Maggies

Forest pressed a lot better in the second half. Burn and Schar are hopeless when being pressed which then brings the midfield too deep and Isak gets isolated. None of this is helped by Pope being useless on the ball. The sooner Botman is fit the better. However… a win is a win. Liverpool game is a free hit ahead of a favourable fixture list of the run in.

I can’t see a way that the Premier League can get out of this. Even if the new APT are found legal, how can you punish clubs for PSR when 2 of the 3 years being judged had illegal APT rules. Moving to squad cost rules would work, but that has just been voted out as well… They’ve got themselves in such a mess and it’s brilliant!

Feels like a must win just to get a bit of confidence back in our home form.

He needs to find a way where our poor performances aren’t so poor. At least make ourselves difficult to beat. On our day we’re a match for anyone, but when we drop off we drop very low. Part of me can understand that due to not developing the squad. Poor performances from players like Murphy, Schar, Willock, Burn and Dubravka are very low performances indeed.

Until we have better core defence than Schar, Burn and Dubravka then we always risk these results. Those three are costing us at the moment. Harsh on Burn as he’s performing better than expected, but he has quite a low ceiling when it comes to expectations.

Depends whether we had any sponsorship deals rejected by PL between 2021 to 2024. If we did, then today does change things. If not, then we’re waiting on the ruling on the current rules.

I’m not sure they could have said anything else

I wouldn’t worry about UEFA’s rules too much. Man City are also in Europe so makes no sense for them to legally challenge Premier League rules if they thought UEFA could stop them.

Director loans not be included as an APT. The fact they’re not backdating them is likely a smoking gun to make the new rules illegal as well.

Still a couple of thousand left. Cant imagine there will be many people in pots 4 or 5.

Reading the ruling, the logic is: - as 3 of the ATP rules were found unlawful then the whole of ATP was found unlawful. Premier League argue that the new rules resolve the 3 illegal ATP rules which makes the new rules still enforceable. The new ATP are under a legal challenge by City so they may yet also be found illegal. So it’s not an fully open goal for us yet (unless we had deals knocked back between 2021-24) but it’s could very likely become an open goal for us soon.

I really hope we have some deals that were knocked back between 2021 to 2024 that we can now go after. As a minimum I should imagine we could argue the Sela and Noon deals were limited due to the illegal rules.

Premier League would have to give other clubs less money to pay for this damage. Imagine other clubs funding our transfer war chest after we win a sizeable payout for loss of earnings!

How does this work - the Premier League potentially going bust?!

Yes. The Premier League may try to stop is as the current rules remain in place, however the current rules are likely to be found illegal and we will then sue for the loss.

Let’s go!

It’s not a run of the mill league match so I think atmosphere will be canny enough. Glad it’s Sunday so we get an extra day rest after Liverpool.

Hopefully he uses the time to heal fully and is back on form when he returns.

Anyone know when Box Park goes on sale?

We need a new #1 keeper in the summer but Dubravka is a decent enough #2. Pope will be sold.

Yeah - I suspect most people who didn’t attend one of the matches just forwarded on the email instead of official transferring route.

Loads. Not many tickets sold yesterday.

Happy with a home draw. Shame the other matches are walkovers for most of the better sides.

Just wait for the chaos on the FA Cup final when we’ll have even fewer tickets!

If it’s like last time, you’ll be able to see seat availability. So if you have someone in your group in pot 1 then they can just keep an eye on tickets and then act accordingly. Pots 1 to 3 are all guaranteed tickets, so the risk is just whether you’ll be able to sit together.