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Robin Ashamu appears to be a product of the QPR academy.
26th Sep 2026 14:34:26
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That's OK Airsy. JJ never uses subs properly anyway, so it won't really affect us.
26th Sep 2026 14:33:25
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Who is Ashamu? He's not listed on the OS as a player.
26th Sep 2026 14:30:40
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If we can only field 5 subs, why wasn’t this game called off? Was it our choice?
26th Sep 2026 14:15:09
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Only 5 subs means that we can't make our full quota of outfield changes if we want!
26th Sep 2026 14:14:33
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Should have postponed the game.
26th Sep 2026 14:02:01
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Yeah that’s an interesting view Leddy I’ve thought all along that the rules shouldn’t be there to stop clubs creating the best football teams they can with the resources available. Similar to how they’re stifling Villa and Newcastle at the moment when Newcastle have the world’s richest state backing them.
26th Sep 2026 13:52:33
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I’m informed that the rules are there to stop clubs cratering once an owner decides or is forced to to stop spending - expensive and lengthy contracts remain and new owners may not want or be able to cover those payments. I can see both sides but when was the last time a Premier League club faced that scenario and even more when was the last time a Premier League club failed to navigate a scenario like that? Feels like the rules were made with mostly good intentions but are maybe not fit.
Financial Fair Play rules were marketed as a way to stop clubs over spending and ending up in financial difficulties and administration. Man City are about the only club that can out spend all their rivals without their owners having to worry about financial difficulties and the money running out. FFP rules are based on the ratio of spend to earnings. The problem for Man City was that too much of their spending came from the owners rather than from earnings.
26th Sep 2026 13:31:09
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I think it's worse where other clubs are spending money they don't have rather than Man City spending too much of the money their owners do have.
And the name of a deathtrap car from the past
26th Sep 2026 13:24:57
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And the surname “pinto” means “spotted” so fair play to the young man for spotting all the corruption and not putting up with it.
26th Sep 2026 13:19:03
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Could do with more like him.
Interesting reading that it was the actions of a Portuguese computer hacker, Rui Pinto, who accessed Man Ciry internal docs to start the process.
26th Sep 2026 13:08:59
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No doubr shirts with "Rui Pinto" on the back will be flying from the shelves one day ...
S’ok I looked it up and answered my own question - yes Tf now f*** off.
26th Sep 2026 12:29:39
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Have we kept five clean sheets out of seven league games so far?
26th Sep 2026 12:25:45
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Deduct 80 points (next season) and 5 year transfer embargo should be the punishment
26th Sep 2026 12:14:40
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Relegating City would potentially mean clubs further down the pyramid missing out on promotion. Transfer embargo, points deductions for x number of seasons and a massive fine would work and not unduly affect other clubs. 30 points would keep them midtable with no chance of reaching the CL and very little of reaching Europa or Conference.
26th Sep 2026 12:12:33
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Agree about punishing the fans Stu - that’s also why I think relegation without additional action (eg like you say multiple transfer window bans) just punishes other clubs’ fans as well.
26th Sep 2026 12:06:06
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They’re going to have to structure the punishment very carefully to isolate the impact to only Man City. Their fans will be punished as a result and I feel sorry for them for that.
Listening to Radio 5 last night and a City fan was on there saying that it might end up to be the perfect sacrifice to break the rules from 2009, spend all the money on infrastructure etc, take a heavy slap on the wrists and in 5 years time they are back winning things again in the EPL and still have all the revenue etc they need and end up in a better place than 2009.
26th Sep 2026 11:51:14
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Never realised the Manchester council own their ground and have provided massive support to them in terms of planning permission, land etc.
A fine is pointless as they have Saudi government money. Only thing that will punish them will be a relegation to League 2 and a transfer ban for many seasons. Financially the other clubs are going to sue the pants of them and that will really impact them.
26th Sep 2026 11:49:10
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Already seeing posts on socials to not punish the fans for what happens in the boardroom. That argument just winds me up. Look at clubs like Sheffield Wednesday, Bolton, Wigan and many others who went into admin, fans begged for fans not to be punished and they managed to win out their non-football debts and carry on. Now Wednesday and Bolton fans giving it large about how good they are when they nearly went out of business.
26th Sep 2026 11:47:27
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OTD - Yeovil's old ground is now a Tesco car park - presumable Tesco sorted out the slope. Having been to their new ground a few years ago I don't think Huish Park is much of an improvement over Huish.
26th Sep 2026 11:32:30
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And it's two different bus rides with two different companies from Yeovil Junction.
Agreed Leddy - and that’s why the hopefully-wrongly-reported potential investors’ plan to transform our football model to picking up young talent and selling them on is decades out of date.
26th Sep 2026 10:25:10
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The thing is the PL financial rules were set up to try to preserve the status quo. The trophy winning clubs at the top don't want a big spending newcomer to mussel in on their cosy cartel. The rest of the PL don't want to be outspent in their quest to stay in the league by a promoted club.
26th Sep 2026 10:11:27
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Like the Elite Player Performance Plan was supposed to be about improving the quality and quantity of young home grown players. It's more about making it easy and cheap for top clubs to pick up young players from further down the league before they can be sold for big money.
Rio Ferdinand already tried that one about getting another winner's medal TF. I know he only did it for the lolz (as the middle aged say) but still obnoxious.
26th Sep 2026 09:48:45
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