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The recent vote re allowing players to be transferred during the closed window has taken the Premier league to new depths.

Curse Newcastle, hope they get relegated. I sympathise with their brilliant fans.
Curse the Premier League if they don’t relegate Man City by 5 leagues like Glasgow Rangers were before
Curse the Premier League if Chelsea are not relegated by at least 3 leagues.

The soul of sporting integrity is dead. Get JS onto the case before we are all prostituted by the corrupt money of overseas despots and crooks.

Simple fact is, the premier league don’t give two sh1ts about fans or anyone else who isn’t them. They get more money and exposure from tv and sponsorship and foreign investment than they’ll ever get from gate receipts and probably wouldn’t care if a fan in this country never set foot in a club shop or a ground ever again. They can afford not to.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

The recent vote re allowing players to be transferred during the closed window has taken the Premier league to new depths.

Curse Newcastle, hope they get relegated. I sympathise with their brilliant fans.
Curse the Premier League if they don’t relegate Man City by 5 leagues like Glasgow Rangers were before
Curse the Premier League if Chelsea are not relegated by at least 3 leagues.

The soul of sporting integrity is dead. Get JS onto the case before we are all prostituted by the corrupt money of overseas despots and crooks.

Says during the windows on the reports I read. 🤷🏼‍♂️

That is correct
But moneybags are running headlong into more money.

Personally I believe in sports integrity. Without it why bother.

I’ll just cancel sky and keep my money in my pocket. I’m sick of it.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

That is correct
But moneybags are running headlong into more money.

Personally I believe in sports integrity. Without it why bother.

I’ll just cancel sky and keep my money in my pocket. I’m sick of it.

Sporting integrity? Like the Bundesliga? What is it? Bayern on 11 straight titles.

I think I prefer the Premier League.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

The recent vote re allowing players to be transferred during the closed window has taken the Premier league to new depths.

Curse Newcastle, hope they get relegated. I sympathise with their brilliant fans.[/b] It was other Premiership clubs that voted for it, they fell short by 1 vote to stop it happening, not sure why you are cursing Newcastle when they haven't technically done anything wrong.
Curse the Premier League if they don’t relegate Man City by 5 leagues like Glasgow Rangers were before Rangers were relegated for going into administration; Man City have just allegedly cheated
Curse the Premier League if Chelsea are not relegated by at least 3 leagues. See above, not sure why you want to punish one team less than the other for cheating, surely both should be relegated out of the football league?[b]

The soul of sporting integrity is dead. Get JS onto the case before we are all prostituted by the corrupt money of overseas despots and crooks.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

That is correct
But moneybags are running headlong into more money.

Personally I believe in sports integrity. Without it why bother.

I’ll just cancel sky and keep my money in my pocket. I’m sick of it.

Yeah, that will show them . I take it you just watch the Premiership on Sky

So who are we going to sign during this closed window?

The Premiership wont commit Harakiri on itself and as far as I can see they're the only ones dealing with and investigating the allegations.
Everton have been thrown under the bus as a sacrificial lamb to warn the rest that it needs to stop.
I also believe Everton only got the 10 point deduction now as the Prem know there are still 3 less 'attractive teams' that'll finish below them

Quoted from grimps

The Premiership wont commit Harakiri on itself and as far as I can see they're the only ones dealing with and investigating the allegations.
Everton have been thrown under the bus as a sacrificial lamb to warn the rest that it needs to stop.
I also believe Everton only got the 10 point deduction now as the Prem know there are still 3 less 'attractive teams' that'll finish below them

Wrong. The premier league are acting because they don’t want a football regulator enforced on them. They are attempting to give the impression that they can be entrusted to self govern and a football regulator isn’t needed.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Wrong. The premier league are acting because they don’t want a football regulator enforced on them. They are attempting to give the impression that they can be entrusted to self govern and a football regulator isn’t needed.

Yeah I'd agree with that, it's an attempt to show they have the will to dish out big punishments and keep their house in order. Probably too little too late though. Plus they didn't agree to a new deal with the EFL.

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Sporting integrity? Like the Bundesliga? What is it? Bayern on 11 straight titles.

I think I prefer the Premier League.

My conspiracy theory is the big 6 want it to be a closed shop in terms of challenging for the league (probably big 2 in Utd & Liverpool ) and to make it more like the German league were only the top couple challenge -- they pushed for all the financial change in their own league and now Newcastle have to obide by the rules to an extent so they can't just blow everyone out of the water financially .

I would be suprised if City are not severely punished .

They want to regulate it on their own terms and dish out the pennies to the peasants lower down - there was a really good podcast I think with that old Crystal Palace owner (Jordan?) He interviewed Rick Parry who's the EFL chairman , it's a decent listen on the subject .

I prefer lower league myself anyway or even non league , been to a good few epl games and never enjoyed them give me Town all day long and a weekend in Weymouth.

Quoted from IlkleyMariner

The recent vote re allowing players to be transferred during the closed window has taken the Premier league to new depths.

Curse Newcastle, hope they get relegated. I sympathise with their brilliant fans.
Curse the Premier League if they don’t relegate Man City by 5 leagues like Glasgow Rangers were before
Curse the Premier League if Chelsea are not relegated by at least 3 leagues.

The soul of sporting integrity is dead. Get JS onto the case before we are all prostituted by the corrupt money of overseas despots and crooks.

Totally agree

Quoted from Mappers

My conspiracy theory is the big 6 want it to be a closed shop in terms of challenging for the league (probably big 2 in Utd & Liverpool ) and to make it more like the German league were only the top couple challenge -- they pushed for all the financial change in their own league and now Newcastle have to obide by the rules to an extent so they can't just blow everyone out of the water financially .

I would be suprised if City are not severely punished .

They want to regulate it on their own terms and dish out the pennies to the peasants lower down - there was a really good podcast I think with that old Crystal Palace owner (Jordan?) He interviewed Rick Parry who's the EFL chairman , it's a decent listen on the subject .

I prefer lower league myself anyway or even non league , been to a good few epl games and never enjoyed them give me Town all day long and a weekend in Weymouth.

FFP is designed for 2 reasons. Firstly to stop another club like Leicester from either winning the PL or taking a UCL spot. Secondly it’s to pull the ladder up and stop another Chelsea or Man City from happening. FFP is anti competitive. It enshrines the current financial advantages forever.

If it was up to me I’d just get rid of Premier League FFPaltogether and allow clubs to spend what they like. So if somebody wanted to buy Preston North End and spend billions getting them established in the PL they could. However… once a bankrolled club reach European competition they would have to obey UEFA’s FFP.

So under that system the clubs in Europe are under FFP but everyone else isn’t until the moment they qualify for Europe.

It's not just in the Prem that wealthy owners splash the cash.

It seems football clubs are just playthings for the wealthy to boost their ego's buy buying sporting success. The practice of pumping tons of cash into clubs, which they often have no prior relationship with, simply distorts competition making it almost impossible for clubs trying to run sustainably to compete.

Of course it is often the case that these sugar daddies eventually get bored and move on leaving the club and its genuine supporters in the lurch.

Football economics are crazy. But I cant see how its possible to bring it back to any kind of normality.

Don't you just lurve Grimsby Town
One day we're up... the next we're down
We go to far flung places like Weymouth and Chase
Ain't it great to be part of the human race
We travel in numbers and don't really care
As long as there's chips burgers.... and beer
Make lots of noise so they know we're around
Our jaunts through the leagues
Supporting REAL Grimsby Town.....