Cheerio Marcus. We all love him or at least want to love him but this PR crap is the last thing him or the club need. In current form he will be lucky to start in the Championship
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Could see Spurs or us looking at someone like Barrios.
Ragnicks time at Lokomotiv could be of assistance if anything like this happens.
He plays like he is bemused.Hes fecking bemused!!!
BEMUSED
That is something. Let the new manager decide, hopefully he will have been watching and is not fooled by some of these charlatans.
wtf, return after 30 June?
What happens if, by 30 June, Russia has ransacked Kiyv and hundreds of thousands of civilians are dead?
Am I reading this wrong?
I'm tempted to post Ducker's Tweet, but it mainly covers Rashford's situation. That, however, is big yet not too surprising. We're hinging everything on the new manager coming for whatever reason instead of working towards what they'd like to get. Looks like United are afraid of dealing with situations that Barcelona and Spurs experienced in the past. They're afraid of either letting go of a player who the new manager would like or bringing in a new player who the manager wouldn't like to use.
I sure hope that FIFA are flexible on this matter (though I don't expect much). The players themselves + FIFPro aren't happy with this, either, as they want the players to have the option of leaving permanently.
Official: Wesley Fofana signs a new contract with Leicester City until 2027.
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FIFA, fecking Idiots & fecking Arseholes
Given the reins how?
This is the same keeper who faced us a few years back and was made famous for his errors in our goals.
Looks like Djed Spence is attracting a good amount of interest from various big clubs.
He's hardly leaking this to the press is he? I mean even if he feels aggrieved with being benched yesterday he's not exactly been playing consistently enough to warrant a place either.
Deepl is absolute ace for German/English translations and I would assume also for „common“ languages like French, Italian, Spanish et al.
If this is true, and he really is “bemused” with his role - then if he’s that oblivious then he can go. Barely looked arsed when he came on in the Manchester Derby of all games.
It's official now. All foreign-based players in Ukraine are now temporary free agents for the rest of this season, whilst Russian-based foreign players can choose to temporarily join another club as a free agent for the rest of the season.
There's no specific mention of foreign players loaned to either Ukrainian or Russian clubs; they'll have to request their parent club to bring them back.
There's no specific mention of foreign players loaned to either Ukrainian or Russian clubs; they'll have to request their parent club to bring them back.
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But can anyone register them? Will there be a provision for this? I remember la Liga let Barcelona sign Braithwaite, even after the registration closed.
Time for you to go Rashford, you’re really not as good as you think you are.
Maybe RR will try to bring in Lars Kornetka again
That's correct. These players are effectively "free agents", so they can be signed by any team at this time.
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More from the interview:
Barca claim they are skint one say, then give it large the next with how they are back and can buy anyone.
Good on him but quite surprised as think a lot of teams would be interested in him and he would weigh up his options. Was fantastic for Leicester before the injury, would happily sell all of our centre backs outside of Varane and maybe Lindelof solely as a squad option, get Romagnoli on a free and we would be transformed at centre back, quality young player
I keep thinking this is Barcelona Cafe.
It’s not like we can buy or sell anybody now anyway is it? I know occasional deals happen early but they are still rare. It would be weird if players weren’t waiting to find out who the new manager is before committing.
You're right; I was thinking about the January window, specifically, and whether we could've brought someone in then. With that said, we weren't necessarily keen on the players who were available (like Bentancur and Kulusevski), and I don't think many of us envisaged our attacking players being this bad for this long (minus the ones who are often unavailable).
There was a really good post on Reddit explaining how Barca declared higher losses so they could clear the issues of the previous board, and give them a clean slate in future.
I can't post links so here it is:
I’m going to post my original answer from a financial and accounting perspective to a different post a few weeks back regarding Tebas/La liga’s audit on Barcelona’s financials and their claim that Barcelona overstated their losses by around 60% and how this is tied to Messi’s non-renewal:
*Tebas is a massive wanker but their independent audit is not too far off the mark. Barça didn’t exactly lie about their losses but rather through financial engineering and some accounting maneuvering, they purposely over reported their expenses and loses now in order to report higher profits and smooth out earnings reporting in the future. This is known as accounting cushion.
