The Fish

Imagine how he'd be regarded if he'd had nothing but good managers for his time here. He's class and needs a better chant imo.

We'll lose this.

It worked, didn't it? You might question my methods, but you can't question the results.

I wonder if the tv companies will get in the ear of the Premier League to let the reigns loose a little.

Only 10 permanent signings in the Premier League with only 1 day to go. 12 teams haven't done any business so far. Last January there were 51. Brentford Leeds and Spurs were the only teams not to bring anyone in.

If the cap was around£120m a window, that's more than enough for clubs like us, or Man City to use to bolster, improve or restock the squads. It gives a ceiling for clubs like Luton that is so high it not restrictive at all. It stops clubs like Chelsea from splurging and falsely inflating the value of players. And, of course if Man City can offload a youth player for £40m, that goes into the allowance. If it were debt-linked as well, well that would be fantastic. Also, if there were better regulations about the number of homegrown players that must be included in the matchday squad, that'd be great too, but I've no idea how you define homegrown when there are so many clubs that have overlapping catchment areas, or catchments areas where 50% of it is the North Sea?

I don't think it does. Every deal done by the elite become more risky. Committing £80m to one player carries with it a risk now, but if that's 75 of your allowance, it becomes a bigger concern. Those teams fishing in the smaller ponds for less money can afford to swallow the cost of a failed transfer more. That means teams will have to focus more on good scouting, and developing their own players as a more cost effective route to becoming competitive. Don't mind the cap being influenced by the things you mention, but a cap , in my mind, is a fair way of reducing the spending power of the elite, while still letting weaker clubs catch up.

In this font?

Could the prices flux that much if there's a cap, though? Say Chelsea spunk £120m on Sander Berge and he inevitably flops, that's not going to make all bang average midfielders 'worth' £120m, is it? The flex should come from the spending power of the least rich member of the PL, so if Leicester, Southampton and Leeds were to be promoted it could increase, but if Luton, QPR and Plymouth fluked promotion it should contract.

What about a spend cap? Like £120m, say. Would mean the top clubs can buy 1 or 2 toptoptoptoptop players, but the lower teams have the freedom to fill out their squad more. Would prevent a club like Chelsea spending more in 1 window that others have over 5 years, but would allow clubs like Villa, Everton, Nottingham Forest and ourselves could keep things competitive. Coupled with a rolling 3yr limit of £360m loss allowance?

It doesn't even have to be entirely scrapping PSR, just retooling it to better fit it's remit. Stop allowing clubs to spend beyond their means, for sure a club should be protected from bad owners. And we should prevent the megarich clubs from spending without some kind of limit, for the sake of sporting integrity.

They're like a Fop tribute act.

We did, but we haven't got home advantage and we are just honking away from home this season.

You, sir, are a goddamn liar.

I worked really hard when I got this job, spent ages setting up things to make future work a lot easier. I'm at the stage now where most of my job is secretly automated which means I can study more, spend more time finding new ways to make my job easier in the future. I've got colleagues whose entire week is filled with stuff that I would have tried to find a way to automate. But they've done it that way for years and are happy enough, I guess. If something comes in that's away from my usual work I'll work hard, but most of my week is setting a few things off and waiting for the reports to be spat out. I work to live and given nobody's health or wellbeing is reliant on me putting 110% effort in, I don't do it.

What film is that from?

We'll lose this one.

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