The Football News Thread 2022/23

[jdrodrigues]

Gotta say the "it's good to be back" advert for the EPL is amazing and so well done. Just showed up on Portuguese tv before the Benfica opening match.

 

[Lupo]

BT Sports will be showing live Serie A in 2021-22

 

[Kenny]

Repalcing the German football they lost to Sky then

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Interesting threads with examples on the changes to VAR.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424680910696427523

https://twitter.com/x/status/1425050433136074753

 

[BillyDee]

Interesting reads.
However, fuck VAR...

 

[Jack Regan]

The soft penalty thing just strikes me as another way our incompetent officials will be able to f**k things up. They're hardly the model of consistency anyway so seems like another grey area where they can get things wrong depending on whose reffing the match.

 

[Kenny]

"unlikely to be a smooth ride"

Well a shit ton of progress in 2 seasons there

 

[Bulderdash]

First part re offsides should be better, the second is going to be a bit of a mess and will probably increase the level of inconsistencies between refs.

 

[Banjo]

Maybe the PL should set aside some of the TV money to pay for better refs and better VARs.

 

[WolfMan]

It totally blows my mind they are continually messing around with the rules of the most successful sport on the planet to accommodate VAR.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

Champions League draw is already shaping up to be a beast.

This is pot two

Liverpool
Manchester United
Barcelona
Real Madrid
Sevilla
Juventus
PSG
Dortmund

Porto, Ajax, RB Leipzig, Atalanta are confirmed Pot 3

AC Milan are confirmed Pot 4

Potential for some proper groups of death.

To complete the picture Pot 1 is

Chelsea
Villarreal
Manchester City
Atletico Madrid
Bayern
Lille
Sporting
Inter

 

[Quirkafleeg]

I have no idea why SKY pay Paul Merson. Tonight he mentions Messi and says 'He loves the club, cant understand why he cant pay for 50k a goal or summat'. Do you due diligence you stupid prick the reason why he cant is because Barcelona are still over budget and cant even register Aguero.

GIVE THE JOB ME FFS.

 

[Paddingtonwolf]

It’s also Spanish law that if your contract ends you cannot be rehired for less than 50% of your previous salary. Which takes not too long to find out.

 

[Elephant Pyjamas]

Interesting threads with examples on the changes to VAR.

https://twitter.com/x/status/1424680910696427523

https://twitter.com/x/status/1425050433136074753

And now a third one:

https://twitter.com/x/status/1425409194451156995

No good to us now, but the Kilman v Leicester one wouldn't be awarded now (not sure it should have done at the time anyway)

 

[The Bear]

Skybet now offering a 9 month savings account with a generous 11% interest.

 

[Kenny]

Uefa will set out proposals next month to replace its Financial Fair Play rules with a salary cap and luxury tax by next year.

Under the planned system, clubs in European competition would be limited to spending a fixed percentage of their revenue — possibly 70 per cent — on salaries. Any clubs breaching the cap would have to pay a luxury tax, under which the equivalent or more of any overspend would go into a pot to be redistributed.

 

[The Bear]

So the richest can afford to overspend, and if a little club tries then we'll fine them to the wall.

 

[BillyDee]

That's... just a really shit way of doing it.

 

[PuntsWolf]

Well the rich won’t be overspending. They’ll be spending what they can afford. But yes it’s bullshit as smaller clubs won’t be able to catch up.

 

[Del Woppio]

Thing is, there isn't a way to do it really, other than just an outright salary cap, and there'll even be ways around that. Just fuck it all off.