“Newcastle should get a points deduction. Updoots now please!”

Morons, 2023

Why do you guys keep talking about Newcastle getting deductions? Do you know something I don’t?

What did Newcastle do? Being owned by the Saudis is not a crime. (Although it ought not to have been allowed. But here we are.)

If Serie A can survive their very exciting money scandals with almost no long term damage, so can the PL.

Also, players go where the money is. There’s some mental calculus outside of money, but not that much. For every player who turns his nose up at the PL, there’s eleventy-three players who will gladly take their place.

This right here is why we need less international breaks if nothing else, we wind up going around and around with increasingly nonsensical takes on any scrap of news that does occur.

Loool nothing will happen

100% agree will be used to try & damage the EPL by other leagues, and for some reason whoever is making these decisions. I would look into that, who are these people? Are they funded by opposing leagues?

It’s also ironic that Real Madrid are basically Spanish government supported and have been for years?

I know you did say it ‘could’ but a lot of these are quite extreme hypotheticals.

Big players, from these clubs e.g. Haaland, De Bruyne, Guimaraes will leave and would likely join teams from abroad.

They could leave, some might stay, they could also stay within the country as they have their lives set up there.

• Likes of La Liga or Serie A chairman will be in UEFA’s ear about this, potentiall causing them to ban English Teams

Unlikely - UEFA need English teams as well. A whole ban wouldn’t happen.

The PL will be seen by many as a corrupt league like Serie A in mid 2000’s and will have a knock on affect in which players may choose to sign for clubs like AC Milan or Bayern Munich ahead of English teams like Man United or Liverpool

Maybe it would have it’s image damaged but players would still come to teams as they pay well. Players are always happy to play for the teams with big wages.

Honestly don’t think any of this would happen other than players leaving relegated clubs. Also Newcastle aren’t part of these discussions at all.

Happened in Serie A with Juventus and Milan. Most players actually stayed.

I don’t like the Saudis but Newcastle have not violated FFP

The EPL media contracts will continue to pay out billions irregardless of punishments to a few top teams. That means more money for others. There are few Europeans teams that can compete financially with even a lower table EPL team. Secondly, irregardless of punishment City and Chelsea will eventually return to the EPL.

I’m not a Newcastle fan, but the hate they get is truly pathetic. Their mega rich owners have done nothing so far except make shrewd signings perfectly in line with the rules, while putting faith in a manager many people wrote off (for some reason) in Eddie Howe, and many of the pre-takeover players who were previously deemed not good enough for the Premier League. Honestly, I think there’s a huge amount of jealousy towards Newcastle from rival fans, and it’s embarrassing.

The PL will be seen by many as a corrupt league

It already is and this is the reason why nothing will happen. Remember that there was one team in the Calciopoli that miraculously just benefited from it despite there being strong evidence of having been involved in it.

Bro said Guimaraes with Haaland and De Bruyne

There’s a whole lot of issues with this “implosion”…

• Everton’s deduction is fair by the rules in which they agreed too.
• City and Chelsea are far more complicated cases and we can only moan about the consistencies of the rulings once those rulings and punishments have actually been made.
• Newcastle have done fuck all wrong so stop name dropping them. Their political relationships in the background is a separate issue to how they’ve gone about their investments so far.
• Big players have always eyed up Barca, Madrid and Bayern as end goals, this is nothing new and the expectation has always been Haaland will end up at Madrid some day.
• LL and Serie A, as shown by their most recent comments are just a bunch of jealous, bitter cunts who overlook the fact that Madrid backed by the Spanish Govt have financially bullied everyone in the world, let alone just Spain.
• England is already hated for 90% of its history, being hated for corruption in football would just be another thing on this list. Plus the significance of it being City or Chelsea, would have way less impact than someone like Juventus did with Serie A.

Good thing Chelsea just signed a ton of players to 7 or 8 year contracts.