Other clubs' transfers

[jack j]

Can someone explain to me how they are still allowed to spend?

[SUPERTOON]

1 minute ago, jack j said:

Can someone explain to me how they are still allowed to spend?

They find loopholes, bend the rules and sell loads of academy players for shit loads of money.

[Paully]

6 minutes ago, jack j said:

Can someone explain to me how they are still allowed to spend?

 

Selling hotels, women's teams and God knows what else to a parent company whilst we can't do anything - utter shambles

[Sibierski]

They've probably legit forgot Esteavo is joining in summer.

[UpTheToon]

5 hours ago, Froggy said:

Apparently this new deal is close to £500,000 a week. 

 

even 400k/w for 9 years is £200m

 

 

Edited 7 hours ago by UpTheToon

[toon25]

2 hours ago, joeyt said:

of course

 

 

More additions for their B-team/Europe Conf League/PL relegation fodder match day squads.

[Ameritoon]

11 hours ago, Kaizero said:

 

The fact John Green, for some reason, ended up becoming an AFC Wimbledon fan - out of all possible teams for that specific guy* to end up falling for such a random club in the English league system, to the degree he's now put up the money to buy a them a new player because he wanted to watch them win more often  Credit where credit's due, he's truly been living life as a devout Dons fan over the last few years  

 

*as in him having a fair few quirks whilst at the same time having had severe OCD his entire life, which in most avenues of life has led him to not really form any major attachments outside the people closest to him as his "issues", according to himself, almost without fail eventually make him sour on things he once cared for and/or liked. Committing to one specific "soccer" team for life feels very out of character for him based on his public persona  Granted, we only know his public persona, he may be dealing better with things nowadays than he's willing to let on in public. Good on him, either way. Love me some John (and Hank) Green  

 

Football hipster Americans love AFC Wimbledon. I should know, I've gone out of my way to see a match there.

[Teslact]

11 hours ago, Kaizero said:

 

The fact John Green, for some reason, ended up becoming an AFC Wimbledon fan - out of all possible teams for that specific guy* to end up falling for such a random club in the English league system, to the degree he's now put up the money to buy a them a new player because he wanted to watch them win more often  Credit where credit's due, he's truly been living life as a devout Dons fan over the last few years  

 

*as in him having a fair few quirks whilst at the same time having had severe OCD his entire life, which in most avenues of life has led him to not really form any major attachments outside the people closest to him as his "issues", according to himself, almost without fail eventually make him sour on things he once cared for and/or liked. Committing to one specific "soccer" team for life feels very out of character for him based on his public persona  Granted, we only know his public persona, he may be dealing better with things nowadays than he's willing to let on in public. Good on him, either way. Love me some John (and Hank) Green  

I don't follow him, so after listening to The Anthropocene Reviewed - with a whole chapter on Jerzy Dudek - I assumed he was a Liverpool fan. It's a great (audio) book.

[wyn davies]

2 hours ago, UpTheToon said:

 

even 400k/w for 9 years is £200m

 

 

 

think in reality that should things go against city then they could receive upto £200m in comp , someone who knows more please update .

[GeordieDazzler]

1 hour ago, Teslact said:

I don't follow him, so after listening to The Anthropocene Reviewed - with a whole chapter on Jerzy Dudek - I assumed he was a Liverpool fan. It's a great (audio) book.

He is a Liverpool fan 

[Kaizero]

49 minutes ago, GeordieDazzler said:

He is a Liverpool fan 

 

I'd say it's a bit more nuanced and complex rather than the straightforward statement you've made. Essentially, as a kid, he "picked" Liverpool as his soccer club - just as most kids not local to any English clubs across the world end up doing with one team or another. His interest in football wasn't a major part of his llfe until he stumbled across AFC Wimbledon, however. He's even gone as far as stating that the only crowd he's ever felt comfortable in was in the stands at Plough Lane and that the club in his heart is AFC Wimbledon.

