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Until we know the full details of the new FFP/PSR rules then it could also be counter-productive moving forwards to sign players on frees. It looks like with the uncoupling of 3 year losses, that wages as % of income could be the most important factor in the new FFP world. With player's on frees tending to command a higher wage then could be the limiting factor on our spend. Probably worth noting that I read one article on this a week or 2 ago so could have misunderstood something.

Has Brexit Branson actually improved any sports team he's purchased a stake in? Purchases OGC Nice at start of 19/20 season. Average finish position in 4 seasons pre-purchase: 5.5, average finishing position in 4 seasons post-purchase: 7.25. Purchases Team Sky in 2019. 4 Tour de France wins in 5 years pre-purchase, 1 Tour de France win in 5 years post-purchase. Purchases 33% stake in Mercedes F1 team at end of 2020. 3 WDC's in 3 seasons pre-purchase, 0 WDC's in 3 seasons post-purchase.

No need at all for any release clause in a new contact. Bruno only had 2 years remaining come this summer so signing an extension and compromising on some demands could be expected. Isak has 4 year come this summer. Wouldn't even be against a wage increase with no extension, but there's no benefit to us for accepting a release clause in his contract (unless it's one of those mental £1bn one's someone mentioned previously).

Don't understand how other decisions are only overturned if there's a 'clear and obvious mistake', but a guy in a room drawing lines where you can't be certain which frame the ball left the foot is an exact science where you can be ruled offside by a few inches.

This was my thoughts. Was getting a bit confused by people saying we have to pay his full salary until he joins Man Utd (and thus should let him go to save money - maybe this is wishful thinking from Man Utd fans). Unless football director contracts are structured completely differently to regular employment contracts. Would assume that he has a 12 month non-compete clause in his contract and likely a lengthy notice period. He has resigned, in which case we can accept his resignation and keep him on gardening leave (being paid) whilst his notice period is served, he will then sit around for c.12 months stuck on a non-compete clause where we will not be paying him a penny. The reports that we can keep him off Man Utd's books until 2026 suggests to me a 12 month notice period and 12 month non-compete - this is mostly conjecture, but the notice period + non-compete must add up to 24+ months if the 2026 date is true. At worst, our exposure to sunk PILON costs looks to be £1.5m, a immaterial amount in the grand scheme of things. Man Utd fans think that we should bow down and let him go? Fuck that with how they treated us with Lingard (and the player himself who had been there for decades). Wouldn't be doing them any favours at all, £20m or let him rot for 24 months, £1.5m to pay for Man Utd to delay their restructure is nothing. Note: My role has a lot of crossover but I do not work in employment law or HR and happily to be corrected and educated on anything I got wrong above.

As far as I can see she hasn’t incited violence at all. My view on free speech is that you agree with free speech even for the opinions that repulse you the most, or you don’t agree with free speech. The free part meaning that you’re not punished for expressing your views. Personally, as an ethic minority, I do think hate speech should be protected. I’d much rather know if someone thinks I’m a cunt than them smile and nod whilst they really hate me due to the colour of my skin.

She done anything directly to NUFC or away supporters at the stadium? If not then it seems a bit much trawling through supporters social media posts to see if they've said anything hateful in the past.

How does the idea we can spend 3x what we bring in from sales to keep within FFP rules work? I only have a very basic understanding of FFP, but as I understand it's related to a rolling 3 year loss with player purchase transfer fees amortised over contract lengths (maximum 5 years), but income from player sales being recognised at time of transaction (less remaining book value) From this I would imagine there are 2 aspects to ensuring we stay within the FFP relegations if we're already at the 3 year loss limit to the period ending at the end of this season (assuming the financial years are by football season, not calendar year): A) Running an overall break-even over the 3 year period - £15m income means that we would be able to amortise £15m over a 3 year period - with the 5-year amortisation rule this would allow us to sign a player for £25m. However, this doesn't take into account growing commercial revenue and prior year losses falling off the rolling year 3 year period. B) If we're confident of a increase in commercial revenue and possibly seeing this as an opportunity to boost our short-term FFP position to bring forward a summer signing, then the £15m income could technically fund a £150m player purchase as only 1/10th of their transfer fee would be amortised before the end of the season and break-even with the possible Trippier sale.

