Jackie Broon

PIF effectively own a big chunk of Chelsea through having billions invested in Chelsea's majority owner Clearlake Capital.

The ref must have seen that and judged it not to be in the moment. VAR shouldn't intervene unless it's a clear and obvious error, the issue for VAR would be whether Pope got a touch on the ball or not, there was an angle where it looked like he did and others where it looked like he didn't. They shouldn't have intervened because it wasn't clear and obvious whether he got the ball or not and when the ref reviewed it he wasn't shown the angle where it looked like Pope got something on the ball.

What a mental half of football! How many would we have if Isak hadn't forgot how to play football?!!

Shouve that up you fuckin' VAR!

Get in!

Fuck off, they didn't show the ref thr angle where you can see Pope gets something on the ball.

Maybe I got the wrong impression, I don't pay that much attention to them, but I saw plenty of Mun U fans online calling for Ten Hag's head this time last year. I know that doesn't necessarily represent the majority of the supporters.

I love that this is the guy the Man U fans have decided to blindly support after quickly turning on every manager since Ferguson

I thought Zirkzee looked good before his injury today, although he's been terrible every other time I've seen him.

It does seem to be the that they possibly turn the pitchside microphones down at St James', at other grounds they seem to pick up far more indavidual voices.

Yeah, loan the club £1bn, sell it to themselves, wipe off the debt and put £1bn profit in the accounts.

Love Bruno but I'm not sure whether this is really a positive stat. He often looks to draw fouls that don't really gain us anything and just break up our play, and about once a match or so he tries that, doesn't get the foul, and loses the ball in a dangerous area.

I should've tried to read the article before commenting, I assumed it was just about it being written off rather than actually recorded as profit, that seems dodgy as fuck if the PL have allowed it.

It's not a story at all, our ownrrs did the same writing off the debt that they bought along with the club from Ashley.

It was strongly rumoured but wasn't actually confirmed until their accounts were published.

It does have some appreciation among those who admire brutalism:

Aston Villa suggested that but it was voted down. Although, it would just be another thing that would give the big 6 an advantage over everyone else, because they usually qualify for Europe.

They've already been confirmed to have passed PSR for the period covered by the accounts just published.

For me they're in some ways worse than the big six. At least the big six are clubs with proper ambition and support. Those are clubs that but for their geographical location being attractive to players would be languishing in league one or below, while clubs in the north and midlands with proper premier league level support can't get a foothold in the PL.

I don't think there is anything wrong with that really, and the PL didn't actually go down that route. I think Man City would be happy for the PL to just duplicate UEFA's rules, they said something along those lines in their evidence in the APT case.

Value of assets and multiples of profit or turnover like any other buisiness would be. In terms of assets the world record fee for a womens team player is 900k and I don't and 20x turnover is a crazy value.

I don't think that means such transactions are excluded from the fair market value rules. Any transaction with associated parties or over £1m has to be assessed for fair market value.

It's more the issue of the PL not enforcing the rules in a fair and balanced way that's an issue. They are able to sell assets to other companies they own, fine, as you say, the rules allow that. But, the sale was clearly miles above fair market value, the rules if properly enforced can prevent that. The same goes for the management contract that allegedly lets them keep getting the profits from the hotel they sold. The PL seems to use the fair market value rules to restrict us, reducing the value of the Sela deal and possibly ASM's sale and who knows what else, yet just lets Chelsea get away with deals that patently aren't at fair market value.