๐จ Barcelona are planning to bid around ยฃ13m for Marcus Rashford.
This fee would be just over half of his ยฃ22.5m buy option. If Manchester United hold out for the full fee, Rashford will NOT be playing for Barcelona next season.
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@djhrishi@clubmahindra@makemytrip Always been like this. Also you will get the most remote locations in off season with Club Mahindra. It was a great thing 15 years ago, today it's a waste of money. Internationally it gets worse, sometimes the exchange fee is as much as or more than the actual room rent.
Unpopular Opinion: This is a favourable punishment for Man City. They used illegal methods to win multiple titles. All this compensated with dropping points in ONE season?
Even if it means they're relegated, they're obviously coming back very easily. (1/2)
๐จ JUST IN: There is now a seriously confident expectation that a verdict in the Man City 115 charges case could arrive within weeks, with Premier League clubs awaiting official communication. [HandofArsenal]
If City were to receive a 60-point deduction:
โก๏ธ They would fall into the relegation zone instantly.
โก๏ธ West Ham would survive.
โก๏ธ European qualification places would completely reshuffle.
โก๏ธ It would become one of the biggest punishments in English football history.
A 60-point deduction would leave Manchester City on just 15 points.
The outcome of this case could change the Premier League forever.
Now we know why Pep Guardiola left this season.
I would happily take one season of relegation or point deduction if that meant we won multiple titles ๐
This is encouraging such behaviour, if anything.
They should be stripped off all their titles. The second placed teams should be awarded the respective titles. The point deduction should be divided across as many seasons as they were accused of wrongly winning and they should start on a backfoot for X amount of seasons.
Bruno Fernandes' record 21st assist probably shouldn't exist. And the rules that prove it came from Man United fans themselves.
Here's what happened: Fernandes whipped in a corner, Dorgu's header hit the crossbar, came down, hit Verbruggen's hand and went into the net. The Premier League officially credited it as a Dorgu goal and a Bruno Fernandes assist. Record broken.
Then the replays came out.
United fans started sharing a screenshot of the Premier League's own published rules titled "When is it NOT an own goal?" thinking it proved the goal was correctly given to Dorgu. Here's the painful irony, that image actually builds the case AGAINST Bruno's assist. Here's exactly why.
The PL rules only protect attacker goal credit in two specific situations:
1. ON-TARGET DEFLECTIONS โ If an attacking player shoots a ball that is already on target and it deflects off a defender on its way past the goalkeeper, the goal stays with the attacker. The defender's touch is just considered a deflection.
2. GOALKEEPER FUMBLES โ If an attacking shot on goal is stopped but the goalkeeper fumbles and accidentally pushes it over the line, it is credited to the shooter.
The critical word in BOTH cases is ON TARGET.
A ball that hits the crossbar or post is by definition OFF TARGET. It is logged as a missed shot in every official stats system including Opta, the PL's own data partner. The goal was already not happening. At the moment that ball struck the crossbar, Dorgu's header was a miss.
So when Verbruggen's hand then redirected it into the net, he was not fumbling an on-target shot. He was accidentally diverting a ball that had already missed the goal. Neither of the two protection rules applies here. By the Premier League's own published rules, that is an own goal, Verbruggen OG, not Dorgu goal.
Now here's where it gets even more brutal for we the United fans
If the Premier League's Goal Accreditation Panel reviewed this and ruled it a Verbruggen own goal, Bruno Fernandes would lose his assist completely. This is another PL rule most people don't know, own goals cannot have assists. It doesn't matter how good the corner was, how deliberately it was delivered or how directly it led to the goal. The moment it becomes an OG, the assist simply disappears from the record. Bruno would drop from 21 back to 20 and level with Kevin De Bruyne and Thierry Henry, not above them. No outright record.
Can the panel actually change it now? Technically yes. The Goal Accreditation Panel has no strict published deadline for reviews. But will they? Almost certainly not. The season ended today. The Premier League has already posted the record celebration on their official account. Bruno Fernandes was named Premier League Player of the Season just yesterday. The record has been publicly confirmed at the highest level. Reversing it now would mean the PL publicly embarrassing themselves by walking back their own official announcement hours after making it.
So Bruno almost certainly keeps the record, not because the rules clearly support the decision, but because football admin does not reopen finished seasons, and nobody with the power to change it has any incentive to do so.
I'm a Man United fan. I want the record to stand. But bias doesn't change what the rules actually say.
๐ธ Won the English Premier League.
๐ธ Won the Spanish La Liga.
๐ธ Won the Italian Serie A.
๐ธ Won the Saudi Arabian Pro League.
๐ธ Won his 37th career trophy.
๐ธ Selected as the best in the Middle East at age 41.
๐ธ The highest goalscorer in world football history.
๐ธ About to play a record 6th World Cup.
SIMPLY CRISTIANO RONALDO! ๐