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Haha, that’s my take on it. I’m waiting for the day when Sky Sports News announce Chelsea’s big summer signing to be a top account to cook their books even more than now.
One of the problems with being a yo-yo club that is the parachute money has changed and it’s no longer as lucrative. 13 clubs are cannon fodder with the snaky six and Newcastle competing in a different league, although the 6 are watching Newcastle like a hawk, the hypocritical scumbags that they are. Even Villa who have done brilliant this season and will have a crack at the trough that is the champions league, will have to sell their best players this summer to balance the PSR.
Ironically it will be one of the six who will pick up their players in the summer. The same with Everton, Branthwaite and Onana will be sold to adhere to PSR probably to the likes of United, Chelsea or City for whom the rules don’t apply.
Burnley romped the league last season but have been woeful this year (thankfully) and Sheff United have been even worse. Brave, plucky Luton would have been cut adrift if it wasn’t for the points deductions despite the media narrative that they’ve posed a threat and have been unlucky.
The financial restraints placed on all promoted teams has meant that they’ve barely been able to compete.
Not that the media will ever question this, they will just bask in the hammering that they get from teams with ridiculous amounts more money.
Indeed, there is no such thing as an illegal asylum seeker. An asylum seeker is someone going through the legal asylum process as started in the 1952 Geneva Convention. The process for dealing with ‘failed’ asylum seekers has never been sorted since we started to have a large increase in them in the early nineties following the war in Yugoslavia. There was no process for dealing with them and at one point there was a backlog of around 100k and to save money and be ‘efficient’, the then Home Secretary Michael Howard had an amnesty and gave vast amounts leave to remain, hence we had a mass load of Albanians given status.
It staggers me that the government, the Tories and Labour, when they were in power, have been so inept when it comes to immigration policy.
I think anything to do with Everton’s finances are now being sensationalised with almost daily stories saying the club will go into administration and get another nine points deduction etc whilst the likes of Forest and Luton watch on all giddy as they hope it will give them a reprieve from relegation.
I dont want 777 and ideally they will be pushed aside and MSP will take over (they were the original proposed buyers).
I fully expect next season to be as much of a shitshow as the last three, but hopefully with BMD up and running the future will be better and they can re-establish themselves as mid table mediocrity. What a dream that will be.
Couldn’t agree more. The sooner they bugger off the better. If you’d have said say 25 years ago that Chelsea and City would be a super power house dictating how the game is run, you’d have laughed you head off. Money has elevated both to a position that doesn’t reflect their history and status. Likewise Tottenham haven’t won a league title in most people’s living memory and are only included in the cesspit gang as they needed a sixth team to hold all the cards.
Throw in the desperate appeal to get a 5th team in the CL and it’s clear to see that it’s a cartel.
Without them, there will be plenty of great clubs to keep the great game going.
I would love to see a breakaway from the PL and the EFL and have a complete reset.
Does it really matter? Whatever rules they put in, the snakey six especially City and Chelsea, will have their top lawyers and accountants all over it and will find a way to navigate it without reprisal.
Same here. Guardiola is doing my head in now, always cry arsing. But don’t think City lose another point now. Delighted that Klopp farewell tour is falling flat on its arse. Couldn’t happen to a nicer cult.
Immigration policy in this country has never been good. The Immigration Acts of the nineties were failures and this current attempt is nothing but a sensational costly gimmick to try to win votes at the general election this year.
There’s always going to be immigration and there sadly will always be people trying to come to safe countries to claim asylum due to war and there will always be people wanting to come to the country for economic reasons.
There’s currently a massive backlog of cases to be processed, is that because of the numbers or because of the poor processes and lack of investment into getting it done properly? I’m guessing that having an appropriately funded sensible immigration process doesn’t make great news and doesn’t win votes.
Completely agree. Three years ago to the day that they snakey six tried to form their own league, they pull this stunt. To this day none of the 6 clubs have faced any penalties and City and Chelsea have been charged but not convicted. Last week Chelsea sold a hotel to themselves to navigate the PSR, all with the PL’s blessing.
