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Well that’s nice if it helps address the pay gap, but the US women’s team clearly disagrees, and it’s a different issue from the one that led to a lawsuit anyway.

The equal pay debate is about payments made by the national football associations to players for appearances on international duty, it’s got nothing to do with the clubs. In the case of the USWNT, they argued they generated more money for US Soccer, yet were getting less money back from them in...

Their argument was that the women’s team generated more revenue than the men https://www.cnbc.com/2019/06/19/us-womens-soccer-games-now-generate-more-revenue-than-mens.html

The US women’s team did!

I’m not sure the equal pay debate has anything to do with the tournament being played in Australia and NZ.

Nice to see that after disowning him last month, @dutchman is back to dutifully posting Trump speeches on this thread. Maybe DeSantis’ campaign really is in trouble.

This is where I fear the charity boxing match discourse eventually ends up

I suppose there is an argument that players are becoming more important than teams to your average (read: global) modern-day fan, at least in terms of social media engagement etc. That’s what the Saudis were banking on with LIV Golf, but even then they couldn’t establish their tournament...

I mean - that sounds almost exactly like MLS to me! China, the US and now Saudi Arabia are able to offer big pay checks, improving league standards and good quality of life (cultural problems notwithstanding) but as long as European leagues remain the gold standard in terms of competitiveness...

So Burnley paid too much for McNally?

Can it become as big as, say, MLS? Sure - the clubs have the financial backing and it’s an attractive lifestyle for Muslim players in particular. I don’t see it becoming a top 5 league without some kind of almighty schism within UEFA that completely destroys Serie A and La Liga. Even then, that...

Who’s the last left-footed CB we actually owned? Cian Harries? Edit: I think it’s Concrete Rod 🤯

Prefer the collar on that one tbh

If you’re going to gripe about making the same £2 million gambles on players that other Championship teams routinely make, even after we’ve just had £19m land in our account, when are we ever going to compete?

Isn’t it? What seat projection does that kind of swing imply?

To be clear, I wasn’t asking us to demand the specific numbers from the sponsorship deal - I doubt they’d disclose them and they’re not super relevant anyway. But I do think it would have been worth asking about the process that led to DK’s own company becoming the primary sponsor, and how that...

Really? That's a shame.

Yes, and it cost us. Nothing against the guy, but it reached a point last season where it looked like we were throwing him on when we didn't really want/need to because we'd have to fork out wages to Man City if he stayed on the bench. Any proper talent isn't going to be sent out on loan...

With Conor and George before him, has any surname been this common in our squad over the post-PL years?

Parent clubs are going to insist that our loan players are actually getting on the pitch - we shouldn't be loaning players just to make up the numbers.