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@Billie_T Didn’t Maddison get Leicester relegated?

Maddison back?? How many points are we off conference league

@John_B58 No list that Alisson currently in third can be taken seriously

Jordan Pickford ranked here as the 11th best keeper in the world. nytimes.com/athletic/71886…

HUGE goal in our season. What a signing Dewsbury Hall has been. Nice to hear a chant for him from the crowd too!

@LFCTransferRoom @PhillyPMC Maybe he didn’t like your fans when he was there?

@PhillyPMC We didn’t let him go. He left after Jurgen decided to leave — his whole staff left.

Disappointed. No respect whatsoever.

@NateStum32 @georgeachillea The only way he will get Spurs into Europe within the next couple of seasons is if they bring back the Intertoto Cup for Championship teams

@georgeachillea Not really. Even if he gets sacked and owed a big payday it’s way less of a financial burden than actually getting relegated. Odds are, de zerbi keeps us up. He stays all next season and gets us back into Europe and then the following season it probably all unravels

People seem to refuse to look at the facts when it comes to De Zerbi… they just see a “big name” and think it’s the best option - First manager in Brighton’s history to go winless in their first 4 matches in charge - Left Brighton because he fell out with Bloom over transfer strategy - Left Marseille because he threw toys out the pram and lost connection with dressing room - Is a massive hothead who squares up to players in training telling them to “call their agent and bring them here” Tottenham Hotspur is as unstable as it’s ever been in it’s history, and this appointment won’t make it better… there is absolutely nothing to suggest he is a long term solution

@InvertTheWing This is why Spurs are in big trouble 17th last season and hoping for 17th at best this season and still dreaming about being in title contention next November

This is what will happen with De Zerbi. He will keep Tottenham up. No doubt. He will start off next season well. Tottenham will be in title contention territory by November. Then the players will get exhausted, fatigued, injuries will start to pile up, and De Zerbi will have to play Tottenham’s B Team. He doesn’t adapt his game plan, Tottenham collapse and head towards 5th. January comes, Lange doesn’t give De Zerbi any backing and signs an U21 player from Norway. De Zerbi resigns in summer due to a lack of support. Tottenham finish 8th.

@OliviaBuzaglo True football fans rejoice as the cheats get what they deserve

No words

@ChelseaFC Fantastic to see a cheating club get what they deserve

Goal Everton, 3-0. 🔵 3-0 ⚪️ [76] #CFC | #EVECHE

What a goal, what a day for Hill Dickinson, what a day for Everton 🙌💙

@Joeythemoon87 @sid_lambert There was plenty of goals, and lots against Liverpool too

@sid_lambert It’s never a goals compilation when it comes to Fergusons “highlights”

It’s 22 years since Big Dunc enjoyed a nice wee chat with his good pal Steffen Freund. Bring yer dinner.

@desso61 @TeleFootball @oliverbrown_tel You’re so close to getting it here. If another club wouldn’t make these illegal payments to agents and Chelsea would, which club do you think the agent would be more inclined to deal with?

@TeleFootball @oliverbrown_tel Ollie, you miss the point, Roman was always going to buy the player. They were always going to pay agent fees, but AGENTS wanted the fees hidden for their convenience NOT Chelsea's. In fact agents fees would have been beneficial to write off any tax exposure

🗣️ "The £10.75m fine given to Chelsea for financial deception and concealment is so paltry that the outrage extends far beyond tribal lines," writes @oliverbrown_tel. Read more here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/football/2026/…

@premierleague For all clubs to be treated equally by referees, VAR and the ruling authorities

If you were granted one Premier League Wish, what would it be? Tell us yours, and it could be the one we make happen 💌👇

@henrywinter Good result?!?! Have you, as one of the most preeminent voices in the English media, no concerns about the double standards in punishments?

