Django_Zooms Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 No FFP prosecution for Chelsea? Chelsea spent £747m on transfers last season - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68805247 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
foreveryoung Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 26 minutes ago, Django_Zooms said: No FFP prosecution for Chelsea? Chelsea spent £747m on transfers last season - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68805247 It's coming, they at least needed CL football. But the charge will be in the 24/25 season. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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The_Steve Posted April 15 Share Posted April 15 On 13/04/2024 at 14:24, Django_Zooms said: No FFP prosecution for Chelsea? Chelsea spent £747m on transfers last season - https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/68805247 Managed to help their losses by selling hotels to their sister company for £75m. I hate them so much. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 (edited) No more FA cup replays. They seem to have been bought off by the insurance that FA cup games will all be on weekends with no PL games at the same time. Give it five years and that will be gone too and the latter rounds of the fa cup will be midweek. Teams in the club World cup will probably get a bye into round five as well. Edited April 18 by villa89 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R.Bear Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 4 minutes ago, villa89 said: No more FA cup replays. They seem to have been bought off by the insurance that FA cup games will all be on weekends with no PL games at the same time. Give it five years and that will be gone too and the latter rounds of the fa cup will be midweek. Teams in the club World cup will probably get a bye into round five as well. Good. FA Cup replays have been a pox for decades. The only thing worse than a FA Cup tie is drawing it and having to do it again. Moving the FA Cup to midweek would also be great move. Anything to stop it interfering with Premier League games. There's no more soul destroying weekends in the football season than FA Cup rounds. Any way to marginalize them is a positive move. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fightoffyour Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 Obviously the replays are lucrative for lower league teams but, on the other hand, this change means they're more likely to get through to the next round when getting a draw and then winning on penalties, leading to an even more lucrative (albeit less so than winning a replay) following tie. Thoughts? 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 not fussed over the replays but 100% these games should be on the weekends the joy of the fa cup for me as a villa fan are the potential away games vs L1/L2 teams that realistically you're not going to play in any other competition, or conversely fans of those clubs having the opportunity to travel to VP, you want large numbers of travelling fans having a good day, saturday games is the best way of that happening that said the FA moving them to any time over the weekend other than saturday 3pm doesnt help that argument now scrap extra time 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Did they consult all 700+ teams in the football pyramid about dropping the replays? Who was consulted? Otherwise it just reeks of helping the top of the pyramid, not the sport generally. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 Why should lower league teams lose replays in the early stages because of UEFA expansions? It’s grossly unfair - it’s to protect to the fixture congestion of PL teams in Europe and does nothing to address lower league teams fulfilling their own fixture list issues 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Mark Albrighton Posted April 18 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted April 18 If replays are gone I would say the lower league clubs should be given the choice of switching from a home tie against a bigger side to playing away, if they so wish. There is something great about a big club rocking up at Eastleigh, but I think that they should have to option to play it away and earn a few more quid. (At least it’s my understanding that that option was taken away) And stop playing the semi finals at ****ing Wembley. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 A non-league team losing crucial revenue by getting an early replay against a Championship team is terrible for the game 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 8 minutes ago, The_Steve said: A non-league team losing crucial revenue by getting an early replay against a Championship team is terrible for the game dont forget the plan is to increase that crucial revenue via payments from PL teams Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 2 minutes ago, villa4europe said: dont forget the plan is to increase that crucial revenue via payments from PL teams They could do this still and not fundamentally change the Cup at the behest of PL clubs playing in Europe crying about their fixture schedule Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 This is a monumentally damaging change also 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa89 Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 26 minutes ago, The_Steve said: A non-league team losing crucial revenue by getting an early replay against a Championship team is terrible for the game There's an argument to let the tie be moved to the bigger ground if both teams agree. For example if SHA are drawn at home against Forest Green they might want to move the game so Forest Green are at home and get a bigger attendance that way. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Stevo985 Posted April 18 VT Supporter Share Posted April 18 I hated replays so I'm quite glad they've gone. I'd have liked the extra revenue for lower league clubs to be protected somehow though. not sure if they've done anything towards that Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
a-k Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 There are two simple ways to potentially avoid replays that satisfy the "big" clubs while still providing a chance for lower league teams to reap the financial benefits of a replay: 1) "big" club has to be good enough to win the match the first time around 2) if the "big" club doesn't want a replay, they can forfeit Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The_Steve Posted April 18 Share Posted April 18 1 minute ago, Stevo985 said: I hated replays so I'm quite glad they've gone. I'd have liked the extra revenue for lower league clubs to be protected somehow though. not sure if they've done anything towards that £33m is pocket change and the PL owes grassroots a lot more money. PL teams don’t enter until the third rounds so why should lower league teams lose their replay rights from the get go? It stinks. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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