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Set a dangerous precedent here. If it was won this year by the manager of the clear favourites before the season, after winning last year and adding Haaland, then surely whoever wins the league wins manager of the year moving forward - unless they're even bigger favourites than Man City were this year and win by a smaller margin.

Found that amusing too. I bet it was very hard for a millionaire footballer to find a private doctor to diagnose him with that. I know from my own personal history that addiction manifests in many forms, but the percentage of his bets that involve games he has intimate knowledge of doesn't indicate addiction. For all I know he was up until 3am playing online roulette which we wouldn't know about though as it isn't football related.

Actually find the betting against us pretty funny but 8 months is ridiculously light considering the bets.

Which clubs united to become Manchester United? I live in London and I rarely hear people refer to Man Utd and simply 'United'. The only guy I know who refers to them as 'United' is a Man Utd fan from Manchester so I'll give him a break.

Knew exactly what he was doing there, ducked his head before contact so clearly knew the player was there and dangerous as fuck. Problem is if they make it a booking then Kane is going to get sent off every other game.

Possibly all the ex-Soviet countries remaining in UEFA after the break up? No idea, but could be the reason.

I’m not saying he hides from the ball all the time (and by saying ‘hide from the ball’, like I assume others are, I mean not showing for the ball). But what is he doing in that clip if he’s not hiding?

I think you need to look at the definition of majority, mate.

This is his level https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/scott-mctominay-rangers-transfer-floated-29420650

I don’t feel like going back to Willock and Joelinton switching LW and LCM roles is the answer. We need goals and our goals dried up well before ASM came back into a starting role, and ASM himself has looked our most threatening player since.

Crazy notion. I think we should all tell everyone who has a different opinion on other football team to shut it and fuck off.

That doesn’t mean that it can’t be implemented differently. For example - have the penalties as reduced spend for totalling 150–200% of the overspend (this could be spread over 3-4 years). If they then don’t follow that then instant relegation, they’d have been given fair warning. It would also result in a situation where they’d have to have a fire sale to ensure they comply with the penalty, which would be a further deterrent. With an absolute cap they know the number to work to and there could be no ambiguity in claiming that they expected their commercial revenue to increase or that outside factors out of their control (COVID for example) reduced their revenue. Any non-compliance would be sheer negligence.

I personally think the opinion that FFP is simply there to keep the status quo is largely correct. I don’t think unlimited spend is the answer but if you are going to have caps on spending then teams within the Premier League should all have the same absolute monetary caps (none of this percentage of income nonsense) as long as the spending doesn’t jeopardise the future of the club. I don’t think this would be too hard to devise a formula based on not allowing loan balances to exceed certain values and having enough cash reserves held within the club to cover future committed transfer instalments and wages if income isn’t enough to cover them. Allowing some clubs to have wage bills 5-10 times higher than others is ridiculously uncompetitive.

We'd have to finish top 4 for even the remotest chance of that happening.

I'm not worried. I'm sure if we'll adjust our targets accordingly if we've ended up spending more than we intended. But I think fans having an opinion on the amount we spend on a player is valid.

Wasn't even referring to this deal specifically, even though I do think it's on the pricey side I don't think it's massively overvalued. My point is simply that I think the 'it's not my money I don't care how much we spend' is a little shortsighted.

I agree it's good we're spending money but the club will be running on a certain budget, limited by investment or FFP, and overspending has to have an impact on future spend.

I still think he'll be back in the starting line up as soon as we lose a game. Just don't think Howe wants to change the starting 11 unforced with the unbeaten run we're on.

Seems too much. I'll still give him my full support when he's in a Newcastle shirt and I hope he proves me wrong but I'm struggling to get excited by this one.

The other way of looking at it is that he's only started 1 of their last 7 league games

Have to disagree there, I don't think they're even remotely similar. Is Gordon's passing anywhere near good enough to play CM? edit: comparison to midfielders from FBref.

Keepers messing with penalty takers makes them far more interesting. Not like there's any 'honour' or anything in any other part of the game, don't get why they should be any different. Scuffing up the spot isn't mind games or messing with people and too far though imo.

Yes but someone dialled the number and got a French dial tone which only happens if your phone is physically in France as it's managed by the local network operator.

Confirms either those Whatsapp messages were bollocks or he left his phone in France then.

Did it sound like this?