The Football News Thread 2018/19 - everything not Wolves

[Kenny]

Spurs ask for permission to play their League Cup game v Watford at Stadium MK

Permission granted

 

[Parkins left foot]

The PL & FA might as well give up & just give blanket approval to any question before it's asked - should have at least been forced to give up home advantage & play it at Watford rather than a 'neutral' stadium.

 

[Kenny]

Maybe Watford didn't want the game switched?

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Almost certainly not. The stewarding and policing costs would outweigh the gate receipts realistically.

 

[Lycan]

One of the candidates for the Sporting presidency has created a tinder profile because he wants to 'match with every Sporting fan'.

 

[Penk Wolf]

12 point deduction for Blues for breaking FFP.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/footbal...n-breaking-efl/amp/?__twitter_impression=true

 

[Tredman]

Oh, oh dear. What a shame. Villa next please.

Floppy chopped cunt destroys another club then.

 

[Penk Wolf]

Oh, oh dear. What a shame. Villa next please.

Floppy chopped cunt destroys another club then.

It’s bollocks though. It should have happened in April by the letter of the law which means they’d be in league 1 now.

 

[Tredman]

As long as it happens though.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Darren Dein (and the idiot owners) to blame here. They weren't Redknapp's targets that were brought in last summer.

Of course if he'd have been granted free reign then he'd have brought in some ridiculous signings himself - including JT - that would have had the same effect, but this one is less pinned on him than Pompey was. Now that really was his fault (along with his good friend Peter Storrie).

Southampton wasn't his fault either, apart from the fact that he relegated them from a situation that a competent manager should have found eminently salvageable.

Bournemouth was his fault (ancient history now I suppose), he wasn't allowed to wreck Spurs, QPR was his fault - along with Tony Fernandes being a moron - and West Ham are always in varying degrees of a mess, his behaviour after the sale of Rio Ferdinand was deplorable and cost the club a lot of money but you couldn't say he destroyed them on his own.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Maybe it needs the one of the elevated clubs to try and sue the EFL and then it might force them to act earlier in future?

 

[jd1981]

That is catastrophic if true for blues they’re almost a cert for the drop and a fire sale to balance the books.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

You can't have a fire sale of nothing.

They've been desperately trying to get rid of Stockdale for months for instance, no-one wants the big tub of fuck.

Also a note to everyone, please don't make me kind of defend Harry Redknapp again.

 

[jd1981]

Thought the reason the EFL were so pissed off was the fact Blues signed the danish player knowing fully well they’d fall foul of FFP?

 

[Sniffer]

Can somebody explain how Villa's £40m black hole has been addressed this season considering the players they are bringing on extravagant loan fees/wages with nothing going out?

 

[Sniffer]

Can somebody explain how Villa's £40m black hole has been addressed this season considering the players they are bringing on extravagant loan fees/wages with nothing going out?

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They were going to fail FFP regardless. They were annoyed that they bought Pedersen - in this year's accounts - when it was obvious that some form of embargo would be applied but it had yet to be formalised (why it hadn't, only the EFL can answer, as really FFP should be a yes or no question). However the sanctions that apply are due to their activity in 2017/18 and a points deduction has always been down as one of the possible punishments.

They're in a hole because their matchday and commercial revenue is pitiful, parachute money ran out long ago, they were at one point paying three managers and sets of coaching staff all at once and then last summer's transfer dealings where they wildly overspent on utter shite that they can't get rid of.

My main question now is why Garry Monk is bothering to stick around, I don't know why he took the job in the first place (though he'll have gained a little rep by saving them last year, they were 100% going down under the yokel).

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

Can somebody explain how Villa's £40m black hole has been addressed this season considering the players they are bringing on extravagant loan fees/wages with nothing going out?

Short answer = it hasn't

Long answer = they are taking one of three possible approaches

1) They realise they aren't going up in January and sell off Grealish, Chester and whoever else they can get a bit of coin for. Preliminary figures have to be sent to the EFL in March and any such sales *might* cover their arse, at least to a point

2) They think they'll go up, will chuck everything they can at it and gamble that the EFL won't dare deny a club promotion because of the mess it would cause

3) They don't care either way, either a) they think the EFL won't dare punish the mighty Aston Villa, Champions of Europe or b) hey, if we don't go up then the whole thing needs ripping up again anyway. So any sanctions will only wreck a season (2019/20) where they're going to go through a fundamental rebuild anyway and where promotion isn't necessarily going to be on the agenda

They're stupid enough to back Steve Bruce so I reckon it's 2).

 

[Tredman]

Thought the rumour is that the new owners negotiated a relaxation of FFP in order to save the club.

 

[Deutsch Wolf]

They might defer any punishment in light of new ownership. They can't write it all off though.

It's in the post.