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I mean in regards to the financial mismanagement of Roma in particular, it's all been pretty much down to the previous regime. We haven't really seen what The Friedkin Group are capable of because they're still clearing up the mess they've inherited. The Dybala wage hike clause just set them another two steps backwards. In regards to the wider problem of money coming in, I have found the Italian people to be naive this summer. There's been no talk over there about the international TV rights clusterfuck because the national TV deal is a good one. Yet as we've grasped in England it's the international rights that are the major money maker. The deals they got at the last minute across the globe are pretty terrible. Napoli in particular could be in be in a real tough situation once Conte leaves (shock) especially after failing to sell Osimhen for major money. I find the defence that Mourinho is still a draw because he took Roma to the final of a C rate tournament that didn't exist five years ago weak to be honest but each to there own. I did feel sorry for De Rossi though. Not sure what more he could have done to be honest.

I don't think the fans are really helping the situation out there in all honesty. Dybala's wage hike is unsustainable for a side without Champions League football, they brokered a Saudi deal and signed a good replacement in Soule. Then Dybala decides to stay. Now Roma have had to sell several other players, have to play 3-5-2 to suit Dybala, there's no room for Soule in that system. But the fans love Dybala because he says the right things.

John Textor looks like an absolute idiot.

6-1 9-2 and 5-0. Michael Olise has created the greatest Bayern team of all time.

The underlying data has been pretty good. The stretch of fixtures in October look like a good opportunity for the manager to start picking up results.

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I'll probably get heat for this but I prefer this new format. As a neutral there's so many more games id be interested in watching. Gameweek 8 with everybody kicking off at the same time looks like great fun.

The thing is Schumacher wasn't doing shit. They have progressed gradually over the last nine months and his stock won't be affected at all by this. Big pressure on Jon Walters now, if this appointment doesn't work do the board sack him? Potentially feels like one step forwards two steps backwards.

Yeah regularly. I mainly just watch YouTube clips that interest me now. Stories move slow in WWE and the stories are just rubbish in AEW. Surprisingly the most clips I'm watching of a show at the minute are in Impact. I dont care if John Layfield is old, he could still beat up most of the AEW roster.

I said in a group "He's due an injury" five minutes before he got injured. Great player but seems to spend a significant amount of time injured.

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.