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Chelsea hotel sale cleared by Premier League The hotels at Stamford Bridge Chelsea cashed in on their hotels in order to meet Premier League finance rules Nizaar Kinsella BBC Sport football news reporter Published 4 September 2024 Chelsea have been cleared by the Premier League for the sale of two hotels to a sister company to keep them compliant with profit and sustainability rules. The Blues published their accounts in April, revealing the sale of the Millennium and Copthorne hotels next to Stamford Bridge for £76.5m in an effort to help them avoid a potential £166.4m loss, reducing it to an allowable £89.9m for the financial year. The hotels changed ownership from Chelsea FC Holdings Ltd to BlueCo 22 Properties Ltd, two companies under the control of the Todd Boehly and Clearlake Capital ownership. The sales have since been ratified by the Premier League under what is termed a 'fair market valuation' under the league's associated-party transaction rules. Whether the £76.5m value has been changed is unclear but Chelsea have maintained their confidence in adhering to PSR rules that permitted clubs to have a maximum of £105m in losses over a three-year period as certain costs for infrastructure, academy and women's football are allowed to be deducted. Such transactions are not allowed in Uefa competitions, with Chelsea back in Europe in the Conference League this season, and in the English Football League after they closed the loophole in 2021, but the Premier League opted against following suit. The Premier League remains open to closing the loophole through a future vote. An attempt to ban such transactions within the league was most recently attempted by Premier League members in June but only a reported 11 clubs supported the idea, with a minimum of 14 needed required to vote through a change to the regulations. Senior staff within Chelsea and the controlling Clearlake Capital ownership believe they will be compliant with financial rules for the 2024-25 season. The club is set to earn significant financial reward for taking part in the Club World Cup next summer.

We don't have full planning for anything other than the stadium and will likely be harder to agree the detail than the stadium was. Doing the hotel etc first would only add to the delay to starting any of it.

