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B Maverick said:
As if the rumor mill isn't bad enough, no games to play/watch/report on makes it so much worse. (today's date not being overlooked as this has been ongoing for days now)

United is linked with Sancho, Haaland, Graelish, Kane, Di Lorenzo, Ronaldo, De Ligt, Niguez, Partey, Ramsey, Maddison and more.
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I actually feel kind of bad for the football writers.  They have nothing to cover, and no one cares about the rumors they're inventing.

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
Daniel Levy so inspired by Netflix's The English Game that he's slashing staff pay 20% like that dude who headed The Cotton Master's Guild.
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Unfortunate timing for Levy as this was announced on the same day the financial results were released showing he picked up a £3M bonus for delivering a stadium late, and over-budget...

 
Wimbledon canceled - which is not directly related to soccer, but its hard to see how PL clubs can stage matches in June - when Wimbledon is called off for the end of June through mid-July. 

You would think it would be easier to stage a tennis tournament behind closed doors, than a soccer match.

 
Sinn Fein said:
Wimbledon canceled - which is not directly related to soccer, but its hard to see how PL clubs can stage matches in June - when Wimbledon is called off for the end of June through mid-July. 

You would think it would be easier to stage a tennis tournament behind closed doors, than a soccer match.
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Would definitely eliminate all the SSHHH-ing that goes on.

 
Leagues: 9 games left, playing Sat/Sun & Tue/Wed each week would mean about 5 weeks 

CL & Europa in Quarters (2-5 games left per team) - 2 weeks
FA Cup in Quarters (1-4 games left per team) - 2 weeks

So they need approx 9 weeks + ramp up training time. Call it 12 weeks, so 3 months?

Sound right?

 
waiver wire said:
Bundesliga chief makes astonishing closed doors prediction as German football enforces bankruptcy rule change
Seifert said the aim was still to finish the season by the end of June but that team training would remain banned until at least April 5.

Playing games behind closed doors once a resumption is possible remains a likely option, Seifert added, as German football races to try to finish the season.

There are nine rounds of matches left in the current Bundesliga campaign.
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everythign I've heard from pro players- this seems like an unfair risk they're putting the players into.

 
The Newcastle United takeover rumor is picking up steam again. The beat writers from The Athletic wrote a piece on it the other day for the first time, saying they avoided writing about until now because they really needed to be certain. Jason Burt from the Telegraph said all interested parties submitted paperwork to Premier League last week. 

 
UEFA to make definitive void season decision at coronavirus crisis meeting

 European football's governing body will hold two video conferences on Wednesday, with one discussing the football calendar going forward and the other discussing player contracts and transfers

UEFA are set to reaffirm their commitment to finishing the 2019/20 season at a meeting on Wednesday, with the various top European leagues also ready to voice the same opinion.

The Independent report that voiding the season will be "off the table" in the latest video conference call organised by European football's governing body, with top leagues around the continent joining the Premier League in insisting that the current campaign must be finished when possible.

There are several factors behind this determination to continue with the campaign, including the many complications that would come with any voiding, protecting several jobs within football and pure sporting integrity with respect to teams still challenging for honours.

This approach could now include the staging of the Champions League and Europa League finals behind closed doors, something that UEFA had previously refused to consider as they sought to protect the glamour associated with their flagship club football events.

The Champions League final is still scheduled to take place in Istanbul at the end of the current season, with the Europa League final in Gdansk.

A second video conference call will also take place on Wednesday which will deal with the financial impact of the coronavirus crisis on the summer transfer window and player contracts.

Back in England, Manchester City and Chelsea are both still in this season's Champions League, while Manchester United and Wolves are still in Europa League action.

The Premier League are set for another meeting on Friday where they will reaffirm their commitment to pushing on with the campaign.

 
I heard a suggestion postponing until August for the remaining games (9 games left in EPL, Championship, BL etc etc), all Euro cups, bla bla to give players a new pre-season (July) to avoid injuries and have a safer (for players) end of the season. Then start the new seasons in March, since both the AFCON, WC in Qatar happens in January the following years. Something like running all leagues March - October/November, with International tournaments in the winter instead.

