Popular Post Zatman Posted April 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2021 Man City have always been one of the elite, this is a classic moment from City past 1 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 5 minutes ago, Follyfoot said: Very similar story for me give or take a couple of years. We went as a family to watch the Villa at Blackpool and after at the fair I apparently hid in a Dalek and was missing for over an hour. The transition from third to that day at Highbury is staggering Why ? - did you go to Highbury as Dr Who ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Follyfoot Posted April 20, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, hippo said: Why ? - did you go to Highbury as Dr Who ? Sea Monster 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, sidcow said: Simon Stone of BBC says reports elsewhere about fractures in the Scummy Six are unfounded and they are just waiting out the storm. Yeah. I can't see them being nervous. The lower level admins got no say here. This has come together by billionaires wanting to create a US franchise system, to secure financial interest and not giving two **** about football as a sport or its history. The Glaziers and the Liverpool owners have probably continued dialog over this. They do the same across the pond. The only way this will start shaking is if the FA, PL, UEFA and FIFA are getting political help to set them straight. Or maybe if Manchester City pulled away from it, but I can't see it happening. Greed is strong in this lot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KenjiOgiwara Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: Man City have always been one of the elite, this is a classic moment from City past I love that. It's one of the best clips I've ever seen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutByEaster? Posted April 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 hour ago, sne said: Sure the likes on Neymar, Messi, Pogba and so on will jump at the chance to make even more money. No idea about M'bappé or Haaland thou the latter has Raiola so he likely will. Neymar is the big ticket as he is THE name the EA Sport FIFA kids idolizes. And of course Ronaldo with his 277 million Instagram following There will be less, not more money for these players - that's one of the aims - to increase the revenue for the clubs and reduce what they have to pay out. Barcelona at the moment would love to put in place a £200k a week cap on wages, but they can't do that because someone like Everton or us might sneak in and offer a global star £210k a week - that's competition they can't allow. They also can't afford to keep paying players £600k a week, that's why they're going bust. Once they've taken a load of TV money off the teams that are outside the SL bubble, the twelve clubs will be in a position to impose a cap within the Super League, safe in the knowledge that they can set it too high for the now impoverished teams outside of the Super League to match, for players that won't want to play outside the Super League anyway, but within their affordable range so it keeps them profitable. That's one of their stated aims - once they get into their SL bubble, they intend to reduce their wage bills. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 8 minutes ago, Zatman said: they already found Daniel Levy, a pathetic man looking to reclaim a power he never actually had err why have you posted a picture of Moyes? Wet Spam aren't involved. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 If those 12 clubs were banned from European football for 2 or 3 years I might get interested again. Be nice to see some new teams getting into the CL. PSG and bayern might dominate for a while but that's no different to the Madrid domination we have seen recently. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Harry Maguire apparently confronted Ed Woodward about the announcement Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tommo_b Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 The arrogance of these owners is unbelievable. Kick them out of the clubs. Send the clubs to the bottoms of the pyramid and let them fight their way back up, would be pretty interesting with only 3 clubs able to get promoted from league 2 at a time. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MotoMkali Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 Just now, villa89 said: If those 12 clubs were banned from European football for 2 or 3 years I might get interested again. Be nice to see some new teams getting into the CL. PSG and bayern might dominate for a while but that's no different to the Madrid domination we have seen recently. 5 year transfer embargo, relegation, 100 points deducted for next season and banned from Europe for 5 years. Aside from banning them from the prem that is the best course of action I can think of. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomaszk Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 49 minutes ago, sne said: Barcelona are by far the ones in the most dire financial trouble. Spurs and Man U both took our £200m emergency loans last year. This is the reason this won't go away. These big boys have spent beyond their means and are going to go if drastic action isn't taken. Maybe not Utd, but Barca are actually in a disastrous position. 