GeeEyeTee

Jack of all trades but master in analysis. MSc graduate. Hockey Wales & former LUFC 1st team Performance Analyst.. *views are my own*

[Adonis Storr @theadelites]

PSR, P&S, FFP is broken.

It was meant to level the playing field financially. But it keeps you in your place, and rewards clubs who break the rules.

Some clubs bend over backwards to try & stay within the rules. #LUFC selling Archie Gray, #NUFC selling Elliot Anderson.

Home grown talent sold to tick an accounting box. Young lads who love their home team auctioned off like cattle at a market.

Both players have family members who played for their club, historical ties cut for a broken system.

And what happens to the teams that break the rules?

Everton, Leicester, Nottingham Forest all broke the rules and got a tiny points deduction. Pittance compared to reward of staying in (or getting promoted back to) the Premier League.

Man City broke the rules 115 times and have had zero consequences, except filling their trophy cabinet up and patting themselves on the back.

Football is crying out for independent regulation, because it cannot regulate itself.

Leeds United are maybe the ultimate example of why some form of financial constraints and owner oversight is required.

Peter Risdale's financial dream almost snuffed out one of the biggest clubs in England.

Everton (and Forest and Leicester) out-spent Leeds and as a consequence stayed up (or got promoted) and Leeds got relegated and stayed down.

Everton's punishment was a 10 point deduction. Fairly significant but not handed out in the relevant season, nor impactful on their top tier status.

And the punishment for breaking the rules has not rewarded Leeds for abiding by the rules. And every year Everton stay up at Leeds expense, is another £100 million of Premier League TV rights.

Leeds should have just broken the rules and stayed up. They would be several 100 million pounds better off and still be in the Premier League.

When clubs benefit from breaking the rules - with little to no consequences - and the cost of compliance is to sell your best academy players. Then the system is utterly broken.

Between FFP, VAR (toenails offside), rogue agents, sports washing, FIFA corruption, state owned clubs, etc etc football in 2024 is the wild west.

And about as far away from the game we love as possible.

And it is in desperate need of regulation or revolution.

[John Tregoning @JLMTregoning]

He’s relatively simple to replace within the squad currently, but it’s not the point. To be able to have Gray playing for Leeds United and England as an academy graduate & dynastical talent is what football is about, not PSR book balancing.

It’s the death of dreams.

#LUFC

[Tom Noble @_Noble]

Something fundamentally wrong about PSR that it incentivises (/forces) a club to sell their homegrown crown jewel. Archie Gray should have been the centre of our team for the next decade, yes football needs regulation but honestly what’s the point when it works like this. #lufc

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🫶 “I came to Leeds 8 years ago with a fiancée and I leave with an amazing wife, two beautiful children and memories that I will never forget.”

[TGfU @TGfUInfo]

Have you read...

Harvey, S., & Gittins, C. (2014). Effects of integrating video-based feedback into a teaching games for understanding soccer unit. AGORA, 16(3),271-290

[Dan• @Dan_Hardy02]

Best video of the day #lufc

[GeeEyeTee @Gittins87]

@CrambazzledTask Given his strike rate during his career he even struggled with this basic concept.

[Newell's Old Boys - English News @Newells_en]

A message from the fans of Newell's Old Boys.

[The Scratching Shed @TSSLUFC]

Bielsa has shielded the owners and those above him from blame constantly since his arrival, only for them to sneak around behind his back and leak shit to journalists because they haven't got the balls to face up to their decisions. Honestly disgusted by it.

[The Scratching Shed @TSSLUFC]

I fucking HATE how this has ended, not because Bielsa hasn't been able to leave on his own terms because that's the business side of football. But the way it's been leaked to the press while Bielsa was still giving interviews and shouldering all the blame is despicable. #LUFC

[GeeEyeTee @Gittins87]

Fucking levels of disrespect if these swamp rats announce this way before club makes any comment. #InBielsaWeTrust

[talkSPORT @talkSPORT]

𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: Marcelo Bielsa has left Leeds United by mutual consent.

- talkSPORT sources understand

📲 Listen ☞ https://t.co/VJgUHnHODz

[𝙂𝘼𝘽𝙀𝘼𝙎𝙏 | Premier League Champs 🏆 @AfcGabeast]

who did this😭😭

[Football Factly @FootballFactly]

This is without a doubt the video of the day. The Finnish fans chanting “Christian” and the Danes chanting “Eriksen.”

This is absolutely brilliant. Beautiful scenes. https://t.co/CSrpQLDCS1

[Leeds United @LUFC]

🥺 Someone chopping onions?

[The Scratching Shed @TSSLUFC]

"Leeds continue to play as if they're plugged into the national grid" is the commentary line of the season.

[Jonny Cooper @JRCooper26]

Leeds didn't concede a single goal with Gaetano Berardi on the pitch in any of his last nine matches for the club. 457 minutes, 0 conceded. Unbeaten in his last 19 league matches. A great end to his seven years at the club. #lufc

[Leeds United @LUFC]

👏 A fitting send off for our warrior!