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Well catcherintherye jumped the gun a bit about no PL investigation, didnt he? Less than 24 hours after everton make the announcement at their AGM and the PL's admittedly toothless attack dogs are on the case.

Breaking news, Usmanov's £30m option to be investigated by Premier League. The Premier League are set to scrutinise Alisher Usmanov's extraordinary naming rights deal for Everton's proposed stadium amid concerns from rival clubs that it could constitute a breach of the organisation's rules. The announcement that Usmanov's holding company USM has spent £30million on the option to buy the naming rights for a ground that is due to open in 2023 — building work is yet to begin — was greeted with incredulity by Everton's top-flight rivals. Club executives told Sportsmail that they feared the unprecedented arrangement, if carried out, could raise questions over Everton's compliance with profit and sustainability rules. A number of clubs want the Premier League to investigate, which could lead to Everton being forced to repay some of the £30m. Premier League Rule E.54 states that any commercial deal 'arising from a related party transaction' must be 'recorded in the club's annual accounts at a fair market value'. Usmanov, an Uzbek-born Russian tycoon, is a business partner of Everton's majority shareholder Farhad Moshiri, who is also the chairman of USM, a company set up by Usmanov in 2012 which has sponsored the club's Finch Farm training ground since 2016. Under rule E.1 all 20 clubs are required to file accounts to the Premier League for the financial year each March, and Everton's submission in two months' time is likely to lead to scrutiny of the Usmanov deal. Everton could face questions over whether £30m for the option to purchase naming rights is a fair market rate and whether Usmanov is an independent party. Rule E.54 further states that if the Premier League determine a sponsorship deal is above the market rate 'the Board shall restate it to fair market value'. Everton are understood to have made the Premier League aware of the deal before the contract was signed last week, and are confident it will comply with their regulations. The £30m deal includes a Head of Terms agreement for a multi-year naming rights package when the stadium is built, if USM choose to activate it. Although a first for football, such deals have been used in commercial property. Everton announced the deal on Tuesday, the same day they published record losses of £112m for 2018-19, including an operating loss of £29.7m. Although Everton are currently compliant with the Premier League's rules, which prohibit clubs from losing more than £105m over a three-year period, they have little margin for error so the injection of £30m from Usmanov could prove vital. Everton made a profit of £30m in 2017 followed by a loss of £13m last year so are inside the maximum loss figure over the current three-year cycle, but will need to post a significant profit to comply next season. Everton have yet to receive planning permission for the stadium they are hoping to build at Bramley-Moore Dock, a project that has been in development since former chairman Peter Johnson revealed plans for a new ground in Kirkby in 1996. Premier League clubs are asking how Everton can bank cash related to a sponsorship deal for a building that does not exist. One source at a Premier League club who did not wish to be named told Sportsmail that he thought it was like 'financial doping', claiming Usmanov would be effectively injecting money into Everton in the guise of a sponsorship deal, and pointing to the similarity between the £30m deal and the club's £29.7m operating loss. Clubs' financial operations are under increased scrutiny from the authorities amid claims many are finding loopholes to get round profit and sustainability rules. Manchester City are the subject of a UEFA investigation following allegations that they disguised investment from their owners as a sponsorship deal. And Sheffield Wednesday are facing a points deduction after being charged by the EFL with breaching rules by including the £60m sale of Hillsborough in their accounts a year before it took place. Everton and the Premier League declined to comment. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-7891947/Everton-dock-rival-clubs-arms-30m-stadium-deal.html

Like I keep saying, it is the way riley has implemented VAR that is the shitshow, not VAR itself. But the intention of VAR isnt to correct any decision. It is intention is to confirm the correct decision is made where there is a potential error. But I accept it will never sit right with some. I can think of a number of our games where VAR would have resulted in us having won at least 3 more league titles: Alan Smith's 'touch' on the indirect free kick for arsenals first goal in the 1989 title decider. Sterling offside that wasnt in 2014 away against city. Sadio's 'offside' goal at arsenal, kompany's red card challenge at city and Naby's penalty that wasnt against Leicester at Anfield last season.

