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paulvcooke

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  1. Charged by whom? The EFL, the police? That statement is deliberately vague and attempts to deflect blame away from them. Would expect nothing less from that lot. Tossers.
  2. I'm aware of the youth caps thing, also the exemptions panel, which is for exceptional circumstances, which I don't believe would apply in the example I gave for league band reasons (Thats the reason I chose a band 4 league). I was just pointing out that we are now fishing in a much smaller pond and decent players from abroad (for our level) may not be as readily available as before. And yes, other clubs do get in players and then loan them out until they get a permit, do you honestly think that Wednesday are in the same bracket as the these clubs? And can you imagine the uproar from some fans if the club knowingly and willingly signed a player they knew they could not get a work permit for. I think a club in our position is much better off spending money on players we can actually play.
  3. Kim wouldn't have got a work permit under the new system. Thank god!!! 🙂
  4. See my post in the Wednesday transfer thread, getting work permits/GBE's for foreign players is not going to be easy. I'm sure the club are well aware of it, I just wonder if many fans are. It's .... erm..... going to be interesting for clubs further down the food chain, like us, trying to sign these players. Scouted a great player in the Czech First League who played 70% of his teams games last season, when the club finished mid table and he has no international caps? Not much chance of him getting a work permit. Everyone is going to be fishing in a much smaller pond.
  5. Actually, this made me think about works permits/GBE's and signing non British/Irish players going forward. We (and other non PL clubs) will be limited to signing players from a certain number of leagues. No much chance of picking up players from non top flight/Band 1 foreign leagues in my opinion. As an exercise, I checked how many points one our most recent signing from the German second division (a band 4 league) would have got. As far as I can tell, Julian Borner would have got 10 points, and you need 15 points to be granted a GBE, basically he would not have been able to sign. Syalla Sow, on the other hand, coming from a Band 1 league, gets 19 points, easily enough for a GBE. I can show my working if required 🙂
  6. True, my Dad (78) has already said he'd rather watch it on telly that have to "argue with some knobhead" who won't sit down. Against Hull there was some up bloke who would not sit down until someone threatened to lamp him. Said he was "not having his day spoiled by having to sit down". The selfish attitude of some fans towards their fellow fans appalls me sometime.
  7. He gets to live in Bratislava. He's onto a winner. Wonderful city.
  8. Interesting article on the growth of football data. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/61084931
  9. https://www.marca.com/en/football/real-madrid/2021/09/22/614b572446163f88678b45b6.html Thinks it means that part of the stadium is currently being worked on.
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