Martyn Ziegler
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Massive news: Roman Abramovich sanctioned. All UK assets frozen. Chelsea can still operate under a special licence but sale now on hold. Club will not be allowed to sell any more tickets - only season ticket holders can go to games for the foreseeable future.
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BREAKING: Man City charged by Premier Leaue with numerous breaches of financial rules following a four-year investigation.
This is unprecedented:
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I’d love to hear FIFA’s explanation of why this celebrity chef gets access onto the pitch at a World Cup final for selfies with Messi etc
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Man City latest: under Premier League rules the club will not be able to appeal any sanction to the Court of Arbitration for Sport (which overturned the UEFA ban)
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NEW: Paris will host this season’s Champions League final.
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Liverpool's accounts show the club has overtaken Man Utd in wages paid - can't remember when that last happened. 'Big Six' wages table for 2019/20 here:
Man City £351m
Liverpool £325m
Man Utd £284m
Chelsea £283m
Arsenal £225m
Spurs £181m
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Also: no merchandise sales allowed; no player transfers or new contracts; catering services will be permitted.
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Man City accused over £30m payments by mystery broker. Exclusive with
@Lawton_Times
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@piersmorgan
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Excl: Chelsea’s long-term player deals prompt Uefa to set five-year FFP limit from next summer.
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So new full-time VAR Mike Dean is being paid a fee to admit he made a mistake with the Cucurella hair-pull, but the PGMOL did not accept there had been any mistake when asked about it on Monday?
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NEW: UEFA clubs competitions committee decides to scrap away goals rule in European football. Now needs ExCo approval.
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NEW: Moyes says Zouma is available to play against Leicester "and I stand by that"
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Range of sanctions possible including points deductions if breaches are proved.
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Man City hit with more than 100 charges of breaching rules by the Premier League.
Possible sanctions if found proven include points deductions or even expulsion from the league.
Story:
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Man City hit with more than 100 charges of breaching financial rules by the Premier League over a nine-year period.
Possible sanctions if found proven include points deductions or even expulsion from the league.
Story:
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Sweden bows to fan power and becomes first country to reject VAR
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Exclusive: Leeds and Burnley threaten to bring a claim for substantial damages against the Premier League and Everton believing the Merseyside club have seriously breached financial rules:
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UEFA president Ceferin lays into Ed Woodward + Agnelli: “If I start with Ed Woodward, he called me last Thu evening saying he’s very satisfied with and fully supports the reforms + the only thing he want to talk about was FFP, when obviously he had already signed something else.
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Premier League news: vote for 5 subs was, as predicted, defeated at meeting today and will be 3 subs next season. Also: looking positive for behind-closed-doors matches to be televised but final decision at meeting early next week.
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This is an incredible picture - more like a painting than a photo. Anyone knows who took the original and I’ll credit
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Strong stuff from European Leagues chief Lars Christer Olsson on Champions League reform - "we want the champions of Scotland or Denmark not the sixth place team in England or Spain"
#FTFootball
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Excl: Sat 3pm TV blackout lifted for next season until full return of fans to stadiums - now looking certain all Premier League games will be televised.
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ITV set to bid for Champions League TV rights after new tender for UK issued. Big challenge for BT with Sky also looking interested
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NEW: The seven clubs that blocked ban on signing loan players from partner teams were (according to sources) Newcastle, Sheff Utd, Man City, Chelsea, Everton, Wolves, Forest.
Some other clubs angry that Saudi-owned Sheff Utd joined the opposition bloc.
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Phil Foden + Mason Greenwood will not travel with rest of England squad from Iceland to Denmark this afternoon after breaking bubble in Reykjavik with girls. Gareth Southgate to confirm shortly.
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NEW: PGMOL is understood to have effectively accepted the VAR interventions to disallow West Ham + Newcastle goals were wrong. Will co-operate with PL request to review the 2 incidents, + will take lessons from the outcome.
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That decision to strike off Trossard’s goal for Arsenal … not what VAR is supposed to be doing
#MOTD
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Breaking: Premier League clubs vote to return to old longer transfer window, closing on Sept 1 and no longer before the start of the season
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NEW: Aston Villa ban players from taking part in fantasy football following Grealish injury leak
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Just to add confirmation: Chelsea are withdrawing from the Super League. The beginning of the end
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FA will refuse Chelsea’s request to play Boro match behind closed doors. For a start 500-600 tickets had been sold to Chelsea fans before the ban. One interesting thing is why the govt has not responded to Chelsea’s request to give their tickets away for free.