https://www.lcfc.com/news/4106694/okoli-in-line-for-italy-debut-in-upcoming-internationals?fbclid=IwY2xjawFFZhpleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHWFWfXF2M8HXVyclFtrwh8NiIOp8pN17MfI6gmU6B6bRJPQBcsL9QLeyFQ_aem_U7ALM5GTzaOC9GCA0e5AxQ&lang=en Okoli In Line For Italy Debut In Upcoming Internationals Internationals Summer recruit Caleb Okoli could make his senior international debut for Italy when they play France at Parc de Princes on Friday. - UEFA Nations League action starts this week - Africa Cup of Nations qualifiers also begin - CONCACAF Nations League get underway too - Up to 14 Foxes in line for international minutes The Leicester City defender, capped at Under-21s level, has been called up to the senior side for two UEFA Nations League fixtures, with a contest against Israel set to take place at Bozsik Aréna three days later (both 7:45pm kick-offs). Also in League A Group 2, Belgium’s Nations League squad includes Wout Faes, with Israel up first in Hungary on Friday, prior to the Red Devils meeting France at Groupama Stadium next Monday (both 7:45pm kick-offs). Staying in Europe, a trio of Foxes could feature in Denmark’s Nations League opener against Switzerland on Thursday (7:45pm kick-off). Mads Hermansen, Victor Kristiansen and Jannik Vestergaard are all set to be involved in the League A Group 4 clash at Parken Stadium. On Sunday, meanwhile, the Danes take on Serbia in a 5pm kick-off at the same venue. Called up by Republic of Ireland for the first time, a potential debut awaits for Foxes Academy graduate Kasey McAteer, in the squad for Saturday’s clash against England (5pm kick-off). League B Group 2 action continues at Aviva Stadium against Greece next Tuesday (7:45pm kick-off). Wales have experienced goalkeeper Danny Ward in their ranks for League B Group 4 meetings with Turkey at Cardiff City Stadium on Friday and Montenegro at Gradski Stadion next Monday (both 7:45pm kick-offs). Africa Cup of Nations qualification action gets underway on Thursday when Jordan Ayew and Abdul Fatawu, called up for Ghana, face Angola in a 5pm kick-off, beginning their campaign at Baba Yara Sport Stadium. Four days later the pair could be involved again when travelling to tackle Niger at Stade Municipal de Berkane (4pm kick-off) in their second Group F fixture. Wilfred Ndidi is also starting AFCON qualifying with Nigeria, who face Benin in Group D at Godswill Akpabio Stadium on Saturday (5pm kick-off), before meeting Rwanda next Tuesday in a 2pm kick-off. New signing Bilal El Khannouss has been included in Morocco’s squad for their upcoming Group B qualifiers, which include hosting Gabon at Stade Adrar this Friday, before taking on Lesotho at the same venue three days later (both 7pm kick-offs). Bobby De Cordova-Reid’s Jamaica start up their CONCACAF Nations League campaign against Cuba in the early hours of Saturday morning, playing their first League A Group B fixture at Independence Park. The 31-year-old attacker could be in line for further minutes on Wednesday, when Honduras host the Reggae Boyz at Estadio Nacional Chelato Uclés (3am kick-off). Will Alves will be involved in the England Elite League Squad against Turkey Under-20s on Friday (5pm kick-off), alongside Ben Nelson and Sammy Braybrooke, who have both ventured out on loan. The young Lions then face Romania Under-20s at Stockport County’s Edgeley Park next Tuesday (7pm kick-off). Staying with the young England age groups, Michael Golding will be part of the England Under-19s’ three fixtures in Croatia, playing Italy at Stadium Nedelišće on Wednesday (4pm kick-off), before meeting the host nation at Stadium Koprivnica on Saturday (3:45pm kick-off). Their final match against Germany is set for next Tuesday (3:30pm kick-off) at Stadium Koprivnica.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/what-next-leicester-citys-psr-9530264 How City won their appeal, what it means for Steve Cooper and his players, and why issues around the 23-24 accounts mean that they are not yet completely out of the woods Sport ByJordan Blackwell 13:32, 4 SEP 2024 It should not be understated how significant Leicester City’s victory on appeal is. The points deduction they have saved themselves means it’s bigger than any single win they will earn on the pitch this season. But City are not out of the woods yet. There’s another set of accounts that need to be assessed for potential breaches of Profit and Sustainability Rules (PSR) before it can be definitively said that they will not receive a points deduction over their finances this season. Here, we’ve compiled the most common and pressing questions on City’s dispute with the Premier League, their PSR cases, and what happens next. How did City win their case? An independent appeal board agreed with City’s argument that the Premier League’s rules did not apply to them when they were charged with a breach of PSR. On June 30, 2023, the final date of the 22-23 accounting period, and the final date of the three years of finances that the Premier League were due to assess, City were not a Premier League club. Following their relegation in May 2023, City’s Premier League shares were passed to Luton on June 13, 2023. At that point, they ceased to be a Premier League club and were no longer subject to their rules. That was the basis of City’s argument. Under the Premier League’s own definition of a member club, City were not one. Despite the commission’s original finding that determining a specific date of the alleged breach of the £105m losses threshold was not necessary, the appeal board agreed with City’s argument that their finances could not be assessed until the financial period had concluded. Therefore no judgement could be made on whether they had exceeded the £105m threshold until after June 30, by which point they were not a Premier League club. Why was the change to the accounting date significant? On April 23, 2023, City extended their accounting period, moving the final date from May 31, 2023, to June 30, 2023. This is significant because had their financial year ended in May, they would not yet have passed their Premier League shares to Luton, and so their argument that they were no longer a Premier League club would have been invalid. City informed the Premier League of their decision to change their accounting period on March 8, 2023, more than a month before it officially came through. It’s deemed that there is nothing untoward in City changing their accounting period. They are permitted to do so within the Premier League’s rules, and can even have an end date as late as July 31. Can the Premier League appeal this judgement? Yes, technically. But it seems they are very unlikely to do so, and even less likely to win. Their appeal would have to be on the basis that the appeal board was not fit for purpose, but, as City were keen to point out, it was made up of a panel of three experienced, senior lawyers, two of whom were former Court of Appeal judges. So it’s done? Yes. City have not breached PSR for the 22-23 season. That is now definite. They will not receive a punishment, points deduction or otherwise, for that season’s finances. Is that including the charge over failing to submit their accounts? Yes. So there were two charges originally, one for the alleged breach of