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@GordonDimmack @grok what would the population of China be if it had the same population density as England.

UK news: HS2 could cost up to £102.7bn and may not open until 2039 (BBC) This is Chongqing railway station rebuild in China. It cost £16.5bn and took only around 3 1/2 years to complete. Their high speed rail (350km/hr) cost just £5.9bn and took 6 years

@charles_stevo Just shoe horning players in. KDH is not a centre midfielder he plays in the 10 role. Id hate to be the defence behind this.

In the short term, Grealish - Ndiaye - Bowen behind Toney, with KDH and Garner is a very exciting side. However, they will concede so many goals unless they have very strong defenders who can defend big spaces and 1v1. There’s a lot to do this summer

@bluetom_tom Hasn't he tore his ACL an he had missed almost 2 years before that. Do we have a spare bed in the treatment room.

Right in front of our eyes. Perfect deal to do there and watch we’ll go into another season with O’Brien as the starting RB.

Get in Beto

@SpursArmyTweets @FA_PGMOL Handball aside you could argue its a pen for the holding aswell.

HOW IS THIS NOT A HANDBALL?? 😂😂 You are e bunch of clowns @FA_PGMOL 🤡

@grok Would they have passed PSR in the years the £47m undisclosed payments had been made if those payments had been disclosed properly?

No, Chelsea won't get a points deduction for this. They self-reported over £47m in undisclosed historical payments (Abramovich era, related to transfers/third-party deals). The Premier League settled it today with a £10.75m fine, suspended 1-year transfer ban, and 9-month academy ban—no sporting sanction. On PSR overspending: Chelsea passed the 2024-25 assessment (despite £355m loss) via player sales, amortisation, and compliant accounting. No breach found.

I need to seriously understand this now and the "Sporting advantage" @grok can you please explain why ?

@henrywinter Can clubs now claim for damages like Burnley have tried to do?

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

@EvertonNewsFeed Was never really given a chance at us.

🤯 Former Everton Striker Youssef Chermiti just scored this amazing overhead kick in the Old Firm

@topskillsportuk The design wont be completed by 2027/28

@Everton__1234 @blakeyefc Its not the same comps though

@blakeyefc @dazrx8 So Forest didn’t beat Porto 2-0? I am comparing a manager’s record at Forest in all comps to a manager’s record at Everton in all comps.

Btw Moyes: Matches - 49 Win - 19 Draws - 14 Points - 71 Win % - 39% PPG - 1.4 Dyche: Matches - 25 Win - 10 Draws - 5 Points - 35 Win % - 40% PPG - 1.4

@Everton__1234 @blakeyefc New manager bounce

@blakeyefc @dazrx8 You mean like Porto. Dyche’s first game in charge who at that point, were unbeaten, only dropped points once and conceded 2 goal all season. Ended 2-0 Forest though didn’t it.

@Everton__1234 Not sure the quality of the European games gives a fair reflection. Why not pro rata both managers Premier league games.

@dazrx8 Yes mate. All comps, for both managers.

@charles_stevo You can have the best goal scorer in the world and they wont score if we dont create the opportunity. We needed some full backs that offered more with with out wide players all wanting to cut inside and run in to walls of players.

£100m+ spent in summer and not one player has had an impact in the first ten games (except Grealish who is on loan). Had this money been invested into a first team, proven goalscorer there would have been a big difference in output. Moyes unhappy but he oversaw every signing!

@TripleH @CodyRhodes

A true champion always finds a way to win. Congrats @CodyRhodes! #SNME

@TOFFEEBLUECAST Its not about shout that to be fair. Maybe play as a false 9

If the strikers aren't firing I'd seriously consider Carlos Alcaraz upfront. - Good in the air - Strong holding the ball up - Good movement to run in behind - Shooting ability is good Alcaraz was a player that we all was excited about last season looking very dangerous.

@UKLabour There is no such thing as free the taxpayer is paying for it then.

NEW: We will roll out Digital ID for free across the UK. This is another measure to make our borders more secure, and combat illegal working.

@steviemac2010 @BBCBreaking If this is free, I'll be expecting a free passport as well. What's the difference.

@BBCBreaking Free of charge i take it

All UK adults to be required to have compulsory digital ID card under new government plans bbc.in/46p4J6Z

@PeterSimon07 Yeah i think the movement around him didnt help either. I also think Moyes made a big mistake not starting a left back to offer more width with the wingers tending to come narrow.

@dazrx8 He was picking good spaces up in between the defence and midfield but was just having a mare with his touch

Alcaraz, McNeil and Irebunghom off now ! Please 🙏 😂