General Football 23/24

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"Any club in breach of those rules will have to pay a luxury tax where 'the equivalent or more' of any overspend would go into a pot to be shared among other clubs."

So City could spend £190m over their budget and have to pay the other clubs £10m each for it? Not really going to touch the sides, is it.

NBA Basketball has a salary cap and a luxury tax for any team going over the cap.

The luxury tax escalates each season a club is over the salary cap.

The amount a team over the salary cap has to pay in luxury tax can escalate quite quickly

GSW for example have a luxury tax bill of 184m dollars for this season alone. The luxury tax bill is over and above their wage bill

https://www.spotrac.com/nba/tax/2021/

Good explainer here of the luxury tax in the NBA and how it escalates.

If implemented properly it could be helpful but given it's UEFA who're implementing it it'll be cack handed and i'd imagine Citeh, PSG and other clubs (ourselves included) are already looking at ways to circumvent it.

[Charly]

Whats the point if City and PSG are not breaking ffp now?

[S-RED]

salrary caps ae ok, if the player is paid all his salary from the club; when the parent group are paying a % it will fail very quickly

[S-RED]

How many empty seats at Nou camp ??

https://twitter.com/FCBarcelona/status/1426976550713446408/photo/1

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Has anyone seen this, it seems the original article was in the mail so I won't share a link.

Chelsea legend Alan Hudson demands the FA DELETE his playing records with England after he was capped just twice - and accuses them of a lack of support after suffering devastating injuries in a hit-and-run incident

Alan Hudson has demanded the FA to delete his playing records with England Hudson accuses them of failing to support him in a fight with serious injuries He doesn't want the statistics to show the 'demoralising' way he was passed upThe former footballer is believed to be the first player ever to file this request.

Former England footballer Alan Hudson has demanded that the FA delete his playing records with the national team.

Hudson, the maverick darling of the King's Road at the end of the 1960s and in the early 70s, is believed to be the first player ever to file such a request and will make a unique footnote in football history if successful.

In his letters to the FA, Hudson also accuses them of failing to support him in a long struggle against devastating permanent injuries inflicted by a hit-and-run driver in 1997.

Alan Hudson has demanded that the FA delete his international playing records with England

Hudson said: 'I don't want anything to remain in the FA statistics to remind me of the demoralising and very depressing way I was passed over for all but two England matches.'

Hudson claimed the last straw was how a modern-day maverick - Jack Grealish - was marginalised in the Euros by Gareth Southgate, arguing it was similar to how highly gifted players such as himself were ignored by previous managers of the national team.

He said: 'I had been considering doing this for some time. Seeing how Grealish was humiliated by so little playing time when he was the one player who might have won the tournament for our country has pushed me over the edge.

Hudson (pictured at Chelsea) accuses the FA of failing to support him with devastating injuries

'No wonder we haven't won so much as a tin pot let alone another major championship since 1966.'

Hudson claims Sir Alf Ramsey imposed an arbitrary three-year England suspension on him for failing to answer an Under 23 international call-up when he was suffering from an ankle injury.

That exile was ended by two caps awarded by Don Revie, of whom Hudson says: 'He only did that under pressure from the media and then discarded me, even though we won both those games and I was man of the match against West Germany in one of them.'

Writing to the FA's interim chairman Peter McCormick, Hudson says: 'My dream of a long international career was ruined and has led to long-term depression, anxiety and panic for which I still have counselling. It will be a great relief to be removed from my links with the history of England football.'

Hudson (left, seen against Germany) is believed to be the first player ever to file such a request

McCormick's response records the 'high esteem' in which the FA hold Hudson, as 'a great player who had a distinguished football career'.

He adds: 'We cannot comment on the actions of Sir Alf Ramsey and Don Revie as that period was many years ago and both individuals are now deceased.'

McCormick delegated the question of ghosting Hudson's England records to the FA's director of legal and governance Polly Handford, who cites problems with data protection if complying.

In his grievance about a lack of support following his crippling car incident - which he still suspects was 'a deliberate hit' - Hudson writes: 'Your organisation never raised a finger while my family waited in grief and trauma-stricken during my 59 days in a coma.

Hudson claimed the last straw was how Jack Grealish (L) was marginalised in the Euros by Gareth Southgate (R)

'When I woke I was surrounded by hundreds of cards wishing me well but not one from the FA.'

Ms Handford replies: 'In relation to your car accident and the trauma suffered by you and your family we are very sorry to hear what a difficult time you have had. Given the time elapsed we cannot speak to what support would have been available.'

She refers him to various footballers' charities.

Hudson vows to fight on for the deletion of his England records 'and if necessary seek legal help'.

I must confess I don't know much about the guy, and if he wants to do this fair enough. But the Grealish stuff is just weird

[ChesterDave]

Shouldn't it be the PFA that support him?

His life his choice but I find it odd he sympathises with a drink driver as a hot and run.

Does the FA fall under GDPR rules for this scenario?

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Man City third kit



Looks like a knock off you'd get off EBay for 15

[Irishnev]

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Surely City - 100m for a 32 year old

[Kenneth]

>£100m for a 33 year old. Good one.

[The_weatherman]

Maybe he's hoping to jump ahead of Kane? Lewa is fantastic and would finish that City team nicely, but very expensive 33 year old. Leaves Kane and Spurs hanging, I would sell if I was Levy.

[Buzzo]

Bayern will be making a move for Haaland for sure.

I wonder where he will go. Would be perfect for us.

[Irishnev]

Bayern will be making a move for Haaland for sure.

I wonder where he will go. Would be perfect for us.

I think it will be Bayern, United or Madrid but most likely Madrid - I think they get him and Mbappe next summer

[Saveloy]

Liverpool are "frontrunners" in the race to sign Borussia Dortmund and Norway striker Erling Braut Haaland, 21. (Sport1, via Mirror)

BBC gossip never lies

[Kenneth]

Yeah, no.

[Buzzo]

I reckon we are ‘in the running’ tho.