English Premier League 2024-25

Chelsea weren't even that good today lol

Was impressive how Wolves managed to concede the exact same goal three times in a row.

Fully agreed but you put 6 past any goalie you're going to be competing for the Prem according to these useless pundits lol.

lol, you can assault an opposition player but if your "intention is to delay the goalkeeper getting rid of the ball" then its just a booking apparently. Red card to Bournemouth though if you disagree.

Should be a red card regardless of where he pulls him. So should these deliberate 'clever' yellow cards players take to stop breakaways. Send them all off.

Yup. If yellow card is the only thing we're giving, I'm also in favor of the harshest decision and let the players quickly adapt

chelsea have just signed another (9th) goalkeeper

And extended kepa before loaning him. Astute move Mr Todd.

Defo chest Dermo mate well done

I'm not sure which Gallagher was most recently relevant, Dermot or Liam and Noel.

Either way, after his performance there, isn't it better to get someone in that understands the rules of the game as they are currently written?

MAD FER IT

Chelsea going for Toney now, knowing them they'll prob somehow end up paying 60M+

In the words of the great philosopher Jamie Carragher ''Chelsea just needs to stop buying players''.

Also Toney must have 0 self-respect if he does actually sign for Chelsea, unless ofc they're offering him like 200k/w for 10 years. Fair enough. I'd sign too.

Gonna go out on a limb and say this will happen

i dont think any of the new signings(not named victor) are going to be touching 200k/week. everything is 100k plus incentives now. There are like 4 people left at 200k+ in the club and everyone but Reece is being moved out asap.

saudi is reportedly offering toney 300+ a week net.

it always drives me insane that you don't discuss salary in annual terms when discussing soccer

but i do know in london quite often the amount listed for rent is in weekly increments so i guess that's just your thing???

if you had a conversation amongst friends about how much you earn, would you say it in annual or weekly terms?

Seems like a no brainer at his age. Never rated Toney much to begin with.

This is just a football thing. Not sure why. Annual is the standard.

It depends - for professionals people tend to discuss annual salary. For those in trades etc. they might discuss weekly or monthly wages.

Once the Americans move to the metric system we can discuss making changes here.

yeah it's weird to me our when i see certain countries discuss salaries in monthly terms. but what drives me more insane that it's all a ****ing secret. i can't just look at spotrac or wherever and know i'm getting the real salary. like you have people still arguing about what the salaries "actually" are. i remember some talksport guy(the mancity finance guy) insisting that enzo fernandez is on 300k a week and just laughing that it's reported at 195k.

wtf is a kilometer.

americans have been using 9mms in school for a while already

Why though?

I'm not an American and know very little of American sports but isn't the difference that in the NBA you sign a contract with the NBA and not the team? I have no clue how this even works btw, but it'd make sense if that was the reason why in American sports salaries are reported and in the Prem they're not because you sign for team x and not the governing body.

With that being said, what's always been odd to me as a European was reading **** like ''Mahomes signs contract worth 500m over 10 years'' and then explaining in detail how much he's going to make in the next 10 years lol.

Who cares?

there are salary caps so everything must be publicly reported and there's even specific guidelines like a rookie drafted 1st makes x, 2nd makes y, you can't pay a guy who's been in the league x amount of years less than a certain amount, etc etc

football (nfl) is only sport where you'll see major discrepancy between what they signed for and what they will actually earn because there's so many injuries that end careers that often times a big chunk of the deal is not guaranteed ie that 500 million deal is only worth 300 million if he gets hurt etc - there's also a ton of performance incentives added in the nfl contracts as well

you used to see that in hockey as well where someone who was 34 would sign a 10 year deal strictly to get around the cap, both parties agreed he was worth 10 million a year and would play a max of 4 years before retiring but to save on cap did a 10x5 instead of a 4x10 where he gets an extra 10 million to go along with it - they since banned these deals for obvious reasons

in the nhl they don't have to report it (the ny islanders are infamous for never disclosing what they are paying) but anyone who bothers to dig a little can find it from the league due to salary cap constraints, just can't get it from the team directly (and that's where spotrac/capfriendly get their numbers)

and then even for stuff that's non-salary cap like baseball where they still have revenue sharing where the wealthy teams subsidize the poor ones and a lot of that is determined by how much they spend on player payrolls

furthermore, we never sell players who then sign a new contract with the new team, so it's just not practical to keep a lid on it because hundreds of front office people around the league would need to know everyone's contracts anyway for trade purposes and there's just no way that info wouldn't leak anyway with so many people having access to it

lolz

Annually would make more sense to me as well.