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Brighton fans respond to the rude banner about the Queen displayed by Roma fans last week with terrace humour reply of ultimate insult to an Italian “Totti loves pineapple on pizza”
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Stop calling it a SuperLeague BTW, it’s a Franchise League funded by investment banks with the focus on making financial returns for investors, there’s nothing ‘super’ about it in any way, shape or form.
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Brighton’s starting XI includes
Steele £0
Dunk £0
Damoud £0
Lallana £0
Welbeck £0
Veltman £0.9m
Mitoma £2.4m
Groß £3.1m
Lamptey £1.5m
Total £7.9m for 9 players
#BHAFC
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Spurs fans protesting in the 65th minute yesterday in relation to the club’s decision to try to price senior citizen season ticket holders out of the club & replace them with more lucrative tourists.
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It’s no surprise this proposed franchise arrives when Chelsea, Liverpool, Spurs & Arsenal are 5th, 6th, 7th and 9th in the EPL and Juventus are clinging onto 4th in Serie A. An invitation only franchise competition would eliminate this problem for those club owners.
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Given that Leeds were fined £200k for watching a training session through a hedge, how much will the PL & UEFA fine the Greedy Six executives for sitting in on commercially sensitive broadcast & commercial negotiations whilst plotting their own rival competition?
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Arsenal by far the best team seen at the Amex this season and probably the last one too. Bigger, stronger, faster. No complaints about result.
#BHAARS
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On 10 August 2012 the Glazers listed Man Utd on New York Stock Exchange, with opening share price of $14. If you had invested £1,000 in
#MUFC
shares that day on 10th anniversary they're worth £814. Same amount invested in Juventus is worth £2,000, F1 £2,564, Atlanta Braves £1,585
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Amazing coincidence that the Premier League, which is lobbying against an independent regulator of football, charges Manchester City for breach of financial rules 24 hours before the government releases the white paper on football governance reform.
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Stabbed Brighton fan with ten stitches has just made it to Stadio Olympico to see
#BHAFC
tonight
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Ipswich, Southampton, The Leeds, Coventry, Portsmouth, West Brom, Blackburn, Preston, Notts County, Bradford City, Barnsley, Bolton, Cardiff, Huddersfield, Sheff Wed, Derby, Charlton, Blackpool, Sunderland have won FA Cup but like all in EFL ignored by PL/FA in no replay decision
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Leicester are relegated with the highest wage bill and most expensive squad in Premier League history
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It beggars belief that the FA and Premier League decided to scrap replays in Rounds 1 & 2 of the FA Cup when Premier League clubs don’t enter the competition until Round 3.
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Caicedo £110m Cucurella £62m White £50m Bissouma £35m McAllister £55m Trossard £27m Burn £13m Maupay £12m Sanchez £25m Total = £389m Apart from a new stadium, training facilities, Premier League, Wembley & Europe, what has Tony Bloom done for
#BHAFC
?
#BloomOut
#SackTheBoard
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My dad died 33 years ago today. He wasn’t a football fan, I’m football daft. He had incurable cancer & wanted to go to a match with me as a memory. I still have the memory, football is worth preserving & saving from those that just see it as a way of making money. RIP Dad ❤️
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Media reporting Chelsea will make huge loss if Werner returns to RB Leipzig for £25.3m after joining for £47.5m much smaller loss will be booked in the accounts. His book value after 2 years amortisation is £28.5m (47.5 x 3/5) so the loss in accounts is ‘just’ £5m (28.5-23.5)
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When commentators and pundits say “these scenes are not what we want to see on a football pitch” following some bifters and pile ins they’re wrong. This is exactly what we love to see
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@TelegraphDucker
Monaco based tax exile trying to buy 25% of MUFC via Isle of Man based shell company investing in Cayman Islands based company listed in New York which has paid £941m to banks in interest for an LBO & £166m of dividends to Florida residents… wants UK taxpayer cash
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The EFL do not insist on their member clubs having accounts audited, the EFL do not insist on member clubs publishing full accounts for fan scrutiny, the EFL do not punish clubs for late publication of accounts, the EFL do not have a clue & this is why the debacle arose
#BuryFC
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Brighton’s starting XI yesterday that beat Liverpool 3-0 cost
Sanchez £Nil
Estupian £14m
Dunk £Nil
Colwill £Nil (loan)
Groß £3m
Mac Allister £7m
Lallana £Nil
March £Nil
Caicedo £4.5m
Mitoma£2.5m
Ferguson £Nil
Total £31m
Is spending well more important than spending big?
