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So, three routes, as points 1 & 3, and 4 & 5 are the same?

I’d like something as a bit of a homage to the old Patrick kit - brilliant kit that was.

I’d like something as a bit of a homage to the old Patrick kit - brilliant kit that was.

I know he has had injury problems over the last 2/3 years and had a spell up the A52, but I’ve always rated Sam Byram as a good versatile player. Full back, wing back, centre back, used to play wide man and scored goals for Leeds. Any takers? Be a good addition I think

I thought I would add this beauty into the mix.  A homage to the eighties, incorporating the original colours of chocolate, amber and sky over a main body of seashell to incorporate the modernity of the new millennium, whilst tipping a nod to the current black and white on the trim and collar.
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I’d like something as a bit of a homage to the old Patrick kit - brilliant kit that was.

I’d like something as a bit of a homage to the old Patrick kit - brilliant kit that was.

I’d like something as a bit of a homage to the old Patrick kit - brilliant kit that was.

I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

I thought I would add this beauty into the mix.  A homage to the eighties, incorporating the original colours of chocolate, amber and sky over a main body of seashell to incorporate the modernity of the new millennium, whilst tipping a nod to the current black and white on the trim and collar.
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I’d be willing to take a punt on Massimo Luongo - he absolutely bossed the midfield for Ipswich against us.

I thought I would add this beauty into the mix.  A homage to the eighties, incorporating the original colours of chocolate, amber and sky over a main body of seashell to incorporate the modernity of the new millennium, whilst tipping a nod to the current black and white on the trim and collar.
😉

I thought I would add this beauty into the mix.  A homage to the eighties, incorporating the original colours of chocolate, amber and sky over a main body of seashell to incorporate the modernity of the new millennium, whilst tipping a nod to the current black and white on the trim and collar.
😉

I thought I would add this beauty into the mix.  A homage to the eighties, incorporating the original colours of chocolate, amber and sky over a main body of seashell to incorporate the modernity of the new millennium, whilst tipping a nod to the current black and white on the trim and collar.
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I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

Recruitment shouldn’t be that hard.
You design your model and then only bring in players that compliment that system.
Our strategy was to buy every shiny object we saw for exorbitant prices.
They weren’t bad players, they were just not right for us.
Just like Stephen Hawking was a fantastic appointment for Cambridge University, but if Mel Morris was recruiting for Oxford’s boat race team, you could guarantee he’d be throwing money at him to bring him to Oxford.

I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

I’d say that paying £9m for a player with one good season in the third division was absolute madness for a team in the second division.  I said so at the time.
We should have been paying a maximum of a third of that money for him - or loaned him with view to purchase, if promoted.

Recruitment shouldn’t be that hard.
You design your model and then only bring in players that compliment that system.
Our strategy was to buy every shiny object we saw for exorbitant prices.
They weren’t bad players, they were just not right for us.
Just like Stephen Hawking was a fantastic appointment for Cambridge University, but if Mel Morris was recruiting for Oxford’s boat race team, you could guarantee he’d be throwing money at him to bring him to Oxford.

Recruitment shouldn’t be that hard.
You design your model and then only bring in players that compliment that system.
Our strategy was to buy every shiny object we saw for exorbitant prices.
They weren’t bad players, they were just not right for us.
Just like Stephen Hawking was a fantastic appointment for Cambridge University, but if Mel Morris was recruiting for Oxford’s boat race team, you could guarantee he’d be throwing money at him to bring him to Oxford.

When a red card is rescinded because a player dived/simulated injury, that red card should be transferred to the player who has conned the ref. 
Would Marvin Johnson have gone over so easily yesterday if he thought it might cost him his shirt in the first leg of the playoffs? I think not. 

When I first started watching live football we had lardy, incompetent refs and linos from all over Europe come to the BBG often making poor decisions.  What we also had then - though we didn't really appreciate it - were players who helped run the game despite the referee.  You had very little diving (Franny excepted and the dirties generally), feigning injury, time wasting, rolling around, so called professional gamesmanship.  Players generally just got on with the game without moaning too much.  Watch old footage and it's a completely different (and much better imo) spectacle.
The sea change was the EPL and Sky money.  The influx of players from overseas (not all of whom added bad habits - Bergkamp, Ardiles, Eranio, Baiano - and many others, were hugely positive additions), the added/greater importance of money on businesses/clubs succeeding, the growth in a win at all costs attitude, the language - the refusal to call it out as cheating the essence of the sport, because TV/pundits don't want to damage the brand - pundits and TV coverage themselves offering greater exposure, technology that allows 20 cameras to a match, all played a part in raising the importance of the match officials and their individual decisions whilst diminishing their reputation, despite the fact that refs and linos now have more money and attention and training and technological help than they ever did before.
If we could somehow get back to the point where players helped officials by not falling down theatrically when Curtis coughed on them in the penalty area (ie cheating aka 'you made the ref make a decision'), if we could get back to the point of real men playing (mens) football and accepting life's slings and arrows and playing the game sportingly, of no pundits ever dissecting a ref's decision (or preferably no pundits) and just moving on, if we could abolish VAR which serves to question every decision the officials make, then we might start to get somewhere.  As there's fat chance of any of that ever happening we're largely stuck with what we've got until technology takes over completely.  And even then it'll be wrong.
 

Yes, you’re right.  I was reading FIFA regulations, which state: "A club intending to conclude a contract with a professional must inform the player’s current club in writing before entering into negotiations with him.
"A professional shall only be free to conclude a contract with another club if his contract with his present club has expired or is due to expire within six months.
"Any breach of this provision shall be subject to appropriate sanctions."
 
However, the domestic rules are as you have pointed out.  Apologies.