:shrug:  

 
Moe. said:
I watched this in one sitting the other day and it is so so bad. Highly recommend. 
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I split it over two insomnia riddled nights.  Hysterically bad.  I think my favorite part is that after all-but putting Jimmy in a Star Trek red shirt with "I'm going to be crippled by a bad tackle" on the back, they go the extra mile and end an episode trying to make you think he might actually DIE from a bad tackle.  Even Ryan Shawcross couldn't kill a guy, Julian.  

 
Have any of you subscribed to or watched the free videos on the clubs app?  MUTV has a streaming app with some videos behind a pay wall but some free ones.  Covers everything from interviews, first team, youth team and women's team game highlights, top 10 lists (saves, goals, etc)...

United has a series commemorating 2000 EPL Goals (first team to do so) broken down by season going through them all.  Aside from the early 90s video quality, its quite interesting watching the evolution of the teams over the years.  And the evolution of Ryan Giggs over his 20 seasons or so....

When you miss watching, you watch what you can.

 
Sinn Fein said:
Liverpool recovered nicely on this one - own the mistake, and make amends.

Spurs have simply ####ed it up.
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Yeah, FSG has at least backtracked well once they learn how some of their actions are received. I don't know much about how they act in Baseball, about the same?

 
Thanks for sending me down this Chinese SuperLeague rabbit hole guys.  Because I really needed another impediment to my productivity when working from home.  

Now I;m obsessed with Israeli hitman, Eran Zahavi.

EDIT:  Or as I like to call him, Kosher Wondo.

 
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CletiusMaximus said:
Picture a fat old guy on his couch in Milwaukee, late at night, glass of bourbon in hand, watching Sunderland Till I Die.  Every time that guy appears on the screen he turns to his dog and mumbles, "that guy is such a ####."
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My poor wife has had to listen to me deconstruct all the ways he's full of #### for the past two nights.  Which is probably still not as bad as enduring me explain how stupid the Maja/Griggs dealing was.  

 
Ramsay Hunt Experience said:
My poor wife has had to listen to me deconstruct all the ways he's full of #### for the past two nights.  Which is probably still not as bad as enduring me explain how stupid the Maja/Griggs dealing was.  
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The first moment that ####stick appeared on screen, as my  dog is my witness, I turned to her and said, "that guy is a problem."  That was the scene where he was lecturing the staff about how dumb they all are, setting up his blame game when he inevitably fails.

 
I'm in on Jiangsu Suning FC since it is based in the city my wife was born in.  Rivals with both Shanghai teams, which feels right since Z already likes the less good team there.

 
CletiusMaximus said:
The first moment that ####stick appeared on screen, as my  dog is my witness, I turned to her and said, "that guy is a problem."  That was the scene where he was lecturing the staff about how dumb they all are, setting up his blame game when he inevitably fails.
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I had the exact same reaction.  We all know the type.  The "disruptor."  The guy who's very first act is to #### all over everyone below him so he can claim that the club has nobody capable of "executing his vision."  And some of his points are just non-sensical.  Under FFP, Sunderland literally couldn't just "send a check" to Ellis Short.  And everything I heard about Short was that he was a tightwad anyway.  I also spent the entire Boxing Day episode waiting for someone to tell him that it had been a decade since Leeds set the 3rd Division attendance record, and they hadn't been back in the Premier League since then (and have had like seven owners in that time), so maybe he was putting the cart before the horse. 

What happened at Sunderland is easy to explain.  They tried to keep a PL wage bill while in the Championship (as many relegated clubs do) in the hopes of getting promoted promptly.  But they didn't, because they gave PL money to some bad players who didn't want to play for them and still had some really old legacy deals on the books (they showed Asamoah Gyan on the books in that first episode for God's sake).  How is that possibly the PR and marketing department's fault?  And why aren't they focusing on the advantages they still have in League One?  A stadium that can produce revenue.  A much more accomplished academy than, say, Gillingham.  And they had an academy graduate with 17 goals at the midseason point who they couldn't keep for the next year.  Yeah, that sucks, but that's football.  If promotion is the elephant in the room, why would accept a pennies on the dollar transfer fee in January (only to spend double that trying to fill the hole) instead of just renting him until the end of the season in the hopes he can get you promoted?  I get that's on the owner and the Director of Football and not Methven, but these guys are just such clowns.

 
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