#BHAFC
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Born in London over 60 years ago, wearing my gold wedding ring & a watch today. According to some experts yesterday I’m lucky to have never had them stolen, or could it be that muggers are scared that they will get a pasting from one of Bermondsey’s hardest chartered accountant?
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The sales of Cucurella and Ben White exceed what Brighton paid to build the Amex stadium
#BHAFC
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@GMCG9899
Contract length can be any period. Amortisation under UEFA but not PL rules limited to 5 years from this summer. Not an issue for Chelsea as not playing in Europe.
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Arsenal announce 55 redundancies, which at an average salary of (say) £35k a week will save just under £2m from their wage bill which was £232 million last season. Arsenal earned £3.6m for winning the FA Cup and qualified for Europa League next season worth up to £40m
#AFC
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The ‘Class of 92’ owned Salford City promoted to the EFL for the first time. Does this mean football’s romance is still alive, or could it be that a £2.4 million loan from a Singapore investor & losses of £32,000 a week in the 6th tier had more to do with it?
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‘Strengthen the format’ is management speak for scrapping all replays from the first round onwards to allow the elite to make more money.
The FA and The
@premierleague
have reached an agreement to strengthen the
#EmiratesFACup
format and increase support for grassroots football.
Swipe for details ➡️
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If this gets into the next series of ‘Welcome to Wrexham’ I will nominate Ryan Reynolds for a knighthood.
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Early morning reminder
Don’t buy it
Don’t read it
Don’t click on it
Don’t write for it
Don’t talk to it
Don’t trust it
Don’t believe it
#JFT97
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A Premier League with Everton, Leeds, Newcastle, Villa, Wolves, Leicester, West Ham, Rangers and Celtic all chasing the title would be pretty appetising if the Rich Six decide to go down the World Soccerball League route.
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Ivan Toney, who plays for HollyWood Bets sponsored Brentford, funded by the profits of a company called SmartOdds & placed bets on Sky Bet Championship games…is the bad person here according to the FA, once sponsored by Ladbrokes. No indication he bet on matches he played
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If anyone said at the start of the season that Brighton would beat Liveroool twice, Manchester United twice, Chelsea twice and Arsenal twice and score 20 goals in the process I would have said that they were disco bonkers
#BHAFC
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Brighton have charged fans from just £75 to see all three home matches against Ajax, Marseilles and AEK Athens 👏
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I’ve decided to stop commenting on football finance. Have seen Joey Barton’s comments yesterday now realise that as I’ve never played the game or prepared accounts for a football club I’m not qualified. Also being teetotal probably means I’m woke and not a proper man either.
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Following an investigation into the end of match incidents at Athletico Madrid v Man City tonight, UEFA have docked Derby County six points.
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Manchester United have made pre-tax losses of £320 million since the takeover in 2005 and have paid out £900 million in interest to banks. Would you pay £10,000,000,000 for such a business?
#Glazernomics
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For ambitious clubs such as Everton, Villa, Leeds, Newcastle, Leicester etc it’s not just a case of the door being slammed in their faces by the G6, but the door is locked, bolted and boiling oil being poured over the heads of those outside.
#europeansuperleague
#franchise
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To fans of Southend, Reading, West Brom & other clubs with dodgy owners watch this & never stop believing. If Brighton can go from 12 points adrift in League 2 & no stadium to the Europe League you can do it too.
#KeepTheFaith
, organise, campaign & fight for the club you love.
The rise of Brighton & Hove Albion. Our journey continues tomorrow. 💫
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Strange thing to say given that Manchester United spent £221.5m on players in summer 22/23 and owe £308 million in outstanding transfer fee instalments
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In what other business would you recruit an executive from a competitor, paying £21.5 compensation million in the process, give him a £10m a year five year contract, and sack them just over six months later?
#FootballFinance
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What the Premier League is offering with the PPV package is the equivalent of someone cancelling your holiday, not giving you a refund and then charging you £15 to watch Judith Chalmers do a report from the resort you had booked on ‘Wish You Were Here’
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In 1992, when the Premier League started, the price of an 800g loaf of bread was 52p, it is now 106p. If loaf prices had risen at the same rate as Premier League wages, it would today cost £16.80.
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If Conor Gallagher leaves for Everton for £40m then it’s pure profit booked by Chelsea, the equivalent of them signing players for £280m from other clubs on 7 year contracts in terms of amortisation and a single year of FFP.
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Brighton’s four goalscorers tonight cost £5.6 million between them.
#BHAFC
show it’s spending it well rather than spending it big that counts
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If I was an Everton or Forest fan I would be fairly hacked off.
