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19 minutes ago, thetime said:
Are you understanding the potential new rule?
The rule wants only 85% of revenue on wages. Man utd current revenue is around £650 million, with wages coming to under 200m per year.
Now I might not be a mathematician, but I'm sure there's plenty of scope for more over rated players on high wages.
It's perhaps going to impact the likes of Villa, Newcastle and West Ham a lot more. As the likes of United, Liverpool and city's revenue is a lot bigger than the villas and west hams.
Wrong.
QuoteIt has been widely reported that a multiple of four-and-a-half be adopted, meaning that based on the 2022/23 merit payments, that would be the £94.2m that Southampton achieved directly from TV revenue, with that sum made up of equal share, merit payments and facility fees that were derived from domestic and international rights. At four-and-a-half times multiplied, that would be £423.9m as a cap.
"Liverpool had the third highest wage bill in the Premier League last year at £373m, a rise of £165m from where it was in 2017, behind Chelsea’s £404m and Manchester City’s £423m."
So, small clubs will be able to spend as much as they can afford. The main club that is going to be impacted is Man City because they won't be able to spend much more on wages.
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Man City, Man United and Villa voted against the EPL salary cap. Chelsea decided to abstain from voting.
From these 4 clubs only Villa is a "surprise". We all know that the other 3 would have good chances to go downhill (or even more downhill) with a rule like this.
Arsenal, Liverpool and Tottenham would be the winners if the wage gap between them and City will get reduced.
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"The head of Premier League referees, Howard Webb, has said he is exploring the possibility that referees might be allowed to explain some of their decisions to the crowd inside a stadium for the first time."
To be honest, he should be exploring the possibility of resigning from PGMOL and be an honorary Manchester citizen instead.
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1 hour ago, thetime said:
Pep
Ancelotti
Fergie
Jose
Zidane
Except Mourinho (especially at Porto), none of those proved that they are able to manage a club with limited budgets.
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1 minute ago, thetime said:
Let's not forget liverpool's European Cup win in 1977.
Crusaders
Trabzonspor
St Etienne
Zurich
Borussie Monchengladbach
I would take that off them to be fair. 😃
So now I guess you know why Klopp is considered to be one of the best football managers ever. -
8 hours ago, Comfy Bean said:
Klopp’s dropped more running for a bus than the budget Ferguson had at Aberdeen where he won 2 European trophies.For the record, I was cheering for McLeans Dundee Utd when Fergie was winning cups and titles up here.
Aye, those were the times when with some luck you could play against small clubs and reach at least a European semifinal. Dundee played against the mighty Lens, Craiova, Split and only then Barcelona and Monchengladbach to lose the final against the Goteborg GIANTS. 😂Looks like that people already forgot that Klopp won 2 titles with Dortmund, a club that was nearly bankrupt when he took over. Also played a CL final with BVB in modern football times.
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6 hours ago, Punksnotdead said:
Wolves fans could argue that points lost may have cost them a place in Europe. Your argument that points lost only matter to certain teams is quite clearly bullshit.
Aye, it's well known that English clubs really care about European Mickey Mouse cups (with some exceptions)We already know Liverpool's next manager, time for a meme:
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1 hour ago, charlierc said:
Refs and the Man City empire are one thing but if you put your chances away and stop conceding the first goal, that would help. They've left so many points on the table through crap finishing, not least with Salah having looked out of form since his injury and Nunez being unreliable. Though have Liverpool been that f**ked over by the refs? That game at Spurs was one saturated in active incompetence, but they don't seem to have had as many problems as, say, Wolves, who seem to get one ridiculous call against them every week.
I've seen it suggested losing that cup tie 4-3 at Old Trafford has kind of broken the Liverpool rhythm, and I'm guessing that mauling at home to Atalanta in the Europa League didn't help much either. But so too is that in bringing back all the players that recovered from injury, it meant suddenly half the team is trying to regain match fitness at the same time and is as a result a few steps off pace.
Sure mate, I can clearly see Wolves winning the title without ref mistakes. Why don't you compare the points lost by Liverpool due to ref decisions with the number of points lost or won by the teams that realistically fight at the top? At top level, any bad decisions can cost you the title. Should I remind you that Klopp was only 1 point away from winning another title against Guardiola?The same applies to the fact that bad decisions can cost a team staying up in the league. That reminds me of the recent Forest drama.
In these cases any points lost like that count much more than points lost by teams that aren't fighting realistically for anything (Wolves in your example).