PSR, and the other for failing to submit their latest audited accounts. Again, at the point at which they were charged over such an alleged offence, they were not a Premier League club and so the charge is dismissed. How many points would City have been deducted? Seven, possibly. It is not in dispute that City exceeded the £105m threshold. They admitted in their own accounts, published in the spring, that they “anticipated they may be found not in compliance” with PSR. The details emerging from the appeal board’s judgement shows that the Premier League’s PSR calculation of City’s finances came in at £129.4m. That’s £24.4m above the threshold. The rules set out by the Everton and Nottingham Forest cases are that a PSR breach leads to a three-point deduction, with a further deducted point for every £6.5m a club is above the threshold. That works out at seven points taken away. However, there would have been arguments over the exact figure at which City had exceeded the threshold, while mitigating circumstances can often crop up during hearings and judgements. So it’s not definitive that it would have been a seven-point deduction. Why might City still be unhappy, despite winning their appeal? There are not full-on celebrations going on inside the club. It seems there is still some frustration that because of this process and the time it took to conclude, it affected their transfer business this summer. It’s quite clear that they were not as attractive a club in the transfer market because they had a potential points deduction hanging over them, one that was public knowledge. Therefore, they may feel they weren’t able to recruit players they otherwise would have enticed had the case never been brought. What does this mean for City’s season? For Steve Cooper and his players, they can get on with the Premier League campaign knowing that one of the big factors potentially affecting their season is now out of the window. But it’s not the case that they definitely won’t receive a points deduction this season, because there is still the matter of their 23-24 finances. More on that further down. What does this mean for the Premier League? They’ve said they’re “surprised” and “disappointed”, but they’re probably a little embarrassed as well. This has come about simply because their rules are not watertight. They were acting on the spirit of PSR and not on the wording, and so it’s likely to mean a rewrite of their own regulations so that no club can copy what City have done. What does it mean for other clubs? There’s bound to be anger. It will be seen around the country that City have got off on a technicality. The clubs in particular who will be frustrated are Everton and Forest, who received points deductions for their breaches of PSR; Leeds, who may feel they were denied promotion at City’s expense; and this season’s relegation battlers, who will be frustrated if City finish above them by seven points or fewer. What does it mean for the January transfer window? Not a lot, really. As a Premier League club, City still have to pay attention to PSR in case of future breaches. They don’t intend to be relegated so that they can call on this argument every time. What about the 23-24 finances? Are City in the clear? This is now the focus for City. Because, no, they’re not in the clear on the three-year accounting cycle ending with 23-24. Mainly, that’s because they have not been assessed yet, but the EFL, whose jurisdiction City were under, suspected that the club may be in breach of PSR, hence placing them under a transfer embargo. City made moves to help stay within the threshold late in the financial year, receiving around £10m in compensation for Enzo Maresca and his staff’s move to Chelsea, plus £30m for the sale of Kiernan Dewsbury-Hall to Stamford Bridge, but it’s not certain they stayed within the £83m of allowable losses. City will now be putting together their own PSR calculation to submit to the Premier League by December 31. Who is in charge of analysing City’s 23-24 finances? The EFL or the Premier League? This is a tricky one. You would suspect the EFL, because City were in the EFL in the 23-24, but there may be a handover, and so it then comes down to the Premier League’s judgement again. For now, that’s not certain. Does the same defence not apply – that City were not an EFL club at the point at which their financial year concluded? It appears not, simply because the EFL have covered for this possibility. In their rulebook, under financial fair play judgements, it states: “If a Club is promoted or relegated out of the Championship Division that Club shall, notwithstanding promotion or relegation, remain bound by these as if it were still a Championship Club, until such time as it has complied with all of its obligations relating to its last Season as a Championship Club.” And in any case, as mentioned above, there may have been a handover, with the Premier League now in charge of assessing City. This is going to be a hot topic for the remainder of this season. When will the 23-24 finances be assessed? Essentially, it will begin whenever City submit their PSR calculation. They have to submit their own assessment to the Premier League by December 31, even though it is for a season in which they were in the EFL. From there, the governing bodies will make an assessment. So last season, Everton and Forest were charged in January after submitting their PSR calculations before the end of December, and they had received their punishments before the end of the season. Forest’s failed appeal was also decided before the end of May. If City are in breach for 23-24, what would be the punishment and when would it be applied? Again, this is uncertain. It likely would be a points deduction and likely would come in before the end of this season, but the uncertainty around City being an EFL club at the time may mean there’s more of an argument to be had. But in short, and this is important, City could still receive a points deduction this season for last term’s finances, albeit so could all of the 19 other clubs in the Premier League. Does the ruling on 22-23 finances make a difference for 23-24? Possibly, yes. This is pretty interesting. The EFL has a double jeopardy ruling, by which a club’s losses are capped if they have already been punished for a PSR cycle. Let’s say City had been found in breach of PSR for the three-year cycle ending in 22-23 and had been punished for that. When the EFL then comes to assess the three-year cycle ending in 23-24, they would cap the losses for the first two of those three seasons, because essentially they’ve already been assessed. In the Premier League, allowable losses stand at £35m per season. In the Championship, it’s £13m per season. Applying the double-jeopardy rule, the EFL would have capped City’s losses at £35m for 21-22 and 22-23, the first two years of the cycle they are assessing, and so essentially, they would be solely judging City on whether they exceeded the £13m allowable losses for 23-24. That City have not been punished, it means the full three-year cycle will be considered and the club judged on whether they have exceeded the allowable £83m losses. Before City could have employed the double-jeopardy defence, but now don’t have that in their back pocket.

