Unless your name is Dele Alli,then i’m individualising the fuck out of ya!!
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And three games after that, Everton won the league! And Calvert-Lewin won the Golden Boot. Sorry, no he didn’t, he’s only scored one goal since October. Ooops!
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Not to mention that Hamez was awarded Player of the Season as well with Alan awarded the Football Writers Award and being named in Team of the Year along with the best two left backs in the world that they have in their squad only narrowly missing out on the Players Player(s) of the Year Award.
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With Ancelotti winning ‘Eyebrow’ of the year award…
For the tenth successive season
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That actually is true.
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To be fair that’s hard to argue with.
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Worrying?
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Isn’t it ilegal to leave the UK at the moment?
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Not for elite sports people. Reason England cricket team is in India.
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There will be some resolution, if it was just us we would be buggered, Alison is the big loss for us.
Jota may also be caught up but considering the game I doubt it.
I suspect we may see a suspension to the international break in that period.
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If I was a Burnley supporter, I’d be pretty worried about this:
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Higgs and Gillette, all over again.
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Amazing that shit like this gets to happen. Corporate going ons seem to be esoteric as fuck and boils down to the fact that if you can show you afford something you don’t actually have to use your own money to buy it and simply load the debt onto it instead. I’m going down to the local car dealer to try just that.
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Lots of stuff about FSG but they’ve always been honest about not loading the club with debt and basically doing what we can on what we earn.
Rather that than be plunging into debt, what’s the betting if they go down they pocket the parachute payments and Burnley end up league 1 within in years.
Only works if the club is making money like Man Utd, doesn’t work for lower clubs and there are plenty of examples, also the first time they can spend is the summer, weirder things have happened in football, I still expect one of those down there to survive.
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In the current environment, and the one that will likely hold for the next couple of years, that will kill Burnley if the debt is not to ALK Capital itself (on the face, it isn’t) or it is not some kind of mezzanine arrangement. Servicing £90M of debt won’t be possible in the Championship for a club in a place like Burnley. They are fortunate that relegation this season looks unlikely.
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They are fortunate that relegation this season looks unlikely.
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Just want them to win tomorrow…
then could not care less if they lose every game again this season… Unless they play WBA, then a point apiece would be a good result.
Looks like Everton MMA FC will reach the safety of 40 points…
So for me…
Burnley - Dyche
WBA - Alladross
Sheffield Utd - Wilder
into the Championship next season
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I think Brighton will do enough so you’re looking ahead of them, both Wilder and Sam have been getting some points and that Fulham team isn’t bad, I can see it closing.
I expect the two from the three to go down but I think one will survive from that lot.
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Is Minamino eligible to play against United tonight?
On its face, that’s really dirty business. As @WooltonRed said, it does have a faint whiff of H&G. Alan Pace played the entire thing by script. Say that right things to get the supporters immediately on your side for instant credibility: he’s there to help Burnley win, will back the manager, changes all his social media handles to add “BFC” to everything. Everyone was played. These are businessmen. Money men. Period.
A year or so ago I read a book called ‘The Club’. Highly recommend to anyone here. Really well written. Details the path of football in England to the worldwide rise of Premier League football into the business it is today.
One passage stuck out to me in particular and I wish I would have highlighted or bookmarked it for later. I’ll go back into the book today so I can credit the proper person. It was an owner and he said (paraphrasing) “never trust a business deal that comes with an American accent”.
EDIT: that’s a harsh statement of course, FSG seem to be the exception, not the rule. Also, that American bloke that once owned Villa. He seemed a good person and wanted the club to win. He just couldn’t keep dumping his own personal money into the club and he was made to be the villain.
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