English football 2024-5

[Hertsscot]

Not really sure what to post this under so started a new thread which may or may not take off.

My wife supports Sheffield Wednesday. Unbelievable what is happening thereat present, really big historic club that is in a right mess, talk of players going in strike etc.

Barry Bannen is currently without a contract. What is interesting is he's apparently been on about £22k a week, which gives you some idea of the wage difference between Scotland and England. No one outside the Old Firm would be able to afford those wages. 

[Och Aye]

5 minutes ago, Hertsscot said:

Not really sure what to post this under so started a new thread which may or may not take off.

My wife supports Sheffield Wednesday. Unbelievable what is happening thereat present, really big historic club that is in a right mess, talk of players going in strike etc.

Barry Bannen is currently without a contract. What is interesting is he's apparently been on about £22k a week, which gives you some idea of the wage difference between Scotland and England. No one outside the Old Firm would be able to afford those wages. 

Yep sad to see such a club being so mismanaged. A whole stand closed down too 😟

[ger intae them]

On 7/31/2025 at 10:48 AM, Hertsscot said:

Not really sure what to post this under so started a new thread which may or may not take off.

Interesting name for it Herts 😏

[Orraloon]

1 hour ago, ger intae them said:

Interesting name for it Herts 😏

It's like we are in one of those films where they constantly use flashbacks to try to make a fairly mundane story a wee bit more interesting. "Six months ago" "two years ago" etc, etc.

[dan cake]

On 7/31/2025 at 10:48 AM, Hertsscot said:

Barry Bannen is currently without a contract. What is interesting is he's apparently been on about £22k a week, which gives you some idea of the wage difference between Scotland and England. No one outside the Old Firm would be able to afford those wages. 

Is he not injured due to a dodgy hair transplant? 

[Hertsscot]

35 minutes ago, dan cake said:

Is he not injured due to a dodgy hair transplant? 

There was a rumour 😂😂

[StirlingEgg]

Why are Everton and Man Utd playing a friendly but in America? 🤔

[slasher]

Get this entire thread in the fuckin bin where it belongs.

Fuck English fitba and their tourist Premiership!

[Hertsscot]

5 hours ago, slasher said:

Get this entire thread in the fuckin bin where it belongs.

Fuck English fitba and their tourist Premiership!

Actually you've missed the point.

The initial post was really about the disparity of wages between England and Scotland. I was surprised that Barry Bannen was on £22k a week and that average salary in League 1 was £7k a week. All which helps explain why we lose players from the domestic game.

[ThistleWhistle]

The Championship is genuinely bonkers and you'd have be off your nut to invest in it.  Stoke's wagebill was £15m last year - Aberdeen's apparently is c.£4m in comparison.  However, Stoke are owned by Bet365 and have a fucking fortune to spend but aren't allowed spend it due to ffp.  A few years back there was a stat that Bet365 spent more on sponsoring at Old Trafford than they did at Stoke because you have to evidence the return so they can't just sponsor the ground for £500m as example.  

They've just sold a 17 year old for £2m with add ons who probably has chance of playing for a decent Champions League club by his early 20s and would have probably got decent first team football at Stoke this season.  As it's pure profit though under ffp it balances the books and forces Stoke's hand.  

Stoke and Newcastle must be the richest skint clubs in the world - farce really and not sustainable.    

[RDFH64]

11 hours ago, StirlingEgg said:

Why are Everton and Man Utd playing a friendly but in America? 🤔

For money 💰 

[dan cake]

1 hour ago, ThistleWhistle said:

Stoke and Newcastle must be the richest skint clubs in the world - farce really and not sustainable.    

Buying the best legal minds might be the answer Chelsea and Man City constantly cheat the system without reprisals. I’ll be very surprised if Man City lose any titles over the 115 charges against them

[ThistleWhistle]

42 minutes ago, dan cake said:

Buying the best legal minds might be the answer Chelsea and Man City constantly cheat the system without reprisals. I’ll be very surprised if Man City lose any titles over the 115 charges against them

Genuinely mate don't get why Newcastle in particular aren't going fully down the legal route - maybe waiting until the Man City ruling then going balls deep?  

Essentially it's ffp that's fucked Sheff Wed as their chairman spaffed a relative fortune to get promoted and when that failed his interest has dropped off a cliff the further the premier league got away from them.  

