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I get it looks bad that he doesn't know an important female player.
This causes the usual issues around the women's game and not understanding the club etc etc
Honestly though I don't think Jim would know a majority of the men's first team.

Prob thinks Shaw is a physio the amount of time he spends in there.
Onana is catering staff or something, cos he sure has heck isn't a top quality keeper.

He doesn't know personal relationships etc
He knows numbers, money, bank balance, spreadsheets.
It's delicious that the wretched club has fallen so far.
 
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The gap between the Premier League and the Championship is growing every year, and without meaningful financial reform, it will only get worse. The Premier League’s appeal is built on its competitiveness, but that depends on strong Championship clubs coming up and having a real chance of staying up. Right now, too many promoted teams arrive with little expectation of survival, which weakens the league and the wider football pyramid.

Parachute payments are a flawed system that treats the symptoms rather than the cause. While they help relegated clubs adjust, they also distort the Championship, creating an uneven playing field where only a select few can afford to challenge for promotion. This fuels a cycle in which newly promoted teams struggle, sack their manager in desperation, and end up replaced by another club doomed to the same fate. As a result, emerging coaches have fewer opportunities at the top level, and fresh ideas are stifled.

The days of clubs like Brentford and Bournemouth breaking into the Premier League and staying there are becoming rare. Managers like Eddie Howe and Thomas Frank have shown what’s possible, but without reform, success stories like theirs will become the exception. Mckenna maybe the new one of those and he's set to be relegated and may not be seen from again. If the Premier League wants to remain the most competitive league in the world, it should close the financial gap with greater redistribution and give all Championship clubs a real chance to compete. Right now, the promoted clubs are just making up the numbers.
 
Of the clubs fighting for promotion its probably only Leeds that have a chance of staying up. Mainly because of their Red Bull affiliation.
 
Squiggles said:
The gap between the Premier League and the Championship is growing every year, and without meaningful financial reform, it will only get worse. The Premier League’s appeal is built on its competitiveness, but that depends on strong Championship clubs coming up and having a real chance of staying up. Right now, too many promoted teams arrive with little expectation of survival, which weakens the league and the wider football pyramid.

Parachute payments are a flawed system that treats the symptoms rather than the cause. While they help relegated clubs adjust, they also distort the Championship, creating an uneven playing field where only a select few can afford to challenge for promotion. This fuels a cycle in which newly promoted teams struggle, sack their manager in desperation, and end up replaced by another club doomed to the same fate. As a result, emerging coaches have fewer opportunities at the top level, and fresh ideas are stifled.

The days of clubs like Brentford and Bournemouth breaking into the Premier League and staying there are becoming rare. Managers like Eddie Howe and Thomas Frank have shown what’s possible, but without reform, success stories like theirs will become the exception. Mckenna maybe the new one of those and he's set to be relegated and may not be seen from again. If the Premier League wants to remain the most competitive league in the world, it should close the financial gap with greater redistribution and give all Championship clubs a real chance to compete. Right now, the promoted clubs are just making up the numbers.
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I think it would be interesting to look at a different form of parachute payments... give large prize money to the Championship clubs who go up - not payments to those who go down.

Let those who come up get something like 30 million each to invest in their squad - or whatever is a sensible amount.
 
I think there are some things which need to be done. Neither will happen. There should be a relegation element to each player contract. You go down and your wages are slashed. There should also be a limit on number of transfer ins each season, stops wholesale changes to those that come up. Encourage sides to keep that team together that got them up. It would also stop teams like Chelsea and City buying a billion players because they can.
 
The problem has always been that promoted clubs either spend heavily to try to survive, and then live with the legacy if they don’t, or they don’t spend and go straight back down.
There’s probably something that could be done with the loan market here - allow them greater flexibility on loaning players in so they can strengthen their squads, without committing to huge costs they can’t afford. I’d then allow the bigger clubs to loan players to them without using up their outward loan allowance. This would allow more fringe players at big clubs to get more minutes in the PL and would give the promoted clubs a better chance to stay up. You could then reduce the allowances over subsequent years so they can wean themselves off loan deals and make more permanent signings when they’re better able to afford them.
Probably all kinds of issues with that, but would be worth looking at.
 
I don't mind the gap ( pardon the pun).
If the Championship teams aren't good enough then so be it.
Yeah it might feel like the Prem is starting to become a closed league but at the same time it's the "Prem", there has to be a high standard of football. It shouldn't be easy to make it in the Prem. So I'm fine with shite teams playing shite football not making it.
Leeds look strong in the Championship and they have a few exciting players. They'll probably make it in the Prem next season.
 
The PL in it's own way has become Europe's super league. The spending power of established PL teams now far eclipses that of most clubs on the continent, who seem to be more focused on surviving rather than thriving.

So it's no surprise that Championship teams find it hard. You need to have a slick football set up, a good coach (gone are the days of the likes Warnock taking yo-yoing up and down with clubs.. well for the most part) and to get lucky with a group of players that will have a few that can step up and provide a foundation for the rest.

