stevegrant

Luton's secretarial staff blew the whistle on their previous owners having paid a number of agents through bank accounts not belonging to the football club, in direct contravention of FA regulations. Despite having raised the alarm when they first discovered the situation, the club was punished with a 10-point deduction by the FA. This just happened to be at the same time that the Football League imposed a 20-point deduction for failing to exit administration with an accepted CVA, so they were pretty much relegated to the Conference before a ball was even kicked that season. Worth noting that Bournemouth were also docked 17 points that season - had Luton not had that deduction, Bournemouth would have been relegated to the Conference and they sure as hell wouldn't be where they are now.

He's already spent more than £45m, which would have been £75m had Sissoko not done one to Spurs at the last minute! Ageing back line, certainly, but there aren't that many younger players in their side. One of the very few positives from last season under Martinez was that they often fielded very young teams. I was bored earlier and worked out that nearly 35% of all Premier League minutes played by Everton players last season were by players aged 23 or under. This season under Koeman, that's plummeted to 20.6% - Lukaku, Barkley and Deulofeu all contribute to that figure as well, which suggests Koeman basically just isn't playing any of the other youngsters they've got. A shock revelation, I'm sure you'll agree

Seems a bit of an OTT reaction, considering some of the other comments he must receive

Has anyone still got that tweet saved?

That Chelsea side is ridiculous

Alright, MLG

If I remember rightly, it was widely reported in the press towards the end of the season that there was either a clause or an agreement that if we went down, he'd be able to leave unimpeded.

Worth noting that pretty much every away game this season has gone beyond what most people thought would be the cutoff point. Sunday at 1:30pm, the week before Christmas, I wouldn't be entirely surprised if this gets down to members.

I think he's got another year or two, but he has a relegation release clause in his contract so could have left had Durham not been royally stitched up. George Bailey's a solid recruit as overseas player, plays all formats, won the championship with Middlesex this year. Presumably Fidel Edwards is in as a Kolpak. Hopefully we don't end up with another situation like earlier this year where 8 of our 11 are 33+...

There are no third-placed qualifiers. It's only third-placed teams from the Champions League who get another go.

Must say I'm not a massive fan of it. It seems really flaky. While we'll still support Tapatalk when we get round to moving to the new software, the site itself should be much more mobile-friendly anyway so hopefully removes the need to use it.

Sixth, tbf

Only on a "this season's rankings" basis - on the overall rankings, which are over a 5-year rolling period (and are the rankings that are used for competition seeding), we're miles behind them and wouldn't be able to catch them even if we managed to win the competition.

Fairly standard advice... generally, bars on and immediately around Wenceslas Square will be pretty expensive, you'll probably be paying UK prices there. For better value, move a few blocks away from the main tourist areas.

I thought we were decent in the first 10-15 minutes, when Rodriguez was heavily involved and had a couple of half-decent chances, but then he suddenly went off the boil and the majority of the rest of the first half felt like we were effectively playing with ten men - I got the sense that his team-mates knew he was struggling and as a result lacked the confidence to look for him, which meant we were much more predictable and easy to defend against.

With the discount mentioned in the OP, when does that get applied when trying to buy/download through Steam? I've got 2013, 2015 and 2016, so theoretically should get a 15% discount, but it's not showing up anywhere.

Nope. They qualified for the competition during the period when the group stage was groups of 5, only playing each team once. I remember they got battered away at Wolfsburg, drew at home with Milan and beat a not-particularly-famous Dutch side (Heerenveen, perhaps?), must have lost their other away game as well as they didn't get through.

Where's the evidence of 1500 travelling without tickets? Would be amazed if there's more than a few hundred, tickets went on sale to members, so pretty much anyone who wanted a ticket could get one.

City's sanction was on the UEFA FFP regulations, not the Premier League ones, which are very different. As far as I'm aware, nobody's managed to breach the Premier League FFP thresholds yet to put any potential sanctions to the test.

Not as straightforward as that, though. The FFP regulations have pretty much pulled up the drawbridge when it comes to spending big money - you had to be in that club before the rules kicked in in order to be able to continue to do so in the future.

Has it, though? It's a new topic of conversation, certainly, but it's not something that's going to happen overnight, whereas we will be less than one hour from kickoff this time tomorrow. It's this that'll be forgotten about as soon as people get to the ground.

No you didn't.

Let's also not lose sight of the likelihood that Liebherr has spoken to many interested parties over the years, and that every previous interest has ended without anything happening. Potentially the only difference here is that the interest got leaked to the press.

Many foreign owners are ****, some foreign owners are good. However, many British owners are also ****, while some are good. The odds generally aren't weighted in favour of a "good" owner, especially in the way the Liebherrs have performed here, regardless of nationality.

Not going to implement it on this version of the forum - we will be moving to new forum software in the not-too-distant future (hopefully this year), and that feature will be available there.