#6038

Can easily see some fresh protests outside the stadium if this goes ahead without replacement. (escalating to riots if/when Rice is also sold)

#6039

It just seems so dumb - he’s exactly the kind of player we would be targeting if we didn’t already own him…

#6040

Who?

#6041

Will always remember him for this;

#6042

Nobody is biting on the players we don’t mind selling = selling players we shouldn’t. Wouldn’t mind if it was smartly reinvested, but sounds like this cash is needed for outstanding payments for current players.

#6043

Season ticket update

It is expected that supporters can be welcomed back in a reduced capacity from October. Our first home game that month is on the 3rd.

Season ticket holders (from last season) can enter the ballot for tickets at reduced capacity games:

  • no need to pay for 2020/2021 season ticket yet
  • you need to roll over your credit from the cancelled games in the 2019/2020 season as a first payment towards the new season ticket
  • you can take a season ticket holiday if you want

Seems fair

:soccer: September football thread including the nations league, national leagues, messi and more
#6044

Diangana - promising left winger/forward from our academy. Played well in a couple of cameo roles season before last, and ripped it up on loan at WBA last year.

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#6045

Ah, wasn’t aware of his first name

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#6046

think it might be this actually

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#6047

was probably the only bright spot of hope for the upcoming season - Haller already talking about how much he likes playing with him etc.

The money issues at the moment are deeply suspect - the missing payments thing, apparently in dire need to sell literally anyone to raise funds. No other premier league clubs seem to be suffering as badly.

I would have preferred to keep Grady and just got a left back in on loan.

#6048

Read today that the 30mil Covid fund our owners put in was the first of their own money invested since 2016…

@wasted

#6049

while I appreciate the humour, the fact that there is an entire global ecosystem around the world’s favourite sport that enables massive human rights abuses, climate devastation, exploitation of addictions & promotion of other really harmful behaviours to simply slide through the greased doors of soft power politics with hardly a real murmur is a fucking travesty well beyond bad-haircut emocore

it’s actually obscene what football has become when a €700m single-person asset can be monopolised & leveraged by dictators and climate brutalisers to open doors to legitimacy

and yet here we are

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#6050

Great free-kicks, though.

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#6051

still untested at the wet-wednesday-night-in-Stoke level though

#6052

re Messi & CFG however;

it occurs to me that they might be able to claim cashback on the 700 mios through the courts

La Liga are the licensing authority saying that his buy out clause is still valid - and obviously they would say that. Losing Neymar & CR7 & then losing Messi? There’s barely a world top 10 player left in La Liga if he were to go and that would be a serious problem for them

CFG might reasonably be expected to win a court case arguing against the 700m once Messi were a CFG player. I reckon they might not even need to take it to court to get an undisclosed settlement of at least 200m of that sum

bread & circuses innit

#6053

so you’re saying things are about to get… convoluted?

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#6054

Oh what it must feel like to be a well run club…Leicester sell Chilwell for £50m and get in Castagne for half the price a week later.

Would be nice to have a single scout - let alone having full scouting reports on 4 potential targets for each position.

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#6055

reckon it either wont happen & Messi will stay at Barca or he’ll join CFG, get Ryan Shawcrossed in the Carabou do a double ACL and yeah… it’ll get very convoluted

but in a CFG vs La Liga lawyer-off I can’t see any way in which La Liga walk away clean

#6056

Announce the September thread you cowards

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#6057

Listening to The Athletic podcast shite this morning I had a similar thought because they had an English Sports lawyer on and he was talking about jurisdiction.

He said that La Liga could be circumvented by going to FIFA to basically get the authorisation of the transfer through them. Then the case would end up in the Swiss Courts as FIFA operate under Swiss Law.

Probably worth it for everyone to get it done. If it doesn’t happen before the transfer window ends this could get really silly.

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