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They should just spend the full hour asking the same question over and over again.

 

’Where’s the Carroll money?’

’Where’s the Carroll money?’

’Where’s the Carroll money?’

Ad infinitum.

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4 hours ago, strawb said:

Am I right in saying despite it being obvious that he pockets money every year, its not provable from the books released? (Just asking, in no way defending etc)

Aye I’m fairly sure that’s true. With it being private they can disguise things a bit better, that would explain how we’ve been hit harder by one year in the Championship than any other side. 

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On 10/24/2018 at 14:04, trooper said:

Lazio supporters boycotted Sunday's Serie A home match against Atalanta in protest at president Claudio Lotito's running of the club.

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Ze Germans got the league to abandon plans for Monday night matches after protests!

 

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https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-monday-games-to-be-discontinued-as-fan-protests-persist/a-46390559

 

Bundesliga Monday games to be discontinued as fan protests persist

 

After protests from supporters, the German Football League has confirmed that unpopular Monday night matches are to be abolished. When the new Bundesliga TV deal is negotiated, there will instead be more Sunday matches.

    

Tennis balls on the pitch, toilet paper in the goalmouth and in Dortmund, an empty Yellow Wall. When Monday night football was introduced in the Bundesliga last season, German fans made their feelings evidently clear.

And the protests appear to have worked with the German Football League (DFL) confirming on Wednesday that the unpopular fixture slot will be discontinued from the 2021-22 season onwards.

"The DFL can confirm that a decision was made as early as September to abandon Monday games in the Bundesliga when the next media rights deal is negotiated," the organisation said in a statement on Twitter on Wednesday.

Under the terms of the league's current media deal, worth €4.64 billion ($5.28 billion) and covering the 2017-18 to 2020-21 seasons, Bundesliga clubs have already agreed to five Monday night games per season – and this commitment will be honored.

But when the new deal is negotiated early in 2020, Monday night games are to be discontinued as the clubs and the (DFL) look to diffuse the long-running dispute with active fan groups, who see the games as yet another symptom of the perceived over-commercialization of the sport.

The DFL, on the other hand, has always claimed that Monday night games were introduced to ease the fixture congestion suffered by the Bundesliga's Europa League representatives and said in its Twitter statement that this will now be achieved through five additional Sunday games.

German Fan Project Coordinator Michael Gabriel told the DPA news agency that the decision was a "signal that football is listening" and said he was "sure that it will be well received by fans."

 

'No more Monday games!'

Monday night football has been commonplace in England's Premier League for years and its introduction in the Bundesliga was welcomed by many fans watching on television. But for hardcore, match-going supporters, Monday night matches involve taking extra days off work and traveling large distances at unsociable hours.

All five Monday night fixtures last season featured protests of varying intensity and, despite the announcement by the DFL, supporter representatives expect the pattern to continue. "It's not just about Monday games in the Bundesliga, but in the second and third division too. And all league games during the week," Jochen Grotepass, a spokesman for campaign group "Unsere Kurve" (Our Terrace) told DPA.

Indeed,the Fanszenen Deutschlands, a national coalition of active fan groups, has announced coordinated, nationwide protests to coincide with the first Monday night game of the 2018-19 season.

"Our message to club representatives and the DFL is clear: No more Monday games!" read a statement published by several leading fan groups on Tuesday, in which they announced a 45-minute atmosphere boycott which is set to be conducted at matches across the country on Matchday 13.

"The scheduling of kickoff times for television is fundamentally opposed to the interests of match-going fans," the statement continued, adding that the protests are aimed at "a football for fans and not for financial gain."

 

 

Protests planned in Nuremberg and Rostock

This season's first Monday game, on December 3, sees newly-promoted Nuremberg host Bayer Leverkusen, and both sets of fans had announced wide-ranging protests.

"We didn't get promoted to play on Mondays again!" reads a statement from the Ultras Nürnberg, who intend to go a step further by asking fans not to even enter their block during the first half before "spoiling the DFL's pretty Monday night game" with a "short but intense protest" in the second half. 

Bayer Leverkusen's organized support announced back in September their intention to boycott all Monday night fixtures.

The protests are not limited to the Bundesliga. Also on December 3, third-division Hansa Rostock face VfL Osnabrück but the hardcore Suptras Rostock, who have already made headlines for their attention-grabbing displays in cup matches against Stuttgart and Nuremberg this season, have announced a 90-minute atmosphere boycott.

"Monday nights in division three? Not with us," reads a statement from the Suptras quoted by the Faszination Fankurve website. "No banners, no flags, no megaphone, no capo, no support."

 

https://www.dw.com/en/bundesliga-monday-games-to-be-discontinued-as-fan-protests-persist/a-46390559

 

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Incredible to think how Ashley’s mind works. A genuine world class manager landed in his lap. Not only that but he’s perfect in terms of being able to work within a tight budget whilst still taking the club forward with a bit of backing. Silverware without having to spend much wasn’t even out of the question. So, what does he owner do? Instead of working with someone who could’ve provided long term stability he just views Rafa as someone who’s allowed him to spend nowt until his contract runs out. He’ll probably let Nigel Pearson spend £60m in January 2020 as well. 

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Ashley has been on Sky Sports News claiming that he's in talks with a buyer for the club and that talks are "more advanced then theyve ever been"

 

Hopes to complete the sale before the Jan window.

 

Stop me if you've heard this one before...

 

 

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What a wanker here we go again then, it won’t  happen guaranteed it won’t. ‘For the sake of the fans’ fuck off man and if it doesn’t happen this time then it’s very fucking clear that he is just mugging us all off all the time. Hate this fat prick not sure if I’ve ever mentioned it so there I said it again 

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