Liverpool seal swoop for Arsenal doctor Gary O'Driscoll with Gunners now advertising for his replacement Arsenal lead doctor Gary O'Driscoll has decided to join Liverpool on a new deal He had been the lead candidate to replace Andrew Massey, who is joining FIFA However he will not be allowed to leave Arsenal until a replacement is found Liverpool are appointing Arsenal's lead doctor Gary O'Driscoll as their new head of medical services. Sportsmail revealed on January 8 how highly-respected O'Driscoll was the leading candidate to replace Andrew Massey, the Reds' current of head of medical services, who is leaving Anfield to take up a similar role at world football's governing body FIFA from March 1. And Sportsmail can confirm O'Driscoll has decided to take the role at Liverpool after holding talks with the Champions League club. O'Driscoll, who has roots in the north-west having spent a period working in Manchester during the 2000s, is widely recognised as being one of the best in his field and Arsenal were determined to keep him at the Emirates. O'Driscoll, who has roots in the north-west having spent a period working in Manchester during the 2000s, is widely recognised as being one of the best in his field and Arsenal were determined to keep him at the Emirates. Arsenal, however, will not let O'Driscoll leave Arsenal until a replacement is found. The Gunners have already started advertising for the role as head of sports medicine.

Shakes head. Leaves thread.

Apparently, if you're a Sky or Virgin subscriber, LFCTV is free to view over this weekend. At least the U23 game v Wigan is on! https://www.liverpoolfc.com/watch?utm_source=Email&utm_medium=Email Link&utm_content=Digital&utm_campaign=Free_Weekend_Jan20&spMailingID=62569101&spUserID=MjAxNzM3NDk1NTczS0&spJobID=1801965161&spReportId=MTgwMTk2NTE2MQS2

Only a proposal at the moment as I understand it. Well, Mo, Sadio and Naby will just have to decide what's more important to them, their Liverpool seniority or playing in this. Playing in the last one when he wasnt properly fit has seriously hammered Naby's Liverpool career.

As I understand it, money injected or costs towards a stadium build or renovation is discounted for UEFA's FFP or the PL's own club spending limits. Money advanced, gifted or given as an option to be first in the queue for the right to purchase naming rights, is not directly stadium build related. This is an artificial injection of cash not tied to any share issue or ownership. Are we going to see hordes of clubs now get cash injections amounting to tens of millions of pounds based solely on the premise that the money given to them is only an option to be first in the queue for the right to buy stadium naming rights? It is also truely bizarre that everton claim the option for the right to be first in the queue to purchase naming rights is a bigger one off payment than the so called annual income for the naming rights itself and, that the naming rights contract has already been signed! Why do you need an option if the naming rights contract is already agreed and signed? Im only amazed neither city nor chelsea's owners saw this wheeze first!

Just been reading an article in telegraph Sport about the game. It claims mourinho's 'master class nearly worked' and defeated Liverpool. The article goes on about how mourinho set his team up to hit long balls over the top of our back line and have rapid players such as Son chase after the ball turning Liverpool defence in the process. Erm, that's just a 'long ball' tactic isnt it? There's no master class there. If the author wants to claim (as they do) that if Spurs had of scored those missed chances in the last 10 minutes, Spurs would have been the first English team to beat us this season, it ignores the reality? But surely if you are going to hypothesise about Spurs scoring 2 chances they missed, you have to include the 4 chances Liverpool had to score as well? Not surprisingly, the article was written by someone called JJ Bull!

It's a good article but it doesnt negate the fact that pre VAR, the crowd would celebrate a goal, still be celebrating it while the ref notices the lino with his flag up or even goes over to him to discuss it? We've all been to games pre VAR were goals have beenruled out and no one in the ground knows why the ref ruled it out. Yes, the time taken was less than VAR but it's undeniable it happened. And we all wanted an end to the uncertainty. And that is VAR's problem, the PGMOL here have totally fucked up it's use. I keep saying it and I'll keep repeating myself. Riley, head of PGMOL never wanted VAR. He's made it such a shit show that there is now almost universal rejection of VAR despite it giving refs the tools to get the decision right every time. The fact some VAR decisions are ludicrous is not VAR's fault. It is the fault of the implementors. Who understood VAR was going to be used to confirm every goal was legit, even the ones which clear were? Who understood VAR would be used to determine onside \ offside by millimetres? Who understood VAR would use lower definition camers than goal line technology for these decisions anyway? VAR doesnt need to check every goal. Neither does it need to take an age to make a decision. If you need to look at something for 3 or 4 minutes and 6 or 7 different camera angles, it's not 'clear and obvious mistake' so VAR's decision should uphold that of the ref. VAR should tell the ref to go look at the incident on the pitchside monitor and not let some neferious VAR 'ref' sat hundreds of miles away take an age to deliberate an incident. This is an area it is failling.

