It’s crazy how VAR has ruined the football experience for fans in the grounds. Listened to some Leicester fans on a podcast, saying how nice it is to celebrate goals again, as in, ball hits back of net… you go nuts, rather then wait 3-5 mins for it to be approved by VAR.

3 to be fair. You’ll feel divide more than ever I guess, absolutely smash the championship, bring in good additions, but suddenly miles off the rest of the league. After just 1 season of absence from top flight

Feels like the prem is 3 leagues within itself, in terms of how much money is thrown around and what that brings;

• Elite Prem - top 6 battling for UCL football
• Top Prem - 10 super clubs battling for top 6
• Mid Prem - the mini league of 5 fighting for a spot in big 10
• Prem 5 clubs fighting for 2 spots to stay in league

New manager doesn’t garuntee success. Both clubs have got something good going on in terms of what managers have built. Problem here is how cut of from rest of EFL prem is.

When teams are spending £100mil+ each window, how can any EFL club compete. IMO system needs to change, otherwise, top 10 prem might as well just have a super league and play each other 4 times a season, as their light years ahead of rest of country, even bottom half of prem.

To be fair, I feel this is largely due to overpaying, by an insane margin on players. If they were able pay a realistic amount for their player, I doubt they’d seem as bad.

Then again PL is insane. It’s not just Man U, rest of world knows PL is a cash cow super league, therefore most multimillion pound transfers seem like flops, as they know PL clubs can, and will overpay.

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To be fair to Everton, this points deduction already doesn’t really pose much of a threat given the gulf in quality between Prem teams and Championship promotion teams. I can see this been appealed and reduced to 6 pts or less.

Will transfer bans cover academy players… for example… city can offer any academy prospect at any level in this country a deal worth far more than their current club… look at they players they’ve produced without necessarily paying fees; Foden, Sancho, Palmer, Nmecha, Lavia, Olise, etc, etc… all multimillion pound assets when bought by other clubs.

Whats to say they get 3 year transfer ban… they’d still have 3 years of PL level talent coming through the ranks.

My response to all of that is Juventus managed it. Obviously different circumstance, but exile doesn’t mean no one will sponsor or bankroll you

City have maxed out tier club from ground up. Stadium, academy, staff, branding, international rep, world class players… no amount of fines, points deductions or relegations will take that away…

Whatever their punishment, they have all the tools to bounce back immediately. Similar to how Juventus did.

I have nothing against Everton, but from the outside, they’re one of those teams that just make the numbers up in Prem.

I feel it’s for this reason, they are being used as a warning sign to other clubs.

1. They still have squads absolute light years away to even a fantasy team of the EFL best players.
2. They have all the resources (academy, scout network, branding, and assets) that maintain their top flight status
3. They gain promotion, every year until they are back in top.
4. They’ll spend just as much once back on top
5. It will just mean the likes of Man U, Spurs, Arsenal, Liverpool, etc, will spend 100’s millions per window, because they can.
6. It will prevent genuinely hardworking EFL clubs from been promoted, as they walk any leauge they drop into.

Really wished they’d had gone ahead with the super league plan. Think it’d have been the best thing for English football