Chelsea’s record sales of the Boehly-Eghbali era? The two hotels on the Stamford Bridge site that raised more than Kai Havertz. The loophole culture pervading Premier League financial controls
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Brentford publish 2023 accounts. Excellent example of a club with a strategy aimed at progress on the pitch and sustainability off it. Brentford have made more profit in 2 seasons in the PL than Manchester United have in 31
#Glazernomics
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@BBCBreaking
British citizen, taxpayer and voter
@GaryLineker
unable to express an opinion? Blimey, what next?
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Warms the cockles of the heart to see Bournemouth CEO buy his young Russian wife a £140,000 Bentley as an early Christmas present. Good to see those in charge of the British Virgin Islands owned club, that used the furlough before fans complained, are in touch with the fans
#AFCB
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“Hey Siri, give me an example of the word ‘paradox’”?
“Leicester City were charged for breaking financial control rules which gave them a competitive advantage on the pitch in a season in which they were relegated”
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Very sad to read of the passing of Trevor Francis, recall him destroying Brighton at Maine Road.
His 1979 transfer fee, adjusted for football inflation (revenue increases over time as a measure of purchasing power) would be £253.5 million today. That’s how good he was.
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According to the Premier League it ‘gives away’ £1.6 billion every 3 years to fund the football pyramid. That £1.6bn includes parachutes payments so presumably Jamie Vardy’s £140k a week salary is part of grassroots? TBF he needs dosh to buy Rebekah phones lost in the North Sea.
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Today’s
@POF_POD
is dedicated to our son in law Andy Hill who passed away yesterday. Andy was a fantastic husband, father to two young daughters, smart, kind, funny and modest. In March he was presented with an MBE by the King for making the world a safer place for you and I…
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Big love to Roy Hodgson and all the best for a speedy recovery from all at Brighton. Rivalry is for 90 minutes twice a year, and we all know it's glorified panto. People matter xx
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Football often throws up tough decisions for us fans...
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Before JP Morgan banker Ed Woodward joined Manchester United the club had cash in the bank and no interest costs. Since then the debt has averaged half a billion pounds and total interest paid to banks now totals £837,000,000
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@stewartnextday
@POF_POD
@kevinhunterday
@GNev2
Hi Stewart, you keep asking me if there are any clubs that have more shares in issue than Rangers 400 million. I’ve found a wee club in Glasgow called Celtic who have 796 million in issue, not sure you’ve heard of them as you only ever contact me about Rangers.
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Graham Potter increasingly looking like a sociology teacher who has left his wife for someone half his age, is desperately trying to look cool to impress the new partner but knows deep inside that it’s all going horribly wrong.
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Arsenal fans unhappy with Stan Kroenke can console themselves that they are top of one particular table. Arsenal owe more to other clubs for outstanding transfer fees than any other Premier League club. What Stan has done, he's done using the club credit card.
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Rochdale, Sheffield Wednesday, Oxford, Tranmere, Shrewsbury, Peterborough, Huddersfield, Luton, Port Vale, Wigan, Forest, Boro, Fylde, Derby, Leeds all had FA Cup matches this season away to PL clubs. They didn’t realise that they had to pay 50% of the VAR bill of £9251
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Having heard Matt Hancock say on
@BBCBreakfast
that grandparents are normally older than their grandchildren I know the country is safe in his hands.
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Steve Dale bought Bury on 7 December 2018. 11 days later he set up two new companies, Bury Heritage & Bury Leisure & started transferring assets to them, including the club’s trophies. Some would describe this as the action of a sociopathic asset stripper
#DontBuryBury
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I’ve been blocked by Alan Nixon. Odd as only commented on his positive slant on Derby administrators & ignored snide comment about ‘accountingland’. I didn’t ask him on what it’s like to work for an organisation that hacks phone of dead kids or printed Hillsborough lies
#JFT97
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Mark Clattenburg has written to the Premier League in respect to tomorrow’s Nottingham Forest match v Manchester City because the VAR official has an Oasis album in his CD collection over fears that may it may impact his impartiality
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Expect to see a creeping narrative from PL along lines of "We don't want to play matches overseas but La Liga are doing it and getting more money so we have to follow suit to be competitive" etc.
🚨 JUST IN: Javier Tebas says official La Liga matches could be played in USA starting from 2025-26 season. 🇺🇸
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Some people have said that Sheffield Wednesday owner Delphon ‘Kendall’ Chansiri has had too much criticism recently after threatening to stop funding the club & then suggesting 20,000 fans lend the club £100 each. So to show there are no hard feelings…
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After careful consideration of the Carabao Cup final taking place tomorrow at Wembley between Liverpool and Russian Oligarch owned Chelsea, the EFL have decided to dock Derby County six points.