Fully agree with you that we're rushing people back and suffering because of it and our play style doesn't help, just on this one particular occasion I don't think it is purely due to the type of injury.

I agree on my majority, but I really do think this was a freak injury, adjusting his the landing of your kicking foot can put huge strain on the quad if it lands while you’re not expecting it to. I’m about as far away from a physio as you can get but I called a couple of pages back that I thought it was a quad tear and it would be longer than 6 weeks. Could of course be some element of compensating for the hamstring injury which put more pressure on the quad. edit: spelling

Looked like a quad tear to me. Wouldn’t be surprised.

Has that Jac Talbot ever got anything right?

Initial fear was a quad tear by the way he kicked his leg out then had to readjust for the landing after being pushed. Know a few bodybuilders who’ve torn their quads by missing a step and not being prepared for the impact. But hoping he’s just strained it. Wouldn’t be surprised if this is longer than 6 weeks.

Thought it was a clear foul on Isak and should've been a red for Ballard. He grabs the left hand side of Isak's shirt with his right hand and throws himself to the floor making sure he brings Isak with him. Don't think Hume or Gordon deserved a yellow for the handbags, but Ballard did deserve a yellow for the way he got in Gordon's face after.

Mercedes F1 team also won 7 consecutive driver & constructor world championships before Ineos/Ratcliffe took a 33% stake in the team. Haven't won the drivers title since. More down to rules changes than anything else I think but I'm not going to let the facts get in the way of the story here.

There's more credibility to Suarez saying that negrito doesn't have racist connotations in Uruguay compared to that utter bullshit.

I'm sure I've read there's a 1 year extension that could be triggered.

Blew the whistle after he saw the pass. That’s fucking disgusting. edit: pass not foul

Wish I got a paid week off work every time I fucked up. I have no idea how refereeing allocation works but surely a better system would be demoting them to 2nd tier games for a month on the first cock up, with increasing lengths on further errors before a permanent demotion after a certain number within a certain period.

I guess it wouldn't cause an immediate impact but I think the most fair punishment would be reducing their FFP budget in the next x years period by double their overspend in the period they committed the offence.

I don't disagree with anything you said there, I might not have worded a few of my posts in the right way. I don't think we're entirely in agreement as I think that it should be an internal matter for the club based on the evidence they know but you stated on a previous page that he hasn't been charged and therefore no case to answer. My view is that Man Utd have probably told Antony to stay away because they have medical records as evidence against him and they're right to keep him out of the squad. I was just trying to explain my rationale to why I think that's the likely case. Of course this is all speculative and not really helpful to anyone involved, but hey, it is the internet.

I'm struggling to understand your point here. Either the justice system does it's job as you claim - then you either suspend a player when he's charged or found guilty. Which is a perfectly fine opinion. I just think with public figures you have to take a more nuanced view on a case-by-case basis. And that should be what the club knows, not what the public knows. On balance of things I think there's a decent chance Man Utd have medical records which is why they suspended him. In your view would you suspend them at being charged or found guilty? The reason I likely have a different opinion as I know someone who took 18 months to be charged after their final police interview despite them gathering no evidence, so I don't trust the CPS to do their job promptly.

And you were fine with someone like that being on the pitch, playing infront thousands of kids as he wasn't yet found guilty?

Yeah. Then you get Adam Johnson playing while awaiting trial.

What I'm saying is that with public figures you have to take a more nuanced view than the more normal view that you either suspend someone when they're charged or when they're found guilty in court. I think there is likely medical records that are strong evidence for her case. The timeline over the past couple of days has gone: Brazilian national team drops Antony Man Utd say no comment Gabriela Cavallin urges Man Utd to drop Antony in the press Man Utd drop Antony Considering this, I think there's a reasonable chance her lawyers have shared medical records with Man Utd or they've at least seen them through some channel.