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They'll be paying his full wages probably while we tried to save on a bit.

Fuck this club.

We were ripped off at £4.5 million if that's what we paid.

FWIW apparently Feyenoord were rumoured to be going after him as a Jorgensen replacement.

Disgraceful really.

I've seen them both play and Mitro is better.

A swap deal was also rumoured with Łukasz Teodorczyk Why would we literally downgrade? Why is it downgrading? Bringing in a striker with a poorer record than Mitro from the team Mitro came from. In the last three season's Mitrovic has 14 goals in 65. Łukasz Teodorczyk has 26 goals in 57 in the last two season's. I must be missing the downgrade. Because Mitrovic had a better record for Anderlecht?

It's not just Match of the Day. Most highlights programs will not include a clock.

Sorry mate I've got 10 years on you, no idea what any of that sentence means.

There's a video of him in his Copenhagen days and he scores some absolute pingers. Seems like he wasn't centre forward there and played deeper.

Unless it's a completely computerised system that can instantly decide every decision immediately, and we can do away with referees altogether, then it's a fundamentally flawed concept.

Garbage this. Reviewing everything. Slippery slope to destroying the sport.

It's 2030, the season 2029-30 season has just finished. All 380 matches are ran through a computer algorithm to correct decisions, re-calibrate and re-simulate in order to determine the correct results. The Premier League trophy is teleported to it's rightful home.

A small foul might lead to a change of possession that 2 minutes later leads to a goal for a team, it won't get reviewed due to the 'small' nature of the foul but it's impact on the game has indirectly led to a goal. Every small incremental thing that happens in football is potentially equally as important as every 'big' thing. There is no hierarchy. You can't just start correcting and tampering with 'big' decisions, because it's a slippery slope to either messing with everything or simply creating new unfairness due to the selective decisions you're reversing. It's fundamentally broken as a concept for this reason. That's before you even get onto time stoppages and the fact that 50% of the reversed decisions remain debatable anyway.

It's absolute nonsense man. You can't just correct 'game-changing' decisions. Every single action and motion in a football match is potentially gamechanging. If you start correcting 'big' decisions it just creates a new unfairness at the numerous small, cumulative decisions in a game. Each and every one of them that could directly or indirectly lead to a team scoring a goal or winning a game. The whole idea is completely and utterly flawed at a fundamental level due to the flowing nature of the sport. And in enforcing it you force the game to be stopped endlessly contributing to the destruction of the aspect of the game that makes it 10 times more exciting than every other shite sport that nobody watches.

Turning the best sport in the world into rugby. What a joke.

Everyone who doesn't watch Serie A this season finally realising what a load of shit VAR is.

I don't care what anybody says, spending £75 million on a CB is a load of pish. Defending is mostly organisation. Top money should be spent on attacking talent.

Absolute pish is VAR.

Another day with Alan Pardew breathing this earth's beautiful oxygen. Life is cruel.

lolwot I'd guess a loan to Girona but I'm pretty sure he's not good enough for that level either. Probably Melbourne.

The strength of the English 2nd tier has an impact on that too, admittedly. If a big Italian or Spanish team gets sucked into relegation there's a pretty good chance they can re-adjust and bounce back in a thinly spread second tier. If an English club goes down, they're thrown into a bear pit. This exacerbates the financial fallout that PL relegation causes.

The sheer amount of money that is at stake if a club is relegated now is having an inverse effect on the quality at the bottom end of the table IMO. There is huge sums being thrown at players, and the quality (or at least raw financial value) of squads is way higher than any other league, but the standard of play is seeing diminishing returns as a result of what's at stake. The kind of people who are getting involved in buying clubs (Ashley is of course one example) are so often predatory, with zero emotional connection to the clubs, where the reason they're getting involved is because of the TV money gravy train. This encourages a safety at all costs mentality that spreads down to boardroom decision making, to the coaching level, and to the playing staff. Now I don't think this terror in the face of relegation is a particularly unique thing about the English game. I've followed Italian football long enough to know that managerial turnover for struggling teams there borders on insanity. However I think there is a particular intensity that the current finances of the PL are having on the way club's operate and the way teams play. Teams in Spain, Germany and Italy aren't quite as terrified of relegation because the impact of it isn't quite so disastrous and many of them are set up structurally in a way that transition to the 2nd tier is manageable. It means the lower and mid-table teams have (IMO) a bit more freedom about the way they play, the trust they place in implementing a style of play, and also a trust they have in throwing in young players at the deep end.