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@KJames2345 Sorry, but you're in no position to talk about FACTS, when you're busy constantly contradicting and debunking your own statements, in every other sentence.
First, you incorrectly claim Leicester have "always been a top tier footballing club": INCORRECT.
Second, you immediately contradict yourself by stating "they have been in the top division for 35 years since the 67/68 season": INCORRECT.
Third, you proceed to further contradict yourself yet again, by stating they were promoted just after the start of the Premier League and then relegated a decade later. Then obviously, they have not "always been a top tier footballing club" by your own confused admition, making you INCORRECT ... AGAIN!
Leicester's accrued points tally on the all time top flight league table places them 24th (that means 23 other clubs have spent more time and/or accrued more points than the Foxes in the top flight). In case you haven't noticed, there have only been 20 teams in the top flight for nearly 30 years now.
Leicester's 'League performance chart' on Wikipedia, which accurately catalogues their final league positions from every single season campaign from the clubs foundation, right up unto the present season, reveals Leicester have spent almost an equal amount of seasons playing in the first tier as they have playing in the second tier of English football. With slightly more time down in the latter.
Hence, (exactly as I stated), Leicester is a smaller club, whose traditional club standing is in the Championship (second tier) fighting for promotion.
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So Marcus Rashford had the nerve to make that statement in 2024, about turning down "life-changing money as a kid", when he his current situation (which is absolutely relevant, since it's his current performances, effort and commitment that are being called into question) is as follows: .
... Marcus Rashford signed a 5 year / £78,000,000 contract with Manchester United F.C., including an annual average salary of £15,600,000. In 2023, Rashford will earn a base salary of £15,600,000, while carrying a cap hit of £15,600,000.
Poor Marcus Rashford. Can't take a bit of critique about his lack of effort on a pitch, once or twice a week, while earning 15 and a half mill each year. 🤣🤣🤣
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As a Villa supporter, I don't agree. If there aren't proper rules in place then wealthy owners can just spend whatever they want. That ruins the competitiveness of the league. Right now, that benefits clubs who bring in more profit, like Man United, City, Chelsea, etc. But it would be even less competitive if you let the owners of Newcastle, Man City and to a lesser extent, the likes of Villa, Arsenal etc. just spend whatever they liked.
You might as well bypass the football and just have the owners plop their wallets on the table at the start of each season, proclaim Newcastle's state owners as the winners and be done with it. It's stupid. There needs to be a salary cap which ensures that all clubs become more competitive and have a least a chance of challenging for silverware each season. Not just the top 6 wealthiest club owners.
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@achilles_1118 There's no reason why any other team would not over time (within a decade or so) surpass and overtake the current so-called "big 6" (several of which have only very recently been considered to be as such ~ i.e. within the last decade).
So, you're really only talking about Liverpool, Man United and Arsenal who have been regarded as the biggest clubs for longer than that most recent period. So your argument immediately fails, since only a decade ago, Man City and Spurs were nowhere near being named as a big 6, and just before them, Chelsea were also not considered as such prior to the Abramovich takeover.
Newcastle, Villa and Everton, to name a few have previously been regarded as big six teams, and all (especially Newcastle and also Villa) have recently had new mega-rich owners. Both these teams could overtake your beloved "holy sextuple" in the next decade ... and for absolutely sure, if those current "big 6" were kicked out of the EPL. i.e. other teams would take their place ... and their success.
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@Idkwhattooputthisas1937 Over a three year cycle, Premier League clubs were allowed to lose £105m. Everton were found to have actually lost £304m.
Everton had a laundry list of excuses for why they went so far over the set limits that most other clubs stuck as close to as possible.
Calculations to excuse those 'mitigating circumstances' helped to reduce the overall amount counted counted as 'lost' to the total you are referring to.
The commission took into consideration (to the benefit of Everton), and wrote off much of the losses, such as new stadium costs and whether or not interest payments should be included, Covid costs and even the impact of the war on the clubs costs and spending.
Even with ALL of those mitigating factors and writing off of around £180m of the clubs losses, taken into consideration, Everton's overall losses STILL managed to exceed the Premier Leagues set limits for losses over a 3-year period.
So no, the idea that Everton were JUST £20 million over the limit is a myth. Everton, were £200m over the set limits. And were STILL over the limit, even AFTER all of the reductions had been factored in. So this was FAR from a 'borderline' infraction. Everton's spending was WAY (+£200 million) over the limits, and the penalty is correct.
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@AFunkyHypnoCat Quote: it takes a decent level of competence not to mess up". Not if you can recognise your own name and then read the words immediately following your name on the script, it doesn't.
For example, if your name was "Jeff" and you kept reading on, past your cue, to the paragraphs clearly labelled for "Paul:", then you have bigger problems at hand.
Not to mention the fact that every TV show host is paid specifically to do this, as it's pretty much the only thing they need to consistently do, day after day, after day. And that pretty much all scripted shows like this are also rehearsed at least once before. Yes, even so-called 'live' content like this.
