Dave

I think a draw was the fair result on the balance of play. We created chances, we got punished by a horrendous error, we created chances, we got punished by another horrendous error, we created more chances and got back in the game. I did smile when Jordan Ayew went down to win Leicester a free kick and our fans went berserk. We were the beneficiaries of his smart brain for six years.

It's nice to know all the rule abiding clubs will be behind us to put these persistent cheats behind everybody else on points where they belong. Quite intrigued to see what happens with Nketiah. Judging by Glasner's quotes you'd expect him to start but we've got no idea where he'd play or if we'd change our system to accommodate him.

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To think there's people out there that thought Trump did well last night.

Plastic bag suffocation, needless in mouth, chairshots to head... it's like Tony Khan forgot he's in negotiations for a new TV deal and currently hasn't got one.

Hopefully Ten Hag stays at least another full season.

Miles 100% thought by mentioning he has cancelled holidays to work on this he was going to get brownie points from people and all it's done is concern people further .

I think his time at Lyon is enough of a red flag now for me to think hes not going to be a steady owner any PL football club needs. He's caught the football bug and behaving irrational. I had sympathy for him at first when the previous dictator did everything to freeze club funds because he no longer had total control, but his transfer dealings have been bizarre this summer. Sending Forest 57m euros for two backup players, one who has already been loaned to Everton, when you have your own transfer problems is just odd behaviour. Then there's paying 28.5m euros for Nuamah who you're also trying to immediately get rid of. Kiran Maguire compared him to Massimo Cellino, which should be alarming to anybody.

I'm well aware of Lyon's financial troubles and the Mangala debacle, I mentioned it on the last page! With this though I don't think Textor has done anything wrong. I doubt Dobbin, Kellyman, Anderson, Gallagher etc envisaged they'd be used as pawns to cook books when coming up through the club's academy but needs must. Nuamah only joined Lyon last summer (through some clever accounting with Textor's Belgian side) and given his ceiling likely saw them as a stepping stone, it's really not as deep as people are making it out to be.

I'm not sure what the issue is? Every club accepts offers for players that would rather stay. Joachim Anderson for example said the way Palace treated him was cold. He's nearly 29 and is about to make a guaranteed six million over the next six years from the never ending pay roll of The Khan Family. We did him a favour.

https://www.footballmanager.com/news/development-update-football-manager-25-0 I think these are all pretty alarming to be honest. No international management, player weights and tactical touchline instructions feels like a major step back. The first two inparticular were there when I first played in Christmas 2001.

I agree about Meltzer. Whoever has been advising him to come across so dislikeable and condescending on Twitter really needs to stop. I have to respect him as a historian but when he inserts his opinion as if its factual in his write ups i facepalm. As you said, it's all subjective. Meltzer gave Rock vs Hogan 3 stars and I'll argue based on crowd response it's one of the greatest matches of all time. Meanwhile Chuck Taylor has a five star match. The rumours he spreads without fact checking have ruined lives and it's pretty obvious at this point he no longer has any sources in WWE. Anybody who pays £15 for his subscription now is just burning money. Regarding Cagematch, it was basically small site where a couple of thousand of people who like the Japanese and independent styles of Wrestling would go and rate matches in detail. It's not catered to WWE fans at all, and it wasn't meant to be (I think Roman and Batista have lower scored than Eddie Kingston for example). Unfortunately when Tony Khan was trying to flame a WWE vs AEW fans war he said he checks scores of matches on Cagematch to see if they were any good or not, and ever since then there's just been tribal keyboard warrior wars on that website between WWE fans and AEW fans. So Tony Khan's effectively made the website owners life ten times more stressful.

Which is putting a limit on a player can earn, hence the new changes were a non-starter.

I remember hearing the problem with the proposals to change the PSR rules at the end of last season was that they'd effectively be putting a limit on what players could earn, and the EFL lost a legal battle around salary caps in 2020 so they'd struggle against a stated case. The lawyer that went up against the EFL in 2020? Nick De Marco.

You say you don't care about the 18+ months before, but the reality is that period is still important as you would have amortised transfer fees and still paid those players wages. So let's consider the whole picture before making 'get your facts straight' jibes. However you're trying to justify Man City's achievements counting for anything to yourself is fine by me. You do you in the corner.

How much money was wasted 18+ months prior on the likes of Gbamin, Delph, Iwobu, Tosun, Keane, Gomes, Kean, Klaasen, Walcott, Bolasie etc? I dont think you can have any gripe you have been docked points when you've drifted closer and closer to the sun every year and eventually got burnt. I got a speeding ticket for going 60 in a temporary speed zone of 50 at 5am on an empty motorway where the roads are usually 70. There was no need for the temporary speed zone and the rule was stupid but I still paid the fine because that's the rules. Just because you don't agree with a rule doesn't mean you should be allowed to ignore it. Even more so to gain an advantage over others that are able to be succesful by abiding by the rules. Over time these rules will probably change but until a better solution is agreed teams need to play by the current rules.

Oh come of it . The rules over time have shown to be not fit for purpose but that doesn't mean any of you were right to have no regard for them.

I think you've got your shitheads confused.

In hindsight, the PL should have let the EFL discipline Leicester City last season when they offered to. There's visible improvement since Trevor Birch has taken over. The fact Leicester City have managed to wrangle out on a technicality which everybody thought was a far stretch is really concerning and sends out the message that there is no deterrent for breaching these rules. Sadly, nobody seems to respect Richard Masterts and this verdict isn't going to do his standing any favours. The sooner we get an independent regulator in the better, and I say that knowing Steve Parish has the biggest sway in these PL Chairman board meetings. No. You all should have been docked something. Rules are rules and it would have been unfair on everybody else that have a developed a succesful model to operate at this level should idiots like Maranakis and Moshiri get away with a blatant disregard to the rules because they couldn't control themselves.

Koeman's odd. The Saudi's could make life very difficult for him if they wanted too after his Bergwijn comments.

All I know about Oku is he gets very high Cagematch scores, which I feel sorry for him for as people online are probably going to use that as a stick to beat him with.

It felt like most AEW pay per views in the sense that you knew everybody would perform and the best way to enjoy it was to forget how they got there. Like Ospreay, MJF, Swerve, Bryan etc are all excellent. You just have to forget MJF has tried to get boos in America for being Mr America and Bryan won a number one contender tournament yet still put his career on the line.

Im not too bothered about Ricochet. I enjoy his matches for what they are but jesus for a guy who struggles to exhibit charisma on TV he comes across like such a douche. Like he started arguing with one of his fans last week because they said they'll now watch the highlights of AEW because hes on it. I want to see him and Ospreay again though, given how much Ospreay has improved in the last 7+ years. Those Lucha Underground producers back in the day deserve to be working in Hollywood now. They had Ricochet looking charismatic on camera, Pentagon looking like a 6ft+ monster and Rick Knox looking like a competent referee.

The confidence to even try that.

A much better second half from Palace yesterday. It's frustrating that Parish and Dougie treat August as a pre season period but there's good signs for the future. Hopefully Doucoure can get up to full fitness over the next two weeks as that will feel like a new signing alongside Wharton. I think special praise has to go to Dean Henderson. I thought he had his best game for Palace yesterday, and I don't think it's a coincidence that it's happened as soon as the competition for his place left.