2025/26 Premier League & General Football Discussion

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No surprise that we went, maybe lasted a little longer because his dad died and they had to handle it sensitively, but his reign was nothing short of disastrous.

As for next guy up, I think it could or should be Tim Sherwood or Robbie Keane, it has to be someone who knows the club.
 
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Tim Sherwood or Robbie Keane, it has to be someone who knows the club.
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And has been a manager below the Premier League :lol:

When I checked the BBC site at 4pm, Tudor's sacking wasn't even a headline in the Football section, the Premier League section, or the Spurs section. That's how much of a surprise it wasn't.
 
I'd just like to say that Wrexham have published their accounts for last year, as most Championship clubs have, and we lost £14.5 million despite a record turnover of £33 million. Despite what one might think, we don't profit directly from Welcome To Wrexham but I'm sure a few quid come back into our coffers one way or another.

I was looking at my own posts today, mostly pre-takeover stuff, and I've said in the past that the only way to get promoted is by gambling finances. I know we are in an invidious position compared to other clubs but my own words have come true; we have spent, could never deny that, but we've spent well and gotten our rewards. I just wonder compared to all the other clubs who have posted losses, how long can it last? The English league system is heading into another ITV digital era for different reasons but I can only see one outcome.
 
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I'd just like to say that Wrexham have published their accounts for last year, as most Championship clubs have, and we lost £14.5 million despite a record turnover of £33 million. Despite what one might think, we don't profit directly from Welcome To Wrexham but I'm sure a few quid come back into our coffers one way or another.

I was looking at my own posts today, mostly pre-takeover stuff, and I've said in the past that the only way to get promoted is by gambling finances. I know we are in an invidious position compared to other clubs but my own words have come true; we have spent, could never deny that, but we've spent well and gotten our rewards. I just wonder compared to all the other clubs who have posted losses, how long can it last? The English league system is heading into another ITV digital era for different reasons but I can only see one outcome.
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The Portsmouth owner said as much recently too.

One club that spent big to get into the Premier League, then spent more, and are now in League One got their arses handed to them in court today:

www.bbc.co.uk

Cardiff City damages claim over Emiliano Sala death dismissed

The club, which was claiming £104m in compensation, will now have to fork out about £400,000.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Given that some of Cardiff's previous legal shenanigans on this matter include denying Sala was ever their player to get out of the agreed fee - which does have some basis, to be fair - while trying to elicit sympathy over the death of their player, good. For balance, Nantes also seem to be pretty crappy too.
 
Spurs are in talks with Roberto De Zerbi to become their new head coach, its a five-year deal and he will become one of the highest earning managers in the league in what is another baffling decision by the Spurs hierarchy.

First of all, they could be relegated so even given him such a long deal is bewildering, secondly although he is a good coach there is nothing to say that he deserves such wages as he hasn't won anything major, and thirdly he isn't a popular choice after his comments and backing of Mason Greenwood when he was head coach of Marseille, three Spurs fans groups have said they don't want De Zerbi there.
 
De Zerbi sounds like a good call to me. That he can earn that kind of money just tells me PL in general has waaaaay too much money to play with.
 
Turkey, Czech Republic, Sweden, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Iraq and DR Congo won the final qualification spots for the 2026 World Cup last night, with Bosnia's win subjecting Italy to a third consecutive non-qualification. Italy's last knockout match at a World Cup was the 2006 World Cup Final, and beat in mind the have won the European Championship in between. Absolute catastrophe for such a big Footballing nation.
 
Its an expanded 48 team competition as well, which makes it worse!
 
We have a team made up of loanees, trainees, triallists, and people we can't sell.

Today we set a record for the longest winless run in the league, at 37 games.

We also set a record for the largest points difference between teams playing each other: 89. If you take into account just the points won, it's the second biggest on record at 71.

Coventry City would have won promotion with a home win against us.

And it was an embarrassing (for them) 0-0 draw.
 
You will go down with one win over Portsmouth. Portsmouth will, therefore, be forever known and immortalised as the team that lost against the worst Championship side ever.

You'll never guess which team my close colleague supports...
 
