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[Bujakaa92]

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Community Shield: FA in talks to move 2021 game over clash with Women's Euro 2021

The Football Association is in discussions to move the 2021 Community Shield from Wembley because of a clash with the Women's European Championship.

www.bbc.co.uk

Liverpool vs Liverpool U23 @ Anfield?

 

[Tyton]

Looks like in a typical Bielsa fashion the team fell apart mid-season. He may be a great theoretician but there is a reason he never landed in a top club in 30 years of working in football.

 

[Bujakaa92]

Looks like in a typical Bielsa fashion the team fell apart mid-season. He may be a great theoretician but there is a reason he never landed in a top club in 30 years of working in football.

But the strange thing is that it is not so much this Bielsa falling apart... There must be some mental issues or guys need a bit of rest. Opponents score against us from idiotic mistakes. Kiko has transformed in the second half of the season to Karius. Stupid mistakes that give away goals. But i still think we are leading the league with most CS.

We played against Brentford, the most attacking team in League and they were afraid to attack most of the time, at their home. The only goal came from Kiko bad touch and blumbering it. We attacked very good, but our front 3 did not put it away...
We dominated most of the teams with possessions, shots on target etc. Yes, many fans blame Bamford for not putting them away. But others are not doing it either. One or two wingers have like 4-5 goals in 32 games, others are way behind it. That is unacceptable.

Only blame I could put on Bielsa, is not having a bit of plan B. He does subs very strangely and maybe sometimes does not want to take the risk needed. I really want to see Bamford and JKA together. JKA already shows that he can hustle opponents so much and him coming in from the wing would be a big thing.
Also seeing that Pablo is getting too old. He is 34 already and can't run like he use to. Last season 12 goals 12 assists. This season only 4-4. Also, one of the main midfielder in Forshaw is out for the season with an injury. But Phillips is back from 3 game suspensions and we already look a better team with him back. If we don't go up we definitely will lose him...

I still belive in us and we will get automatic promotion. Fixtures seem good, had a very good game against a strong team in London. So there is hope that slump is over and we can push it hard until the end of the season.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Manchester City banned from Champions League for two seasons

Manchester City have been banned from the Champions League for two seasons, from 2020-21, and fined €30m by Uefa

www.theguardian.com

BOOM! Let the legal battle commence.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

So sans CAS overturning this, Everton are now just 3 points out of the CL spots.

 

[Vanjagl]

Manchester City Accused of Using Shadow Firms to Flout Rules

Football Leaks documents outline how Manchester City's owners may have used a surreptitious company in the Cayman Islands to conceal a player investment fund. The team has been accused of violating UEFA spending rules.

www.spiegel.de

Again, Manchester City didn't answer questions posed by the journalist network European Investigative Collaborations (EIC) but referred back to their boilerplate statement. Ingla, the Mangrove manager, said he wouldn't answer questions because they dealt with confidential contractual subject matter. Meanwhile, Ingla is now the managing director of the French first-division team OSC Lille.

The Premier League ultimately approved Zuculini's transfer. Manchester City loaned out the player to six clubs in three years, though he is now back playing in Argentina.

So far, the football associations have not used the material provided by Football Leaks for their own investigation. As long as that remains the case, Manchester City doesn't have much to fear. The holding company City Football Group announced last week that it had bought shares in a Chinese football club. It's the seventh club that now belongs to the international City brand.



lol

 

[Tyton]

Everybody's celebrating, but you know they're just gonna appeal and it will be reduced to 3-minute CL ban and a $5 fine.

The people who are ruining this sport have far too much money and power to let something like this happen.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Everybody's celebrating, but you know they're just gonna appeal and it will be reduced to 3-minute CL ban and a $5 fine.

The people who are ruining this sport have far too much money and power to let something like this happen.

*Laughing.

It may well get overturned, but the City fume is MORE than worth it.

#taintedtile

That said, UEFA must believe they have watertight evidence to prepare for City's backlash or they'd have never gone this far.

 

[dilakh2]

i agree

Did you just make another account to agree with yourself? Im baffed.

 

[Theatre of Dreams83]

A few reporting there gonna get docked Prem points also by the FA

 

[Tyton]

That said, UEFA must believe they have watertight evidence to prepare for City's backlash or they'd have never gone this far.

Thing is, with this much at stake it's not gonna stop at appealing to UEFA. They are taking this is to regular court, guarantee it. UEFA are of course loaded, but they're small potatos when going against a country.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

A few reporting there gonna get docked Prem points also by the FA

If that's this season, as is being mooted, it'd be a total cop-out and sham from the FA.

 

[Tyton]

If that's this season, as is being mooted, it'd be a total cop-out and sham from the FA.

Well, it would also be sham if they picked a time for deduction on a basis of what time will be most convenient for Liverpool.

I'm sure they have some regulations for this stuff, as long as they stick to that there's no problem.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Well, it would also be sham if they picked a time for deduction on a basis of what time will be most convenient for Liverpool.

I'm sure they have some regulations for this stuff, as long as they stick to that there's no problem.

Are you just trying to be contrary for the sake of it there mate?

Not that the FA can act at all until the appeal with CAS has been heard, but if they're banned from Europe for next season, how in the World is it ANY sort of punishment to dock them points this season?

 

[Tyton]

Are you just trying to be contrary for the sake of it there mate?

Not that the FA can act at all until the appeal with CAS has been heard, but if they're banned from Europe for next season, how in the World is it ANY sort of punishment to dock them points this season?

Let's say City gets docked 3 points during the previous year when you lost title by 2 points.

Would you also insist point deduction should happen the next season?

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Let's say City gets docked 3 points during the previous year when you lost title by 2 points.

Would you also insist point deduction should happen the next season?

*For clarification, the difference was 1 point. Not 2.

Yes. Absolutely.

Why would you go backwards in time? The only reason you'd do that would be if it was decreed that the season's they'd be deemed to have cheated/ circumnavigated FFP/ call it what you will, would be expunged from the record books and the title stripped. Ala Marseille in France underTapie the early '90's in the match-fixing scandal that saw them relegated and the title taken away from them/ no title winner in the record books that season.

But I doubt that's about to happen here so to do anything other than take any PL points deduction, if that's the case, from next season would be wrong IMHO and no punishment in that regard at all.

 

[Tyton]

They will drop in table and lose money from PL rewards. There's your punishment.

 

[Scouseinthehouse]

Pocket change to a club backed by a State.

That’ll show ‘em!

 

[Tyton]

Anyway, I guess congratulations on the title, whatever remote chance City had to catch up is gone, they will be completely demoralized the rest of the season after this news.