Jackie Broon

No, because they have massive revenues, and selling players to create headroom will only really work for a club, like us, where revenues are going to increase significantly over the following 5 years.

There hasn't been any suggestion of them doing it in relation to FFP though, only in relation to preventing English clubs playing in the ESL. Obviously they could, but there would be unlikely to be the same level of public political pressure to legislate to keep FFP in place if it were to be successfully challenged. Also, if there were a successful challenge here it would need to be repeated in the european court to completely free top clubs from FFP.

I doubt they see it as an either/or, even when we looked more likely than not to go down the chairman came for a first round FA cup tie against Cambridge. He was apparently furious and went into the dressing room to speak to the squad when we lost. They're not Ashley, they won't be thinking that us going out of the cup will help is in the league.

I think they will but because it is our last opportunity to compete for something this season rather than it being the mackems. Yasir turned up for Cambridge, they take the cups very seriously.

It might be 115 instances of payments being hidden, as in the Etihad situation, there may also be multiple charges relating the same breach, for example both for hiding the payments and the breach of FFP if income hadn't been inflated. Ultimately ut wss likely to be all about getting around FFP. These aren't criminal charges, it's not alleged that they broke the law, it would all have about being able to spend more within FFP, there would have been no other reasob for them to do it.

If they did what is alleged it would have been to inflate their income to allow them to spend more under FFP.

City absolutely are being done for FFP, they are not accused of doing anything illegal only of breaching the PL's rules relating to FFP.

Possibility but the there were signs of gaps in our midfield in terms of creativity and defense right from the start of the season, even against Villa but particularly Brighton and Liverpool.

Maybe he was affected by the off the pitch stuff but there were a lot of questions about Tonali's performances before he was suspended. There were also signs of similar issues with teams waltzing through our midfield with ease before we were beset with injuries and fatigue.

I think the plan is to rotate our wide players, taking advantage of the 5 subs for them to run themselves into the ground for 45-60 minutes and then bring fresh legs on.

IIRC they had about three clear chances on the break in the first 35 mins where they waltzed through us far too easily. We had more of the ball but the signs were there.

I think FFP will probably be challenged on that basis soon, but I doubt we'll be the ones do do it, it'll probably by one or all of Man City, Everton and/or Chelsea.

It doesn't apply to offsides.

I'm picturing various Father Larry Duff esque outcomes from that situation.

Yeah, no chance he'll be going out on loan, particularly given that his age and homegrown status mean he doesn't take up a squat slot.

Obviously I would have prefered us to win, but for me 3rd place and getting into the Europa League, which we could conceivably win and is another potential route to CL qualification, is the ideal outcome and this draw sets us up nicely for that.

Yeah, it's clearly a culture thing, I don't think they're buying bad players but they're not a team, just a group of very talented individuals. A squad can afford some of those personalities if everyone else is pulling together around them, but it's a critical mass thing, once it gets past a certain point the squad becomes much less than the sum of its parts. I think if you put any of those players in our squad they'd look worth their price tag.

Also, a rapist is hardly going to be put off going into that female toilet because that's against the law. I'd imagine that the chances of a trans woman being raped in a men's toilet are far higher (even accounting for the significantly higher risk of sexual violence and murder trans people are at anyway).

How coukd you miss out Alan Sheba.

Liverpool have just got lucky against us in matches where we've been the bettwer side.

Dortmund have our number more than any other team since Eddie took over. We're not getting anything from this.

Trippier can't play LB the same way we set up with Burn, which is effectively a back three when Trippier drives forward. I don't think Tino could do the same job as Burn so we would have to set up a bit differently if we do play with Tino right and Trippier left.

Aye, if something has to be looked at for 4 minutes, and is still being debated both ways, it can't possibly be 'clear and obvious'.

Love Eddie but that was really poor game management by him, it was clear as day that we needed some fresh legs in the second half. I thought Trippier in particular looked very fatigued and sloppy, he had one of his worst games for us, why not give Tino 30 minutes?