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Deserana said:
Unfortunately because of how the Hughes thing ended up and then doubly especially because of how quickly they hired Ruben after one game, I do not trust them to think this way at all.

I would happily have Potter or Moyes until the end of the season. At the very least I don’t think the football will be as suicidal and the defeats will feel as inevitable as they do now. We are no better now then we were mid way through the championship. It’s shocking to me that some here just think “**** it, it’s already bad we may as well stick with it for another 6 months”.
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Potter won't come here for many a reason. The main one in my scenario is that he was being paid I think £10m/yr from Chelsea and as he was sacked, they do pay him the remainder of his contract on a monthly basis - the minute he takes a new job, that is void. To sign for us for 6 months would cost him least £5-10m and he would be out of a job with no payoff in May.

Moyes though isn't on a pay off if I am right?
 
Deserana said:
Unfortunately because of how the Hughes thing ended up and then doubly especially because of how quickly they hired Ruben after one game, I do not trust them to think this way at all.

I would happily have Potter or Moyes until the end of the season. At the very least I don’t think the football will be as suicidal and the defeats will feel as inevitable as they do now. We are no better now then we were mid way through the championship. It’s shocking to me that some here just think “**** it, it’s already bad we may as well stick with it for another 6 months”.
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I don’t think anyone is saying it quite like that. More that who could we realistically get in now who we would want? Moyes and Potter aren’t coming here now, possibly 5 games ago but certainly not now when we are 98% relegated or whatever the Opta stat says, might even be higher. Even if we chuck money at someone that also seems pointless when the season is likely done with from a survival perspective
 
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3 in a game for one team must be pretty rare. I seem to recall Gerrard missing one and scoring two at Old Trafford under Benitez.
 
Leicester getting pumped to keep the 3 promoted sides going down dream alive, strengthening the case to bin promotion and relegation.

Also seen the top 2 in the Championship are Sheff Utd and Burnley who were both awful in the Prem last year to further strengthen it
 
Saintmagic said:
Leicester getting pumped to keep the 3 promoted sides going down dream alive, strengthening the case to bin promotion and relegation.

Also seen the top 2 in the Championship are Sheff Utd and Burnley who were both awful in the Prem last year to further strengthen it
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You cannot be serious!
 
StJabbo1 said:
You cannot be serious!
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I’m not sure I agree with it but there is definitely an argument you can make for it, it would make the PL stronger and potentially more competitive for one thing.

I don’t know if it would ever get voted in as the top teams wouldn’t want it, but the bottom 10 or so would obviously have the difficulty of deciding which teams are in and out aswell
 
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San Tejón said:
Which is why the number of American owners needs to be checked, because I am pretty confident that given the chance to end relegation they would push for it.
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Possibly. The big thing I would say is that (to my knowledge which may be wrong) every American franchise makes money year after year. Very few football teams do, they probably look at that and are like wtf are these clubs doing losing money year after year in the most popular sport, it doesn’t make sense. That is down to the salary cap in American sports rather than promotion/relegation and no transfer fees for players.
 
Saintmagic said:
Leicester getting pumped to keep the 3 promoted sides going down dream alive, strengthening the case to bin promotion and relegation.

Also seen the top 2 in the Championship are Sheff Utd and Burnley who were both awful in the Prem last year to further strengthen it
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It’s a closed shop. And boring.
 
Lovelocum said:
Now. Boring now, if they binned it then it will be just as boring.

They need to level things up.
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Yeah and there is an argument that getting rid of the risk of relegation for half the league could make it more interesting/competitive, which is why the big teams would never vote it in
 
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