***Official*** English Football Season 2020-21

[GIMH]

Salary cap in L1&2. Given how some of our competitors have been spending, could be interesting.

Also I have it on good authority that James Norwood is on 9k a week at Ipswich and not their highest earner. That's already a fifth of the cap. I presume there's some allowance for contracts already in place as otherwise things are going to get very ugly.

 

[duffer]

They'd phase in a salary cap surely? Especially if it's a hard cap

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Some of the "bigger" clubs did their recruiting in haste so as to avoid it, so there must be some leeway - but I can't be arsed to look up the details. I know we were against it.

 

[GIMH]

They'd phase in a salary cap surely? Especially if it's a hard cap

Effective immediately. We've deliberately done hardly any business (no contracts renewed and one signing) as we were waiting for this so I don't know the mechanisms. See how it plays out I guess.

Also @grecian you've got a decent player there in Caprice. Not a world beater and in a 442 against a decent left winger he will have a bad day, but the lad bombs forward brilliantly and you would never accuse him of shirking.

 

[grecian]

Effective immediately. We've deliberately done hardly any business (no contracts renewed and one signing) as we were waiting for this so I don't know the mechanisms. See how it plays out I guess.

Also @grecian you've got a decent player there in Caprice. Not a world beater and in a 442 against a decent left winger he will have a bad day, but the lad bombs forward brilliantly and you would never accuse him of shirking.

Yeah was going to ask, but still not really thinking about next season, still seems so bleak.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Salford will be stuffed.

 

[Magrat Garlick]

Salford will be stuffed.

Haha like anyone's gonna investigate the Good Man Utd Boys

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Hadn't considered stuff like that.

Surely to **** there's a reckoning coming for Barcelona?

Well they just took a 800m Euro loan from Goldman Sachs to pay for a stadium upgrade which seems ludicrous to me. That club has been run abysmally over the last ten years and they've got guys like Griezmann on 800k a week so I wouldn't be stunned to see them in a hole but someone will bail them out surely.

 

[dontcloseyoureyes]

Haha like anyone's gonna investigate the Good Man Utd Boys

United are 600m in debt and about to buy Sancho for 120m and its seen as a win for football by the general public so I think the good United boys at Salford are safe like you say.

 

[GIMH]

@Lillian Thomson didn't say say fixtures were out yesterday? I could check what you said but that would involve clicking

 

[GIMH]

United are 600m in debt and about to buy Sancho for 120m and its seen as a win for football by the general public so I think the good United boys at Salford are safe like you say.

They won at our gaff last season in the B Team Cup and their weirdo fans were singing about how they hated Tranmere, I was watching online with my brother (I don't attend the B Team Cup but it was in my enforced absence from games anyway) and we just looked at each other like wtf

But it gets spun by the likes of BBC as a fairytale success story, any footy fan, not just lower league nerds and the like, knows what they are. It's bizarre tbh.

 

[sledger]

Well they just took a 800m Euro loan from Goldman Sachs to pay for a stadium upgrade which seems ludicrous to me. That club has been run abysmally over the last ten years and they've got guys like Griezmann on 800k a week so I wouldn't be stunned to see them in a hole but someone will bail them out surely.

Yeah, clubs like Barcelona have plenty of very serious creditors for whom it would be far less damaging to provide bailouts than watch them go under/to the wall.

It's the clubs in the next tier down, who have serious expenditure, but are not exactly commercial juggernauts, who will be looking nervously over their shoulder. Teams like Arsenal or Spurs for instance will be fine (ish) for another season or so I should imagine, but if at the start of next season there are still no live crowds then... well... Things will get very dicey, one suspects.

 

[duffer]

Yeah, clubs like Barcelona have plenty of very serious creditors for whom it would be far less damaging to provide bailouts than watch them go under/to the wall.

It's the clubs in the next tier down, who have serious expenditure, but are not exactly commercial juggernauts, who will be looking nervously over their shoulder. Teams like Arsenal or Spurs for instance will be fine (ish) for another season or so I should imagine, but if at the start of next season there are still no live crowds then... well... Things will get very dicey, one suspects.

Uncle Stan selling the club would be lovely.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

@Lillian Thomson didn't say say fixtures were out yesterday? I could check what you said but that would involve clicking

No. I said August 10th.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

Can't think of ever feeling so underwhelmed about new season fixtures coming out.

 

[Lillian Thomson]

Can't think of ever feeling so underwhelmed about new season fixtures coming out.

I agree with that. After this promotion, which was already a hollow feeling, I’d normally be checking on trips to Portsmouth, Sunderland and Ipswich. But you can’t even plan home games never mind away. I can’t see fans returning at the beginning of October the way things are going at the moment.

 

[flibbertyjibber]

I agree with that. After this promotion, which was already a hollow feeling, I’d normally be checking on trips to Portsmouth, Sunderland and Ipswich. But you can’t even plan home games never mind away. I can’t see fans returning at the beginning of October the way things are going at the moment.

Such a tough division with so many big sides in Sunderland, Portsmouth, Ipswich and Hull. Add in Wigan, Charlton and Peterborough and it is as strong a League 1 I can remember but it all feels a little bit meh.

 

[GIMH]

I can't wait for the whites to play again *shrugs*

 

[Furball]

Aberdeen match postponed. I knew the season would be interrupted but I thought they might squeeze in a couple of clear weeks.

If I had my way they'd be forfeiting the game with a 3-0 loss, given that the situation is entirely the fault of 8 of their squad going out on the piss on Saturday night.

 

[GIMH]

If I had my way they'd be forfeiting the game with a 3-0 loss, given that the situation is entirely the fault of 8 of their squad going out on the piss on Saturday night.

Hardly fair on the rest of the division that St Johnstone get a freebie