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29 minutes ago, charlierc said:
Also I see how little faith the poster had in Arsenal sticking the landing and keeping the Man City wolf from knocking down the door.
The fraudsters have 2 games in their hands, one of them started now, meanwhile Arsenal have a huge reputation of unsuccess. But yeah, I'll be rooting for Arsenal to win it and the fraudsters to get points deduction and get their relegation. No one should be allowed to be above the rules. Man City are a disgrace to football, just like PSG.
29 minutes ago, charlierc said:Pretty much. Man City's financial antics are one thing, but Liverpool's form in the last month or so has been pretty poor. Salah and Nunez have been much better going forward than in recent works.
True. But can you please show how the EPL table would have looked with some correct refereeing, despite the poor form?
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Kylie is a big name but I'm disappointed they weren't able to bring a big band to headline one of the 6 days. It feels like this year Sziget is 6 big (actually "biggish") concerts with some special guests during each day.
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3 minutes ago, thetime said:
Can't blame city for Liverpool getting 1 win in 4. In those 4 getting getting 1 point against a sh*t united side, Everton and Palace.
I can blame PGMOL for costing Liverpool around 10-12 points with VAR. And of course I can blame City for the 114 frauds, that's the main reason why they're the best in the league.
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So, as I said before, yet another title goes to the 114 fraudsters
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2 minutes ago, billybigballs said:
Not that I know much about K-Pop but I'm sure most of them are currently doing national service, aren't they?
You're right but it's mandatory for 18 months and in theory they will finish around exactly this summer.
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2 hours ago, billybigballs said:
I can't think of anyone else that could be in tbh. What other huge groups are there who have nothing else announced? The Wiggles?
I can! BTS
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Well the lineup in terms of headliners would surely look super weird with only solo acts as the big names!
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I don't think we get Doja Cat or Kylie Minogue because they would surely headline. And we already know the last big name is going to be a band and not a solo act.
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1 hour ago, Newjem said:
Also Europe Stage is now called The Buzz?
Well in the past years they had a quite amount of acts from outside Europe playing on that stage, so I guess it was one of the reasons for the name change.
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8 minutes ago, billybigballs said:
Booking Rammstein to play Sziget with the current line-up would be like booking Ed Sheeran to play Hellfest.
We had Ed Sheeran and Foo Fighters on the same lineup few years ago, sooo... almost anything is possible at Sziget, I guess.
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12 minutes ago, Matt86 said:
we're getting the Chainsmokers guys... lol 😭
Luckily they're in the US during Sziget 😁
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Another band that would surely sell a lot of tickets very fast is Rammstein. They're doing an arena tour next summer and they have nothing scheduled after the 31st of July. I guess they can be convinced to play Sziget for the right price.
What makes them unlikely however is that they use lots of pyro and other stuff, so I guess it would be complicated to organize the gig.
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1 hour ago, kristofm said:
Jumping back to reality for a second, here's a few options:
Queens of the Stone Age - playing in Sweden on the 8th of August, does that make them unavailable for a gig on the 7th in Budapest?
Maneskin - playin on the 18th of July in Portugal, then Rock en Seine in France at the end of August.
The Offspring - They're playing in Austria on the 15th, although they're not really a band Sziget is booking nowadays.
Placebo - 4th Aug in Turkey, 9th Aug in Switzerland, not the likeliest, but they're around
Any more realistic additions?
I think The Offspring and Placebo aren't Sziget headliner material anymore. So, from that list maybe only Maneskin. However, they were in Budapest last year.
Paramore are also around. They are playing in Vienna on the 8th of August, less than 3 hours from Budapest by car. I know they're on a stadium tour with Taylor Swift but I wouldn't be surprised if they will presented as festival exclusives.
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I'm watching No Doubt's 2nd week performance at Coachella... it's incredible how much energy Gwen Stefani has at 54, wow! I really hope the missing headliner it's them. It looks like an once in a lifetime chance to have No Doubt headline Sziget, it would be a great booking.
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2 hours ago, billybigballs said:
So, with Wednesday's headliner and sub, along with some Hungarian names, unless I've miscounted, I don't think we are likely to get many more acts for tbe two main stages (maybe an extra one on the Saturday?)
Doesn't make for amazing reading, I've got to say.
I think they'll announce the Europe Stage names too
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3 minutes ago, kristofm said:
am I missing something?
Yes, the fact that No Doubt might not be allowed to announce any other dates until Coachella ends. Blur might be in the same situation.
Football 2023/24
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Funny penalty given for Arsenal. PL refs are a bunch of clowns.