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I think Gundo and Bernardo have been massively affected by the loss of Rodri. Both of them are spending so much time putting fires out in the gaps that Rodro normally covers has made it impossible for both of them to get up the pitch. We've relied on Savinho but the jury's out with him. Mahrez...

Nunes has a very annoying habit of giving away pointless free kicks….

Bottom line is that however poor we’ve been defensively it’s the lack of control in midfield that’s turned us into a pub team. Nunez runs about a lot but end product is minimal and ball retention is piss poor. Same for Savinho tbh.

Wtf was Guardiol doing there…

Yeah, this... it just illustrates the madness of football. Imagine running a business like that. As always, I'd imagine it will lead to a bit more small print going into players contracts in the future.

Possibly the worst pile of shite I've ever read about football... or anything else for that matter. https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/sergio-agueros-goal-and-time-machine-conundrum-consuming-citys-rivals-lbw6vg8x9

Not widely reported but this is part of what Rodri said last night... “A very special person, my agent Paulo, when you took me to matches, feeding my dreams. I also want to thank my teammates because without them I would not be here as football is a team game. It’s very special for me...

Pretty sure Nedum won't play the fool, and that's why his opportunities are limited. He appears on podcasts and always comes across as balanced and knowledgeable.

I get the feeling that Micah's had a word in his ear about being too much of a fanboy, and he's reacted by trying to play the devils advocate when confronted by potentially big decisions involving us. I'm sure he'll keep getting the SLY Sports gigs but I can't see the attraction of being their...

The SLY bastards won't let the laws of the game get in the way of a witch hunt...

So the letter that City wrote to the clubs that boiled even more piss turns out to be correct... https://www.thetimes.com/sport/football/article/manchester-city-premier-league-rules-richard-masters-apt-tcns3qdqs

To be fair to Rofl, he told the rags everything they needed to know but they were too arrogant to take it on board. He's done well since leaving those tools so it does suggest Rofl wasn't the problem.

My understanding is that Dir Loans can fund working capital including wages (tbh there's a few clubs that would have gone under recently without that facility) so they are effectively treated as income. I agree that this is an area where the APT change is going to have quite an impact.

From what I can understand from the PSR bullshit, equity injection doesn't count as income and there can only be used to fund infrastructure such as stadium improvement and stuff like that. You can't fund the playing side via that route. Its one of those 'rules' that they came up with to stop...

Can't vouch for this youtube channel but this is spot.

Arsenal have to pay some interest to comply with UEFA PSR rules, but its not full market rate.

I think its interesting too that Everton have an opportunity to wipe the slate clean wrt to these loans when the takeover happens. From what I've seen its pretty much only when ownership changes that equity can flow into the club so if Everton's new owners take the opportunity to clear the debt...

Any reasonable regulatory body (I think the wording is something like that) would have raised a red flag when a consultant was shown to have come up with different valuations based on the same input information. Its a bit weird that the Tribunal thought this was ok.

No that's wrong. City have challenged the idea that 'soft' shareholder loans (be they zero or low interest or market rate interest) are not currently considered an APT when they clearly are. What this means is that clubs like Arsenal will have to have the value of those soft loans assessed (and...

The mad thing is, that if a consultant came up with 2 different valuations for the same thing, surely that would set a red flag and indicate a problem with the valuation process. Yet the tribunal are saying there's nothing wrong with the process. Utter bollocks