SecretSam

On 30/11/2021 at 08:27, Bristol Rob said:

Obvious fix is to increase the solidarity payments so the playing field is level, but that won't help relegated clubs cope with the wage bills and transfer installments they'll be liable for, and whilst you could build in relegation clauses to players contracts, if you were signing a contract with a bottom 5 club in January, you would probably request that your top flight wage is unrealistic to compensate for the likely drop in salary.

My preferred option would be that parachute payments be held centrally and can only be used to pay the difference between the Premier league salary and the expected Championship salary for players relegated and signed no later than the penultimate transfer window. Purely to stop clubs from starting their Championship assault in their last Premier league season, with one flurry of last window activity.

(Edit. Obviously, with the unclaimed money being evenly distributed across all clubs).

That's an interesting solution. Alternatively, they could just say "suck it up", and force clubs to take the risk, same as they do moving from L2 to L1, L1 to Championship, etc. This would mean that clubs promoted would have to weigh up risks.

There would still be a financial gap from the TV revenues earned in the Prem, but it would be up to clubs whether to spend this all in year 1 to keep them in the Prem, or invest it in the future.

Grauniad article suggesting these might be binned. Thoughts? 

Article in the Grauniad about ending Parachute Payments

On 06/11/2021 at 17:10, old_eastender said:

I really do wonder whether we can trust NP to turn this around. Mark Robins was once in the running for us, oh to see the style of pass and move football that Coventry produced with only 10 men.

And this possible appointment was derided by many on here as being unambitious and dull. 

Personally, I don't see the value in dumping Pearson now. Where are the better options out there?

11 hours ago, Phileas Fogg said:

Just so everyone is aware - I’m 90% sure this is ‘RalphMilnesLeftFoot’ who was staunchly anti-Pearson and seemingly quit the forum a few weeks ago. Not worth replying to.

look at the screen name: TafkaRMLF" = "The artist formerly known as Ralph Milne's Left Foot" (Prince fans will recognise this trick)

13 hours ago, Tafkarmlf said:

Amazing! Players who don't want to cripple themselves playing injured are accused of 'lacking' 

It seems the manager has lost it if he wants to play ' damaged goods' because he's fallen out with everyone else

Astounding thing to say, he must go. 

I seem to remember the equally useless Jurgen Klopp aiming the same criticism at Sturridge. Perhaps he should have been sacked, too.

37 minutes ago, gl2 said:

I keep reading about the "terrible financial mess" we are in, how has that been allowed to happen? remembering that we have " alledgedly" one of the most astute financial men at our helm in SL.

Step forward, the previous CEO. It's not down to the owner, it's down to those within the executive at the club.

I didn't see yesterday's game (sounds like I was lucky), but I recall in the past when Jordan took over we were dreadful until he'd had a chance to build his own team. Then we sauntered to promotion.

I'm not saying that the same thing will happen under Pearson, but it's clear we are (pardon the pun) hamstrung by high wages for players who aren't performing (Wells, Palmer most obviously). They probably need to be shipped out, although how we achieve that in the current market is a major issue.

That will give us the financial headroom to start improving the squad. I'm not convinced that Pearson's "old boys" approach (James, King, Simpson) has been a positive, however, so it needs to be more imaginative.

Oh, and anyone blaming the owner - get a grip. 

Pleased to see us taking a chance with youth, both home grown and imported (Tanner)

19 minutes ago, Loco Rojo said:

Just hope they both have agents that don't suddenly start seeing £ signs.

If they do, let's hope we get compensated by the transfer fee (and sell-on)

So, I'm the only one who saw this thread title and started making up rude jokes, right? 

On 21/11/2021 at 09:57, Show Me The Money! said:

Maybe they should go back to David Moyes

It must be said, Moyes is doing a phenomenal job at West Ham. 

God, it really is painful having to say something nice about the East End Inbreds.

On 21/11/2021 at 11:05, Midred said:

They need a manager who's strong enough to tell Ferguson to stop meddling.

Spot on. He left them in a right mess when he quit, and they haven't really recovered since.

On 21/11/2021 at 08:45, Coxy27 said:

Ronaldo is world class, even now. He's not making any team worse.

He is if he doesn't work off the ball. As for "World Class", he'll be off to China or Qatar next season.

4 hours ago, Port Said Red said:

Could be worse, he could be based in Immingham. I spent nearly 3 months one year working at this place. I have never felt so depressed in my life.

 

 

I did a project in Immingham once, not only horrible but also really, really rough. To put it in context, a colleague said "What a sh17hole that is, and I'm from Hull!" when I told him.

12 hours ago, BS4 on Tour... said:

You obviously don’t know that Grimsby Town FC doesn’t play in Grimsby then ...

And you've obviously never been to Cleethorpes, either

19 hours ago, CodeRed said:

The fish and chips are epic though - best in England.

I'd heard it was Whitby?

Palmer for sure, Wells possibly, I'd also wonder about Dasilva

Rather him than me, Grimsby's a massive toilet

I was watching MOTD over the weekend, couple of teams have a really bright, lemon yellow away kit - looked great. We should do that. We often used to have a yellow away kit, back in the late '80s/early '90s - why not now?

Right, I've signed up. I need my OTIB fix, and as others say, £5 is buttons. 

Respect to all the OTIB team.

1 hour ago, DaveF said:

I said within 3 months, which is quite widely known.

You first claimed that everyone was trying to be a medical expert, then made a statement about how possible it was to get COVID within a specific time period. Slightly contradictory, no?

As for the "widely known", I've worked in healthcare for 30 years and wouldn't dream of speculating about the possibility of an emergent and relatively unknown pathogen being caught more than once.

Looks like there are now only two relegation places left:

Derby get further points deduction

45 minutes ago, chinapig said:

Expanded Condensed Version

Wayne Rooney's Derby County™ are doomed.

If only I had a microscope, I could find my tiny, tiny violin and play it for them

1 minute ago, sephjnr said:

This is his third occurance, isn't it? or only his second?

Possibly still his first (long COVID may never actually go away, just lie dormant).

We just don't know.

23 hours ago, DaveF said:

Slightly different speculating on someone's health i.e. 'he won't be back before Christmas' to quoting a pretty widely known fact?

It's not a "pretty widely known fact" that people can't catch COVID twice...which is what you claimed

Nige, as a fellow long-COVID sufferer, rest. Then rest some more. Get well, come back, fix this.

On 14/11/2021 at 09:06, GrahamC said:

I won’t be watching as I simply cannot stand him, talentless massive self publicist.

He was a player who made the most of his talents, although he had his limitations. "Talentless"? Absolutely not. We could do with that sort of bite just now.

I've got a soft spot for Macc, so might give it a watch.

Horrible news, JP was an absolute beast for us, holding together our back four.