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What is there to learn in terms of ticket sales and resale? Reselling and scalping exists here too. Thankfully, despite increasing, European football remains far more affordable for match going supporters. That is literally the only thing that matters in terms of ticketing.

NBA sold their last overseas TV rights for 450 million dollars. NFL sold theirs for 120 million. MLB 150 million and NHL miniscule. These are leagues which have essentially consolidated all the best players of these sports globally in one single place - yet the product value outside the US market is miniscule. The PL alone is to sell the most recent overseas rights for upwards of 5 billion. US sports just really aren't that popular outside of the US. If you're trying to play games abroad to drum up interest then there's clearly an inherent problem. I don't think it's the sports themselves which are the problem - but there's a fact that the system which works in the US clearly does not strike anywhere near the same chord anywhere else. The idea that European football has anything to learn from such a model is risible.

It's interesting though. I don't remember anybody on here praising the European Super League last year. That is literally the US sports model, sans draft.

Yeah, the success of the world's most popular sport is entirely down to US TV networks. Up until very recently the revenue for US TV made up a only a small percentage of the overall PL broadcasting revenue.

sorry but

Diaz is like something straight out of Shaolin Soccer.

Hell of a loan for him but for Rovers too. Probably wouldn't have even made the play-offs without him. Superb.

Outfield player in goal for Northampton?

US approach to sporting excellence and development in general is great. And the passion people have for sport in general is possibly unrivalled globally. The league systems of the major sports are all atrocious though. Closed shop, no risk, engineered deliberately to maximise and secure the revenue of billionaires to the detriment of any true sporting pyramid. Draft system to give the illusion of fairness in what is a completely rigged game. Each and every one of the major sports are ran exactly like the proposed European Super League which was rightly lambasted as a disgrace. I know very very few people - those I know in the UK, Europe and Asia - who actually follow US sports through the regular season. I mean why would you bother? It is literally a giant waste of time in a sporting sense. Watching an NBA game in person during the regular season was almost snore inducing. People tune in for the odd big playoff game and the Superbowl. That is it.

Lack of relegation or pyramid means it's all boring shite, I'm afraid.

Problem they're gonna have with that is Brexit. Really hard now for lower Scottish teams to use foreign scouting to their advantage as European players at that level, with few caps or for a smaller country, won't get a work permit.

Wednesday seem a bit of a hopeless side.

I mean it is North Tyneside. So maybe. But it's an 8 week deadline and seems broadly uncontroversial so could be a quick delegated decision once consultation period has expired and consultees have responded. And they could happily crack on with a lot of the non-contingent internal changes without needing any planning consent.

Exhilarating to see the world of local authority planning portals thrust into the mainstream

Good lord some of the photos on that D&A statement. What a mess.

Gave mine up in 2015 when I went to live abroad. Never felt keen to get it back. Honestly not sure I can justify the cost of one. Plus with a usual handful of away games per season plus all the other football I go to it is hard to justify to the lass that many days/weekends taken up. We've talked about getting 1 or 2 for the whole family that can be used as and when people fancy going. I think that's the most likely bet (if possible).

I'm really not sure. I accept he would be an improvement on what we've got - but I really wanted a wide player to be one of our big signings. Not sure we'd get another if we signed Lingard. I also really think we should be targeting exclusively the 22-26 age bracket. Players who are not too young to be a wild gamble, play like fully formed pros but still have room to grow. The squad average age is pretty high and we need to be pulling that down. If you look at Liverpool pretty much all their successful signings in recent years have been players in that age bracket.

Guardiola to me always comes across as a freak and a weirdo. Find him unsettling tbh. Plus I despise his constant demand for things like B teams - which flies in the face of the football pyramid.

Scamacca is still a bit raw for 23 year old and he comes with quite a bit of personal baggage. I like him but think he'd flop badly in England.

Sure I read he has a 25 million buyout if they go down. That probably brings too much competition for his signature however.

Leeds going doon.

The longer the contract offer the lower the actual weekly wage would need to be. It would be a way to ensure we could sell him to a lower level club - probably next summer. It's how any well ran club operates with FFP. You don't want to let players leave for nowt. Chelsea constantly sign up players that aren't good enough so they can get a fee for them.

1 year would be pointless. The contract would be to secure his value so when he leaves we get a fee. Obviously it could backfire and you have to be sure you don't tie them to too high a salary but the idea is now we'll be a proper club where players, first choice or not, improve and increase their value. As long as his wages aren't too high he is likely a player of a 5-10 million value who would be signed by a low PL/high Champ team. If we're taking FFP seriously we can't afford to let assets just walk away.

It's interesting enough but it's not really any more useful or accurate a predictor than betting odds. In fact based on comparing them I've found the bookies to be a more reasonable assessment. We had a 78% chance of going down according to 538 in late December. I don't think our odds ever drifted that badly because punters and bookies would have factored in elements like the spending we would do in Jan - whereas from what I can see 538 appears to be blunt statistics based on fixtures.

Leeds goal difference is like being a point worse off for them. Reckon now the new manager bounce has worn off it will be them who drop.