The Fish 10857 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 And my point is that they won't care. A mid table premier league club is still huge compared to 50% of the dross who get to the group stages. UEFA won't care. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 And my point is that they won't care. A mid table premier league club is still huge compared to 50% of the dross who get to the group stages. UEFA won't care. But they'd get to the group stages AS WELL as those teams, and potentially INSTEAD of a bigger, better supported club. Of course UEFA will care, it's their benchmark competition, for the cream of the crop. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17266 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Didn't Platini change it a bit so the likes of Maribor and Celtic from non elite European leagues stand at least an equal chance with each other of getting into the group stages? 3 qualifiers is still a huge ask at this stage of the season mind. If it was up to UEFA's sponsors it would be biggest 32 clubs from the nations with the biggest tv audiences. To be fair, it isn't entirely that way. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10857 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 This makes no sense. Premier League sides are a bigger draw than Slotsnaya Dubroniviski so it would be in UEFAs interest to have them in the latter stages ahead of some pokey club from Irkutsk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17266 Posted August 29, 2014 Share Posted August 29, 2014 Yeah, that's why I refer to UEFAs sponsors rather that the body itself wanting all the biggest clubs in. There is a way for Maribor to get to the group stages. Am sure Carlsberg would prefer Spurs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Alex Song is a real coup for WHU. Would have improved us. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Falcao apparently tweeted something about moving to Real Madrid and then took it down, pretty ridiculous front line on that Madrid team now let alone if he goes there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Probably feeling flush after Man Utd lined their pockets to the tune of £60m for a squad player. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted August 30, 2014 Share Posted August 30, 2014 Alex Song is a real coup for WHU. Would have improved us. Aye good player, surprised they managed to get him would have thought a good amount of sides would have been in for him. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
beatty 24 Posted September 1, 2014 Share Posted September 1, 2014 Think I'm done watching our 3pm Saturday games. Going to get into the habit of picking the most interesting game out of all the 3pms and sticking that on instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Just seen Adam Johnson at Thirsk races. Started a chorus of Sad Mackem Bastard with my pal but his mates were huge so we made sure they didn't hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 30611 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ClubSpinDoctor 0 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Just seen Adam Johnson at Thirsk races. Started a chorus of Sad Mackem Bastard with my pal but his mates were huge so we made sure they didn't hear Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Better 2nd time round. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NJS 4386 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 I may be too much of a cynic if that's possible - I saw the report on .com about Tiote being fit for the Ivory Coast game and assumed there was still a couple of days left in the Russian transfer window but I've checked it and it is in fact closed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7029 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 He's probably been fit all summer Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ayatollah Hermione 13869 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Fell out with Pardew APPARENTLY. Which by my reckoning makes him the 100th player to do so. Wonder if he gets a prize. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trophyshy 7083 Posted September 6, 2014 Share Posted September 6, 2014 Mate of a mate took this pic at a wedding in Bradford today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaddockLad 17266 Posted September 8, 2014 Share Posted September 8, 2014 Blatter: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/football/29109481 Just it say "I fuckin told you lot this would happen" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew 4754 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 http://www.theguardian.com/football/2014/sep/09/queens-park-rangers-football-league-ffpThe world just isn't kind enough to let that happen is it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Howay 12496 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 (edited) Just seen the NUFC official website put up an article with the title "Janmaat error costs Dutch" welcome to the club Daryl. I know he did btw just don't think it's the most professional way to treat a new player. Edited September 10, 2014 by Howay Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OTF 7295 Posted September 10, 2014 Share Posted September 10, 2014 Any publicity is good publicity! Headline: Janmaat error costs Dutch. Sub: Sports Direct records record profits Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Fish 10857 Posted September 17, 2014 Share Posted September 17, 2014 FA plans to slash number of non-EU imported players in English football• Body wants 50% reduction in non-European players• Greg Dyke’s proposals may benefit homegrown talent • Football League would be worst hit by plans • Transfer appeal process will also be overhauled Greg Dyke's England Commission is aimed at addressing a crisis in the quantity and quality of homegrown players. Photograph: Nick Potts/PA The Football Association has unveiled detailed proposals to reduce the number of imported players coming into the English game from outside the European Union by up to 50%. Under the plans, Football League clubs would be banned from signing non-EU players altogether and Premier League clubs would be prevented from sending them on loan. FA chairman Greg Dyke hopes the changes will help prevent “mediocre” overseas players from blocking the progress of homegrown talent. The detailed proposals, which the FA hopes could come into force by next season, follow on from the package of measures outlined in May by Dyke’s England Commission. Under the proposals, only players from the top 50 Fifa ranked countries in the world could be signed unless the transfer fee is more than a pre-defined figure, which could be set at £10m or £15m. The FA also proposes to toughen up the appeals process so that clubs can only challenge decisions on the basis that the process has been incorrectly followed rather than on their substance. At present, almost 80% of appeals succeed and the process has been heavily criticised for being too lenient and forcing tribunals to make subjective judgments on players’ abilities. A total of 122 overseas players from outside the EU were granted visas between 2009 and 2013, 23 of them in the football league. In order to balance the changes, designed to help improve the chances of homegrown players gaining experience between the ages of 18 and 21, it would also become easier for top, international class non-EU players to gain work permits. At present, the rules technically require non-EU players from the top 30 ranked countries to have played in 75% of their country’s competitive internationals in the previous two years. However, the rule is often overlooked and under the proposed new rules that figure would be reduced to a more realistic 30%. Dyke’s Commission was convened to try and stem the declining number of homegrown players playing in the top flight and address a crisis in the quantity and quality of young English players coming through the system. When the Commission’s report was released in May, Dyke said many of those interviewed had “argued strongly to us that too many mediocre players are getting work visas”. “Our proposal to tighten the entry and appeals criteria for non-EU player immigration will create a necessary constraint that will encourage more considered and valuable player acquisitions from outside the EU,” he added. The proposals are contained in a consultation paper produced by the FA under Home Office requirements and it will now hold talks with other stakeholders including the Premier League, the Football League, the Professional Footballers Association and the League Managers Association on their introduction. “The defined criteria are designed to result in visas only for those elite sportspeople who are internationally established at the highest level [and] whose employment will make a significant contribution to the development of their sport at the highest level in the UK,”said the FA in a statement. Dyke’s Commission, which also came up with a controversial plan for Premier League sides to introduce B-teams into the Football League, has promised a second report focussed on the grassroots later this year. The B teams idea was branded unworkable by the Football League and provoked a backlash from fans, but a revised version that would allow Premier League sides to play an under-21 side in the Johnston Paints Trophy is now under consideration. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scoobos 298 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Sense from the FA? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ohhh_yeah 2966 Posted September 18, 2014 Share Posted September 18, 2014 Have you lot seen the new logo across the pond for the MLS? 20 years in and they are still championing wretched artistic talent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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