General Premier League Thread 2023-24 Mod Note in op 27/6/23 And 21/05/24

The Times are reporting that Aston Villa are campaigning for the PSR threshold to be increased by £30m to £135m loss over 3 years. Kind of gives us an indication of how much risk they have at failing this years one.

How does tonali not get a further ban for an additional 50 offences after the original ones?

The money they spend on developing youth would in large part be spent on hoovering up all the talent that would otherwise have gone to smaller clubs, or just taking them from those clubs.

I don't see how you think City spending more on youth (or United or Liverpool) wouldn't be worse for the smaller clubs in their catchment areas.

As for well run clubs having a GREAT chance at competing regardless of their size, I don't think it will shift the scales that much.

Brentford being able to spend maybe 150million (85% of their revenue) vs City being capped at 515million (for example) doesn't make a huge difference to the competition.

You could, in fact, argue it is greed from owners at some clubs to vote for it. Like if United were to build a new stadium and do other things to increase revenues, they could earn well in excess of 750m in revenues in future years (Madrid projecting 1billion+ after new stadium upgrades) - so if they are capped at 515, do you think that 250m or whatever is just going to go back into the club? Or will the owners/shareholders start/resume taking money out of the club from that profit?

THat is 100% not saying all owners who vote for it are greedy, but clubs who think they could get to a point where 70% of their revenue is less than the cap? What is their motivation for voting for that?

I hope that means an end to the TV companies feeling that they are contractually obliged to highlight him in the crowd, and talk about what role he had at the club. In every single Forest game on TV.

VAR failing again, but it's against Arsenal so not much will be said about it.

Wasn't a dive, he shoved the defender and lost his balance.

The obsession with the referee's original decision really makes VAR so ineffective. Thats one they should be able to overturn IMO. All the contact is engineered by Havertz there.

Have you ever shoved someone off the ball at full throttle? Of course you can lose his balance, which he did.

The actual peno probably wasnt, tbf.

Good half from Arsenal and a very important goal to go in to the break with a well deserved lead. Big second half needed.

Bournemouth should've seen red in the first half

so when you run you drag your hind leg on the ground? Interesting technique, must try it. **** laughable indeed.

All the mouthing in here from the "experts", but not a single person mentioned what should have been a red card.

Bitter to the core!

Travers slides out, misses Havertz, but Havertz drags his foot to make sure he kicks Travers’ leg. It’s not complicated 🥴

Which one is sliding out and missing the ball? Havertz is under no obligation to jump over a mistimed tackle.

The PL refs give this every time

Foul on the keeper

🤣🤣

scandalous decision.

So ref did not blow a whistle until the ball in the net…so was unsure

Why not ask him to review his own decision on the monitor..

These monitors are never used anymore

And Webb saying they'll explain decisions next year …IF the Ref goes to the monitor

that was mad. The referee didn’t blow his whistle until the ball was in the net. If he was blowing for the nudge on Raya, why didn’t he blow it at the time? Mental. And if VAR are saying that it is a foul, why didn’t they look at the pull from Ben White beforehand which was clear and sustained? Arsenal complaining about VAR earlier in the season has been very good for them since.

I'd agree. If he hurdles the challenge and misses he'll get nothing. I really believe the refs bring this on themselves as they give nothing unless a player goes down.

ah but there’s a conspiracy against them from VAR. Has been for years

Thay Bournemouth goal decision is mad. Like they are saying no you're not allowed touch goalkeepers again now but it was fine last week, and other weeks, when Ben White does it. The PL social media accounts were even laughing at him doing it!

Raya's flap at the ball is definitely a contributing feature. I reckon if the goalkeeper makes a mistake, they are more likely to get sympathy from the referee and so get a foul given on them.

The inconsistencies are just infuriating.