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Latest: FA chairman Greg Clarke told Premier League clubs today the governing body will not sanction 'no relegation' or voiding the season (as revealed in The Times last week). He also suggested the clubs plan what to do if the season cannot be completed.
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NEW: UEFA to come under pressure now from leagues and new-look ECA to scrap Champions League coefficient places from 2024:
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Hearing UEFA's executive committee has just decided that if leagues do not finish then qualification for Champions League/Europa League should be on sporting merit (which sounds like points per game)
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Owners of Man Utd, Liverpool, Spurs and Arsenal will pay fines themselves rather than from club coffers. Awaiting news from Chelsea and Man City.
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Exclusive - VARs in Premier League will NOT rule on keepers’ position at penalties, that will be left to on-field officials. PL don’t want to see situation where every saved penalty is re-taken
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Managers need to stop behaving like this.
Jurgen Klopp sprints to the fourth official in the midst of the Liverpool celebrations — then appears to pull his hamstring...
#LFC
|
#LIVTOT
🎬
@footballdaily
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NEW: Premier League to abandon unpopular Pay Per View charges for matches from next week at least until end of 2020 (+ likely for good):
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That missed offside could have cost Cardiff the best part of £100m. Whatever people’s feeling on VAR, at least it gets those decisions right.
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Manchester City: The charges explained – and why it has taken so long. Background of the biggest scandal to have hit the Premier League:
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BREAKING: Premier League clubs have approved tougher new rules on associated party deals - sponsorship and player transfers - by the closest of votes: 12 votes to 6 with two abstaining.
One club, suggested to be Man City, has warned PL it could face a legal challenge over these
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The Ox's pathetic performance v Liverpool + now wanting move there is exact reason why transfer window should be closed before season starts
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REVEALED: FA board would block any attempt to null + void Premier League season or scrap relegation:
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NEW: Saudi takeover of Newcastle United imminent- could be agreed in next 24 hours and with Premier League approval. Story with
@Lawton_Times
and
@mhardysport
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Durham to Barnard Castle: 43minutes - each way! That's a lengthy eye test
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NEW: official guidance recommends sports bodies consider cancelling events on day of state funeral but no obligation for other days
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NEW: Premier League clubs agree in principle for spending cap known as anchoring to TV earnings of bottom club. Understood Man City, Man Utd, Villa voted against and Chelsea abstained.
Will now go to AGM
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Chelsea in danger of breaching FFP rules if they fail to reach Champions League
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NEW: Premier League’s financial rules are “broken” and designed to keep the richest on top, says Crystal Palace co-owner
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FIFA selects Saudi Arabia to host the 2023 Club World Cup - December 12-22.
There's a shock
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Breaking: Oliver Dowden says the govt will do "whatever it takes to protect our national game" and announces formal launch of a fan-led review of football chaired by former sports minister
@tracey_crouch
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Everton’s financial loss last season was £120.9m taking total losses over three years to £372.6m. No other Premier League club has lost more in that period.
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£124.99 but people are bleating about colours on a cross
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Real Madrid president cites “staggering” fact that club has only faced Liverpool 9 times in 67 years of European competition as evidence of why football needs a Super League.
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Government lets Roman Abramovich keep Chelsea afloat with £30m bailout
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Massive blow for those clubs pushing a Super League - European Court of Justice first ruling backs UEFA's right to approve new competitions.
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Rangers will not face disciplinary action from UEFA over national anthem but proceedings have been opened against Celtic for an offensive banner (presumably the F*** The Crown one)
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BREAKING: Premier League calls emergency meeting with clubs tomorrow after Arteta's coronavirus diagnosis
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NEW : Premier League matches this weekend set to be called off.
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Literally wet-eyed from laughing
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Wenger tells Premier League: use pitchside monitors after 1st meeting as new FIFA law-maker
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And yes Ceferin is godfather to Agnelli's daughter...
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DAZN bids to broadcast all 1,656 EFL matches per season live - would mean Saturday 3pm blackout scrapped
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Wages league table: Liverpool overtake Man City; Spurs overtake Arsenal.
Chelsea have not filed 2021/22 accounts yet but good chance they will overtake Man City too.
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Should Villarreal be allowed to humiliate Juventus 3-0 in Turin? Wouldn't be permitted in a European Super League surely
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"Andrea Agnelli is the biggest disappointment of all, I’ve never seen a person that would lie so many times, so persistently as he did. It’s unbelievable.”
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Breaking: Premier League agrees new six-year deal with NBC worth more than $2billion
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There’s no way MOTD can take place tomorrow night - who is going to take that toxic hot-seat. ?
