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Well if Tuchel was in before Greece then fair enough Greece couldn’t be a factor Am not sure Carsley would get the Germany job for example though, Nagelsmann and Flick both came from Bayern. Low was assistant but had a history before that. I get Klinsman is the only one plucked out? Italy hire very experienced mangers: Spalletti, Mancini, Conte etc. Spain hired their youth coach but he’s much more experienced than Carsley, and before that they had Luis Enrique, and their glory days it was Aragones and Del Bosque

Why I think it cost him is that one of Englands biggest problems during the ‘golden generation’ and during the summer is the manager not being bigger than the players and making the big calls, any sign of that happening was fatal to his candidacy. The folk memory of Lampard and Gerard is just too strong. Had he done some other wacky experiment and lost he might have got away with it.

Carsley blew it by going weak at the knees when he needed to make the big calls on Foden, Bellingham and Palmer

Salary caps are used in America to help the owners get rich. In the PL it’s the players who get the cash. Seems fairer when they are the talent

Mental for so many reasons. Think he’s going to tie Bruno’s shoelaces together on derby day?

Boring article. PIF are the sovereign wealth fund with fingers in loads of pies, we all know that. Be a bit weird if a football club was their number one priority, vs. Much bigger investments in stuff like Uber, or the crazy city they are building in the desert. Boxing and golf are also not number one priority- doesn’t mean the Saudi s aren’t bothered about those

Man City say yes, the PL says no. Be another legal scrap before we know who is right

Yep, you are totally right. A fair value loan for Everton is going to have a much higher rate than one for Arsenal.

Sorry this is nonsense. Doing it with any other method would be a legal minefield as there is an established way of assessing market value. Assessing fair value of sponsorship deals is going to be very hard, as how do you assess accurately what it’s worth. But loans are incredibly easy, if a commercial bank would give you the rate it’s a market rate- as it’s literally available on the market. By the way, corporates do it that way as HMRC accept that the bank quotes will give the market value, and there is a body of case law behind that. It isn’t for “internal purposes” it’s for legal compliance with tax law.

Everton wouldn’t be bankrupt as PSR accounts aren’t the real accounts. The owners would still be giving the money interest free in the real world, so it wouldn’t bankrupt the club. Just it would reduce Everton’s spending power under PSR, and probably reduce it by >£20m a season. Everton would have to sell players or incur another points deduction.

Well this explains the different journos takes - depends on who he briefed them. In summary, PL position is the rules were confirmed but with a bit of a tidy up on loans and speed at which things are done City position is the rules were unlawful due to the loans and speed stuff and are therefore entirely null and void. Pretty big difference! If City are right then get the Saudis on the phone and get the deals done before new rules come in, they can’t be retroactive (as Chelsea showed with the 8 year contracts trick)

For loans they would just get quotes from banks at market rates. It really wouldn’t be a big deal. Banks already do this for big corporate clients that need to show arms length terms for internal loans to meet transfer pricing requirements.

No, he could do a dividend to release equity which doesn’t touch the club ownership The reasons for loans is it’s more tax efficient for him personally, as this would incur tax.

They will need to put them in the accounts at market interest rates for the purposes of PSR, That will be about 6%, so a £200m interest free loan from an owner will incur a PSR cost of £12m a season, as a crude example, basically the cost of a £40m player paid £80k a week

The issue is the numbers, Man City, Newcastle, Everton, Forrest and Leicester will be against any new rules that are legally compliant. The PL will need 14 votes to get their way, unless some clubs abstain. That means 3 more clubs have to be against. Villa are one potentially, Chelsea another. Who is the third

Brighton will be fine, they have huge PSR headroom due to their transfers and the loans are to their owner so he’s no incentive to call them in and put his own club out of business.

This is pretty incredible given what went before

Not really. He runs assets on behalf of Jamie Reuben, NUFC is an asset part owned by Jamie Reuben. With Staveley gone the Board was maybe a bit light on numbers.

It is a bit different with a striker though. Defenders and midfielders need to know their role in the system, but in the last 10 minutes of a game they were dominating you aren’t looking for the striker to do a lot tactically when the team is out of possession, you just want him to get on the end of something.

The club spent £15m on Osula in the sunmer, that’s 3x what selling Wilson would generate. Not like his injury record was a total mystery when Osula joined, so not sure how Wilson can get stick for the lack of options.

Spurs have a concrete concourse that’s goes all the way outside, then two areas at each end where they do the security checks before you go up the stairs to the concourse, it’s a different shape but the footprint of spurs stadium is massively larger than just the stands

With a new stadium the surrounding areas will have a ring around it, like the emirates, spurs, coms, Olympic stadium etc. The security and safety expectations are much higher and so the land area needed will be much bigger then the pitch and stands footprint

He might just be back to running/sprinting on grass, I.e. a long way from full contact training and even longer from match fit

If he obeyed team instructions (I remember Cabaye screaming at him, to zero effect), turned up on time, yada yada yada he wouldn’t have ended up at Mike Ashley’s Newcastle. Course he was a nightmare, that’s why his career went the way it did. The managers he had were the ones who would sign him. Rafa for example wouldn’t have touched him, Rafa played Dirk Kuyt in the same position! But it meant he rocked up at Newcastle, and you got to watch him instead of some journeyman for a few seasons.

I do think there’s quite a big difference between maximising revenue for the club and maximising number of fans in the ground. They are related but not the same. One option that would satisfy everyone pretty much would be a big extension of the east stand. Is there really no chance of demolishing the listed buildings? It’s not like they are especially unique, there are plenty of other similiar streets. Liverpool gave up world heritage status to allow Everton’s stadium. Knock them down or incorporate them into an enlarged stand.