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It's a meaningless game for us. If it was a situation where for winning it we win the FA Cup or something and Arsenal almost certainly win the league then sure obvs I want us to win.

But if it's a choice between finishing 5th with 69 pts and 5th with 66 why the **** would I care?

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04-29-2024 , 11:22 AM

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I won't accept this Chris Wood slander, he's been great this season. Only player with higher non-pen goals per 90 this season is Jota (not including guys who have one or two goals in a handful of minutes) and he's doing it for a **** team

Wood's goalscoring record in the PL is amazing.

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04-29-2024 , 01:14 PM

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Originally Posted by jalfrezi

I’m going to break with convention and agree with the spurs fan. Given the choice of sours winning the league and arse qualifying for the CL, or both missing out, I’m taking a year in the EL. But maybe if I didnt live in a slightly spursy area and wouldn’t have to see those facial expressions I might feel differently, I don’t know.

Dress up as Odegaard and take a couple of snaps of those expressions for the thread

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04-29-2024 , 03:55 PM

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https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football...s/ce96wzkgzpgo

O/U on what they bring in in sales?

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04-29-2024 , 04:01 PM

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04-29-2024 , 05:41 PM

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There are some kind of weird any time scorer prices in our game vs Forest on Saturday. Our only good striker is 7/2 (Archer definitely does not qualify as a good striker) but we have two youth team/development strikers in Marsh and One who are 3/1. Billy Blacker, who has had the occasional flash in the u21's but to the best of my knowledge has no senior starts at any level is 4/1, same price as Hamer is. I don't know if this is 365 on crack, or if knowledge is in that we are (correctly) dumping a bunch of senior players and starting severe youth and the play would be to back the **** out of Forest

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04-30-2024 , 02:05 AM

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Then (October 2021):

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In a statement, the Premier League said that they had "now received legally binding assurances that the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia will not control Newcastle United Football Club".

Now:

The MBS jersey and the green and white magpie at the end are lovely touches. lol Premier League forever and always for this travesty

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04-30-2024 , 04:44 AM

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Go ahead and find Man City quilty already or do what you do best. Dock Everton 4 more points.

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04-30-2024 , 07:42 AM

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https://twitter.com/guardiannews/sta...AlrUuZ_gQ&s=19

You know you're busto when your loan sharks haven't got any money left.

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04-30-2024 , 08:17 AM

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Go ahead and find Man City quilty already or do what you do best. Dock Everton 4 more points.

Why not both?

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04-30-2024 , 08:58 AM

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https://twitter.com/guardiannews/sta...AlrUuZ_gQ&s=19

You know you're busto when your loan sharks haven't got any money left.

Was very surprised to read about issues with Everton's takeover in a story about a random regional airline in Australia going busto today

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04-30-2024 , 02:07 PM

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New PL spending cap agreed in principle, from 2025/6 on.

Clubs would only be allowed to spend five times the commercial and broadcast revenue of the lowest team in the division.

For an example, since 20th-placed Southampton earned £103.6m in 2022/23, the cap would have been £518m. Chelsea would have breached that cap, and Manchester City would have come close to a breach. Neither club voted in favour of the proposal.

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04-30-2024 , 09:06 PM

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LOL a cap that only one club would be breaching? Not going to level the playing field much (not that this is the point).

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05-01-2024 , 02:15 AM

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Maguire said that Chelsea only breached it due to having to pay settlements and paying up Potters wages, so wouldn’t be breaking it next season.

Overall though, it’s a complete and utter waste of time.

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05-01-2024 , 03:13 AM

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I don't agree it's a total waste of time, but more should be done to lower the cap.

Clubs are finding new and creative ways around FFP or w/e it's replacement is called, including selling their own property to themselves, so if they're going to cook the accounts on the revenue side then they have to be stopped on the expenditure side I guess.

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05-01-2024 , 03:24 AM

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Overall though, it’s a complete and utter waste of time.

Yup. Especially as if I’m understanding it right, it’s more strict than what UEFA has in place that the PL already abides by for European competition. It’s not solving for X in England and it could harm English clubs in Europe (if I’m understanding it right that is).

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05-01-2024 , 04:29 AM

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I would like the cap to be lower too but would definitely prefer to have it rather than no cap at all.

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05-01-2024 , 04:35 AM

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It's pretty obvious they decided to allow clubs to spend up to around 500M p.a. (which its too much imo) because otherwise how could their darlings Man Utd (who nevertheless voted against the cap) ever claw their way back to relevance over a reasonable timeframe?

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05-01-2024 , 04:46 AM

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[James McNicholas, The Athletic] Arsenal are ready to listen to offers for Gabriel Jesus in the summer

weird. why is the second best striker in the league available?

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05-01-2024 , 05:12 AM

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In case they can't sell Nketiah. They don't need both if they're getting another attacker and although he's the best dribbler at the club his finishing is woeful and his injury record also puts him at risk.

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05-01-2024 , 05:33 AM

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05-01-2024 , 08:41 AM

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ten Hag going, Zidane parachuted in? Blimey.

Last edited by jalfrezi; 05-01-2024 at 08:46 AM.

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05-01-2024 , 08:48 AM

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ten Hag going, Zidane parachuted in? Blimey.

source? The mail is saying he's going to stay as of 40 minutes ago

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05-01-2024 , 10:14 AM

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How does one parachute Zidane in in May?

Last edited by Ambush; 05-01-2024 at 10:14 AM. Reason: In England, no less

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05-01-2024 , 12:33 PM

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Injuries gonna injury. They wouldn't sell him because he's not an incredible player, they'd be selling him because his knee got ruined thanks to Brazil being morons.

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