 

That, of course, brings us to what's been an issue for an immeasurable amount of kids that for one reason or another ended up having to "pick" a team to "support" when they were in school, maybe even without actually giving a shit about football, or even all sports, in general at the time. What happens if/when a day comes where you, as an older, wiser and more experienced human being end up actually becoming interested in football - but suddenly "your" club, picked at random during childhood, doesn't feel "right" for you at all - but another club does? What if that club is the reason you actually became actively interested in football at all? Do you stick to the cultural expectation of you to continue "supporting" a club you chose randomly without giving it a second thought when you were a child, or do you proclaim your support for a different club and face the wrath of all other football supporters that maintain the view that "changing" the club you support is tantamount to murderous treason? 🤷🏼‍♂️

 

John Green only speaks with genuine excitement and engagement when discussing AFC Wimbledon. Sure, he's up to date on Liverpool and can speak about the club and what's going on there - but there's no actual emotion when he speaks about them. It all just sounds like a bog standard TV pundit discussing the day's matches and the teams involved, whereas his entire being lights up when talking about AFC Wimbledon. Where is the line drawn? i'd bet good money on Green only keeping up a facade pretending to support LFC because of the implication of what football culture would think about him if he stated he didn't care about LFC and was a through and through supporter of AFC Wimbledon, rather than him genuinely being an actively engaged LFC supporter in his daily life.

 

For those that are English by birth it's a fair bit different than for those that aren't, you're literally borned into supporting your town's local team - or the local team of one, or both, of your parents (or even grandparents) back from the time they were kids. Having grown up in Norway, I've come to realize that at least half of those that say they "support" teams like Man Utd, Liverpool, Arsenal or Chelsea don't actually care one iota about "their" team, it's just how it is because they made a choice when they were a kid to have a team to say they "supported" when other kids talked about the teams they "supported". The only Norwegian supporters of English teams that I've, almost always, felt came across as 100% genuine in their support of "their" club were the ones that supported teams like Newcastle or other teams that never were perennial title challengers in the PL era - most likely because they actually "chose" the team they supported for an emotional reason, or any other reason that made them feel a connection to either the geographical area where the club is based or the club itself.

 

Personally, I think non-English persons that "chose" one of the horrid plastic clubs randomly as a kid should be given a pass if they, later in life, actually develop a genuine interest in football and through that develop a genuine connection to a different club than the one they've said they supported, when asked which club they support, just to have an answer ready for that very question - and not because they actually support or feel connected to that club. 

 

I was lucky as I essentially inherited my NUFC support from my father, who'd been a lifelong fan ever since the Norwegian version of the BBC started airing one match every saturday from the English top flight sometime in the late 50s/early 60s. I was born into an emotional connection to a "foreign" team, in addition to having a singular focus on Newcastle due to the fact there were no Norwegian teams within a seven hour drive from where I grew up that played in the Norwegian Premier Division. My local side has never been higher up in the league pyramid than the third tier (this season they've returned to said tier for the first time in over a decade, which actually has made me somewhat interested in, and excited about, my local team for the first time in my 35 years on this earth ). Others weren't as lucky as I was, though, and now they're stuck in a footballing limbo where they can't ever become genuinely interested in the sport because they're stuck with a team they have no affinity or care for, whilst knowing they'll be footballing pariahs if they ever were to say they now supported a different team - even if logic were to support the fact their "switch" was for actual attachment/emotional reasons and not because they'd gone glory hunting. An example could for instance be someone that blurted out "Chelsea" at the age of 6 because that was the only club they could think of when another kid, or a teacher/adult, asked them which club they supported - but now saying their actual team is a team like Bradford or a team of a similar, lower, standing than the team they're "meant" to support for the rest of their natural born lives  

 

It's an interesting subject, I feel. I'd genuinely be interested in hearing opinions about this from someone actually English, if any of you've bothered to read through the entirety of my long ass rant to the point you've actually reached this part of it  

 

Contextual Caveat: All that said, I genuinely believe in the deepest parts of my being that a Norwegian that changes the Norwegian team they support ordered themselves a one way ticket to the deepest part of hell because of it. So I understand the viewpoint of a natural born citizen of a country absolutely detesting anyone of their own nationality that would even just entertain a thought about switching the team they support in their home nation to another team within it. You're stuck with the best team in the vicinity of your birthplace or your favourite parent/grandparent's place of birth for your entire natural born life. However, in contrast to the English, most people of other nationalities most of the time support two teams - one local and one foreign. It's the process surrounding the foreign team someone supports I'm talking about in this post, not the luck/lack of luck regarding a person's birthplace when it comes to the standard of the available local teams.

 

 

Edited 3 hours ago by Kaizero

[gdm]

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