27 minutes ago, villa4europe said: based on my small knowledge of NFL film i think exactly the same, they should have put in the infrastructure to film it themselves and then just sell it to distributors years ago, its almost lazy that they haven't my gripe then was that with all the footage that they have no one does anything with it other than the premier league years, its all going to waste whereas the NFL have a constant stream of output from it all The reason the streaming thing or "PremFlix" won't happen is the same reason this IS happening. Man Utd don't want to share their 150m worldwide fans paying £5 each with Burnley. They want it for themselves. The PL or UEFA or whoever could have done this 10 years ago. Utd would have signed up then. Now? No chance. 1 minute ago, sidcow said: Simon Stone of BBC says reports elsewhere about fractures in the Scummy Six are unfounded and they are just waiting out the storm. I'm fully expecting this to get very ugly. I don't think it's going away. The only way out is the PL kicking them out and hoping it fails. I don't even know if they'll be able to push that through when the Super League sides put their money together for lawyers. Remember City were happily going to ruin UEFA with their unlimited funds and many many solicitors. If they're allowed to stay, PL need to figure out a way to drastically reduce their PL income if possible. Stop giving them any broadcast money. Any positional prizes. Cut them off. Fans will eventually come back onside as well I think. It'll be hard for Arsenal fans to ignore it when they're suddenly buying Grealish and beating sides like Leicester again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post hippo Posted April 20, 2021 Popular Post Share Posted April 20, 2021 2 minutes ago, Zatman said: Harry Maguire apparently confronted Ed Woodward about the announcement Bet Woodward just went round him 2 9 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted April 20, 2021 Moderator Share Posted April 20, 2021 10 minutes ago, hippo said: Vin Diesel - playing Boris Johnson. Matt Lucas 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MachoFantastico Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, Zatman said: Man City have always been one of the elite, this is a classic moment from City past That will never not make me laugh, a classic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoelVilla Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, Tommo_b said: The arrogance of these owners is unbelievable. Kick them out of the clubs. Send the clubs to the bottoms of the pyramid and let them fight their way back up, would be pretty interesting with only 3 clubs able to get promoted from league 2 at a time. That League 2 would be interesting. Maybe Spurs can manage to be top 7. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 9 minutes ago, KenjiOgiwara said: Yeah. I can't see them being nervous. The lower level admins got no say here. This has come together by billionaires wanting to create a US franchise system, to secure financial interest and not giving two **** about football as a sport or its history. The Glaziers and the Liverpool owners have probably continued dialog over this. They do the same across the pond. The only way this will start shaking is if the FA, PL, UEFA and FIFA are getting political help to set them straight. Or maybe if Manchester City pulled away from it, but I can't see it happening. Greed is strong in this lot. It’s all PR for them. Trying to win fans back. They won’t stop joining the league. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zatman Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 1 minute ago, NoelVilla said: That League 2 would be interesting. Maybe Spurs can manage to be top 7. Conference be the best as only 2 teams go up, could imagine Arsenal losing the Conference play-off final to Kidderminster or Yeovil 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hippo Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 They are expecting the backlash - this is about money - not a popularity contest. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sne Posted April 20, 2021 Share Posted April 20, 2021 (edited) 12 minutes ago, OutByEaster? said: There will be less, not more money for these players - that's one of the aims - to increase the revenue for the clubs and reduce what they have to pay out. Barcelona at the moment would love to put in place a £200k a week cap on wages, but they can't do that because someone like Everton or us might sneak in and offer a global star £210k a week - that's competition they can't allow. They also can't afford to keep paying players £600k a week, that's why they're going bust. Once they've taken a load of TV money off the teams that are outside the SL bubble, the twelve clubs will be in a position to impose a cap within the Super League, safe in the knowledge that they can set it too high for the now impoverished teams outside of the Super League to match, for players that won't want to play outside the Super League anyway, but within their affordable range so it keeps them profitable. That's one of their stated aims - once they get into their SL bubble, they intend to reduce their wage bills. Perhaps. The salary cap is supposed to be at 55% of revenue so if the revenue goes up with as much as being mentioned there will be plenty of money to sprinkle over the star players. Edited April 20, 2021 by sne Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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