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I think your overall point is important but the figures are off. Chelsea last year made the QFs and made 95m euro in CL revenue, or about 82m pounds. A similar performance in the Europa League nets you around 25m euro or 20m pounds, so there is...

In addition, their whole game revolves around having more energy than opponents and pressing them to death. They really don’t have a plan B for how to win matches when they’re on equal footing or more leggy than the other side. A lot of things...

Its not going to bring spending down but its essentially going to cap spending of the most profligate clubs at roughly the current level for a while. This is a good thing. The Brentford and Southamptons of the world are not going to grow...

Yeah, exactly. Successfully enforcing this kind of cap is far more likely than trying to enforce team-specific spending limits based on their revenue. A club like City may still try to get away with under-the-table payments to agents and the...

I think that's a fair assessment. The big question going forward is whether Ange, having entrenched that baseline style of play, can add different layers and wrinkles so that the side can deal with various match situations and opponents, as well...

I definitely wouldn't keep Ten Hag. I would probably go for Amorim or maybe take a gamble on Iraola.

One of the very best tacticians in the game and maybe the best cup manager around. But he has fallen out with higher ups and/or players at four straight clubs. People talk about the third year curse with Mourinho but Tuchel hasn't even made it...

He has 16 league G+A after having 7, 11, 8 in his three years at Chelsea. It's a small sample but his finishing has been more confident than at Chelsea, although not quite as good as his Leverkusen days. For seasons/comps with available data...

Havertz has been one of the first names on the team sheet all season, he hasn't really been competing for game time. And I think you're just wrong about what ~60m buys you these days for top clubs in general. Here are the 25 players who cost...

Yeah, complete bunk from start to finish.

If it was a truly a "classic" title winning season then we would have been able to drop those points to Villa and still have the title well in our hands. I think people forget how often teams in the past slipped up in title races, especially how...

There were some fundamental problems with Ange's tactical approach to the game that the media just chose to completely ignore much of this season because they love a good narrative and the Big Amiable Aussie provided one. -You can't invert both...

Current coefficient rankings" Italy 18.428 (basically unassailable so not even going to game it out) Germany 16.785 (seven teams) England 16.750 (8 teams) Let's take a seemingly fairly likely scenario and see how this plays out: Liverpool wins...

He’s a hard worker and has a great shot from distance but what else does he really do well?

Yeah, that seems workable as long as it’s a three and there is a defensive anchor behind them.