I guess one approach to try and put the brakes on all this is stricter HG rules / quotas accompanied by a big investment in the football setup from grass roots to the lower leagues ... better facilities, education, coaching etc.
 
Part of the issue I haven't seen mentioned yet is managers using the brief spell in the top flight to bolster their resumes over fighting for survival.

Kompany parlayed a truly dreadful season into the Bayern job. The knob at Southampton didn't even make a cursory attempt at winning them points.

This is a relatively new phenomenon and you've got to think the clubs are somewhat complicit in it too, but I don't understand why playing out from the back and getting spanked 5-0 every game is better than becoming yarddogs that make the big clubs fight for every point
 
Even if the 3 sides that got promoted were the same 3 that went straight back down the following season every year......they still have a massive say in the a) title race, b) top 4 race and c) the rest of the European places. They still play a part in making this league one of the most competitive because in other leagues I guarantee they're all getting smashed 4....5 nil every time they come up against a top side.

It's destined to happen in back to back seasons but last season was the first time the 3 went straight back down in how many seasons?

Usually the big clubs in the country would poach all the best players from sides like Brentford, Fulham, Wolves, Palace, Brighton after 1 season in the Prem. But these are 5 sides who managed to keep a few and build season after season and have now been Prem sides for multiple seasons.
 
darkstarexodus said:
Part of the issue I haven't seen mentioned yet is managers using the brief spell in the top flight to bolster their resumes over fighting for survival.

Kompany parlayed a truly dreadful season into the Bayern job. The knob at Southampton didn't even make a cursory attempt at winning them points.

This is a relatively new phenomenon and you've got to think the clubs are somewhat complicit in it too, but I don't understand why playing out from the back and getting spanked 5-0 every game is better than becoming yarddogs that make the big clubs fight for every point
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Are there any other examples?

If Kompany wasn't "Kompany" he wouldn't have gotten that job...
 
keniget said:
Are there any other examples?

If Kompany wasn't "Kompany" he wouldn't have gotten that job...
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Southampton under Martin clearly didn't seem like they had any intention whatsoever of staying up, based on their style of play.

Could probably say the same about McKenna at Ipswich, with perhaps a bit more fight about them.
 
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So is she going to give up her day job? Her and that other one, are doing some crazy crap. 1000 men. 100 men. 60 men in the rear (which is the most stupid thing ever).
If I was a Footballer with his looks and money, I would avoid OF girls. However, if she is going out with him, I hope she gives up porn. It will dawn on her in the future the bad choice she has made.
 
bluebell said:
So is she going to give up her day job? Her and that other one, are doing some crazy crap. 1000 men. 100 men. 60 men in the rear (which is the most stupid thing ever).
If I was a Footballer with his looks and money, I would avoid OF girls. However, if she is going out with him, I hope she gives up porn. It will dawn on her in the future the bad choice she has made.
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Why are you wasting your energy with this?
You're one Google search from discovering that it's all bull and he's actually engaged
 
Modo said:
Why are you wasting your energy with this?
You're one Google search from discovering that it's all bull and he's actually engaged
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I am not googling her, you crazy? All I know, the other one Bonnie Blue messed up Quansah's head with an allegation that he wanted to be Ganged Banged.
Okay anything involving them an football players is junk.
 
bluebell said:
I am not googling her, you crazy? All I know, the other one Bonnie Blue messed up Quansah's head with an allegation that he wanted to be Ganged Banged.
Okay anything involving them an football players is junk.
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You can google him too
 
bluebell said:
I am not googling her, you crazy? All I know, the other one Bonnie Blue messed up Quansah's head with an allegation that he wanted to be Ganged Banged.
Okay anything involving them an football players is junk.
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Put her in a football kit and you probably have 'scouted' her.
 
Back to the football side of things, the current structure will just end up with a load of yo-yo teams. West Brom of a few years ago are classic, but eventually stopped coming up again. Too good for the Championship, not good enough for the PL. They yo-yo up and down, don't change their squads much in either direction, run stably but never threaten to do anything in the top tier, other than showcase their better players for sale. That's not healthy. We need more championship teams to copy the likes of Brighton, Brentford and Bournemouth, even Palace and West Ham, who used to be yo-yo sides.
 
I mean, a drastic option would be to make a play offs for promotion & relegation. Bottom 5 of the PL, top 5 of the championship. Bottom of the PL is relegated regardless, top of the championship promoted regardless.

2nd plays 19th, 3rd plays 18th, 4th plays 17th, 5th plays 16th. 2 legged games for the "semis". Wembley for all the games so the FA can get money. More TV money, big revenue. Excitement and real jeopardy involved
 
Fabio said:
I mean, a drastic option would be to make a play offs for promotion & relegation. Bottom 5 of the PL, top 5 of the championship. Bottom of the PL is relegated regardless, top of the championship promoted regardless.

2nd plays 19th, 3rd plays 18th, 4th plays 17th, 5th plays 16th. 2 legged games for the "semis". Wembley for all the games so the FA can get money. More TV money, big revenue. Excitement and real jeopardy involved
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I think the playoffs were a bit like that when first introduced. ... Only lasted a year or two
 
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