Jackie Broon

It's a bit concerning if a striker as back-up for Wilson wasn't already part of their plans.

But we've also seen how he can go missing in a relegation battle.

Allardyce made his own bed here, he signed players with a scattergun approac and squandered a decent start by not settling on first 11, which ended up sucking all confidence out of the team. His fate was 100% on him and deserved.

There are similar FFP rules for UEFA competitions as well.

Yes, but the principle is probably the same, it restricts competition in the same way, more blatantly with these new rules.

Yeah, this article I posted the other day concludes that FFP rules are probably doomed under competition law challenge unless they add in some kind of allowance for clubs to bridge the financial gap to the current top clubs, which the PL rules basically do the opposite of. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441056.2021.1935570

Separation from the state and (or to be more precise the definition of 'control' in the PL's rules) is completely different to this, the PL have basically written the definition of an 'associated party' so that it will definitely catch any other KSA owned businesses. This part in particular: "A Person is also associated with a Club if any of the following conditions apply: (b) The Person and the Club are directly or indirectly controlled, jointly controlled, or Materially Influenced by the same government, public or state-funded body or by the same party". I'm sure it is probably challengeable, but I doubt it would be on the basis that Ziegler suggests.

Transfer fees are amortised over the length of a player's contract rather than being shown in the accounts as a lump sum when the transfer is made. Looking at their accounts Everton will be hamstrung by FFP for a while yet.

Yeah, with this new interpretation of a foul they've basically created a new sport, a bastardised marriage of football and rugby.

But he was in a position to have pressured Cancelo, possibly nicked the ball off him with the keeper stranded or at least forced a corner. Their explanation seems to be misapplying the assessment of whether it is a sending off offence for denying an obvious goal scoring opportunity to whether it is a foul.

But he has absolutely no track record of being able to organise a defence with any team. I know a few Burnley fans and they are scathing of his ability to organise a team defensively.

"We conceded a poor second goal, there were some contentious moment, the Ryan Fraser incident was a baffling one and unsure how it is not a penalty. I am not too sure what happened with VAR and the referee, the goalkeeper wipes out Ryan and it is a stonewaller, a clear penalty."

A lot of those individual brain-dead moments have been from players who he has picked over better alternatives.

Doesn't make sense and if Fraser hadn't have been taken out he could've pressurised Cancelo.

The only decision to make there is whether or not to send the keeper off (not obviously). I just can't fathom how they could look at that and not give a penalty.

Needs to be a fraud squad investigation into the use of VAR like, there's clearly some match fixing in favour of the big 6 going on.

Our squad is shit, but Bruce managed to keep us up with them last season. Benefit of the doubt still but starting to have serious concerns about Howe's decision making and managerial ability.

It wouldn't be strange, it would be the most Newcastle United thing ever to get bought be the richest owners in world football after an 18 month battle only to get relegated and dumped by them.

I hope you're right and a lot of that does make sense. Although they're hardly going to announce to the world that they might cut their losses if we go down, I also think that they genuinely didn't realise we were going to end up in such a perilous position when they took over.

A lot of things were widely reported during the course of takeover, not many of those reports turned out to be accurate. I hope you're right (or better still, that we're not in a position to find out) I'm not so confident.

Because we made more sense at the time, they did try to buy Man U before us but couldn't persuade the Glazers to sell at that time, that might not always be the case. Add 2-5 years to the project of getting us to the top and we might not make sense over the option of a ready made top club.

Because they wanted a PL club, Staveley has said they looked at Inter as an alternative but the Italian league is a mess.

The length of lime they've been owners would probably have very little to do with their decision making, it's the amount of time it would add to the project of getting up to the top echelons of the PL and European football that would probably be the main factor.

I've seen stuff to suggest that PIF have a history of being ruthless and quickly cutting losses.

Exactly, I am just speculating about what potentially could happen based on the known realities of the situation, I'm not saying they will walk away, just that it is a possibility. It's other people who are dismissing the possibility out of hand when they can't know that.