft through a FB group. Generally takes about 5 days because we have people in 4 different time zones. Really fun though - glad it's catching on.

Almost seems too good to be true. We've added him without eating into the budget (as much, as wages will still count). We'll have a lot more money next summer (provided we stay up) so he'll be little more than a rounding error by then.

Totally on board with the "never seen him, never heard of him, but extremely excited about this signing" group. And really everyone should be since, if nothing else, it appears Rafa wanted him and Rafa got him.

This is what it says on the Chronicle site...