But this has to be the final straw, the utter contempt that they have for the game on this country shouldn’t be accepted. Every other club should boycott the cup next season and start making plans to kick these clubs out of the game.
Football was established for the working classes in the 19th century as a release from the working week for leisure. It’s now geared up for nerds abroad to follow a brand with no identify, no understanding of the communities that the clubs are in. Phuck them.
Also regarding Saints or other clubs putting out statements, Everton were the first and most vocal to criticize the ESL and have been the main club to have been panned by the sneaky six. No surprises with Masters in the back pocket of Man U and Liverpool.
If Everton were to go into administration someone will be able to buy a club with a brand new stadium and 50k clowns willing to part with their money every year on the cheap. The biggest losers will be the fans, the community with the loss of jobs and Moshiri (not at least arsed about him).
Someone will make a killing on it. I’m hoping it doesn’t come to that (obviously) and hope they MSP complete a deal as they were in line to take over before they fell out with Moshiri true to form went with the dodgiest of options which has been a reflection of his bat shit ways in the past few years.
I keep seeing in the media various pundits and fans of other clubs saying that Everton would be better off going into administration. That turns my stomach more than anything that goes on on the pitch. Administration would mean loads of people losing their jobs at the club and within the community which would be unthinkable, as both Saints and Pompey know only too well.
These 777 chancers fill me with dread and I am hoping that they are unsuccessful. The best case scenario would be that MSP come back into the frame, as has been suggested. They are a consortium lead by two loaded blues including AJ Bell.
Either way, it’s a complete mess and the joy that I have from going the game is almost gone.
Watching the Chelsea game last night knowing that they are completely untouchable from PSR is sickening as was the lack of mention from Sky. I
By delusions of grandeur, do you mean showing ambition? Or should every club outside the snaky six know their place, suck it up, clap like whoppers when the big boys come to town with our ‘please Harland can I have your shirt banners’.
I’m almost part caring to be honest. Nobody knows what is going on, how they come up with their calculations, how City and Chelsea get a free hit to do what they want. Everton are building a stadium and a lot of the spend is involved in that. Spurs built a stadium under the same PSR rules but were allowed to include their stadium costs into this process.
But it’s okay because they are scrapping it in the summer to bring out a new process that will benefit the snaky six.
In the pub I’m going to tomorrow, the Cheppy on County Road, they don’t have a set price for a pint. When you order one pint, you had in a fiver and get a couple of quid back, it’s a tenner when you ask for three and five to six pints you will need a twenty pound note and the change varies not just from barmaid to barmaid*, but from the same barmaid depending on nothing in particular.
It’s cash only and is always a source of amusement.
Until last year, I spent eight and a half years working in football (for the EFL Trust) and spent most weeks with one club or another up and down the country. It’s a brutal business. Obviously if you are one of top percentage who remain injury and relatively trouble free, the riches are beyond what most ‘normal’ people can imagine.
But as you say, there are loads that don’t make it who end up with no qualifications, no career options and no support. Loads within the game don’t get the right advice or support, even when offered it by the PFA. Many are one injury away from leaving themselves in a vulnerable situation. Careers advice just isn’t there, despite what the PFA might say and the pressure from parents, family, agents etc can be unbearable. I’ve spoken to players who were told not to mention mental health issues to the club for fear that they wouldn’t be given a new contract. These were young players told by their agents.
And then there’s the peer pressure from fellow players.
As I say, it’s a brutal business that is not a reflection on society or a normal workplace.
I lived opposite MLT when he was down in Ocean Village. Had a nice chat with him one Boxing Day morning on my way home from work as he was sitting on his door step.
Chatted to Beattie a few years back in the London Hotel. To be fair, always saw him in the bars around Oxford Street, and he was always dead sound.
Ronald Koeman, his brother and their partner were always in Oxford and often in the London too. Always seemed dead sound, and bladdered.
As a student, always used to see the players out en masse around Bedford Place/Ocean Village.
They will be the ‘new’ Southampton. A well run respected club who will have their players, manager, director of sport, scouts, nutritionalists, physios, kitman, and tea lady all tapped up to go to one of the snidey six.
Brighton will get patronized but they will get asset stripped, whilst no one will stop them.
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