If you'd got half a billion knocking about and fancied playing real life Football Manager then they'd probably be at the top of the shopping list for a championship club looking to take up.  If you look at it through FFP their debt isn't horrendous at apparently £50-£60m but turnover is £25m plus have to breakeven over 3 years then why would you bother?  

[slasher]

6 hours ago, Hertsscot said:

Actually you've missed the point.

The initial post was really about the disparity of wages between England and Scotland. I was surprised that Barry Bannen was on £22k a week and that average salary in League 1 was £7k a week. All which helps explain why we lose players from the domestic game.

I see, mibbe should have thought of a better title for the thread though.

[dan cake]

30 minutes ago, ThistleWhistle said:

Genuinely mate don't get why Newcastle in particular aren't going fully down the legal route - maybe waiting until the Man City ruling then going balls deep?  

Essentially it's ffp that's fucked Sheff Wed as their chairman spaffed a relative fortune to get promoted and when that failed his interest has dropped off a cliff the further the premier league got away from them.  

If you'd got half a billion knocking about and fancied playing real life Football Manager then they'd probably be at the top of the shopping list for a championship club looking to take up.  If you look at it through FFP their debt isn't horrendous at apparently £50-£60m but turnover is £25m plus have to breakeven over 3 years then why would you bother?  

Chelsea sold 2 hotels and the women’s team to themselves for 300 million, Leicester escaped being penalised because they broke Premiership regulations but were in the championship by the time they got charged. FFP rules must have been done on the back of a fag packet. Your lawyers could be worth more points a season than a 100 million signing 

[ThistleWhistle]

26 minutes ago, dan cake said:

Chelsea sold 2 hotels and the women’s team to themselves for 300 million, Leicester escaped being penalised because they broke Premiership regulations but were in the championship by the time they got charged. FFP rules must have been done on the back of a fag packet. Your lawyers could be worth more points a season than a 100 million signing 

Defo half arsed - I remember wondering how Derby afforded Rooney and it ended up being because they paid most of his wages as a coach which didn’t count towards ffp! 

[Malcolm]

Money has ruined the game.  Boring and predictable.  That’s why nobody has won the spl outside the old firm for 40 years.    
 

Football ended over the course of the 90s for me.  I will content myself with watching the Big match revisited on a Saturday morning where they are covering the 1975-76 season at the moment.  great entertainment with proper wingers, tackling and characters…. Not big Jessie’s falling over every second minute.

[dandydunn]

On 8/3/2025 at 9:58 PM, StirlingEgg said:

Why are Everton and Man Utd playing a friendly but in America? 🤔

So clubs like morecambe can fold when the possibility of an FA cup replay against a big team could very well have saved them, but there too many games for replays etc etc etc 🙄

[vanderark14]

On 8/4/2025 at 12:52 AM, slasher said:

Get this entire thread in the fuckin bin where it belongs.

Fuck English fitba and their tourist Premiership!

Agree re the tourist premiership, ive been at a few matches in the EPL on a freebie, the atmosphere is utter pish at the majority of matches

However, I do follow some non league....I go to watch Woking when I have the chance. 

[Och Aye]

Graham Potter could bore an arsehole in a wooden horse. He makes Gareth Southgate sound inspirational. Nuno's relationship at Forest seems to have hit rock bottom. Him or Big Ange would do for The Hammers.

[dan cake]

1 hour ago, Och Aye said:

Graham Potter could bore an arsehole in a wooden horse. He makes Gareth Southgate sound inspirational. Nuno's relationship at Forest seems to have hit rock bottom. Him or Big Ange would do for The Hammers.

Ange’s West Ham would be fantastic to watch but probably relegated by Easter, if any of the promoted teams do well then the Hammere are fucked 

[Och Aye]

Think Leeds and Sunderland could stay up. 

[dan cake]

Can’t see the Man Utd manager getting his contract extended beyond the summer, another mid table finish on the horizon me thinks

[dan cake]

On 8/24/2025 at 7:04 PM, dan cake said:

Can’t see the Man Utd manager getting his contract extended beyond the summer, another mid table finish on the horizon me thinks

Knocked out the league cup by Grimsby, clock must be ticking 

[Ally Bongo]

Obscene

Liverpool have agreed a British transfer record fee of £125m to sign striker Alexander Isak from Newcastle United.

Sources close to the deal have told BBC Sport that an agreement for the Sweden international to move to Anfield is now in place.

Newcastle sources claim the deal could be worth as much as £130m with add-ons.