Premier League 2022/23 Thread

[The Bear]

2 minutes ago, Staff said:

Not one chance Neves goes to Barcelona, let alone for 60m 😂

It's been in the works for a while now. He already has a multi-year contract agreed with them in principle. Only snag is their current manager Xavi hasn't been keen, but could be open to a move now as of reports yesterday. Plus they have issues with La Liga allowing them to sign players to sort out as well. 

 

Oh and I never said he'd go for £60m. That was the estimated total of him and other pkayer sales. Neves is due to leave for around £40m.

 

 

 

[st albans fox]

Wonder if lopategui is looking at what happened here with rodgers last year and wants to get everything agreed ahead of the window opening 

public statements about a lack of funds etc are just good for keeping fees down a bit 

[Stadt]

Just now, st albans fox said:

Wonder if lopategui is looking at what happened here with rodgers last year and wants to get everything agreed ahead of the window opening 

public statements about a lack of funds etc are just good for keeping fees down a bit 

He’d have been in Spain then, doubt he would have known anything about Rodgers or our situation 

[Tommy Fresh]

4 hours ago, The Bear said:

We can afford another window of spending, particularly because the sale of Neves and other fringe players will bring in plenty to offset the FFP issues of any large transfer spend. 

Binning fringe players sounds easy on paper 

[Lionator]

It is sad that FFP was designed to make things more competitive but it’s the likes of us, Wolves and forest eventually who will suffer the worst effects of the rules. 

[Phil Bowman]

27 minutes ago, Lionator said:

It is sad that FFP was designed to make things more competitive

It really wasn't.

Quite the opposite.

[The Bear]

Yes it was designed to stop any teams with smaller income suddenly spending and competing with the big boys after a rich takeover. All under the guise of protecting clubs from going bankrupt. 

 

It's nonsense and needs scrapping. 

Edited 23 May 2023 by The Bear

[UniFox21]

20 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Yes it was designed to stop any teams with smaller income suddenly spending and competing with the big boys after a rich takeover. All under the guise of protecting clubs from going bankrupt. 

 

It's nonsense and needs scrapping. 

In its current format it absolutely needs scrapping, but a rule on stopping teams spending above their ability is needed 

[CosbehFox]

1 hour ago, st albans fox said:

Wonder if lopategui is looking at what happened here with rodgers last year and wants to get everything agreed ahead of the window opening 

public statements about a lack of funds etc are just good for keeping fees down a bit 

Lopategui very much has an opinion of being his own man too. He will **** the job off if he thinks it’s not worth it 

[ARM1968]

28 minutes ago, The Bear said:

Yes it was designed to stop any teams with smaller income suddenly spending and competing with the big boys after a rich takeover. All under the guise of protecting clubs from going bankrupt. 

 

It's nonsense and needs scrapping. 

100%. We need a spending cap. Same for each team. Wage cap - same for each team. Level playing field as far as can be achieved and then see what happens. 

[joachim1965]

4 minutes ago, ARM1968 said:

100%. We need a spending cap. Same for each team. Wage cap - same for each team. Level playing field as far as can be achieved and then see what happens. 

Never happen.

[RobHawk]

35 minutes ago, joachim1965 said:

Never happen.

Sadly your right, but for the good of the sport it should. Unfortunately too many people make too much money for anything to really be done about it. 

[Blue-fox]

Wage cap should be a thing 100%

[FOXSE]

This is actually staggering.....

 

The British government actually had a hand in the Saudi take over of Newcastle. 

 

https://twitter.com/TheNewsAgents/status/1661050607044804609?t=l2IXsQzXKb2xpnDNngInWA&s=19

[Bourbon Fox]

1 hour ago, UniFox21 said:

In its current format it absolutely needs scrapping, but a rule on stopping teams spending above their ability is needed 

Spend cap? Pay whatever wages you like but a limit on transfer spend in a calendar year

[Lambert09]

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when you see people comparing man city’s net spend and highlighting that it’s lower than other clubs. 
 

On the surface it might look lower but the ridiculous packages they give players isn’t part of that. For example that shows haaland was signed for 50m but ignores that the total package given to him, to get him to sign almost doubles it.

 

 

[Dave Fishwick]

8 hours ago, Bert said:

9 hours ago, Dave Fishwick said:

not sure about that

On the basis of? They’re higher than them in the league, they’ve already beaten them (comfortably) twice this season….

it just isn't how odds work otherwise the higher ranked team would always be favourites

 

they're rated very similar by the models and Everton's home advantage would always tip it in their favour, they'd be something like 6/5 if this was the first game of next season with the same teams

 

 

[trabuch]

I'm almost looking forward to the shifting of this thread to general football and sport.

[HybridFox]

2 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when you see people comparing man city’s net spend and highlighting that it’s lower than other clubs. 
 

On the surface it might look lower but the ridiculous packages they give players isn’t part of that. For example that shows haaland was signed for 50m but ignores that the total package given to him, to get him to sign almost doubles it.

 

 

Added to the fact the numbers are likely cooked up anyway

[Nalis]

2 hours ago, trabuch said:

I'm almost looking forward to the shifting of this thread to general football and sport.

Thats going to feel strange

[TJQuik]

5 hours ago, Lambert09 said:

Am I the only one who gets annoyed when you see people comparing man city’s net spend and highlighting that it’s lower than other clubs. 
 

On the surface it might look lower but the ridiculous packages they give players isn’t part of that. For example that shows haaland was signed for 50m but ignores that the total package given to him, to get him to sign almost doubles it.

 

 

That and even if it was true, it's just a case of investing so much they can make money off of what they already have. Kind of like Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates having an endless money pot via passive income from their billions even if they do absolutely nothing

[Mr Mister]

They should just get rid of FFP and let every club spend as much as they want to their hearts content. FFP was just implemented to create a closed shop among big clubs and kill competition.

[fox_up_north]

Just bring back the superleague. Let Man City, Newcastle, etc sod off to their own special club and leave us to get on with it. 

 

If some kid in China has more interest in watching Man United vs Real Madrid every week, let him. Just don't let them stay in our league. 

[LcFc_Smiv]

Sky sports reporting that Pep wants the investigation against Man City fast tracking, funny to see what precedent is set when we’ve already been told theres no chance of that happening in regards to Everton.

Edited 24 May 2023 by LcFc_Smiv

[st albans fox]

10 minutes ago, LcFc_Smiv said:

Sky sports reporting that Pep wants the investigation against Man City fast tracking, funny to see what precedent is set when we’ve already been told theres no chance of that happening in regards to Everton.

When he says ‘fast tracking’ I suspect he’s referencing the fact that most commentators expect it to drag on for years !  He knows that this is the case and its just sound bites