Southampton have 4 in that list not exactly helping them though.

Should have got relegated then, not to worry you can use the ruling this season when you get relegated unless they change the rules then you'll really be pissed off.

Are they charging Villa for harassing the ref in the 1st half when he was trying to give us a drop ball in our penalty area.

As I was always taught 1 boy = 1boy 2 boys = 1/2 boy 3 boys = No boy at all = all sense and natural behaviour vanishes.

Damning!

https://www.witneygazette.co.uk/sport/24558284.oxford-united-boss-signing-leicester-city-defender-ben-nelson/ DES Buckingham regards deadline day loan signing Ben Nelson as one of the best young centre backs in English football. The 20-year-old arrived on a season-long loan from Leicester City, with Oxford United reportedly beating interest from fellow Sky Bet Championship sides Bristol City, Portsmouth and Sunderland to land Nelson. The centre half was United’s main target in the position during the summer transfer window, and head coach Buckingham is delighted to get his man. Asked about bringing in a centre back this summer, Buckingham responded: “It’s one we’ve been after for a long time. “We know we need some cover in there, so to be able to bring, not a just a player in, but a player that we’ve chased for a long, long time. “He can play the way we want to play, he’s a very good young prospect, not just for his club, but for the country. “More importantly, it gives us a good bit of depth and quality in that space.” Nelson is on international duty having been named in England’s ‘Elite League’ squad, formerly the Under-20s. England face Turkey in Istanbul on Friday, before a home game at Stockport County’s Edgeley Park on September 10.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/how-sammy-braybrooke-leicester-city-9526205 How Sammy Braybrooke and Leicester City loanees fared on debuts as faith shown in club's academy Leicester City have 10 players out on loan this season and four were thrown straight in for their debuts this past weekend, despite limited training time at their new clubs ByJordan Blackwell 07:00, 3 SEP 2024Updated07:08, 3 SEP 2024 Faith was placed in Leicester City’s academy as three of their loanees were thrown straight into the starting of their new loan clubs. Sammy Braybrooke, Chris Popov, and Brandon Cover respectively joined Dundee, Barrow, and Port Vale on season-long deals this week as City made use of the loan market to get minutes for their most promising youngsters. Despite limited training time, the trio were named in their new clubs’ 11s at the weekend, all three making just the second senior appearances of their career. Braybrooke enjoyed a tidy Dundee debut in their 2-2 draw with St Mirren. The England youth international midfielder played an hour in what was a physical encounter, even for the Scottish Premiership. Dundee manager Tony Docherty said after the match: “Sammy did well. It was a difficult game, something he’s probably not used to. I was really impressed.” For Barrow, Popov led the line and played nearly the full match in their 1-0 League Two win over Harrogate. The Welshman enjoyed a lively outing just a few days after his senior debut for City in the Carabao Cup. At Port Vale, Cover played as a right-sided wing-back in their 3-2 defeat to Doncaster in League Two. The 20-year-old earned very positive reviews from Vale fans for his performance. Before the game, Doncaster manager Darren Moore explained why he was throwing Cover straight in, saying: “He’s a good player, he plays forward, he’s aggressive with his approach, and with the type of game it would be today, it would be a good one for him to make his introduction. He’s ready, he’s good to go, which is wonderful. Physically he’s up there.” At Exeter in League One, Amani Richards made his senior debut off the bench and the forward went close to adding a third goal in the Grecians’ excellent 2-0 victory at Bolton, the 19-year-old yet another player who received positive supporter feedback from his appearance. Elsewhere, winger Silko Thomas, who moved on loan to Wigan last month, played 90 minutes as the Latics lost 2-1 to League One’s big spenders Birmingham. In the Championship, Harry Souttar kept his first clean sheet as a Sheffield United player, the centre-back playing 90 minutes as the Blades kept their unbeaten Championship start going with a 1-0 win over Watford in a feisty encounter at Bramall Lane. For four more City loanees, they will have to wait for their debuts. Tom Cannon at Stoke and Ben Nelson at Oxford were registered too late to feature at the weekend, and so they could make their debuts after the international break. Wanya Marcal did not feature in De Graafschap’s 4-1 win over Roda JC but will hope to play against FC Eindhoven this Friday, while goalkeeper Brad Young could be between the sticks for Hartlepool against Halifax in the National League.