As to why Barça deliberately did this, partially to lay more blame on the previous board but to also ensure much more positive financial reporting by taking all the negatives in one hit now. This in turn helps with multiple facets such as getting even better sponsorship deals, better loans, better wage caps, etc. in the future. Essentially it’s killing 2 birds with one stone.
Of course by helping ensuring and optimizing the future, certain sacrifices and casualties will have to be made and I’m sure many people are hopefully aware what they were.*
*For us accounting illiterates, would they have been able to keep Messi if they had not done this?*
They definitely could have. Either they should have closed the deal before Messi’s contract ran out where unfortunately then, the diminished wage cap rule applies to him as a player to be newly re-registered -or- the other rule applies, where 1/2 or 1/4 per euro saved can be reinvested to new signings.
OR
In the first place, the wage cap wouldn’t have been so bad if the reported figures in the annual reports submitted to La Liga didn’t apply Accounting cushions that greatly affected the calculated out ratios and vastly limited the financial maneuvers of this current season.
However the question here is also what were the priorities of Laporta. He wanted to cleanse the club as quick as he can of the previous administration’s mismanagement and have a viable sporting project as soon as possible. He probably balanced the costs and benefits of either having a painful transition season and reset as soon as he can or retain the club’s best player and delay for another 2 years before sending him off and properly restarting the sporting project. I’m not judging as I’m not the board. But if the question is purely if they had not reported their financials with their deliberately chosen method of accounting, would they have kept Messi? Bingo… yes. The question now was what were their priorities.
*Tebas is a massive wanker but their independent audit is not too far off the mark. Barça didn’t exactly lie about their losses but rather through financial engineering and some accounting maneuvering, they purposely over reported their expenses and loses now in order to report higher profits and smooth out earnings reporting in the future. This is known as accounting cushion.
As to why Barça deliberately did this, partially to lay more blame on the previous board but to also ensure much more positive financial reporting by taking all the negatives in one hit now. This in turn helps with multiple facets such as getting even better sponsorship deals, better loans, better wage caps, etc. in the future. Essentially it’s killing 2 birds with one stone.
Of course by helping ensuring and optimizing the future, certain sacrifices and casualties will have to be made and I’m sure many people are hopefully aware what they were.*
*For us accounting illiterates, would they have been able to keep Messi if they had not done this?*
They definitely could have. Either they should have closed the deal before Messi’s contract ran out where unfortunately then, the diminished wage cap rule applies to him as a player to be newly re-registered -or- the other rule applies, where 1/2 or 1/4 per euro saved can be reinvested to new signings.
OR
In the first place, the wage cap wouldn’t have been so bad if the reported figures in the annual reports submitted to La Liga didn’t apply Accounting cushions that greatly affected the calculated out ratios and vastly limited the financial maneuvers of this current season.
However the question here is also what were the priorities of Laporta. He wanted to cleanse the club as quick as he can of the previous administration’s mismanagement and have a viable sporting project as soon as possible. He probably balanced the costs and benefits of either having a painful transition season and reset as soon as he can or retain the club’s best player and delay for another 2 years before sending him off and properly restarting the sporting project. I’m not judging as I’m not the board. But if the question is purely if they had not reported their financials with their deliberately chosen method of accounting, would they have kept Messi? Bingo… yes. The question now was what were their priorities.
It's also just a repeat of old news and contract news. Not even transfers.
I do wonder what we might have done had we known the Greenwood situation sooner. It’s really shocking the state the forward positions have been left in. I know we knew in time to keep Lingard but that was hardly the plan.
Cheers!
Romano saying we're targeting a young striker, a physically strong defensive midfielder and a fast CB.
Makes sense to me.
Makes sense to me.
Right back feels like a much more pressing need than another centre back, imo. Does it mean that we are stuck with Dalot/Wan-Bissaka for another season or Laird/Williams are supposed to make a step-up?
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