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I've always said it's the same pool of money that just gets switch to different uses depending on which political party is in government

They should close down the PL and EFL, put all the teams in hat and make a draw first 20 names go in the PL 2027/28 etc

Manchester City transfer spending during era of financial rule breaking 2009-2018 The table shows that inthe calendar year of 2026, Fulham have the worst away form among the ever-present sides in the division. The Cottagers have just seven points from a possible 30. Use the column header buttons to sort columns by ascending or descending orderCurrently not sorted Season Extra sponsorship amount paid by owners Transfer money spent Which significant players came in? 2009-10 £22.5m £126m Tevez, Adebayor, Lescott, Santa Cruz, Kolo Toure, Barry 2010-11 £28.5m £157m Dzeko, Yaya Toure, Balotelli, Silva, Kolarov, Milner 2011-12 £70.75m £78m Aguero, Nasri, Savic, Clichy 2012-13 £105.75m £53m Garcia, Nastasic, Rodwell, Sinclair, Maicon 2013-14 £111.5m £99m Fernandinho, Jovetic, Negredo, Navas 2014-15 £107.2m £88m Mangala, Bony, Fernando, Caballero 2015-16 £120.17m £179m De Bruyne, Sterling, Otamendi, Delph 2016-17 £129.59m £185m Stones, Sane, Jesus, Gundogan, Bravo, Nolito 2017-18 £134.73m £272m Laporte, Mendy, Walker, Bernardo, Ederson, Danilo Total £830.69m £1.2bn Source: Transfermarkt https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/c9lyk46gekkeo

Not cheap though

Not forgetting the increase in ticket prices and all around optional costs of attending like food, programmes, kit and other stuff from their shops. Overall inflation would have pushed these up but not to the level they've now reached

Sloppy at the back again.

Gary Rowett lifts lid on Leicester City relegation amid Khun Top admission Gary Rowett lifts lid on Leicester City relegation amid Khun Top admission Story by Josh Holland Gary Rowett has revealed he found standards had slipped at Leicester City when he took over last season, with the former Foxes boss admitting there were “other reasons” why a squad with so much quality was fighting relegation. The Foxes finished 23rd in the Championship last term after having six points deducted for breaching PSR rules. Before a ball was kicked, City were tipped to make an instant return to the Premier League under Marti Cifuentes, who was sacked in January. Rowett was appointed as his replacement in February and lost just four games in charge. However, only one win was recorded before their relegation to the third tier was confirmed at the end of April. City opted against handing Rowett a new contract and Russell Martin came in over the summer. In League One, the Foxes are sitting 14th after seven games. Rowett has spent the first part of the season doing punditry work with Sky Sports and, this week, appeared on talkSPORT alongside Jim White and Simon Jordan. Speaking as a guest, the former Foxes boss discussed taking the job at the King Power Stadium and what went wrong. He said: "It’s interesting because a lot of people have said to me, ‘why on earth would you take that job?’ It’s a short term job, there’s no real ambition from my perspective long-term, because it was always to the end of the season. "I think you get to a stage, I’ve done 600-odd games now, you just take the ones that you fancy. I got offered a Championship job permanently about a week before that I turned down [because] it wasn’t something that really made me desperate to get into management. "It was one [where] I knew the club and knew a few people at the club, it felt like a good opportunity, short term, to go in and have a crack at it. I knew the challenges, I think you always know the challenges when a team with what perceived to be that much quality in the squad is down there, there’s got to be other reasons that they’re there. "It’s always the same, you often find [that] culturally, things have slipped and are not quite where you’d want them to be. Different managers have tried different ways of doing it and not quite managed to get success. I found a group of players that tried their best to perform, I think they did perform, but it just lacked certain characteristics when you’re down there." Rowett also revealed that communication with City owner Aiyawatt 'Top' Srivaddhanaprabha was limited, something that he claims is often the case in today's game. “One thing I found from an ownership perspective is that you didn’t really talk to the owner much," he added. "I’ve found that a lot recently with a lot of the clubs that I’ve been at. Actually, some of the more enjoyable jobs have been where you’ve actually had some sort of relationship and conversation with the owner and you can understand what it is that they’re trying to achieve. "Whereas nowadays, you very rarely speak to the owners and sometimes that makes it difficult because messages get mixed.”

A side effect of this is that it has caused a massive inflation of transfer, wages and general costs by clubs trying to compete with them and that has cascaded down the leagues. We broke the rules trying to compete and keep up with them.

Leicester City Football Club 1-2 Christian McFarlane started for England U20s as they beat France 2-1 in La Nucia earlier today

THe Super League was to replace the European (UEFA) competitions they never intended to leave the PL so I don't see how that helps in this situation.