Leicester City Football Club On Saturday, Facu became our youngest Premier League scorer since Jon Stevenson in 2002

I'd think the lower down you are the less effective and needed it would be.

The hotel bar is open.

They're waiting until we win a PL game.

The stadium was designed to push the sound from each stand down on to the pitch this is why the players often comment on the level of noise being great which puzzles many fans.

Surely with mobile tickets people could sign up on the day and pay for ticket all on their phone. Sounds more like don't want, period than can't do.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-notebook-free-agent-9525363 Sport By Jordan Blackwell 13:41, 2 SEP 2024 Early promise from Under-18s Also making an undefeated start to the league season are City’s Under-18s. They thrashed reigning South division champions Chelsea 5-2 at the weekend to take their tally to seven points from their opening three matches, leaving them behind only Tottenham in the table. City have plenty of excellent prospects at Under-18 level, with many stepping up from last season’s Under-16 squad, who won the Premier League Cup in May. Fifteen-year-old Jeremy Monga, who was in the triumphant Under-16s team and has represented the Under-21s this term, got his first goal for the Under-18s in the victory over Chelsea. But leading the scoring so far is a new recruit. Laolu Omobolaji signed for the club from Crystal Palace earlier this year and has four goals in three outings so far this season.

https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/sport/football/transfer-news/leicester-city-notebook-free-agent-9525363 Sport By Jordan Blackwell 13:41, 2 SEP 2024 City are expected to have one gap in their 25-man Premier League line-up, but it’s not thought they will attempt to fill it, at least not until January. But they do have one free agent training at the club. Former midfielder Matty James is back at City, training at Seagrave as he looks to keep up his fitness while he searches for a new club. He was let go by Bristol City during the summer and is yet to find a new home. READ MORE: Leicester City injury latest as Steve Cooper set to work with depleted squad READ MORE: The Leicester City decision Steve Cooper should have made to follow his own ruthless request The 33-year-old left City in 2021 after an injury-hit nine years at the club. In 2019, during his recovery from an Achilles injury, he helped out with the young players at the club, with then-manager Brendan Rodgers describing him as a “good thinker of the game”, with coaching providing him something else to focus beyond his injury rehab. While he’s at Seagrave to keep fit, he’s doing the same again, working with the club’s academy. Manager Steve Cooper said: “Matty is keeping fit and offering a bit back to the younger players. I think he’s waiting for his next club but that’s not for me to talk about.”

My understanding was they looked at a new stadium when considering the expansion of the KP and decided expansion was the best option especially now they have the EON building.

But it isn't always a foul, every game there's tackles from behind where a player gets the ball and no foul is given. Many are directly from behind between the players legs Skipp's was more from the side anyway.

The subs should have been when we were clearly on top and before their subs and goal. It may not be normal to sub when on top and in control but considering we had little or no creativity we looked like we were never going to benefit from the dominance,

I've added the list to your OP