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International dial tone indicating the phone is probably currently in France not the UK?

I read that as his agent is trying to get him a move by getting other clubs to bid.

Howe has shown he won't change a winning team but after a loss or 2 he'll rightly be back in the starting line up. He had a very good start to the season before getting injured and has barely played since. Don't understand how some people think we've outgrown him or should get rid.

If the guy ran straight into your path you can….

What about if you poked it past (or nutmugged) the defender in the direction you were running? Because they should be the comparison and in my understanding it’s a free kick every time.

Agreed, if the guy is just standing there. But if you run right up to him then in my opinion you have to have both your feet planted for a couple of second to claim you’re still and he ran into you and not vice versa.

If a defender In the middle of the pitch runs straight at a guy dribbling and just about manages to stop as the attacker runs into him then surely it’s a foul. The ITV pundits seem very upset Argentina are winning.

Equally how I thought Grealish' celebration against Iran was weird and cringey, but then I learned a disabled kid asked him to do it.

Bit weird to get angry over people dancing but that 'dancing' was also a bit weird. I like the African dances and I love most of Brazilian culture, but whatever they were doing last was a bit cringey at the least.

That prick who refereed our game against Tranmere looked like he was juiced to the gills but no idea about the rest of them. Edit: Pretty sure he had hair thinking about it.

Holding his head when he didn't get touched. Embarrassing.

Not entirely convinced this will have the desired outcome. Are they trying to reduce 'anti-social behaviour' associated with drinking or is it pressure from more conservative elements in Qatar that they just don't want to see people drinking in public? You would think people this would increase the amount of people getting shitfaced before the game so they don't sober up and try to smuggle alcohol into the stadiums. Would also like to see how the sober zones can be kept civil without beating the shit out of the intoxicated.

Iran and Qatar have quite friendly relations despite the Shia - Sunni issue. It's more of a regional proxy conflict between Saudi Arabia (Sunni) and Iran (Shia). Qatar are more closely aligned with Iran, which I think is more down to disagreements with the Saudi's than anything else. From a quick look online Iranians can travel to Qatar and apply for a 30 day travel visa on arrival.

His first start back from injury, which recurred immediately last time he returned, and he was our only player who made scoring look even slightly possible yesterday.

Racial slurs are different but as an ethnic minority I can tell you that I (and many people I know) actually find it offensive when someone tries to be offended on my behalf about something minor.

How is a clearly intentional handball not a yellow card

I'm have no issue with them waiting if they feel they can get players of Botman, Bruno and Isak's calibre in January. We desperately lack squad depth but we're a RW and CM away from having a starting 11 where the player's we're looking to improve on are Targett and Schar. From there our current starters will become the depth.

If you don't want the other team to take the piss then don't give them space.

Does anyone know how add-ons are considered for FFP? Does the full cost of the add-on end up in the year it's triggered, over the remaining term of the contract or go back and restate the cost over the term of the initial contract?

Already fluent in English too. Not that it's a surprise being Swedish.

Hate nonsense like that. Pulls his shirt for a yellow then pulls him by the neck after for no reason because he knows he's getting booked already.

I think it's the title as opposed to the salary which is misleading. It looks like the role is solely around email content. If a very small share of commercial revenue is driven through email traffic and there are a lot of 'managers' reporting into the Marketing Director (who could even be the director of only the e-commerce unit) then I could see £40k being a reasonable salary outside of London.

It was definitely an excuse he used but if we use the Pope deal as an example we paid £10m with payments spread. Burnley then went and got early financing for the future payments, which let's say cost them £500k. We could likely have struck a deal for £9.75m with the full amount paid upfront. We save £250k on FFP, Burnley get £250k additional cash. I don't think they care about FFP but if the cash is available then it's a win-win.

I'm not well versed on FFP but surely this is a purely cash transaction which has no impact on FFP (unless the interest payments are included in the cost side of FFP). I don't understand how someone said above that shareholder's aren't allowed to put money into clubs any more because of FFP. I can't find anything about it and find it extremely odd, but happy to be proven wrong. A shareholder's loan would've surely been the most sensible option on paper as it would incur low interest and you would imagine that PIF has enough cash sitting around that it wouldn't be an issue. I'd imagine that the ownership structure could be an issue with PIF owning 80% maybe the other partner's didn't want to contribute and this could effect the equity split until the loan is repaid? If interest isn't included in FFP costs then I don't see any real downside with what they're doing with HSBC though. Either way for FFP in the long term - trying to get as much of the deal paid upfront as we can afford as will likely result in a lower overall fee and therefore FFP cost would probably be the best bet. I'm guessing this could be their thinking in trying to generate as much cash as possible now. Edit: grammar

I agree. I also think that for Burnley the cash flow is a bigger issue than FFP. Since Burnley paid for factoring then they almost certainly would’ve accepted a lower fee. It would have been worse for us from a cash perspective but better from FFP, and if FFP is our only financial constraint then we should’ve taken the hit and given a shareholder loan to the club if required. I’m sure there’s a good reason we structured it in instalment, I’m just struggling to think of why. Overall I think we should be doing everything to keep our FFP burden as low as possible. I’m not suggesting in any way that we should do this, especially such a professional organisation like PIF, but even thinking of things like giving say Neymar a percentage of the club ownership (but no seat) as a signing bonus. Obviously that particular scenario probably wouldn’t work as there would be a monetary value of the shares but you could also argue that there is no direct cost to the club other than the legal fees.