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https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/article/transfer-deadline-day-2025-everything-you-need-to-know Clubs in the Netherlands, Norway and Brazil will have an additional day to complete their business, with the windows in those countries closing on Tuesday 2 September. It's 5 September for teams in Austr...

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I was surprised to read that they are already employing 50 people or so as part of the Shadow Independent Football Regulator. Obviously planning on hitting the ground running, and a bigger department than I expected.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 7:32 pm
Thanks - interesting. So it’s a simply a cash flow manoeuvre then?

The big difference will be when the VAT is due, even if the transfer is paid in installments the VAT is paid upfront.

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Really? Not sure on that... PSR is based on accounting dates and if we don’t recognise the permanent transfer until the next accounting period (26/27, it won’t affect this years PSR calcs. Can you show me an example of this not being true? Accounting treatment here https://viewpoint.pwc.com/dt/uk/e...

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Papabendi wrote: ↑
Mon Sep 01, 2025 7:02 pm
Option not obligation. Doubt we can have an obligation if relegated.

We did with Tresor didn't we?

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I'd be surprised, but who knows what's possbile nowadays. There are a dozen balls round the pitch - how does the automatic sensor know which ball to track? That's what has been used in various other tournaments. I'm guessing the issue may be that Adidas developed it and the Premier League has a dif...

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The Premier League’s introduction to the new technology says there is not a chip in the ball? So it does. I wonder why they've come up with their own version rather than the one that was already being used? It claims that cameras are running at 100fps so more accurate than it used to be. Still feel...

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Wasn’t there talk on here of marital problems? If it leads to divorce you can half that £11m, unless he has it all in his Mums name! There is a reason so many ex-players end up bankrupt. Gambling and drugs are biggies but multiple marriages and divorces has to be number 1. This is the same reason t...

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The contention is surely that the very point at which the ball leaves the passer’s foot cannot be accurately captured by camera freeze frame. So in the Foster offside decision where the margin is in millimetres, how can we be certain that the freeze frame image we’ve been shown of a small amount of...

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Depends what you define as intelligence really If it’s thinking for yourself, researching things, making things, engineering skills, tradesmen skills, teachers, etc then I’d say it’s pretty naive to think that generationally we going anywhere other than backwards This is a weird take and just smack...

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One thing I thought whilst watching last night's game was how important Cullen is to the team. Most other positions we have someone who can fill in who wouldn't necessitate much change but if we lost Cullen for a length of time we'd struggle I reckon.

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And no chance of moving away from Turf Moor, the site isn't valuable enough to make it worth moving out of town. Which is good, because I don't think I've ever been to a decent stadium that isn't in walking distance of the town centre. There isn't really an economic argument for increasing capacity,...

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Not sure why you'd want to incur such huge costs for something that doesn't generate any money for the club.. I think Everton will discover this sooner rather than later by keeping Goodison going.. Keeping Goodison was more because the initial development plans weren't giving a decent return right ...

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Only tangentially related (I think we use the same outsourced company) but at Spurs last week their offering was a bit rubbish for a supposedly flagship stadium. Those bottom filling pint glasses are only used by the staff who then slowly pour it into a plastic glass for you and they seemed to have ...

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Anyone fancy McNeil on loan? Now Everton have signed Dibling and Grealish he’s likely to get next to no game time Given he's been one of their best players for the past few years it seems unlikely he'll be leaving on loan. If fit he'd be straight in as a starter for us: hardworking and can score an...

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Obviously Spurs had a much better strike force but there seemed to be much more confidence with the back 4 than the 3. Maybe just a matter of more training but if it doesn't offer us any more defensive solidity you've got to wonder whether we'll persist with the 3.

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aggi wrote: ↑
Wed Jul 16, 2025 3:21 pm
Those 200 shares are still sitting unsold on Asset Match at £400 each. A little surprised ALK haven't done a deal for them.

Looks like these have finally sold. I wonder who to.

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BleedingClaret wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 21, 2025 1:51 pm
The suggestion is that FAB members signed NDA's

This is in the Premier League guidance for FABs, it's not unique to Burnley.

https://resources.premierleague.com/pre ... -FINAL.pdf

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Was there actually a big bid for him last year or was it just some made up twitter stuff like the £25m bid for Foster?

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Now that the club has made this official announcement is there any way we as supporters can ask the local authorities responsible for health and safety in the outside area if they are satisfied with the safety of the departing crowd at this bottleneck or pinch point. Just asking the question as I d...

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I'm disappointed no-one has suggested that we play Walker in midfield, surely that's due. I like Hannibal he provides energy and is neat on the ball, the problem is can we really play him as a 10 when the side lacks cutting edge and goals? I think his best qualities would be better deeper, legs, ten...

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He was actually a bit unlucky last season, had a lengthy spell out injured after cutting his hand doing the washing up rather than a sporting injury.

When the luck's against you ...

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Between Humphreys and Tuanezebe you'd hope centre half would be covered but I'm not really sure when either is due back or how up to speed they'll be. Same upfront, with Flemming, Foster and Broja I can't see us getting anyone else in. Personally I suspect we'll see Flemming as the main striker in t...

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According to Spanish media reports this morning - Spain's authorities have not yet given approval to the takeover by ALK. And their manager is not keen on the Tresor deal. https://www.lagradaonline.com/rcd-espanyol/mike-tresor-espanyol-burnley-mercado-fichajes/ I think the expectation was at the ti...

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London games do tend to see more player comps I reckon. Probably exaggerated as we also had a fair few new signings. Not surprising with Edwards, he's from just up the road.

