Manwell Pablo

It's good enough for the League The people on here who have said it's the best in the league are deluded though. Should be mounting a push for 6th at least though not sat 17th

Possession based football is fine, it’s as viable as viable a tactic as any other with the right personnel. Which we do not have, and we have a manager who on his own words willing to die by the sword in trying to make them the personnel to have, which isn’t going to happen, so we’re fcked, it’s simple really.

It’s not late at all no.

Not the point is it.

I’ve said this to you already if you feel that strongly about it perhaps you should offer to personally deliver our championship trophy to Ipswich and 40 million quid up to Leeds. No? Thought not.

To an extent. There was no rule against it back then though, had this conversation in the office as I have the pleasure of working in Manc and there's a City Fan and a Blackburn fan and the Jack Walker era got bought up. If there's a rule you need to stick to it, no such rule for Blackburn so it's not a fair yard stick (read Man U). It is, for that reason though, I am personally an endorser of them losing their trophies. They were won in terms of Sport fairly on a field even if that was by a squad of players who wouldn't have played together had FFP been hit, the advantage is purely structural, it is therefore not comparable to the Calcipoli incident. The biggest problem for the sport is these rulings have in the long term proven to be the death of football and it's now a circus. There's no going back now as City will have the book thrown at them and you can't reverse the rules after you've crippled a club over them so we are stuck this FFP nonsense and now all of the private legal damages cases that come with it, and these rules don't even do what they were supposed to do, stop clubs making a mess of themeselves, as we've proven.

It’s more the fact that the nations league, whilst admittedly is better than friendlies. Is really not very exciting now the novelty has warn off.

In Japan thankfully so more than likely neither of them.

Do you endorse Leicester City?

indeed. Highly annoying watching people blame external factors on what was a complete internal meltdown.

Dunno where to start with that. One, I have no idea why you would think that other than pure cynicism. And a successful appeal would mean a verdict of not guilty, you can't "get away" with something you are not guilty of by virtue of having not done it.

Yes I did look that up after.

Very true but it’s how much weight an independent commission puts on that. I am not saying they won’t get a sporting sanction for it for that reason and also like I say volume of offences I am just saying the bulk of the charges are not the most severe. They are in deep shit regardless even if they maintain their pl place which I’m sure they won’t, the fines for one of these cases is throw away money but times it by 107 and take away Champions League revenue and tell them they have to meet ffp on top of that and they are still in crisis situation with their outgoings.

Again something Chelsea have done and not received a points deduction. if you actually look at most of their charges they are things normally dealt with by a fine. But the sheer amount of them makes it unprecedented and hard to predict a punishment. The 7 over spending, charges and UEFA charges, should land them with -42 points and a lengthy ban from Europe, as a minimum baseline. Whatever happens on top of that is anyone’s guess.

It’s a very hard thing to speculate about. If you just take like 20-30 of the cases which are specifically to do with failing to submit accounts, we weren’t actually docked points for that I don’t think, we were docked points for the overspend. So you could argue 20-30 of those cases aren’t punishable by points deduction. You could equally argue there is a big difference between doing something once and doing it 25 times.