That wage is preposterous! That's higher than any player at Arsenal, Chelsea or Liverpool (bar Van Dijk), and would make him the second highest earner at City. Mental.
Spurs are apparently offering Tonali 275k wages. Which is also crazy but we’ve been cheap on wages for so long, I can’t complain if it happens.
City's total player wage last season was £305,259,500. That's 76m more than Arsenal (£233,480,000), and 82m more than Liverpool (£218,003,500). City's total wage bill was over 3 xs Everton's (£96,170,750) PL needs to get a grip, or teams are going to have to pay Saudi wages to have some semblance of parity lol 2025-2026 Premier League Salaries and Contracts | Capology: Football Salaries & Finances https://share.google/f8dazF9nYQNebL2E0
Just give Everton a points deduction for going over budget with a new stadium. That'll solve the issues with your league, Masters.
I don't know where you are in England but the Bolton stadium is on a massive retail park and traffic is bad at the best of times. You are definitely doing the right thing avoiding it.
Yeah, I can relate. I've been through Horwich loads of times. I usually get the train from the parkway, which is always packed until Bolton station itself. I can just imagine what a Boxing Day would be like haha I live near a place called Lymm in Cheshire.
Seems like Ugarte did his ACL last night. Feel for him, clearly deemed surplus to requirements and should’ve been starting 26/27 season at a new club where he could get regular minutes and enjoy his football. Have to imagine this will really force United’s hand in the market, imagine they lose a lot of negotiating leverage now.
I was just reading that by FIFA’s rules, the only host confederation option for 2038 are CONCACAF or Oceania, which, then by their stadium capacity requirements, means it’s either the US or Mexico or another combined offering alongside Canada.
Ok final update on my group winners parlay… I’m 9 for 10 as of now. One group winner remaining. It’s England! Please don’t choke this away for me.
Didn't Australia refuse to bid for this one so it was kinda America by default. Also FIFA's rules mean nothing as Qatar had 2020 and Saudi Arabia has 2034. It should probably go back to Africa but that won't make FIFA as much money.
I don't know if they count Australia as Oceania for the sake of hosting, but they've been part of AFC (Asia) for like 20 years now, so they wouldn't be eligible based on Saudi hosting the WC before (unless you meant this World Cup, 2026, in which case they aren't eligible because of Qatar 2022). Also Fifa apparently changed their rules in the last 20ish years where a confederation is only locked out for the next 2 World Cups, so Qatar 2022 -> 2026 -> 2030 -> 2034 Asia would be eligible again (the same reason the US would be eligible as they're hosting this year and then 2030/2034 and they're eligible again for 2038). Bit of a nonsense that the 3 games in South America for 2030 disqualifies them for 2038 but it is what it is I suppose. I wonder if they're actually let the US or Mexico host again or if they'll fudge the rules a little to let it go somewhere else, because twice in 3 World Cups is a bit too frequent even for Fifa I'd imagine?
Nope lol. As @simonthebutler alludes with his post, FIFA will take the highest monetary route. I think the system where regions have to wait in cycles for a World Cup could die out. As you've noted, FIFA changing their rules is a thing.
If we're talking about highest monetary route, I wonder if they decide to split Asia between East/West eventually (even if just for hosting) so they can give it to China soon(er). I feel like China is one of the countries that would do crazy money.
I just looked it up and it was the Saudi bid that they pulled out of 2034 World Cup: Saudi Arabia set to host after Australia does not bid
Saw a graphic of the confederations and their qualified countries. It’s kind of crazy. All Asian teams bar one are out of the WC. Meanwhile, only three European teams went out (Scotland, Czechia, Turkiye) and only one African team (Tunisia) got grouped. UEFA and COMNEBOL still dominate, but Africa catching up is cool.
Everton linked to that 15 year-old Aussie, Lucas Herrington. Apparently he's "ready" which blows my mind.
Mason Mount linked to AC Milan. All is forgiven Amorim if you pay actual money to get rid of that contract for us. Tidy player, but perma crocked at this point.