Mark McFaul

@jmmcfaul.bsky.social

Husband. Father. Adopted Geordie. Mostly here to talk about Arsenal, Leicester Tigers and Irish rugby.

Well, the final whistle on Chelsea FC's financial cheating under Abramovich seems to have blown. The Guardian and our reporting partners practically put it on a plate for the FA and Premier League. They blazed it over the bar. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

Chelsea fined £10m and given suspended transfer ban by FA over agent breaches

The club escaped a suspended six-point deduction for the infringements after appealing against the original punishment.

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As people have said £10m is basically one year of wages for Reece James. The same club has spent over £100m three times in the past 5 years but sure let's not actually punish them in any meaningful way for being proven to be cheats. Of course Forest and Everton were docked points 🙄

Rob Davies@byrobdavies.bsky.social · 5d ago

Well, the final whistle on Chelsea FC's financial cheating under Abramovich seems to have blown. The Guardian and our reporting partners practically put it on a plate for the FA and Premier League. They blazed it over the bar. www.theguardian.com/football/202...

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Preferred Chelsea over Arsenal? Imagine choosing to not play CL football. Chelsea is a step down from Villa let alone Arsenal. Either he's not very bright or it's down to money. Makes zero sense to me but for that price I'm not surprised he's not ending up at Arsenal.

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was just playing w/ the formula and here are transfer-age midfielders who are within a reasonable distance of Bruno in creativity, progression and out of possession value added: -Angelo Stiller -Adam Wharton -James Garner -Kodai Sano -Luciano Valente names to keep around if the price gets too high

BBC claiming Tonali was Arsenal's top midfield target in an article gushing about Spuds signings and how they can spend another £250m thanks to NFL at the toilet bowl... Call me salty but I find it hard to believe he was the top target and also why is noone calling out how poorly spuds negotiated!

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This Arsenal side has come a long, long way. Yet in our current guise we still aren’t ready to go toe to toe with PSG, so the game plan was sound. Never felt PSG would score in open play. Defended superbly. Fine margins just didn’t go Arsenal’s way. Stronger next year 💪🏼

Gabs and Eze have been unbelievable all season. The fans in the stadium tonight were off the scale. The game could have gone either way. It fell the other way tonight. We are all very proud. We're PL Champions and this team, under this manager - we've got years of good times ahead. Love The Arsenal.

Nice to finish with a win, which I think we deserved. But not a game where analysis matters too much because we're already Champions. League winners. The title was decided. It's ours. We are unbearable. And I love it ❤️

Once again, I'll point out that people are far more concerned about Arsenal and corner kicks than they are about more than 115 outstanding charges of systemic financial cheating over more than a decade by Manchester City. Get your priorities straight.