“Manager of football club indicates they will take every advantage they can possibly get for said football club”
More news at 11.
As someone who’s always held a relatively positive opinion of Newcastle as both a football club and as a city, it’s sad to see the club act like this. I don’t blame Newcastle fans for being delighted that Mike Ashley is gone but the attitude coming out from the club, the staff and certain parts of the fanbase really rubs you the wrong way at times and it’s very disappointing
That video that was making the rounds on social media a while back of some Newcastle fans being very disrespectful towards the older fan voicing his opinions on the takeover wasn’t nice to watch at all
Although Howe was reluctant to be drawn on the specifics of Newcastle’s resistance plan, he said when asked whether the club would fight such changes: “You can make that assumption.”
They got the headline from this…
But why read the article when the headline lets me get outraged?
Well it’s not word for word the same but he still says they will try to resist a pretty sensible rule, presumably so they can abuse it
A compromise solution would be to allow it but settle on a fair price formula and then apply a penalty to FFP with a multiplier. For example if the donor club bought the player for 40m, then take that value divide by the years to amortize it (say 4 years at 40m, 10m per year) and require the recipient club to incur an FFP penalty equal to that times a factor for the financial year of the loan. If the factor in the above example is x2 then it’s minus 20 million towards FFP for the year (10m x2).
Hell, you can make the factor even scale based on the last rank of the club so the more successful a club becomes the more associated loans cost towards FFP.
This needs a “misleading headline” tag - the headline is not supported by the article
According to the article itself, when asked about whether Newcastle would fight such changes he said “[y]ou could make that assumption”
So they might vote against, but so what?
He also said they would obey any rules introduced.
Non story
This is why you don’t let shitty despots into the game. They are not civilised people. They don’t respect rules or sporting integrity. They are savages who only know how to bully and slime their way into outcomes that makes everything worse for everyone else. They are parasites.
“Get the bonesaw”
“Your Honor, I object!”
“On what grounds?”
“Its devastating to my case”
Is there any reason this rule wouldn’t get voted through? Besides a few obvious clubs who’d vote against it, this should be a straightforward rule change.