2024-25 EPL Season

[JeffreyLFC]

Some teams were clearly desperate to be compliant last summer, but it seems like they managed to help each other out. Just look at how Newcastle supposedly bought Nottingham's 30 y/o backup goalkeeper for £20M last summer just to not use him.

The strange case of Odysseas Vlachodimos – Newcastle’s £20m goalkeeper they didn’t want

The inside story of Odysseas Vlachodimos' transfer from Forest to Newcastle - and is he any good?

www.nytimes.com

Sounds like money laundering lol.

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

 

[Savant]

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

They tried. But all the teams that broke the rules banded together, voted against it, and blocked the supermajority needed to change the rule

 

[S E P H]

What's in common with first ever English Top division champions Preston 1889/89 and English Champions Arsenal 2003/04? Maybe Google knows.

We really considering a team that played when Queen Victoria was alive in the same category as the Prestige 2003-04 Arsenal? Let alone, the first-ever season of the EPL on top of that with all how new the sport was at that time? Seriously Mr. Gary?

 

[Bringer of Jollity]

By this logic '23-'24 Leverkusen is the greatest Bundesliga team of all time and better than a squad that included Neuer, Lahm, Boateng, Schelweinsteiger, Kroos, Müller, Ribery, and Robben.

 

[Jussi]

99-00 United team over the treble winning team from the prior season?

 

[maclean]

Unless the EPL put a rule to stop this, I am expecting that all clubs will use that trick every year to stay compliant.

Using accounting rules to create fake "revenues"

As with taxes, of course teams are always going to find ways to skirt the rules and I also hope the EPL continues to work to plug all the holes and accounting nonsense. That said, I don't back the view that the rules "do nothing", as some claim. It's clear they are starting to have some effect - e.g. City and Chelsea didn't just go out and buy every up-and-coming player last summer

 

[gary69]

We really considering a team that played when Queen Victoria was alive in the same category as the Prestige 2003-04 Arsenal? Let alone, the first-ever season of the EPL on top of that with all how new the sport was at that time? Seriously Mr. Gary?

I haven't made any comments which may be best team ever.

I just posted regarding WBS's post that your claim about Arsenal are the only undefeated English team ever is factually wrong, like WBS said.

And the sport wasn't even really new at that time, Lately Preston had won several league titles before that with largely the same players, It was just the first professional season after players were finally allowed to be publicly paid.

 

[Savant]

Chelsea talks to settle secret payments case with cash — not points deduction

Club negotiating Premier League over proposed financial settlement after new owners discovered irregularities during 2022 takeover process

www.thetimes.com

“Records indicate the transfers of Willian and Eto’o from Anzhi in August 2013, when Chelsea were under Abramovich’s control, involved payments made to Russian entities”

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

btw, my ranking, without much research:

City 17-18
Chelsea 04-05
Liverpool 19-20
City 18-19
Liverpool 18-19
Arsenal 03-04
United 99-00
Chelsea 16-17

99-00 United team over the treble winning team from the prior season?

As a PL season? Fairly unambiguously, yeah. 99-00 is their highest ever 38-game points total, was the 38-game record (and was the record in a meaningful sense, given that their ppg was .2 higher than when they had 92 in 42). They won the title by 18 points, which remains one of the largest margins.

98-99 is, off the top of my head, the third lowest title winning point total to date.

 

[Paulie Gualtieri]

Goddamn do I have a reason to hate that 16-17 Chelsea team.

 

[Wee Baby Seamus]

Forgot to mention Chelsea 14-15 in my list. I don't think they break that top 8, but I think they likely squeak into the top 10. The point total isn't extraordinary (87), but to be top of the league from the first day of the league to the last is a pretty bonkers exercise in consistency IMO.

 

[spintheblackcircle]

ENIC increase share in Tottenham Hotspur with £11.7m capital boost

The club's owners have increased their share in the north London outfit in a new document published on Companies House

www.football.london

Another .33% for Levy and Lewis