LFEE

PIF will definitely be keeping an eye on developments. Unless this is nipped in the bud pretty quickly, there won't be buyers coming in for any of the clubs outside of the big 6. I've always understood why clubs want to keep more of the money they generate, but this top 6 cartel stuff is an absolute joke. It should have been shut down already tbh, they will wreck English football. Busy in court today...

Just came to post that (Spurs). Unbelievable 10 year retrospective. Guess who that includes

What is that based on, not calling you out, but I haven't seen it. I know they most likely prefer the american model with the draft picks, but I don't see this link. Stability for Liverpool/Man United? They aren't in danger of relegation any time soon. FWIW I would actually like a draft here, not that logistically its possbile really. I just see it as typical big club power grab. It's not an American thing anymore. If you look at new sports, f.ex E-sports, all the big teams around the world wants a franchise style league to protect their own brand. That's the route they've gone at Riot games and Blizzard, and all the teams have fought for a similar arrangement in CS:GO the last couple of years as well, only partly managing to do so since Valve is not as hands on with the e-sports side of the game as other game developers. If football was a newer sport, this is definitely the way it would have gone too imo, sadly. Disagree. It’s definitely an American thing. They’ve never liked relegation and their aim is to remove it. This is just the next safest bet to protect their “franchises” until they gain further control. If I’ve been lead to believe correctly approval of opposition ownership is also widespread in American sport too. Here’s Parry on TalkSport defending the idea for those who missed it. It’s 4mins in. https://talksport.com/radio/listen-again/1602493200/1602495000/

The 9th place vote is irrelevant when they just need 6/9 to make a decision and the 6 will be in full agreement on everything.

One EFL club chairman has already been on SSN saying he’s backing it and most lower league clubs will. Gary Neville has said he’s backing it, so that’s Salford behind it. Aye, it’ll find its way thru. Our game has gone As long as 11 EPL teams stay strong then it doesn’t really matter about what the ELF think. Government is totally against it also

Triple post. Sorry

Good question. It was due to resume in early October but there’s been zero movement. Hopefully both sets of legal teams have decided to come to a settlement. That in itself could take weeks/months to be agreed?

If I’ve heard right on the radio this morning another T&C is the removal of all parachute payments. After googling this... How much is the Premiership parachute payment? In the 2017-18 season the Premier League paid £243m in Parachute Payments split amongst 8 clubs, and £100m in Solidarity Payments split amongst the remaining 64 clubs The £250 per year they’d be giving to the ELF a year would be £93 less a year on top of the abandonment of the League Cup. Surely not.

Has Henderson a tattoo on his thigh? Thought I caught a glimpse of something.

That wasn't offside either Bring back VAR I thought he’d strayed beyond Trippier mind.

Had a good spell for a couple of months about 5 years ago.

Thought the same but the blocking of the view made more sense.

Weren’t the owners on the radio saying the last thing they needed was more wingers

LFEE[/member] Now that’s a foul

You might be too young but before the Masters there used to a Soccer Six where current and up and coming players played. Always remember seeing a very young Paul Merson for the first time and thinking straight away he’d end up in their first team before long and become a great player. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soccer_Six

I thought Levy came across fine. Thought Charlie M came across in the main ok as did Donald. Bain however seemed very fortunate to be in a job like that.

Backfired on them by the looks of it... https://www.theguardian.com/football/2020/oct/05/juventus-napoli-covid-no-show-serie-a-covid-court

A few people replied to your last post mate. Why you ignoring them? Lighten up. You might enjoy life a bit more

Stars aligning...

Anyone of note? https://twitter.com/michaelhockpr/status/1313772852575903744?s=21 https://twitter.com/michaelhockpr/status/1313776925710659584?s=21

Really spooky and a bit sad to admit but I actually thought this would happen last night

This. And even if there is contact it’s not enough for a foul for either!

Type of signing Sunderland would make if they were still in the league I wonder what we have in common with those Sunderland teams of yore File under Danny Rose. Waste of money.

Second half much better. Was nice also without VAR knowing a goal was a goal

Surely a red card even by your standards LFEE[/member] He’s very low. Maybe an orange