KetsbaiaIsBald

Happy with this. Var is not the issue. The quality of implementation is. The premier league is rich. I would still love every game to have 3 separate VAR teams. They can't hear each other. A decision is only overruled if 2 out of three agree in a time limit. Human error will always occur. There will always be disagreements. So minimise that using consensus. If you wanted to go mad have 5 teams and 3 must agree. In reality this will never happen. There are not enough competent people to do 1 team per game. But I'm convinced, in my own mind at least, that this would improve accuracy. It would be a fun exercise.

I kind of think all the clubs close to breaching the limit should just break the rules. The league was a shit show this year with 2 relegation teams losing points, getting them back, not getting them back. 6 teams going though this will make the league look like an utter farce. Losing credibility in the league could drive change more than anything else.

Not sure on the date windows but our league position could have put us in breach I guess. 2-3 million per position.

Mike fucking Ashley.

Fuck the premier league and their 18 months of delays, followed up by ill thought out rule changes to fuck us. I hope Man City blow them out of the water. Today is a good day.

Felt inevitable but still disappointing. Would have been nice to win one of these races against a premier league team for once.

Lets not even start on the poor man management meaning they lost a Champions league finalist.

bollox. This conversation has just been on defence as it suits a narrative. Statistically Newcastles injuries were worse. This is fact. This does not include losing Tonali for a season. On a club that has less than half the resources to spend.

As I say blinkered. Maybe a troll too. (We were also dipping into the Academy with Murphy https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Murphy_(footballer))

No you're being spineless. You're indirectly defending his choices by being pedantic about costing nothing. I'd wager money their bonus payments are substantially less than a months salary. He's deliberately making working conditions poor for the lowest paid workers at the club. Then encouraging staff to voluntarily resign. If you want to reduce staff do it the right way. Do voluntary redundancies any pay off staff the months worth of salary that they would be due. A billionaires is making working conditions poor for staff to save a few quid.

We don't have a seventh choice centre back due to resources. We were bringing Dummett on. "33 different back four parnerships" is a failing on Tag to work out what to do back there and playing roulette until something works.

Well say you don't agree with it then. Don't indirectly defend it.

Indeed. And the injuries we have had in defence have been so bad all season. Keeper, two defenders with ACL's, right back's and left backs injured. On a lower budget and with at least equal challenges Howe has done so so much better.

You really are blinkered very badly.

They have been asked to take voluntary resignations not redundancy. It really sounds like he's deliberately trying to create a pretty toxic place to work in order to trim the wage bill without having to pay anything out. I feel for staff at the club.

I think in principal as a fingers up to the bullshit European coefficient prize money rules it makes sense. I just don't see how it can work in practice given the UEFA spending rules. If there is away around the UEFA rules and we are going to add this back date it a few years though. So we get the spend we would have last year. Adding this now does after we have suffered from this does stink. Maybe this is a sign that the premier league does have some appetite to start fighting back against the UEFA rules. If they don't they're just going to eventually give up the leagues position of financial dominance.

Unfortunetly I don't think we ever do as the clubs with the most power and influence do not want it. They want the advantage and have fought for years to protect and extend it.

We cross posted. I kind of responded to that in my previous post. Its true but will happen either way.

I would be all for everyone in the league being allowed to spend the same amount as the club with the highest revenue. That to me feels like the best way to level the playing field. But does not work for owners looking to make a profit out of football. The ticket price subsidy is a suggestion in the world that we are in where the amount you can spend is based of revenue. It is not a fix for everything that is wrong with FFP. Its a small tweak so fans are not punished.

No not artificially level ticket income. St James will sell out. It will sell out at higher prices. Demand is huge. But people should not be priced out of a ticket due to FFP meaning all commercial revenue must be maximised. This is about saying I can demonstrate that the ticket would sell for this amount if I charged it. But I do not want to sell it at this amount as it prices out fans. I also do not want to be punished as a club for making decisions that are positive for or fans. In terms of the capacity the point that you can only do this if the ground is sold out. So capacity does not matter. I would not see it as widening the gap. Clubs are increasing the ticket prices. People are getting priced out and it's only going to get worse as demand is so high. Our income will go up from tickets either way. Its just about whether we pay for it or the owners do. I also think it would force owners to be honest. It is too easy for them to say we have to up prices due to FFP. If there is this option they cannot hide behind that. If they are upping prices it is for profit nothing else.

Yes exactly. It's saying as a club we believe that we could change x amounts for tickets. Our demand is such that people will pay. But We do not want to screw our fans or be forced to to be competitive. Therefore we will charge them less and add the difference ourselves. This payment would be allowed ontop of the 130million permitted losses. edit: Also to allow this to happen the game must be sold out.

This is so easily solvable. Allow owners to inject extra cash to subsidise ticket prices. If Newcastle are charging £40 for a ticket and say Fulham were the most expensive equivalent ticket at £120 the owner can put in £80.

When transfers run like this they never end here.

- beating Sunderland and ending their season

I’m still clinging onto the hope that Chelsea turn the conference down to avoid European sanctions?