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On paper there's nothing wrong with the Arsenal stadium redevelopment or Chelsea selling a hotel. It just looks all a bit dodgy when you start to consider the potential ramifications. If PIF want to redevelop our training facilities, or move to a new site, what's to stop them from fronting the money for the club to then buy a bunch of potential sites in the area then allowing the club to sell off any of the sites that don't get the right permissions and banking the profit on paper for FFP purposes? It would be both a completely legitimate, football related activity and at the same time an obvious trick to increase our revenue. How do you account for an asset when it isn't counted when bought but is when it's sold?

The big loophole here is that infrastructure costs aren't included in FFP analysis but income from selling that infrastructure is included. In theory, our owners could give the club the money to buy Newcastle Race Course, which wouldn't impact our FFP figures, and then a month later the club could realise that they had no reason to own a race course and sell it to PIF for £500m and solve our FFP issues for a decade. No one really noticed the blatant flaw in the rules until Chelsea tried this with the hotel.

The ownership of Everton should have been properly scrutinized a long time ago. Farhad Moshiri owns the club but it was mostly funded by Alisher Usmanov - a man who was barred from entry to the UK even before Russia invaded Ukraine. It should have all sparked an investigation into every club throughout the country to check for any more owners-on-paper-only. I always thought it was a shame that there wasn't a more in depth analysis of dodgy ownership back when Portsmouth were shuffling between different owners, including at least one occasion where they were seemingly sold to holding company owned by the club's owner.

Even just changing the rules on sponsorship from related companies would be huge for us. No need to go around trying to find businesses willing to sponsor the club, just suddenly get sponsorship deals from PIF Golf, Saudi Airlines, Saudi Arabia 2034 World Cup, random taxi companies from Riyadh etc. It would mean an immediate boost to the club's turnover and allow the club to spend as much as they want to all within the PSR rules.

Thanks Dummett, you fucking halfwit.

Absolutely brilliant comeback.

What are the odds that we don't manage to finish with 11 players on the pitch without anyone getting carded?

Anderson is a left sided player. Longstaff plays on the right side of midfield. They are not like for like players. Playing Anderson would mean pushing Willock to the right of midfield where he's not a natural player either. Longstaff is playing because there is no one else available who is comfortable in the position he plays.

We'll certainly be doing that too but it won't necessarily be the obvious players. Despite a lot of people looking at Minteh and wondering if he could do a job for us next season, I fully expect that he'll go out on loan again next season and then he'll be sold for 20-30m to a newly promoted team. The same goes for Kuol. We'll create FFP space by buying promising youth players, loaning them out to develop them before selling them for decent fees.

He loves managing teams. At one point he was coaching an under 11s team because he enjoys it so much.

Slack defending costing us again. And fucking Longstaff. Stay on your fucking feet and stop begging the ref for free kicks when you lose the ball in fair tackles.

The guy is the double of Simple Jack from Tropic Thunder.

Commentators are really bad at recognising Newcastle players. First mixing up Miggy & Tino and again mixing up Isak & Willock.

Beautiful goal