Well we aren’t happy. Too happy with mediocrity

He never spends money every transfer window and the players he keeps in the squad at premier league level is shocking

You arnt happy your in the premier league 😂 lol your crystal Palace wgat do you expect champions league.

​​@@jackramsay2267it either midtable or relegation, you need human right violators to be at the top which is reality. Could be worse could have the previous back. Also he dosent spend money but palace never sell any players for much money either so that works against them 1 player was sold for money in the last 3 seasons which was 5m for benteke...and spent 170m.

@@petesmart1983😮 is that a fact?? The only sale past 3 yrs is for just 5m??? Now that I think about it I can’t remember many Palace sales maybe AWB for 50m

There are plenty who ain't from Penge, Croydon, Norwood etc. I live here. Mediocre team is their argument coming 12th every year. The Academy site is top draw but the fans argue they should be pushing higher with the talent pool in South London

The reason Americans invest is very rarely a Us based team are available to purchase, many are kept within famillies.

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10 points seems harsh considering Portsmouth only got docked 9 for going into administration. FFP should be tacking the big clubs ie title challengers not mid table clubs like Everton. They can overspend and they're still not gonna win fuck all, whereas City, United, Liverpool and Arsenal can spend big money on league winning players.

@@GM-tw4elthat’s a nonsense view. They are spending money they don’t have to game the system which in term relegated teams that did play by the rules. City aside it’s got nothing to do with the top six. If you were Leicester/Norwich/Southampton etc you would be fuming. Letting clubs get away with it because they spent their dirty money badly and it didn’t help them on the pitch is a ridiculous position to have.

@@WaniZame what players did Everton sign you could genuinely say kept them in the Premier league though? The same players could have played for the relagated clubs and made no difference.

​@@GM-tw4elapparently the spend was related to the stadium build?

@@GM-tw4el it’s not about the players that were signed it’s the intent. It’s the same as murder, it doesn’t matter whether you pulled off the murder the punishment for attempted murder is the same if it was committed. Whether or not everton could use that logic to defend themselves is another story but the point is that they were actively cooking the books for the intent of finishing higher up the league. In typical Everton fashion they fucked it up.

A few years later, Platini was banned from football for 4 years for financial corruption. Then, Uli Hoeness of Bayern Munich went to prison for industrial-scale tax evasion, and now Andrea Agnelli of Juventus has been banned from football for two years for false accounting. Amazing how so many of the big FFP advocates have been implicated in fraud and financial crime.

The PL is successful. The way they've branded it, evolved it etc over the years. Yeah maybe it won't last forever, but I can't see it changing any time soon either. When Serie A and Liga were at the top, I didn't see them being concerned about the PL/English football in the 90s/early 2000s... things changed, because of how the PL has been run, the tv coverage and people liking the culture, etc., of the PL. It is what it is. The PL is not responsible for the success or failure of other countries leagues, anymore than they are for English football. How do you create an equal footing across all leagues? Seriously ? Every nation or FA (or whatever the equivalent is called for each different league) is responsible for their own league. Unfortunately, like a lot of things and sport is no different, its what is demanded commercially, a 'product' (no different from other team sports or individuals, golfers, tennis players, etc, etc) and the PL have done a very good job at marketing itself and has grown stronger and stronger over the last 20 years or so. Yes, it is dominating football financially/commercially and yes of course there is a knock on effect because of that. But if it wasn't the PL, then it would be La Liga, Serie A, the Bundesliga, etc., etc. If they were in the same PL position today and some of them once were... they didn't do anything to change it then, nor do I suspect they would today. Mainly because they don't see it as their responsibility to do so. Whether we like it or not, there is a massive commercial aspect to sport, its capitalism basically. It isn't communism lol they are not going to split the pie evenly across all leagues. It just doesn't work like that. I don't see a Super League happening any time soon. Fans are very protective of the tradition of their own football league, as we saw a few years ago... the Saudi league could take off, because they have the money to do so. But at the same time, domestic and European cup competitions are historically the pinnacle and tradition. I just don't see them competing with European football, regardless of how much money they pump in. They may take a number of players away, because of the huge wages and I could be very wrong, but I don't see it being a long term success, because on balance, top players want a career of the players they saw growing up, playing in the PL, La Liga, Serie A, etc., etc. and the Euro cups. If the PL bubble bursts, another league will happily take its place and not think about an equal footing. It might be wrong/not the best model, but its actually nothing new.

