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Reply | Leicester City.
at 22:11 21 May 2025
Not the first time that sides have dodged EFL sanctions because they went up despite breaking financial fair play rules and the EFL didn't have the authority to punish a Premier League side.
They thought they were clever when they argued that loophole last time, the Premier League and EFL closed that loophole after that and I hope they get their just desserts.
I honestly feel that none of the three sides coming down are head and shoulders above the rest of the Championship next season. Especially if Leicester get slapped with a 10-15pt deduction then I don't see them being so much better than the rest that they can still clinch automatic promotion. |
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Reply | Florian Bianchini
at 22:07 21 May 2025
Criminally misused by Williams, his best performances when he first joined us were on the right wing where he showed that he had plenty of pace and could bend in a mean cross low and fast between the defenders and the keeper.
After those promising performances he was then used as a second (or sometimes even third) choice striker when we had been screaming out for pace and creativity on the wing.
Whether that hit his confidence and then Sheehan had his settled first choices in Eom on the left and Ronald on the right is anyone's guess, but with Issouna almost certainly going to be first choice on the left and Eom moved into the hole in the number 10 role that leaves Parker, Ronald and Bianchini all competing for one space on the right wing. |
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Reply | Who will win the Championship play offs
at 13:52 9 May 2025
I wonder if there is a promotion bonus clause in the Grimes deal?
If so then I will back Coventry if not then ich dien em all :D
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Reply | Widell
at 13:51 9 May 2025
Not signing someone like this could come back to haunt us |
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Reply | Tom Coleman Wales On Line
at 15:06 6 May 2025
It does look like the article has been amended now to give credit to the Swedish journalists who did the original interview |
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Reply | 🔴 Zeidane Inoussa updated
at 12:42 5 May 2025
Fascinating.
I have never heard of a deal being publicly announced like this so far ahead of the transfer window before. I can only assume that we have conditions in there entitling us to have the option to pull out of the transfer should he suffer some serious injury while still playing for Hacken. |
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Reply | Luke Williams interview [The League Paper]
at 12:32 5 May 2025
The man also has no common sense. Remember when he was quoted in live interviews telling the press that we had agreed to sign Rushworth for another season but his club didn't have the faintest clue about it? |
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Reply | 🔴 Zeidane Inoussa updated
at 11:47 5 May 2025
Welcome aboard.
I know he is currently nursing a foot injury, but I wonder if this means that he won't play for them again since the Swedish league is in full swing right now. He isn't OUR player until July 1st after all |
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Reply | 🔴 Zeidane Inoussa updated
at 20:08 4 May 2025
Primarily through being on a constant upward trend, also they didn't walk into a perfect storm like we did when we got promoted and survived that first season where Liverpool came into the end of a disappointing season and were looking for a refresh.
If Liverpool hadn't come in for Rodgers then there's no other club in the Premier League who would have realistically been able to poach him that were looking to fill the vacancy.
Of course history might have worked out totally differently, we wouldn't have signed Michu or Chico or de Guzman for starters as they all came from Laudrup's contacts and knowledge of the Spanish league. |
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Reply | 🔴 Zeidane Inoussa updated
at 18:29 4 May 2025
For some reason I remembered it being higher.
When I refer to inflation though I am not referring to Bank of England inflation, just like with every other piece of financial common sense football completely ignores the laws of physics on this.
In 2010 the biggest fee for a striker was 40 million Euros for David Villa. The biggest signing in the Championship was David Jones for 5 million when he signed for Reading.
In the summer of 2024 the biggest purchase was Mike Tresor by Burnley for 16 million. That's more than 300% of what was paid by Reading just 14 years prior.
So while 5 million is a significant amount of money for us, its also not passively out of line with what I had thought we paid for Sinclair (1.5m) |
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Reply | Harry Darling offered big money to stay
at 13:59 4 May 2025
With Allen, Naughton, McLaughlin and Christie gone the only player in the whole team over the age of 26 is Ginnelly and its seemingly touch and go if we will ever see him in a Swans shirt again.
The club is in desperate need of an experienced head or two who doesn't mind not being involved every week but can step in when needed. Such a player would likely have minimal if any fee and low wages, someone on Phil's site suggested Pearson from Huddersfield who is leaving on a free this summer would fit that kind of profile. |
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Reply | 🔴 Zeidane Inoussa updated
at 13:56 4 May 2025
Inflation considered its probably on par with the 1.5m we paid for Sinclair back in the day from Chelsea |
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Reply | Jazz Richards
at 19:56 20 Jun 2020
There is much that can be said about the owners, but steps to cut our cloth and not gambling on an early return to the Premier League is proving to be one of their better decisions, especially in light of the COVID-19 situation.
That said Jazz Richards is definitely not on the list of players I would like to see at the Liberty next season right alongside Neil "20 minutes to take a throw" Taylor. |
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Thread | Credit must go to...
at 19:49 7 Mar 2020
...the Swansea City medical team. Seems that they have a cut man that would make any boxer jealous the way that they patched up Joe in like 2 minutes. |
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Reply | Staggering fact of our season so far
at 00:34 24 Feb 2020
There is also the psychological effect on opposing teams when the gap is two or more goals compared to when they are only one behind.
While a lot of the time this season we have closed out one goal leads, there have been many occasions when we have not and many of those were teams throwing the kitchen sink at us because they were only one down - if they were down by two or three then usually most teams will just focus on not picking up daft injuries or cards that will hurt them in the next game. |
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Thread | Kalulu
at 19:09 22 Feb 2020
I have to hand it to him, I have given Aldo plenty of stick this season in the games he has played where he looked way off the pace and didn't seem to offer any threat at all.
Today however was his best game for us by a country mile, admittedly it was helped by Huddersfield giving him the freedom of the Liberty in the first half and we can't except every team to give him that amount of space. That said however he was exciting to watch and I had hopes every time we got the ball out early to him so that he could isolate defenders and create something.
One good game doesn't completely change my opinion on him, but I would definitely be happy to see him get more game time based on this performance. |
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Reply | Guehi
at 00:08 15 Feb 2020
For the last couple of games I have thought that Guehi had seemed as clumsy as a newborn deer. That impression wasn't helped at all in tonight's game.
His positioning also feels all over the place, it was partly down to his awful positioning that Bidwell had to come in out of position leaving Da Silva wide open to score the opening goal.
On top of that he seems to have a really poor ability judge the flight of the ball, several times I have seen him stoop to header a ball that should be controlled or cleared with his feet (some of them below waist height!).
I really hope that there isn't some kind of clause in the loan agreement that forces us to play him, because right now in central defence he is definitely the weak link, and I have seen a few big strikers play off him and man handle him, getting a lot of joy out of it. |
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