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General Football and Sport / Re: Financial Fair Play - developments in here

« Last post by In the Name of Klopp on Today at 03:22:57 pm »

This is in the right direction. Bit surprised Newcastle did support it.

Premier League clubs vote to introduce spending cap

• Premier League clubs have voted to introduce a cap on how much a team can spend on wages, transfers & agent fees
• Man Utd, Man City & Aston Villa voted against the measures
• Chelsea abstained from the vote

Premier League clubs have voted in favour of introducing a spending cap which will limit costs of transfers, wages and agent fees.

The cap will be linked to the lowest amount of money earned in television rights by one club in the division.

16 clubs voted in favour of introducing the measures, Sky News state. Manchester City, Manchester United and Aston Villa voted against the cap, while Chelsea abstained from the vote.

The idea of a spending cap was raised amid fears that the bigger clubs in the division have developed an unfair advantage and will be designed to ensure those earning huge sums from competing in the Champions League remain on a level playing field to the rest of the teams in the league.

The specific details of the cap have not yet been finalised but will be discussed at a meeting in June.

Importantly, it is understood that the cap will not impact any current levels of spending and teams will not be required to reduce their current wages.

Last season, City boasted a league-high wage budget of £423m, while their agent fees of £51.5m was also the highest in the division.

More to follow...

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The corruption fallacy - they’re all out to get us!

« Last post by Eeyore on Today at 03:22:19 pm »

And, of course, no one in the thread disagrees with that. There might be occasional disputes about whether this or that was a hand ball and should haver been a penalty or whether this or that was a genuine foul or a dive. But on the whole everyone in the thread thinks that refereeing standards are poor and that VAR has probably made them worse. (I would add that VAR and - obviously - multi-positioned high-speed cameras around the pitch, have also educated us, the fans, who are able to spot more 'batshit' decisions than before.)

Where we differ and sometimes fall apart are over why terrible decisions are being made and whether we, as a club, suffer more than others and have systematically suffered more than others over the years.

A week or so ago you were regaling us with tales of how bad referees used to be and how much better the current crop are.

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by rob1966 on Today at 03:21:24 pm »

Unbelievable isn’t it. Why won’t any of them call it what it is? It is cheating!

It is cheating. Warnock asked on Ref Watch "Why did he blow the whistle" I was expecting him then to go to town on Gallagher, but he just sort of left it there.

Not one mention of Areola was stood pulling his socks up either, not saying he was in pain.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

« Last post by Eeyore on Today at 03:20:28 pm »

I don’t get what you mean? What does one bad pass prove? I can remember 7-8 chances off the top of my head which Salah has created for Nunez this season which hasn’t been converted.

City play a similar way though they create cutbacks from their full backs and De Bruyne or Silva, Foden and Grealish play as inverted as wide players, Doku is the only out and out wide player they have and his delivery is wildly inconsistent.

The point is about how you would get the best out of Nunez.

As I said that either means wide players getting to the byeline and pulling the ball back or runners getting down the sides of the centrebacks and pulling it back. Far too often for me Salah doesn't take his man on and looks to bend the ball in with the outside of his foot.

City don't play the ball in from the areas that Salah does and if they do it is the likes of DeBruyne whipping it in. They get third man runners pulling the ball back from the byeline just outside the six yard box. Our two main ways of scoring are trying to get Salah shooting from the inside right position and taking shots from the edge of the area.

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General Football and Sport / Re: VAR! Video Assistant Referee & Shite Referees in General

« Last post by rob1966 on Today at 03:17:32 pm »

I'm honestly a bit sick of this narrative, this isn't aimed at you. I watched it in the pub and they didn't have the audio on.

But the clip I've seen since shows Taylor blow up before Gakpo turns around.
Am I missing something

Warnock seemed to think that if Cody doesn't ask, the bald headed prick wouldn't have realised. They said on Ref Watch that Gakpo only stopped due to the whistle, which is true. I thought myself since, if he hadn't had stopped to ask, he would have got to the ball and could have scored before fuckwit realised

yet again outright lies go unchallenged on sky. warnock questioned why Gakpo looked round which gave Taylor the opportunity to blow the whistle, he didnt . Gakpo runs toward the ball then hears a whistle THEN turns around. we HAVE to ask for the audio. it will prove once and for all if taylor did say 'go down' to the keeper, if he did he can surely never referee in the top league again. If they dont release the audio its just as bad - we'll all say its because he admitted he fucked up. whichever only a complete biased group would give Taylor a Liverpool game again, and we know he'll probably get jurgens last home game.

You need to see the long shot - look at the after match part of MOTD from Saturday and you see Cody look, appear to ask for permission and then goes for it, that's when the whistle goes.

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Gaming Board for consoles, PC & mobile / Re: Elden Ring

« Last post by emergency exit on Today at 03:15:55 pm »

Well, I’m going down a different route since I’ve been happy to use my horse right from the get-go 

Spent about an hour reading back through this thread and your journey from “this game is bollocks” to “this game is the dog’s bollocks” was EPIC 

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by filopastry on Today at 03:15:44 pm »

Imagine Klopp was coming back next season with all his coaching skills but had somehow lost all his knowledge of LFC, the Premier League and even living in the UK.  Same squad but never met them before in his life.  New country, new job and all that upheaval.  What would be your demands and expectations? 

I honestly have no idea, I don't know what this Jekyll and Hyde squad's level actually is!

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News and Current Affairs / Re: The British Rail Thread - Re-nationalisation incoming.

« Last post by redbyrdz on Today at 03:15:39 pm »

Christian Wolmar's recent history of BR is a very good read.

I've never understood the rationale of giving out 'competition' in natural monopolies. So many areas of life where we can just CTRL-C, CTRL-V what the Dutch, Germans, French, Scandis do into our policy and put things on a better path overnight.

Funnily the German railway now has different private companies operating some services. And guess what, its gone to shit. It was ok for the first years when it was just the odd company running the odd local service route. Now its lots of different ones and the whole network has huge problems with trains being delayed and getting cancelled left right and centre.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: New Kit thread

« Last post by Agent99 on Today at 03:15:02 pm »

I'm all for Adidas if they bring our 09/10 away back. Bring sexyback 

The 2011/12 black away kit was also a beauty.

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Liverpool Life / Re: Merseyrail - now with added 777

« Last post by gazzalfc on Today at 03:14:48 pm »

A thought just popped into my head. Labour has said its rail nationalisation plans won't include buying up existing rolling stock. But Merseyrail own the 777s outright, whereas the 507s and 508s were leased.

Does that mean when a Labour government takes control of the Merseyrail franchise, these will be the only trains owned by the government?

So as far as I know Merseytravel which is run by the council own the new trains and not Merseyrail. Merseyrail (owned by Serco-Abellio) run the service. Once under a labour government they will move to Great British Rail