We arent missing anything, it's them who are missing it. 60-70% or more finance mortgage on your home isnt unusual. But financing your home on even a 90% loan isnt the same as financing a football club. Running costs for a football club are astronomical, always going up and sometimes, rocket out of all proportion when a chelsea or city owner comes along and wants to crash the party. And heaven help it if you get relegated! All of a sudden you have massive transfer fee inflation. Now, if you're also repaying a 70% loan on your stadium (where's the other 30% coming from?) those mega transfer fees have been inflated again and you no longer have the money to pay them never mind the players wages.

I wouldnt wish anyone into an early grave, but look at the state of usmanov! He's what, 66 years old and he must weigh in at 20+ stone. He's a brisk walk away from a heart attack. If he is going to pump money into the ev, he's not going to be looking at a 25 year repayment term, is he? This is not going to end well.

And the kids are playing Shrewsbury!

"A contract has already been agreed on a deal for the rights for the new ground and Usmanov's £30m buys him first option of pursuing that at current market rates once the build is near completion. Although no specific details about the finances have been revealed the PA news agency understands it is below the level of the reported £20m-a-year Tottenham are looking at for their new stadium." So if Im reading the statement right, Usmanov has signed a £30m option on naming rights but, has already agreed a naming rights deal for less than the £20m a year ? Why sign an 'option' and one at £30m a year if you've already agreed a less than £20m a year naming rights deal for the stadium? Either the statement is bullshit or there's financial doping going on right here and now.

I see what you did there!

arsenal intend using Robbo's tackle on the spurs player on Saturday and the fact he didnt get a red card as an example why PEA's red card should be overturned. They arent even similar tackles. Robbo had a heavy touch and recovered but his follow through caught the spurs player's shin. Aubameyang's 'challenge' had theoppos ankle at right angles to his leg andwas ared all day.

Well, they're engaging some very creative accounting to have secured 30m quid from usmanov for effectively nothing and, nothing tangible needs to come from it. But this is a tiny amount in the scheme of things.

According to the echo, they've 'engaged' JP Morgan and and Mitsubishi Finance Group to 'look' for investors and financiers to fund the new stadium. Id say the 30m is the money paid to these two groups to find the right financiers and banks. The question is, if its such a good thing, why arent JP Morgan and MFG providing the stadium build finance themselves?

30m quid just for the 'option' to be naming partner for a unicorn stadium? Surely not even the PL's financial constraints are that wooly to allow it?

The derby draw it is then!

It'll be our fault they have a low turnout.

He's almost as desparate as we are to see Liverpool win the league. I remember him saying around this time last season when we were 7 points clear that 29 years without a title is too long for the fans and club. Sure he says some shite things sometimes, who doesnt? I find Merson ok to be honest, unlike that twat Le Tissier who always seems to have a redwood tree on his fucking shoulder.

Watching the Coppa Italia game Napoli v Perugia live on BT Sport. Stadium is fucking empty and all the fans who are there must be sat in the stand where the cameras are. Currently 2-0 to Napoli. How the fuck did they put 2 past us?

In a transfer table published in a spurs article in the daily wail today regarding clubs transfer spend in the last 5 years, everton have spent just £15m LESS than us, £502m compared to our £517m. That really surprised me. Their top spend on a single player in that period is sigurdsson at £44m while ours in Virgil at £75m. Since 2016, everton are supposedly the 4th highest spending PL club. They havent finished 4th since then.

I remember through the 70s and 80's when we were winning titles. These twats always and I mean always, raised their game when they played us. The other 40 games in the season, they'd get turned over by the likes of west brom, stoke, coventry and all the other no marks in Division One at the time. The cunts evens had a big piece by their favourite journo in the Daily Manc calling other teams 'cowards' because we were beating these other teams united couldnt while they'd regularly take all the points off us. They were so pre occupied by us that they'd lost sight of the plain fact if they had channelled half the effort they did against us, they wouldnt have been losing to west brom, stoke and the like week in, week out every season. united are effectively back to those 70s and 80s days. They've a no mark manager who couldnt win a chess game against a school kid. They've got one or two decent players in a team that frankly, has more donkeys. But that said, they'll pull every fucking trick to con the ref and put doubt in his mind to get the decisions that count. They'll up their game massively and all the players will, for only the 2nd time in the season, run through a brick wall for the gimp. I dont care how shit united may seem, they'll always raise their game against us. Im expecting a win and hopefully, Mo shakes off his lethargy he has shown against them since he signed and Sadio rips them a new one aided by Bobby.