​@@gooner_duke2756no league would step in unless something like the super League stepped in, the champions league and prem has killed world football, even football in Britain, only about 2 clubs in efl arnt in massive debt. La Liga, ligue 1, serie a are all in massive debt, la Liga outside of real Madrid and Barca they spent on players was one of lowest in Europe on level as league 1. Football is killing itself

Thanks for that 🙏 I get a lot of the reasoning; capitalism etc For me, it doesn’t mean we are all exactly the same, or communist. There will always be a top dog, so to speak, the difference is now that it has never been quite as dispirit. I really do remember a more even time. For eg, there were 9 different European Cup winners in the 80s, from 6 different countries, and with 6 first-time winners. 9 again in the 90s. 8 countries. 4 first time winners. Last 20 years: 4 countries. No new winners except Chelsea and City, those plucky underdogs.

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That's not only informative, it's actually entertaining. If we view VAR as part of an entertainmemt product it'll be far more enjoyable, and then because it's fun people will accept the decisions. Even whwn they get it right currently it sucks.

Why shouldn't clubs be allowed to have debt? Debt comes standard with any large business and there's different types of debt a company can take on.

If a business fails another in it's space carries on providing it's product or service. Football clubs die and that's that@@kriissyy09ify

@@kriissyy09ify But the same can be applied to investment . Where is the difference when it comes to FFP. So small clubs aren’t allowed to have large investments to make them grow, but big clubs can have large debt. Doesn’t make sense one without the other. You either have full FFP or you don’t

​@@dnc9952small clubs are allowed to have large investments to help them grow, hence why FFP doesn't factor in infrastructure. Debt and losses are not the same. A company can take one a large amount of debt but still be profitable. Look at United for example, they can still post profits, yet be in substantial amounts of debt.

​@@kriissyy09ifybecause if the point is they're worried about clubs going bust then debt is the biggest factor in that. But we all know they don't care about that at all.

City and Chelsea haven't received the outcome of their investigation yet. City will be lucky if they're not kicked out of the league and possibly the EFL.

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City will beat their allegations.

No point fining Everton as it would put them out of business and the club would lose the points because of Administration. This way they still have a great chance of staying in the premier league which is more than can be said for the teams that suffered and got relegated because Everton did not play by the rules. Frankly Everton have got away with it despite this punishment because only if they were relegated would it actually have a true impact.

I'm going to try and decipher what you wrote but I'm guessing you're asking something along the lines of why Chelsea have yet to be punished for deliberately avoiding FFP and Everton have despite their offence being a lot less serious. The simple answer is the PL didn't know until Chelsea's takeover happened, that Chelsea were cheating. There's an ongoing investigation and I'd assume looking at the charges, their punishment is going to be a lot more severe. In regards to Everton, their argument is basically based upon the notion that COVID happened and the PL aren't being sympathetic enough to give them a break. The counterpoint to that though is simple, like the other 17 clubs in the league, you shouldn't have been in that position in the first place.

@kriissyy09ify agreed. Not saying we aren't guilty. What I am saying is premier league didn't have a punishment for this until the summer then fast tracked us through despite more serious and already proven cases already being present. They knew about this last year when Todd found the info and reported it to the premier league. That case is settled, its black and white.

​@@TheRobconnorwhat cases were already proven?

@@russellward4624 read the guardian article that came out yesterday. Loads of secret payments kept off the books. Then 8.6mil paid to uefa admitting fault to keep it from the premier league

@@russellward4624 Todd bohley submitted it all to the prem league when he took over last year as he found it when buying the club. FACT

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