Jackie Broon

Which makes it all the more ridiculous that the other 13 voted for it and this new restriction on related party sponsorship. It's like people in Blyth voting tory.

Yeah, It's clearly just set up to protect the current top clubs' position.

It doesn't look like it's going to turn around any time soon, the limit is a total loss of £105m over three seasons. Their past three accounts showed: 17/18 £13m loss 18/19 £112m loss 19/20 £140m loss (doesn't count towards FFP due to Covid) So unless they make a big profit this year that 18/19 loss is also going to keep them from spending next season. But, those losses are not just from transfer fees and the transfer fees are obviously being heavily deferred, even if they're not actually buying players right now they're clearly still paying instalments (£125m liabilities in their most recent accounts) and running at an operating loss excluding player trading.

Although I really like the sound of Fonseca's playing philosophy, I do worry that it's going to take a lot of work to get this squad playing his football. We just can't afford that now, we're heading down and need someone who can get the current squad playing effective football. There is no better man for that than Rafa.

"There are always people who say ‘You are too old’ so at the time, maybe I thought they were right, but I am in good shape and I have not completely decided not to do it anymore," Arsene Wenger 21/09/2021

But what they will be looking to do is have as many sponsorship revenue streams as possible, because one massive sponsorship deal is probably more like to fall foul of the fair market value element of the FFP rules than lots of smaller deals.

It's completely different, Ashley was looking to benefit himself, our new owners need to generate as much revenue as possible to avoid falling foul of FFP. If that means selling naming rights for the stadium, so be it. We can all still call it St. James' Park anyway.

He's on the PIF board so he was obviously just speaking with his PIF hat on rather than his finance minister hat, obviously.

Well our owners are now the ones asking the fans kindly not to do it. End of argument, case fucking closed.

Even if it were Hitler protesting it wouldn't make it any more acceptable for someone to put a fucking towel on their head.

Which was an argument made for justifying racism in comedy in the past, that now seems abhorrent, "I know black people who say they find it funny too". Putting aside the thorny and often overextended issue of cultural appropriation (just about all culture is appropriated to some extent, the line comes when it relates to something that is significant to a minority group whose culture has been attacked etc.), the phrase 'towel head' has direct racist associations and is clearly inappropriate to put a fucking towel on your head in that context.

Apparently Citeh fans did but were also asked to stop by the club.

On the other site of the equation Warren Barton was fighting the good fight yesterday on Talksport, absolutely spot on about Bruce's tactical ineptitude.

Looking back at reports from when he was sacked by the mackems and Villa they're almost word for word the same, blaming 'vile abuse' from the fans, painting himself as a victim.

However, that bit where he says it makes him really uncomfortable when his team can't keep possession. He better start learning to cope with that feeling.

Not really, although it's a very subjective matter.

He wasn't even peak handsome in that Newcastle team (Mathieu Debuchy) and Schär is fitter.

I think it would probably just be that the income wouldn't count towards the FFP calculation.

Conceived at a meeting that one club wasn't invited to. The PL already have the power to recalculate the FFP figure based on what it considers a fair market value for any related party transactions so this new rule is not needed anyway. The only thing it would do is entrench the self fulfilling position where the big 6, and Man U in particular, get massive sponsorship deals and everyone else gets a pittance.

And the restriction on joining other competitions without PL approval clearly is. That's why the government had to threaten legislation to stop the ESL. I think there's probably a lot of stuff in the rules that relies on the compliance of the clubs because it wouldn't hold up if legally challenged.

They're playing a dangerous game, because since FFP came into force there seems to have been a lot of speculation in legal circles as to whether it would hold up to challenge under competition law. If they push Man City and us into doing that they might end up with there being no FFP rules at all.

I bet Jamie Reuben, one of the top 10 highest tory donors and chairman of Boris Johnson's London mayoral election campaign, is quaking in his expensive boots at the outcome of Tracy Crouch's review. It feels nice to actually be on the right side of tory cronyism for once.

That was just the meeting with the vote to impalement it, apparently they came up with it during their No Newcastles Club meeting.

It makes sense from their point of view, it would a risk to sack him without a replacement lined up. They probably wanted to see if there would be any bounce from the positivity around takeover before making that decision, and there was, it lasted ten minutes.