Takeover due to be completed by May 1st, but we'll start 2026-2027 in League One with not only our transfer embargoes and wage caps affecting our already barely mid-table L1 squad but another -15pt:

www.bbc.co.uk

Sheffield Wednesday: Preferred bidder told club will face 15-point penalty next season

The EFL has informed the preferred bidder for Sheffield Wednesday that the club will start next season in League One with a 15-point penalty.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Which fundamentally means that the various frauds and attempted frauds (and contacting the Mayor of Sheffield to get them to cancel the £1m owed to HMRC) of Dejphon Chansiri will have cumulatively costs us 33 points as well as decimation of the team and degradation of facilities through lack of proper management.

At what point do the EFL think this ceases to be productive? The action should be against Chansiri, not against the burning ashes of the club for not being able to reimburse him for the petrol he poured on it.
 
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Takeover due to be completed by May 1st, but we'll start 2026-2027 in League One with not only our transfer embargoes and wage caps affecting our already barely mid-table L1 squad but another -15pt:

www.bbc.co.uk

Sheffield Wednesday: Preferred bidder told club will face 15-point penalty next season

The EFL has informed the preferred bidder for Sheffield Wednesday that the club will start next season in League One with a 15-point penalty.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

Which fundamentally means that the various frauds and attempted frauds (and contacting the Mayor of Sheffield to get them to cancel the £1m owed to HMRC) of Dejphon Chansiri will have cumulatively costs us 33 points as well as decimation of the team and degradation of facilities through lack of proper management.

At what point do the EFL think this ceases to be productive? The action should be against Chansiri, not against the burning ashes of the club for not being able to reimburse him for the petrol he poured on it.
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At this point it feels more like blaming the victim. Telling the potential buyer that they're going to be sitting in a hole for another year doesn't seem like it's testing their long-term commitment so much as it seems like an attempt to make them change their mind about buying the team.
 
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Leicester City's bad time continues:

www.bbc.co.uk

Leicester City 2-2 Hull City: Foxes relegated to League One

Leicester are condemned to League One just 10 years on from their Premier League title win, with back-to-back relegations confirmed after they drew with Hull.
www.bbc.co.uk www.bbc.co.uk

They were crap against us, and only drew because they had a squillion bajillion quid of strikers that they threw on (BdCR was a free, but has been a seven-figure player; they had £35m of strikers on the pitch at once, £30m when they scored) and we have trainees and youth players who were knackered by the 84th minute.

Another club being mis-managed by a clueless Thai owner (after being rather well cared-for by his dad) getting points lopped and relegated from the Championship at the same time... Weird.


I kinda want Blackburn to come down with us both, just for the top division champion trio, but Oxford will be hard-pressed to escape now.
 
Leicester fall from grace is spectacular....

Famously won the Premier League nearly a decade ago.
Played Champions League football in the 16/17 season reaching the quarter finals.
Won the FA Cup in 2021.
Finished 8th in the Premier League and reached the Conference League semi finals in 2022.
Relegated in 2022/23 season.
Promoted as champions at the first attempt the next season.
Relegated again last season in a dismal campaign.
Relegated to League One this season.

Even if they didn't have that points deduction they still would be in the relegation zone which tells you how bad it has been this season, they are such a poorly run club now.
 
After the mighty Seagulls sank Chelsea 3-0 last night, condemning them to their worst goalless losing streak since 1912, Liam Rosenior has been sacked, 3 months into a 6 year(!) contract, which I did say would not be seen out.

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Liam Rosenior has now been confirmed as Chelsea manager, he signs a 6 year contract (for some reason) taking him until 2032 (but it's Chelsea so not even half that realistically).
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The second worst appointment this season after Igor Tudor.
 
No other Championship-level manager with 18 month holiday abroad would have gotten the Chelsea job. He was 'hired' purely as an in-house promotion. Not his fault, Chelsea are wonderfully mismanaged.
 
They are so badly run right now, have been since the takeover in 2022.
 
Man City are now top of the Premier League by virtue of Goals Scored... I don't know when that last happened so near to the end of the season, but it is quite remarkable. Arsenal have the same number of points (70) and the same Goal Difference (37) as Man City, but have scored 3 fewer goals, so drop to 2nd place after being top of the table for most of the season.