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Received this overnight. Chuffed to bits for the young person who reached out for some assistance and delighted for their exceptional performance. We work in education for rewards that are not monetary, and this is one of those intangibles (which are not amortised)
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At meal following Premier League meeting yesterday Big 6 ordered fillet steak & Bollinger, the other 14 burger, chips & a can of Tizer, EFL clubs had to share a Pot Noodle. Richard Masters then suggested the bill was split evenly & Todd Boehly asked if he could pay over 8 years
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Chelsea have 13 players whose contracts do not expire until the next decade.
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If Cristiano Ronaldo uses
@thetimes
tax calculator following the mini budget yesterday on his £400,000 a week salary he may be smiling.
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Have just asked ChatGPT “Where are football finance specialists based in the UK”.
The answer was “Sheffield Hallam University 2, University of Liverpool 2, Portsmouth University 1, East end of Glasgow, 60,000”
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Headline as you would expect from that rag in relation to a fan who had a cardiac arrest at a match and then tragically died
Don’t buy it, don’t click on it, don’t talk to it.
#JFT97
How distasteful is this headline from The Sun, reporting why Bolton’s game was abandoned yesterday… 😒
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A huge 👏 to whoever updated Agatha Christie’s Wikipedia page overnight
#WagathaChristie
#vardygate
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You can’t buy class but you can buy Fred (£53m) Lindelof (£31m) Bailly (£34m) Pogba (£89m) Lukaku (£76m) Martial (£54m) Shaw (£33m) Mata (£38m) Fellaini (£29m) De Gea (£23m) & Young (£16m) all of whom cost more than any player on the pitch from
#BHAFC
yesterday Jose.
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Boris Johnson delays the message to the nation from 4pm to 5pm after realising he’s paid £14.95 to watch Burnley v Chelsea this afternoon.
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Tranmere Rovers stick it to the FA & PL for lack of involvement & consultation of EFL, National League clubs and fans in relation to scrapping of FA Cup replays.
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27 years ago today
@alanshearer
signed for Newcastle for a world record £15 million. Measuring football inflation as changes in PL total income, that figure today would be £235 million
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Interesting comment from Derby owner Mel Morris in relation to Keogh’s sacking “At the level we play at in professional football, it isn’t too much to ask that people sacrifice alcohol”. Is this from the same club that celebrated beating
#LUFC
in playoffs with a £2,800 bar tab
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Sky loses 255k subscribers as revenue falls 13.8% - SportsPro
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All the concentration on the Chelsea indoor, but people ignoring the outdoor which indicates player sales of £1.2 billion since 2013/14
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Newcastle issue one share for £37 million. Looks as if one of the owners are pumping in fresh cash.
#NUFC
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I was looking forwards to getting a royalties cheque from sales of Price of Football 2nd edition but have decided to give 100% to
@decappeal
as it’s more important. Have spoken to publishers who say royalties at least £2,000 so have sent that as an advance as money needed now.
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@markgoldbridge
Your lack of interest in protecting grassroots football shining through here.
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It’s official, Shaun Harvey has been terminated at the
#EFL
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If Manchester United fail to qualify for the Champions League this season adidas are able to reduce the amount paid to
#MUFC
by 30%, which works out as £22.5 million.
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Gianni Infantino, who two weeks ago wrote to all 32 FA’s who are attending the World Cup urging them to focus on football rather than geopolitics and human rights, today gives a lecture on geopolitics and human rights
FIFA chief Gianni Infantino hits out at Qatar criticism saying European countries should instead 'be apologising for the next 3,000 years'
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Shocking that the EFL have stood idly by & let a man who was banned for EIGHT years from being a company director in the UK destroy Bolton Wanderers. The club is on its knees yet the owner paid himself & his son £650k for ‘consultancy services’.
Bolton Wanderers v Brentford called off by EFL with wages still owed to Bolton players
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Very very naughty from whoever was doing the text commentary on the Spurs v Boro game
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After seeing Billy Gilmore run the midfield for Brighton against Chsmpions League Newcastle, Todd Boehly demands to know where they recruited the player from after hearing
#BHAFC
bought him for less than £10 million
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A Wolves fan asked me to calculate the average weekly wage paid by clubs in the Premier League every year since its formation. So here it is in graphical form.
#WWFC
#YesIHaveNoFriends
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For those who trilled Manchester United would cover Cristiano Ronaldo’s estimated £20m a year salary in shirt sales alone, the accounts reveal United earned £76.3m from adidas (customer B) in 2021/22, compared to…err £77.4m the previous season, before he signed
#Glazernomics
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