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Alan summed it up nicely when he spoke about his relationship with VK. In this instance Pace and JJ Watt are the "beautiful girl". We are no longer a couple, we are a threesome, and everyone knows three's a crowd. "It's like dating the most beautiful girl in town, and knowing there's probably no ch...

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Having read plenty of comments on both this site & the uptheclarets fb page (not sure if they're related) I would argue that it is personal from some posters ! The trouble is that people start eulogising about him (he was declared the best striker in the championship at the start of the season, he ...

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Pretty sure you didn't intend to type "if the club makes more purchases like Espanyol." We know that ALK/VSP are the entity that have bought Espanyol. Yes, ALK/VSP is a multi-club owner, but there's no reason why that makes anything "more complicated" for BFC. The reality is that it has. Rastar are...

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He was ok but he doesn't really impact the game. He doesn't often look like he's going to score, he's not an instinctive striker who'll take a snap shot, often he'll play the pass rather than shooting. He doesn't have the guile or craft to get a load of assists, he can bustle past a man sometimes bu...

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What ticketing issues did anyone have today? Seemed to be quite a few irritate people at the away ticket office saying that their tickets wouldn't work as they had no QR code on them. Seemed to take the Ticket Office staff by surprise as they were only expecting a few collections. From what I heard...

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We didn't really look like the back 3/5 was properly drilled. Wing backs weren't stopping crosses, when crosses came in there were players free in the middle and big gaps left by centre halves. It didn't look at all solid and it didn't help us going forward.

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Well all you need to to do is have a player tie their laces and the ref will happily suspend the rule. I think it's 8 seconds from when the ref tells them rather than when they hold it, which is obviously open to abuse. Very surprising we seemed to have no idea it even existed on a defending or atta...

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Claretfanatic1982 wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 15, 2025 4:08 pm
Google pixel phones already have this built in .
I've been using it on my Pixel 8pro for the past year.

My Samsung has this as well.

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I pay £2 a month for a New York Times subscription which includes the Athletic. Well worth that amount I'd say, the offer is still on

It's meant to be a trial price for 6 months or a year or similar but I cancelled the subscription when the trial was up and they offered a renewal at that price.

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I'm sure there's a couple of long standing threads that try to explain all this, not sure we need another It's a nice little summary compared to the other thread with 13,000+ posts. Also has this nice little graphic for the overall picture https://static01.nyt.com/athletic/uploads/wp/2025/08/141604...

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Nothing new but Aadecent article on this for a change, guess that's what you get when you employ an accountant to write these things. There's no real reason to believe that Pace doesn't have control given the statements on the website and companies house but it's obviously pretty opaque. Although ev...

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Spike wrote: ↑
Thu Aug 14, 2025 10:05 pm
Harringay Irish Club has now closed down

So it has, not sure how I missed that.

Last time I was there I was doing a drive through COVID test which I guess dates it a bit.

There's also the Antwerp Arms which is a friendly pub that's community owned so really relies on the match day revenue.

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The Beehive is pretty local to the ground and away friendly (mainly spurs fans but fine if you're not a dick). Otherwise there's the Irish club whose name I can't remember or the Redemption brewery. Parking wise there's the places on Waltham Cross, Cheshunt, etc line. Near the ground if you're reaso...

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For a lot of countries you do need to take a full UK test to drive here. Think it's mainly if you have a licence from the EU or a handful of ex Commonwealth countries that you don't. Coming from the US for instance you'd need to take a UK test.

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That's irrelevant as one of their significant owners owns a stake in Lyon who as they finished higher in the table than Palace get the place in the Europa League. Squirming to get out of pretty cast iron rules has been undignified. Forest would be in a similar position but their but their Slob owne...

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There will be a host of departures of the fringe players , but if Cullen or Lesley go down injured we suddenly look very light again in midfield. Likewise up top, we all know how unreliable Foster has been, Broja has also had his problems , and one of our other options is Barnes . There will be opp...

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I saw that the other day. It didn't feel like there was a great deal of logic to the theory.

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He started a lot of games, but how many did he finish? I’ve not looked it up, but seem to remember him being subbed off, looking exhausted, quite a few times last season. I think football is behind other sports (rugby comes to mind) in expecting players to be able to play 90 minutes every week rath...

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Another one from the Athletic illustrating why Sunderland are spending so much

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Goliath wrote: ↑
Fri Aug 01, 2025 3:21 pm
Why are people queuing to buy wooden seats from the club.

This is what my dad did with a couple of the old directors' box seats

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Given it is illegal to resell football tickets I've always wondered how these various sites are still active. I'm assuming they are overseas based or argue that they are not reselling the tickets but just acting as brokers for the actual seller. It seems to be one of those laws that gets completely ...

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Useful image from the Athletic on the state of play:

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It really isn't. 'Less so now', i doesn't mean we are at no risk of a PSR breach. If we were to buy at that point, it increases the risk. He is pointing out we are on the wire. I'd love to be this confident about something I didn't understand. If we are so close to the wire that £8,000 (£15m signin...

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If that's what the finance guy at the Athletic has to say about PSR then it only demonstrates that he doesn't understand PSR. If we accept that Burnley signed James Trafford for £14 million from City on a 4 year contract - and that JT has been sold back to City 2 years later, then JT would be on BF...

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His exact words: "With £27million sale of James Trafford to Manchester City, Burnley have generated a little under £120m in player sales across 2024-25 (accounting/PSR period ends on 31 July) Had them needing to make overall profit to avoid a PSR breach, and potentially at risk. Less so now" So cle...

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