Good result for Chelsea: club fined only £10m and given a suspended transfer ban after Premier League found 36 separate undisclosed payments totalling £47.5m made “to 12 persons or entities on behalf of the club”. Lenient sanctions. No sporting sanctions. Yet these are serious offences, as the sanction agreement between the PL and Chelsea makes clear, stating “they were not only obvious and deliberate breaches of the rules but also because they involved deception and concealment in relation to financial matters”. Yet no points deductions. Just a manageable (if record) fine and a “suspended one-year first-team player transfer ban (suspended for two years)”. Surely they gained a sporting advantage by recruiting such players? So surely a sporting sanction should be in order? And where's the consistency? In 2008, Luton Town received a 10-point deduction for irregularities in dealing with agents (nb from FA). There still could be some further sanctions by the FA following its "ongoing investigation". PL points to mitigating factors: current owners Clearlake/Todd Boehly in May 2022 voluntarily self-reported potential historical breaches from the Roman Abramovich era. Club co-operated extensively and helped provide (with others) 10,000 documents for PL investigation. PL established “that between 2011 and 2018, undisclosed payments by third parties associated with the club were made to players, unregistered agents and other third parties”. Payments related to the purchases of players including Eden Hazard, Willian, Samuel Eto’o, David Luiz, Andre Schurrle and Nemanja Matic - there is no suggestion any were aware of the illicit payments. The detailed work of the investigators – and level of Clearlake’s co-operation – is impressive. The sanctions less so. It is a legitimate debate: should a club be punished for offences under a previous owner? Yes, most fans of other clubs would scream. It's a deterrent. And the value of those players' contribution and subsequent sales arguably still benefits the club. PL also investigated “potential breaches of the Premier League’s Youth Development Rules, committed by a former senior employee, relating to the club’s registration of Academy players between 2019 and 2022”. Again, self-reported by the club, this time in 2025. Chelsea punished with £750,000 fine and immediate nine-month ban from registering academy players from PL and EFL clubs. #CFC

@martynziegler @johnmerro1 @Lawton_Times There will surely be outrage in the media at the inconsistencies of the punishment compared to other clubs??? Oh right….i think we’ll be waiting for that.

Chelsea sanctioned by PL over secret payments to players + unlicensed agents during Abramovich era - but avoid points deduction. Academy transfer ban imposed. Full story with @Lawton_Times : thetimes.com/sport/football…

@slbsn @johnmerro1 You mean they applied totally different sanctions to two different clubs in similar situations? That’s a shock

🚨In the Forest PSR case, the Premier League submitted: "that the 50% discount suggested by Forest is too high: it gives too much credit for admission and cooperation and would be both disproportionate to the conduct being rewarded" Yet in Chelsea agreed co-operation as mitigation for NO sporting sanction.

@LordStu1234 @slbsn Totally different standards, you’d wonder why we bother at all when everything is so hugely stacked in the favour of a chosen few clubs

@IrishEfc1878 @slbsn Aye they're not going to punish badly the teams who threatened to form a super league

🚨Extremely lenient settlement with the Premier League. Serious questions about the PL's approach. Not once does "sporting advantage" appear in the sanction agreement despite the acquisition of numerous players in competitive situations. £47.5m, 36 payments, obvious and deliberate breaches with deception and concealment in relation to financial matters. Very useful precedent for City in their worst case scenario.

@SkySportsPL There won’t be a better save all season. Anybody who thinks there will be is a bitter red shite or Geordie, very bitter

BREAKING: Jordan Pickford's stunning reflex stop against Newcastle is the Barclays Premier League Save of the Month for February! 👏

@Rodrigo_V707 He has absolutely never had a real girlfriend

Liew absolutely hates Everton and never misses a chance of a dig. I think an Evertonian must have taken his first real girlfriend away from him. I say 'real' the others were probably inflatable. theguardian.com/football/2026/…

@henrywinter Nothing to do a winter break. There’s no standout Premier League teams with any flair and skill and City and Chelsea, and Spurs obviously, just came up against teams with better players than them

The reasons behind PL travails in the UCL (really only Newcastle acquitted themselves well) are far more nuanced than simply a question of fatigue. Also issues around coaching and playing styles, grappling and goalkeeping. But the schedule will come under scrutiny... 1/2