Apparently Villa would get a CL place for winning the EL and the extra PL place (based on the co-efficient) would go to 6th.
If Villa are 4th, the extra place goes to 5th. They (Bournemouth) could still do that, but unlikely.
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If Villa are 4th, the extra place goes to 5th. They (Bournemouth) could still do that, but unlikely.
Good Ebening.
What a fantastic season they've had.
Difficult not to feel envy.
What a fantastic season they've had.
Difficult not to feel envy.
It only goes to 6th if Villa finish 5th, the latter being guaranteed a spot either way due to coefficient witchcraft.
So I guess this boils down to your desire to see Bournemouth playing CL football, versus your desire to see Liverpool finish as low as possible.
Liverpool below Utd whatever the outcome.
But if Bournemouth could get 5th by overtaking Liverpool, that would be a single malt of a very special vintage - to be drunk very slowly.
It's a thicket of legalese but my understanding is that the PL has been allocated an extra spot due to its shared coefficient and cannot have more than 5 teams qualify by virtue of the table. But if Villa occupy that spot having already qualified via a trophy rather than the table, the PL can exercise an option to waive a Europa League spot and pass the coefficient spot down to the next team (6th).
Whereas a 'permanent' spot (i.e. top 4) cannot be passed down by virtue of the fact that one of its occupants won a trophy, which is why for example Liverpool winning it in 18/19 didn't open up 5th spot.
In summary: the only team in world football who can be screwed out of CL qualification is Tottenham.
Whereas a 'permanent' spot (i.e. top 4) cannot be passed down by virtue of the fact that one of its occupants won a trophy, which is why for example Liverpool winning it in 18/19 didn't open up 5th spot.
In summary: the only team in world football who can be screwed out of CL qualification is Tottenham.
Well; done to Villa.
My belief that they would win it came to be.
They have been treading a fine line wrt
UEFA FFP etc, but so far so good.
This is ultimately where Levy's project fell apart: we could still be competitive even with one or two teams cheating FFP, since there was still a window to pounce if the leading pack had a slow start to the season (or an outright bad one)
But when it feels like half the PL are treating FFP as guidelines rather than actual rules, as well as finding all manner of loopholes to exploit PSR, we slipped
It fell apart because we were so risk-averse, operating not on the line of FFP, but half a mile retreated from it.
We are paying dearly for being over cautious for so many years.
I do not blame the board, because I believe that
if the club had transgressed in any way they would
have been severely punished.
As I and very few others stated long ago,
Joe Lewis had time and opportunity enough to
fairly inject serious money into the club, well before
UEFA FFP appeared.
And for that, I hope that when Spurs are
finally sold, that clan Lewis make as close to
zero net profit as possible.
Have you seen the balance sheet? We would be insolvent were it not for the revaluation of the stadium. How wouod you fund taking even more risk?
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The thing is we were operating at the FFP line, in fact we regularly stumbled over it
Our wage bill was heavily bloated between 2010-14, for example, due to a combination of the churn of players under Redknapp, some misguided signings under Villas-Boas (seriously, we actually sanctioned £65k p/w for Holtby?) and squad bloat caused by The Baldini Splurge
That's why half of our summer business was under the cloud of Sell To Buy for the best part of a decade following
Saw a bunch of Bofo and Hull fans when I was headed into London earlier
Feel sorry for them sitting in the heat for a match which has had 1 shot on target in 75 minutes
Feel sorry for them sitting in the heat for a match which has had 1 shot on target in 75 minutes
Not as sorry as I’ll feel for the Spurs fans tomorrow.
Even we can manage 1 SoT in 88 minutes
Boro haven't...so we know who's winning on penalties, don't we?
I want Boro to win purely to get the full outrage from the Southampton fans.
That reminds me, what was this crap about thrm receiving the harshest penalty in football history their fans spouted?
Juventus got dumped down to Serie C1 after Calciopli
...the weather is playing hell with my autofill