NathStPaul Said it before and I'll say it again. Cole Palmer is very special.

Whilst Pickford is anything but special...

NathStPaul Said it before and I'll say it again. Cole Palmer is very special.

Very much so.

For further context, Everton's stadium is costing £500M - although I suspect it may have gone up a bit since then. So £3B is just a ridiculous estimate.

Given the last few years I'm not sure we should really be lolling at clubs with batshit mental owners seemingly intent on screwing the club into the ground. That said, £3 billion? Just how could a stadium cost that much unless you're using it for money laundering purposes? Tottenham's stadium cost ...

You don't pay agents just to buy players. You pay them to tout around players you want to get rid of. We've needed to get rid of a lot of players.

It’s got me thinking that transfers should be financed as … 1. All base fees paid up front with no stage payments 2. All add ons placed in escrow 3. All fees and taxes to be paid in full within 14 days, otherwise the registration is cancelled, meaning the buying club still has to pay the player, bu...

Leeds owe 180 million in unpaid transfer fees. :o You know the more I read about these clubs the more angry I get knowing that we have continually been kicked in the nuts. Yes we broke rules but the likes of Leicester, Leeds, West Brom all seem to go under the radar. I guarantee they will get a red...

Next season it should start from 138 and be updated weekly on how many more points we still need to finish top. Standards must be raised. The temptation to set it up as: Champions - 138 Promotion - 138 Play offs - 138 Survival - 138 And track all 4 is there. But keeping it up would be a mammoth bal...

Yep it's been coming for years but it's closer and closer now. Another of the aims of the big European clubs is to go global, so there'll be a local version of Barca, Juve, Liverpool and so on in every territory worldwide. The main clubs in Europe will use the South American, US, Middle East or Far-...

https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Articles/2024/04/09/relevent-fifa-legal-fight-deal FIFA and U.S. promoter Relevent Sports have reached an agreement to “end their legal fight over the ban on big European football leagues and clubs playing official matches in the US,” Relevent yesterday told th...

It'd be a brave (or extremely expensive) lender that would take on sales for a club in our financial predicament when you consider that if we go bust or into administration it's the credit company that has the contract with (and so the liability to) STHs, but would only be a teeny tiny creditor wit...

Makes me f*cking sick that the points deductions are so light. The PL could and should have followed the same as the EFL. 12 points reduced to 6 if they follow budgets set with salary caps and transfer embargos. Break that set budget and the other 6 points come off. The PL have f*cked this up so ba...

Someone on Twitter has noticed the Premier League have started running attack ads regarding a regulator for football: https://twitter.com/sgfmann/status/1777242796086227366 The one found was oddly placed in the middle of an article about David Cameron going to the US in an attempt to get military a...

2 divisions of 20 would absolutely not work in Scotland. When you consider that the SPL is already a 3 tier league, padding that out with another 10 clubs, some of which would be part time would only add fuel to the Auld Firm wanting to leave. It wouldn't work. The SPL is actually an interesting Le...

Fans refusing to acknowledge that their rival club is any good, has some good players, had a good performance etc because they think it makes them look like an even bigger fan of their club That's not just football-re8ed. The kind of blind tribalism applies especially across politics and (to a less...

I have a collection of various ones I like, but generally only wear them these days when I'm playing walking football.

No finance option available. Does seem odd, albeit I think it was only last season I found out finance was even an option. I imagine if you contact the club, as you'd like have to anyway to arrange for it, they'd give you details on that. It'd be a brave (or extremely expensive) lender that would t...

NathStPaul City look better without Haaland as weird as that sounds.

No, makes sense. When he's playing the obvious, easy ball is to play it to him - when he's not, they're forced to be a bit more creative and inventive which suits them a lot more.

Bit of a tangent, but I saw the play "Dear England" last week - it's available as part of the National Theatre Live scheme, a filmed live stage performance. Definitely would massively recommend it - very funny and also poignant at times, it covers the appointment of Southgate and covers hi...

Torquay United Supporters' Trust announced a bid to buy the club, "working in partnership with a consortium of passionate businessmen who are all long-standing supporters."

https://www.tust.co.uk/post/a-bright-yellow-future