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Today’s Football 2020/21 Season

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Chris O'Connor said:
West Ham closing in on Benrahma from Brentford

Reading the Josh King one looks to have fallen through, so Benrahma now the only target. Moyes always operates with a target man in Antonio, with Haller in reserve and the wider midfield men in Musuaku and especially the bang in form Bowen getting up to support. Yarmalenko and Felipe Anderson are the wider men out of favour atm, so Benrahma looks a decent fit to strengthen.

They seem to be building a decent team and playing some really good counter attacking stuff atm and have done smazingly well to turn it around after a faltering start. Hammering Wolves and Leicester must have them really buzzing. Their next three continue their nightmare run but having easily won their last two, what looks tough on paper hasn't always turned out that way for them.

Very impressed with them recently, midtable at worst for me. (The next three very, very tough so may have a temporary dip)
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crazy that a club stocked with attacking midfielders for who they paid top dollar is about to sign an attacking midfielder for top dollar
 
dublinbluenose said:
5 more Ireland players have to self isolate now because of beibg close contacts. International football in 2020 can get in the bin.
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I wonder if clubs will simply refuse to release the players if this keeps happening. We used to be petrified of having a player injured on international duty, now we have to worry about that and COVID as well? GTF.
 
This is massive...

Not including the whole article but the main thrust is in return for saving the football league there will be some big changes to the current prem and one team one vote with power instead concentrated with the big six plus ourselves, Southampton and West Ham (the longest serving nine) having special status.

Just the first paragraph I'll read and give a shorter post of the main points


Sam Wallace writes

Man United and Liverpool are the driving force behind the biggest changes to English football in a generation and an extraordinary overhaul of the Premier League,
The two clubs have worked together on a radical set of proposals – called “Project Big Picture” - that will reshape the finances of the game. The Premier League, the most lucrative sports league in the world, would see a reduction to 18 teams, and controlling power in the hands of the biggest clubs.
 
EFL and FA RESCUE PACKAGE

25 per cent of the Premier League’s annual revenue will go to the EFL clubs with £250 million paid up front to see them through the current crisis. There would also be a gift of £100 million to sustain the Football Association.

PREM REORGANISATiON

1. Abolition of the one-club, one-vote principle that has sustained the Premier League since its inception as well as the abolition of the threshold of 14 votes to pass any decision or regulation change.

2 League Cup and the Community Shield would be abolished. There have been additional discussions that the League Cup would survive but without the participation of the clubs in Europe.

3. Reduced to 18 teams in the prem, 24 teams in each of the three lower leagues

PROMOTION / RELEGATION

There would be two automatic promotion places for Championship clubs, but the third, fourth and fifth placed clubs would be in a play-off tournament with the 16th placed Premier League club.

WHO NOW HAS THE EXTRA POWER (now one team one vote gone)

The nine clubs who have been in the Premier League for the longest - which includes the big six - would dictate its running in every aspect and would be free to play more games in the expanded Champions League that is anticipated from the 2024-2025 season onwards.

LIVERPOOL'S OWNER'S FENWAY SPORTS ...

Under proposals for the new model of distribution of television revenue in the Premier League, Fenway, the driving force behind the document, insist there would be no greater share for the top six. Their stated aim is to eliminate the huge gap in earnings between Premier League and EFL clubs while in return having a greater control of the decisions made by the Premier League.
 



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