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From what I gather it means that clubs have to balance their books at the end of the season. They can still make transfers (probably less big ones than in previous years) but can't go into significant debt to sign players ala Barcelona and Chelsea. UEFA really wants to avoid situations like...

Personally I see him staying at Man U. With the contract extension he signed recently, I think it would be hard for another English team to sign him, especially with the financial fair play going into effect next season. I personally wonder if teams outside of England value him all that highly...

Hmmm, interesting question. I think they could compete to start with although it may be tough. Five to ten years down the road, I think no doubt they could compete for Europa spots, possibly Champions League spots. Obviously Celtic & Rangers would have the best chance, maybe not so much for Hibs...

Sorry, wasn't trying to be confrontational. I wasn't trying to say that Villa are more successful on the field than Liverpool, I was just saying that since they didn't go into administration or close to it, they're more successful than Liverpool in that regard. Villa has also been more stable...

Hate to break up this war of words but Arsenal and Aston Villa are both also majority owned by Americans with arguably better results than Liverpool (and financially than Man U). Stan Kroenke owns the majority of shares in Arsenal and he also owns the Nuggets, Colorado Rapids, Avalanche and the...

True that, I somehow totally deleted those nameless men from my memory (as I'm sure much of Liverpool has as well!).

Don't care for L'pool much but REALLY don't like Italian football. Dislike L'pool less now that they have American ownership though. Was that Benitez as manager? Amazing how fast coaches go from genius to bum in football (American too).

Thanks for the post! Had to watch 30 minutes of Fox Soccer Report to get 30 seconds of Old Firm highlights last night. That second goal is 100% class. I could watch the Arshavin goal (v Barca) and that 2nd Hooper goal over and over, wow super football! The FSC vid was grainy and short so I...

I saw that and have been looking for english speaking highlights since, any ideas? All I can find is arabic (don't speak that!). Well done Bhoys!

Another good article, this one is about "super-recruiters" Lane Kiffin & Ed Orgeron. Janzen Jackson sends Tennessee's 'Kiffin class' up in smoke - Dr. Saturday - NCAAF* - Yahoo! Sports

I haven't seen this posted anywhere else on IE so I thought I'd share. I got a chuckle out of this...the article is also critiqued quite humorously on Oversigning.com (The Worst Article Ever Written on Oversigning « Oversigning.com). If you don't want to waste your time reading the...

Since we're in the slow period, here's a question I've been meaning to ask for a while: Besides any event that happens on game day at ND (because we know those are obviously the best!), what are your favorite College Football traditions? Ohio State - Dotting the I Tennessee - Running through...

Anybody else surprised Bettis didn't make it into the HOF on his first attempt? I have to admit I am, only 2 rushers on the all time top 20 rushing yards list are not in the HOF, Bettis and C Martin. I'm not extremely surprised about Tim Brown, I've always thought he was extremely underrated as...

I like Celtic too, probably not with the fervor you do but being Irish-Catholic, it's my religious and nationalistic duty to root for the Bhoys and hate Rangers. If what you say is true that Celtic doesn't care about the UCL, I think they should. Wrong or right, there is a lot of money in the...

Yes, I do believe Barca tied Copenhagen in Denmark. It seems that each Champions League, there is one team that gives Barca trouble. Rubin Kazan last year and Copenhagen this year. I think Chelsea will return to the class they showed last year and earlier this year. As much as I'd like to...

If we don't care about the Champions League then I'm sure it will be news to you that Rangers were eliminated. :)

I totally forgot that draw was today, thanks for posting IHMM. The Roma - Shaktar matchup took two away from a lot of teams "want to play list." Same with the Valencia - Schalke draw. Amazing how Man U and Chelsea always seem to get these "draws"... As an Arsenal fan, that's the last team I...