It was something along the lines of each country was allowed a maximum amount of competitors, but following Eddie's appearance the rules were changed so that to compete, a minimum qualifying standard had to be met, as happens in other sports
My wife is a legal secretary and she heard again yesterday, directly from the long standing season card holder she lives with, that we have turned to shite
I think if he had been earning £10m a year for six or seven years with a chance of a huge pay day (Saudi Arabia) and then the opportunity to spend the cash with no pressures of trying to keep his battered and broken body fit for elite sport, he'd enjoy being told to eff off
I loved playing...
Would Rodri solve the 25 goals and assists that Alvarez contributed?
Would he fill in for the goals and assists of Mahrez, who we never truly replaced
Would he solve our left back problem?
Would he solve our right back problem?
Would he solve the ageing and injury prone KDB problem?
So the...
I stopped reading there because Rodri being injured isn’t the main problem
The problem is having a small squad of top quality players and as some left, not replacing them with other top quality players and letting the others get older with no succession plan
I stand corrected
The appeal against the Adjudicatory chamber (the ban) was made in Feb
The hearing was 8/9/10 of June and the decision released 13th July
So only a month from hearing to media release
https://www.tas-cas.org/fileadmin/user_upload/CAS_Media_Release_6785_Decision.pdf
If it's of any interest, City filed its appeal at the CAS in June 2019 and from what I can see, the hearing started in Feb 2020 and the decision was released in July 2020
Edit...
And IIRC, the CAS hearing took three days and the award was 93 pages
The PL hearing was four weeks, so God knows...
There may even be a John Stones thread in the Player performances forum where the OP could vent his frustration
Ooooh
https://forums.bluemoon-mcfc.co.uk/threads/5-john-stones-2024-25.365356/
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