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Fifa embarrassed as celebrity chef Salt Bae pesters Lionel Messi and breaks rules on touching trophy World Cup: Fifa embarrassed as celebrity chef Salt Bae pesters Lionel Messi
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EXCL: Five substitutions in football set to become permanent - proposed at International FA Board panel meeting today and strongly supported. Will put renewed pressure on Premier League to follow the rest of football from next season. Story on
@TimesSport
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Mourinho bears some responsibility for what Taylor’s family had to endure here.
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Astonishing comment by Greg Norman about Jamal Khashoggi murder by the Saudis: "We've all made mistakes and you just want to learn from those mistakes and how you can correct them going forward." Story by
@ricktimes
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"We didn't know we had snakes so close to us, now we know."
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Exclusive: the BBC will show Champions League highlights on Wed nights from 2024.
Amazon to have first pick of live games on Tuesdays, BT Sport retains all other live rights. Deals will see 2024-27 rights earn UEFA £1.4billion up 15% on existing deals.
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Exclusive: UEFA to launch proposals next month for salary cap - and luxury tax for clubs who breach it - to replace FFP:
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NEW: Premier League clubs set for new restrictions on spending on transfers/wages/agents
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Daniel Ek is "deadly serious" about takeover says source, but some scepticism as his Twitter engagement on Arsenal + football issues has been almost non-existent since 2007.
Thierry Henry, Dennis Bergkamp and Patrick Vieira have given their backing to a possible takeover bid of Arsenal by the founder of Spotify.
But Daniel Ek's limited involvement with club matters on Twitter has created some scepticism |
@martynziegler
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Leeds + Burnley wrote to PL on May 13 expressing concern that Everton have enjoyed unfair advantage despite racking up three-year losses of £371.8m - the permitted loss is £105m
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A bad day at the office for the PGMOL with 2 pretty awful VAR calls ruling out perfectly good goals for Newcastle + West Ham - just seen on
#MOTD
. VAR was intended to prevent serious referee mistakes not create them. That should be the main starting point of any incident review.
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Qatar Sports Investments have ambitious plans but understand not looking to invest in Man Utd or Liverpool at the moment. Any PL club investment would be a minority stake as no plans to sell PSG.
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Shameful that some drunken England fans have caused trouble in Seville. I was there in 2003 when 80,000-plus Celtic fans managed to behave impeccably despite a couple of drinks having been taken.
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In other news - Premier League set to adopt semi-automated offsides next season. Nine clubs already have basic infrastructure in place
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Big news coming that Saudi Arabia is lifting its four-year ban on Qatar's bein SPORT. That will clear the Saudis' problems of piracy of Premier League, UEFA and FIFA matches - still unclear how this might affect the Newcastle takeover
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Crucial FIFA summit on future of football taking place online - well it is 1am in Guam...
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NEW: Nottingham Forest at most risk of Premier League financial rules breach charge - clubs will learn in 2 weeks if they will face any charge.
Also concerns Everton could face a second charge.
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@KieranMaguire
@hellierd
All those Man City directors working for nothing … how kind of them.
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BREAKING: West Ham confirmed Kurt Zouma fined "the maximum amount possible" and the money donated to animal charities. That is two weeks' wages - understood to be £250,000
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An all/English CL final and potentially EL final is just the kind of dominance Real, Barca, Juventus have been terrified of - hence the Super League move. And just why it was so crazy for the English clubs to sign up to it.
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NEW: Premier League clubs face sanctions for inflated sponsorship deals with associated parties - updated rules now published
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Bizarre that Tyson Fury is being talked about as a BBC SPOTY contender - he hasn't won anything this year. And that's before the two-year doping ban + repeated homophobic remarks.
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Excl: Arsenal on Uefa’s FFP watchlist of more than 20 clubs who may be in danger of breaching financial rules.
Also: 10 clubs - incl PSG, Barca, Juve but none from PL - due to have settlements/sanctions confirmed in coming weeks
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Arsenal's financial results are out - revenue of £464m (up from £372m), £52m loss. Wage bill is most interesting detail - at £234.7m it is still very low compared to Man City/ Man Utd/ Liverpool/ Chelsea:
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Lutalo news: BBC planning to use
@LutaloMuhammad
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Sepp Blatter showered with fake money after stunt comedian gets into FIFA press conference
http://t.co/smMc92Qouj
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Manchester United’s £260m slump in value in 10 years since Glazer family listed club on New York stock exchange.
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