To add to that, Hearts currently lead the Scottish Premiership by one point from Rangers, but have the same number of points after the same number of games as Man City (70), but have a Goal Difference 7 less than Man City. Hearts have not won the top flight title since 1960, and no-one other than the Old Firm (Rangers and Celtic) have won the league since Sir Alex Ferguson won the title with Aberdeen in 1985.
 
This has been happening in the Premier League for the past 3/4 seasons now, Arsenal top the league for much of the season but when it gets to the run in they tend to bottle it allowing either City or Liverpool to win the title, but City always tend to shift into another gear at this stage.

Man City do have tougher remaining games than Arsenal so quite a few are still expecting Arsenal to win the league.
 
Cool photo from this week's top of the table clash... from Saturday's Guardian.

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The Star is reporting it's done and dusted:

www.thestar.co.uk

SWFC News: Sheffield Wednesday enter new era - US consortium complete takeover

Sheffield Wednesday are under new ownership, The Star understands.
www.thestar.co.uk www.thestar.co.uk

And this is new-owner David Storch, lead administrator Kris Wigfield, and also new-owner Michael Storch:



There's still some more hell to come if the EFL gets its way and demands the new owners pay £15m to a man who almost killed us then tried to commit fraud to stay in charge (but was too incompetent/unfamiliar with how the UK works to actually commit fraud) or levies a further penalty of 15 points from the start of 2026-2027, plus the wage cap which is bottom-half of League 1, the transfer embargo for another 18 months and so on and so on.

Baby steps.
 
I hope Wednesday recover from this. There's lots of rivalry in the North and Yorkshire but I don't like to see a man down. We need to stick together when needed.
 
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There's still some more hell to come if the EFL gets its way and demands the new owners pay £15m to a man who almost killed us then tried to commit fraud to stay in charge (but was too incompetent/unfamiliar with how the UK works to actually commit fraud) or levies a further penalty of 15 points from the start of 2026-2027
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Ahahahahahahaha...

BBC Sport
The EFL confirmed the news on Saturday, and said it would not impose a 15-point deduction on the club following its exit from administration as this has been "an incredibly challenging and complex situation for all parties".

Sources have told BBC Sport that former owner Chansiri rejected or simply did not respond to multiple offers for the club, which the EFL took into consideration when choosing to waive the 15-point deduction.
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And, might I add, hahahahahahahaha.

I hope he gets nothing. He wants £60m, 25p in the pound (the usual administration-exit requirement) would get him £15m, Arise's price is something around 14p/£ but Storch wants to pay every other unsecured creditor at 25p/£ except Chansiri...

He's on for about £5m tops by my calculation, but Storch is apparently unwilling to pay him anything...

Edit: Seems that we'll be under slightly less restrictive limits than the £7k/wk wage cap and £7m squad wage limit.

Edit: Thanks for the house-warming gift, West Brom :lol:

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And we finish on 0 points :lol:
 
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A good win for United and 3 points that guarentees Champions League football next season. But I have to be honest, this is the most in doubt over Carrick I've been since he came in.

UK understand his remit is Champions League qualification, and implementing a new style of play was always unrealistic. But that game was so. Easy in the first half, but he made a big change at half time that I just do jot understand.

He took. Sesko off for Amad and moved Mbuemo up front. Both Sesko and Mbuemo had a very good first half. So why change it?

The it was 2-2 fairly quick and a great goal from Mainoo ended up deciding it.

That change makes no sense to me. He nullified out attack and took Mbuemo out of the game. For what?
 
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A good win for United and 3 points that guarentees Champions League football next season. But I have to be honest, this is the most in doubt over Carrick I've been since he came in.

UK understand his remit is Champions League qualification, and imementong a new style of play was always unrealistic. But that game was so. Easy in the first half, but he made a big change at half time that I just do jot understand.

He took. Sesko off for Amad and moved Mbuemo up front. Both Sesko and Mbuemo had a very good first half. So why change it?

The it was 2-2 fairly quick and a great goal from Mainoo ended up deciding it.

That change makes no sense to me. He nuklified out attack and took Mbuemo out of the game. For what?
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Imementong...?
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