I don't know but this is a Reserve game not the 1st team

Like so many know F all pundits, football authors and administrators of English football

Tuesday 6 October, 2026 - Stevenage v LCFC 7pm KO - EFL Trophy - Jersey Mike's Trophy - Sky Sports + App - Possible 'river' Tuesday 6 October, 2026 - England v Czechia 7.45 KO - UEFA Nations League A Grp. 3 Just For Fun - Don't take it too seriously

Irish History 1916 through to 1923 An orange man is an Irish man who wishes he was an English man so he dresses up as a Scottish man so he can March in honour of a Dutch man. Hope that clears things up a bit. Sort of.

I wish I had a 12 year old son/daughter

OP Updated Wout is OUT

I think it usually has a hyphen to separate the phase, now edited. Suffice to say I've made a complete balls up of the title not once but twice

Leicester City Football Club Ryan Donnelly made an appearance off the bench to help Northern Ireland U21s beat Malta 4-0 this weekend

Or he'll be residing at his new abode the Seagrave Mansions

Even a collective approach would create a minefield of problems as the whole scenario cascades all the way down the leagues and the Cups as well. A will owe B who will owe C&D etc. There'd need to be some pre-agreement that all clubs who believe they deserve some recompense would contribute a proportion of the costs and receive a proportion of the proceeds should there be any otherwise this will go on for years and cost people more than the achieve if any. It'll be hard enough to try to prove that their cheating affected the outcomes of any results.

Have no idea if this is bullshit or not, potentially libellous This not my view as I have no knowledge of any of these accusations Make your own mind up. football history · Follow The Untold Pep Files: A Story of Drugs, Referees, and Dark Money in Football Imagine a story so massive it makes the Lance Armstrong scandal look like a warm-up act. It starts with a single player, spans across three countries, and exposes a decades-long trail of destroyed evidence, "miracle" doctors, and institutional corruption. Welcome down the rabbit hole. CHAPTER 1: The Player Who Got Caught Before Pep Guardiola was the master tactician, he was a midfielder for Brescia in 2001. That was the year he tested positive twice for the banned anabolic steroid nandrolone. His defense? "Contaminated multivitamins." Who was the man preparing those exact vitamins? Dr. Ramon Segura, the same physiologist who was working with Frank de Boer when De Boer also tested positive for nandrolone that exact same year. The pattern was set early: win at all costs, and surround yourself with questionable medicine. CHAPTER 2: The Barcelona "Miracles" & Operación Puerto When Pep took over Barcelona in 2008, guess who he immediately brought in to lead the medical staff? Dr. Ramon Segura. At the same time, Spanish football was shadowed by Operación Puerto, the infamous raid on Dr. Eufemiano Fuentes that uncovered 99 blood bags containing EPO. Fuentes openly admitted on trial that he had worked with football and tennis stars, famously taunting the court that naming his clients meant Spain would have to give back their Champions League, European Championship, and World Cup trophies. The Spanish judge’s response? Refuse to let him name names, reject WADA’s appeal, and order all blood bags destroyed under the guise of doctor-patient confidentiality. Add to this: Journalists uncovering full-season "doping preparation plans" for La Liga giants. Real Sociedad’s president admitting they spent €327,000 annually on illegal black-market PEDs. Retracted slips on radio revealing players using growth hormones for "muscle recovery." Spanish football's Golden Era was built, but the paper trail was conveniently burned. CHAPTER 3: The System Expands — Financial Doping & Negreira Winning wasn't just happening on the pitch; it was being secured everywhere else. While the public obsessively meme's about Premier League charges, Barcelona was paying millions to Jose Maria Enriquez Negreira, the Vice President of Spain's Refereeing Committee. When asked in court to provide the "referee reports" they claimed to be paying for, Barca couldn't produce them. They paid off the referees' boss, plain and simple. CHAPTER 4: The Bayern Friction When Pep arrived at Bayern Munich, he tried to bring his hyper-aggressive medical protocols with him. He insisted on sending injured players back to Barcelona to be treated by his preferred specialists. This sparked an explosive fallout with Bayern’s legendary physician Dr. Hans-Wilhelm Müller-Wohlfahrt, who walked out in disgust over Pep’s demands for unnatural, record-breaking recovery times. Bayern’s old guard refused to bend the knee to Pep's dark arts. CHAPTER 5: Manchester City & The Ultimate Machine At Manchester City, Pep finally found a club with zero moral boundaries to stop him. The strategy reached its final, perfected evolution: Financial Doping: Siphoning billions in hidden payments to bypass FFP rules and buy infinite depth. Medical Anomaly: Key players like De Bruyne, Kompany constantly flying to Barcelona to see Dr. Ramon Cugat, mysteriously recovering weeks ahead of human biology norms. Refereeing “controversies” and literally paying off referees like Michael Oliver. When Samir Nasri got caught receiving illegal IV drip treatments in 2016, it was framed as an isolated mistake. THE VERDICT From nandrolone positives in 2001 to 115 financial charges and paid-off referee chiefs today... Pep Guardiola didn't just adapt to elite football. He systematically redefined how to cheat it. You think Lance Armstrong was the biggest cover-up in sports history? You haven't been paying attention.

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