If you think this is difficult for them, then you must be absolutely floored, that footballers can perform accurate one-two passes between each other. How do they manage to do this 'live' in game? Will the wonders never cease for you? Lol!
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@blueisthecolor3463 Yeah, I'm not talking about real local Chelsea fans. They obviously will continue supporting their local football team, regardless of future club performances.
You can't compare Chelsea to Man United or Liverpool. Their huge support pre-exists even the formation of the Premier League.
Without the mega-billions investment Abramovich has put into Chelsea over the last couple of decades, it's extremely unlikely Chelsea's worldwide support would be anything near what it has been with that investment, and the success that has bought, sorry, I meant 'brought' (or did I?) for Chelsea FC. ;p
But it's undoubted that Chelsea's overseas popularity increase coincided with their national and international success from having some of the best players in the world ~ Which only came about under Abramovich's tenure at the club.
I remember when Abramovich first took over and it was ridiculous, with Chelsea signing one world class player after another , week-in, week-out during the transfer windows.
But even more recently, Abramovich always ensured you had the top world class managers and players. And sustaining an elite level youth academy system is not exactly cheap to continue either.
I'm just saying, without all that, the overseas popularity might decline quite rapidly. We'll just have to wait and see who the new owners are and what kind of investment they are willing to continue making in the club.
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@klejdiislami6693 You can't use an exception to a rule to try to prove a point. How many football clubs are owned by sports-washing nation states? ... I know Leicester and Brighton certainly aren't. You can't say that the bought success that clubs who have undoubteldy bent/broken FFP rules to gain unfair advantages are "the norm".
And by the way, not many saw Chelsea's current problems ever occurring while Abramovich was still in charge. New ownership, new league position. And even Man City's run of success, who are utterly dominant right now, will not last. I predicted that one way or another Abramovich would leave Chelsea several years ago and that they would revert to being a mid-table Premier League club. Obviously, I never forsaw the exact circumstances that would lead to his exit, but Roman was already looking to sell before being forced to.
So call me Nostradamus if you must, but I promise you this, Man City's owners will also be forced to sell that club within the next decade or so, and with it will go their dominant streak. Could that be hastened by the outcome of the current legal charges hanging over the club and owners, in a similar fashion to Abramovich's ousting due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine? ... Stranger things have happened, but one way or another ... it WILL happen. :trust:
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@sonofallito Q: "do you think that Aston Villa with a £80m offer would have said no?"
A: Of course. They already stated that they tried to reject the £100m bid and wanted to extend their club captain, Grealish's contract with a pay rise in wake of the Man City bid
Perhaps you haven't heard the news? Aston Villa's new owners are mega super rich billionaires and Villa did not need Man City's £100m in the slightest. This isn't the same Villa ownership who let Villa get relegated. They have plans on the top 4 and will keep improving the squad each season until they are competing with the other top clubs for silverware.
If Villa can keep improving, and attract better players to the club, you will start to see how much they can compete financially with the other top clubs, Financial Fair Play rules, permitting.
So to sum it all up...
Question: is Grealish worth £100m?
Answer: it didn't matter, because that was what his release clause was. The only way Man City could ever get him (since Villa were determined not to sell and don't need the money) was for them to pay it. Since, even with them paying the £100m, Villa didn't want to let him go, but were legally obliged to let Grealish make the decision due to that stipulation in his contract.
Get it? (probably not, doh!)
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@paulie-g Yeah, but the mismanagement that Everton have been facing is not completely dissimilar to what Aston Villa had been experiencing during their lowest recent period during their relegation.
The main differences being, at least Everton were/are well-funded and have also thus far avoided relegation, even if their footballing decisions were not up to par for a top five/six club.
So there's probably more chance of Everton turning things around without going to the brink of administration like with Villa did before their turnaround under their new owners. It's early days under Moyes, but he seems to be bringing a bit more stability to Everton (new manager bounce or not), so at least that should give them a platform to build upon, going into their new stadium next season.
Of course meanwhile, this season at least there are a bunch of other clubs also apparently playing and competing better than in previous seasons, like Bournemouth, Fulham, etc. Whether their rise has also been elevated due to the decline of Spurs and Man United, who can say? But more places are available at the top of the league than in most recent seasons.
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For real though, lets speak plain facts for a moment ... Christian Pulisic, team USA's star player, would be VERY lucky to even make it into England's WC 2022 squad, let alone start. Anything can happen in a one-off cup game, that's true. However, on paper, this England team should (barring any weird fluke of misfortune) blow this USA team out of the water.
This is the international equivalent of a Man City vs a Norwich (and I'm actually being kind there, by comparing USA to an EPL team (yo-yo though they may be), rather than a mid-to-lower Championship side, which is much more realistic).
Can a minnow like the USA fluke a victory over this England side? Anything is possible, but you're gonna need like a thousand 5-leaf clovers, 12 rabbit feet, and about 7,000 Hail Mary's to do so. Good luck ... because you are GOING to need it! xD
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