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City have been doing it for years - Pep brought in from Spain its systematic use to break down opposing attacks. Like everything else, Arteta took it from Pep too.

Oof. I keep banging on about it but honestly some of the refs in Europe just make it up as they go along

He’d set himself up by doing nothing before then.

Udogie getting a booking there after not a single Leicester player has been booked would have been ridiculous. Only reason the ref didn’t book him tbh.

Bit of both. How is this only 1-0?

That and living in London while young and loaded must be mint. I would imagine.

They all have, it seems.

Defending his territory.

It’s healthy to be sceptical, they do seem to have a tendency to even things up in the highlights. I imagine we’ve all been at matches then got home for MOTD and thought “eh?” on more than one occasion.

I thought he’d buggered off tbh.

Rinse and repeat.

Presumably they would like to buy him for £34M then immediately loan him to Bournemouth for a year for £4M. The rules say you can’t do that. So they reckon that by having Bournemouth loan him from Valencia for a year then agreeing to buy him for £30M at that time they “get round” the rules. Plus presumably also distorting PSR by shunting that 30M outlay back a year.

The article mentions that clause and basically says Liverpool are going to pretend to not be loaning him: “Valencia will bank £34 million. Liverpool are due to pay £30 million, with that final £4 million a loan fee stumped up via Bournemouth.” if true surely that’s a blatant and transparent attempt to subvert the rule which should be knocked on the head.

Wasn’t everyone else, just the cartel four. Geordie_once_removed was referencing “lower” clubs getting involved in mega transfers which only really kicked in with the recent Prem TV deals. That coupled with more variation in clubs getting the CL money.

Maybe but it’s no longer five years ago . It’s been sinking in for a while.

I mean yeah, that’s been the case for a while now, but they did just sell someone for £65M or so.

A decent percentage I think.

Absolutely the quintessential Euro ref. That second yellow man.

Just Liverpool people doing Liverpool things.

I slogged through the list. I think 5 players are 21 right now and 9 are definitely U21. If for argument‘s sake they are all considered U21 it’s not so bad (I know at least two of them aren’t but can’t be bothered to check them all). Let’s say there are 12. They have six keepers. If they ditch/loan three of them that’s down to only 28. In theory they only need to loan out three more players to name everyone. And Lukaku and Gallagher are still on that list.

Chelsea currently have 43 players named on their website as the First Team squad. Need to check who’s U-21, but they have to name a squad of 25 out of that lot.

Supposedly 35 signings ago for us was Llorente in 2017 . How about you guys?

If he actually wanted to come to us I’m sure we’d be interested…at a discount price. Sounds like he just doesn’t want to come to us though. Also it genuinely seems like the other Cartel Six clubs simply refuse to sell decent players to us

Their results fell apart a bit towards the end of last season, which is why their manager was sacked. If they’ve lost some loan players and not yet replaced them then I’d have expected them to struggle anyway, Rooney or no Rooney.

Not sure how many loan players they had last year but certainly we gave them Phillips at CB all season and Devine in midfield for the second half. Presume there were others. Neither has been loaned back to them so far this year.