Honestly is this Defoe thing a joke? Who gives a fuck about a transfer from 15 years ago for a bang average player that achieved nothing.

If it was that serious, someone would have said something in the past 15 years.

Give them a fine and use it on the FA Christmas party.

I can say with 100% certainty that nobody cares about FFP.

Chelsea, City and Newcastle becoming good teams has benefited the Premier League.

Look at how other leagues have died because of a lack of investment. Leagues like Italy, France and Germany are closer to the Championship in terms of quality than they are to the Premier League.

As somebody who is an expert in money, they will both be fine.

PSG and City both got fines a few years ago from UEFA when less rich teams were banned from the Europe.

Chelsea and City don’t have money problems, they have revenue problems. Their owns can burn £50 mil and not care, the issue is getting it on the books to buy new players. So a fine is perfect.

The line will still be in a pin point location and we’ll have the same issue.

There’s no problem with the current system. “You give a retard a calculator and he’s going to try and turn the TV on with it” (or whatever the quote is from whiplash). The tech works fine, it’s just been misused in a few instances.

I loved Southampton jumping on board with this too.

I’m sure Everton building a stadium and overspending on players cause Southampton to be the worst run football club in England for 2/3 years. Did part of Everton’s budget include paying the wages of Nathan Jones, Ruben Selles, Che Adams, Theo Walcott, Jan Bednarek and Gavin Bazunu?

Man United because they have some world class players (or players that recently were). If they hadn’t had an utterly brain dead transfer window they should have been competing this season.

Chelsea have no world class players and no one really looks like getting to that level. Maybe Nkunku will be a total game changer but Chelsea are a couple of transfer windows from even being top 4 contenders.

Only difference is that Poch is the better manager but they’ll probably sack him before the end of the season.

Because of the team he’s in. Obviously any striker will score loads of goals in that system, let alone a player as good as Haaland.

It’s not like with Kane doing it for 10 years in a piss poor spurs team.

If I’m going for a slight outsider in each conference (not KC PHI SF), then I’d go Ravens and Cowboys.

Ravens look great on all fronts and all the other AFC teams look worse than you’d expect. I still don’t think they’ll be able to play from behind with that offense/ Lamar but the defense might be able to stop that happening.

Cowboys defense just has something special. There’s so many playmakers that I could easily see them beating “better” teams. They played well against the Eagles and Purdy doesn’t look as good now he’s lost a few.

If I’m just making a prediction then it’s a repeat of last year. KC and PHI are so far clear of everyone else.

Bengals. Franchise QB and WR.

Every non top 5 team in the league would trade their drafts for that.

Arthur Smith clearly struggles with talent and you can see it across the board.

He can’t get anything out of Pitts, London and Bijan. Imagine what McVay, McDaniel, Shanahan could cook up with those three.

Run Bijan properly and then actually use him as a decoy in play action. Using him as a decoy every play without ever actually using him in the way you’re “faking” is just ridiculous.

Smith talks about his 50% RZ conversion but that’s be higher if times worried about Bijan. Then your TE end around might actually work.

The argument against Ole was the lack of tactics, he was an outstanding man manager but it was hero ball where you just hope Rashford or Bruno win the game.

Since sacking him they’ve had Ragnick who was arguably the worst manager I’ve ever seen. He had no tactics and no man management skills.

Now it’s ETH who should be a tactician but appears to be an absolute moron and picks players like Lindelof and Antony and has ended up with hero ball but centered around McTominay.

We’re all aware Man United have an utterly abysmal squad and that Bruno Fernandes and Rashford pretty much destroy 95% of footballing systems but Jesus Christ, I’d expect more in the way of tactics/ gameplan from someone like ETH.

Still not sure how United aren’t playing the Poch Spurs/ Conte Chelsea 3-4-3 which is the simplest way to get the best out of attackers.