Don’t know but if they come back it will be on 60% less wages, which is why they all ****ed off in the first place
I read somewhere that the loan clause is re-activated if we don't go up. If we are a PL side next summer then they come back. If we are in the Championship then they can all go out on loan again for peanuts. Koch is out of contract at the end of this season so he has gone for good.
Very, very interesting, but we'll be unable to use this loophole without VAR. I think. Worth a read .... https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/sport...s/swedish-club-discover-offside-hack-30862585
Easiest way to reduce 99.99% of the issues surrounding offside, is change the rule so that you cannot be offside, if the ball is played from the same half as when a player receives it. All the other rules regarding offside can remain unchanged, ie still need two opposition between the attacker and the goal, if the ball is played from the other half Whilst there are plenty of issues, that would mean the game would have to evolve, it still focusses on what the original offside rule was introduced (stopping the keeper or defenders lumping the ball forward 60 or 70 yards to the centre forward stood in the opposition 6 yard box ), without penalising a good attacking play, because someone moved a fraction of a second too soon, and their knee or big toe was offside.
I remember they did a trial many years ago when they added another line in each half (18 or 20 yds?), whereby you couldn't be offside in that 'box'. Can't remember what the outcome was. Was it in the Dryborough Cup or some similar nonentity?
The Dryborough Cup in the mid 70's trialled that a player could only be offside within 18 yards of the goal line, thus the penalty area had an imaginary line extending to both touchlines for the purposes of offside only. Anglo Italian Cup had a variation of this, with players not being able to be offside outside of the penalty area. Article in a 1972 Arsenal programme written by former referee Ken Aston, article below taken from http://www.kenaston.org/the-pitch/law-11.htm please log in to view this image I also recall about 10 years ago, at something like the 9th or10th tier of English football, they trialled no offside if ball played from within your own half and I remember at the time thinking that was the wrong way round. Can't find any articles on it at the moment though, but presume it wasnt very successful, as I imagine it just encouraged team to play long balls.
