Pandamninator

They protest because their owners don't spend a single penny and never have. They bought the club with other people's money, loaded it up with debt and have used the club's money to pay it back. The Glazers are Ashley level of dirtbags, Man Utd is just a money printing machine so the average fan doesn't see it.

They are better run than Everton, but I don't think it's a coincidence that they have been mowed down in the last 10 games by the free spending clubs and missed out on a Champions League spot for two straight seasons (although at least the got the FA Cup this year, would honestly rather than getting plowed by Bayern in the Round of 16).

They can always cobble together a decent looking First XI, but they will never be able to have the depth of the Top Clubs who will have 9 figures worth of players in their unused substitute list. After Lukaku they also never had a workhorse striker they can strap themselves to and give them 35 goals a season across all competitions.

Postecoglou is a very good coach, but all of his success has come in Australia, apart from the recent J-League title. He also cracked under the pressure towards the end in the Australian National Manager job. The criticism was unfair, but it's Australia - the Socceroos and the sport in general locally are a non entity outside of the pool stages of the World Cup every 4 years. If he couldn't handle that, good luck with the bullshit that you have to put up with being the Celtic manager where a Domestic Treble at best buys you another 12 months.

I don’t think they do - I’m certain I read recently that there is only four places for England. The scenario laid out in the article was the exact one ToonArmy1892 posted, and the verdict was Liverpool would finish fourth but enter the Europa Leage. There is only four places for England if a Top 4 club win's it, but they will get an extra spot if Chelsea finish 5th and beat Man City in the final.

Whenever you watched an ESL game, a 12 year old kid was going to call your mother a whore through the TV screen and disconnect the feed if a team went 3-0 up. I'm guessing that's what he meant.

If it was true, i'm guessing Liverpool. FSG has like a couple of dozen owners with tiny stakes (including Lebron)

Barcelona aren't going ahead with it - they gave themselves a face saving out by saying they had never actually fully committed (lol) and that the final decision was always going to be put to a vote to the paid voting members. Not sure why Atletico are still clinging on - Real Madrid and Juventus probably need to go to down with the ship as they put themselves front and centre.

Yeah, much more logical approach will be to levy them with punishments that will just get overturned by the relevant courts after UEFA wastes a metric shit tonne of cash on lawyer fees. That'll learn them.

They're exaggerating their victory. All the court said was that UEFA and FIFA can't punish the clubs until the court has time to actually hear the case and the Super Duper League plans were fully revealed. All the reports also said there was also no indication that the Spanish court had any real jurisdiction over those two entities anyway.

They were already getting that - UEFA had already agreed to increase England's quota to 5, make the group stage longer with 4 extra spots reserved for teams based on some vague nonsense around historical merit.

The big clubs have been planning this for years, it wouldn't surprise me if clauses related to the Champions League are worded in some vague "Top European Competition" sort of way that will just mean that they still apply to this new monstrosity.

That's some James-level conspiracy thinking there. Give up the guaranteed eyeballs and income from a still rich continent so you can move Real Madrid to Cleveland to be the 5th most popular team in town behind the NFL, NBA, Baseball and College Football.

Our ceiling would be a more competent Mike Ashley. Someone who will intelligently invest where required to keep the club stable and the Premier League revenue flowing without ever having to sweat for it. Pretty much a Spurs-lite model. An improvement yes, but still a pretty mundane existence of 8th and a Carling Cup run every year.

Even more annoying is UEFA pretty much did. 10 match day group stage, extra 4 teams and the bullshit reserved places for "historically significant" clubs who are too incompetent to qualify despite every advantage in the world. And it still wasn't enough.

Tbf, isn't the plan to effectively kill of the Champions League and still remain in your domestic competitions?

To me that's the funniest part. All those years having his stats boosted by managing promotion caliber teams in the Championship and his winning % is still fucking horrendous.

Said it when a bunch of morons came up to him at 3am and starting having a go at him for being a "bald cunt". Probably not the smartest retort, but it was really a nothing story.

Won’t cost him a penny. It’ll cost the club, not him. He's desperate to cash out now, enough to send the lawyers against the Premier League. Not sure he'll get his 300 million in the Championship.

You don’t need any type of quality manager to tell you how to kick a ball properly. I firmly believe that Joelington coming was the last straw for Rafa who publicly came out and said he was worth nowhere near the money involved. The bloke is absolute garbage. Just seemed like MA chose Joelinton over Rafa, more or less. Think it’s more of a case Rafa didn’t want Joelington and thought enough is enough when forced on him It wasn't even that - Rafa just thought you were a mentalist for paying for 40m for him. He was happy to buy him for cheaper if they could and spend the difference elsewhere. If you’re happy to sign a player you don’t come out and say he’s not worth it to the media He was the ex-Newcastle manager at that point. It is also quite common for managers and clubs to want to sign a player, but publicly state they did not want to pay the price.

I absolutely believe the fucktard was the 1st choice, that really is how stupid the fuckers running us are. 1st fucking choice :lol: He wasn't - Viera, Arteta and Fat Sam have all publicly said they were approached first.

You don’t need any type of quality manager to tell you how to kick a ball properly. I firmly believe that Joelington coming was the last straw for Rafa who publicly came out and said he was worth nowhere near the money involved. The bloke is absolute garbage. Just seemed like MA chose Joelinton over Rafa, more or less. Think it’s more of a case Rafa didn’t want Joelington and thought enough is enough when forced on him It wasn't even that - Rafa just thought you were a mentalist for paying for 40m for him. He was happy to buy him for cheaper if they could and spend the difference elsewhere.

Remember it well. It was my 35th Birthday and the day before my son was born. We were winning 1-0 (Cabaye) and then Reading equalised with about 20 mins left. Pardews response was to take Cabaye off and replace him with Bigirimana. Reading went and scored again almost immediately after the substitution and we lost 2-1. Don't think I've ever been so annoyed at the match. Had a fight with the bloke in front of me cos he was defending Pardew and I ended up getting kicked out by the stewards and had my season ticket confiscated. In hindsight, probably should thank the guy. It was all downhill from there.

Ah, the Pardew special.