Cardiff seals whale fish transfer

Any puzzle that requires exceptional levels of creativity to solve is going to leave some players stranded

I think it’s mostly a consequence of measuring squads by total value. Ukraine have two goalkeepers valued at 25m, which obviously inflates their squad value relative to how strong their performances can be, because one of your 20m+ players is always on the bench. Also, and probably more importantly, the total squad value is very skewed by singular expensive players. Look no further than Norway, notoriously an unremarkable performer, but their squad value is over 500m because Ødegaard and Haaland are worth 110m and 180m respectively. Those two alone are worth more than the entire Japanese squad.

It’s obvuously not a clear-cut indicator of performance.

TransferMarkt lists 27 players on the USA squad, so to achieve a value of 350m, the average player value only needs to reach a bit under 13m.

Pulisic is listed at 40m, Balogun at 30m. There are a handful other players in the 20m valuations, meaning the remaining squad players’ valuations barely need to reach 8m or 9m to achieve that 350m number.

Probably TransferMarkt estimates.

I think City’s success has made it clear how poorly most big clubs are run relative to how well they could be run. Cheats or not, they are very well organized.

I saw Gianluca Di Marzio being touted as the most likely

Ok first of all Abramovich sold Chelsea two years ago to Boehly-Clearlake.

The idea that Boehly-Clearlake will just pump as much money as it takes to find success again is mad to me. Surely at some point they will have to cut their losses.

Even if they could write a blank check to the club every year, at what point do the best managers see the pattern at the club and decide the juice isn’t worth the squeeze?

How long can they keep this up? Surely there have to be consequences to spending so much only to peak at 6th.

Am I missing something or is Villa the odd one out here?

Why would they vote against?

They have played us all for absolute fools

Agreed here. Yellow cards shouldn’t be a “get out of jail free” card for teams dominant enough to limit the opposition to low possession and very few good chances.

Based on previous discourse about the card system I think that you’ll generally see a tendency towards blue cards in the first half when a red card might have been given before. Referees have expressed a reluctance to show red early in the game, because an early red can seriously change the game in a way a late red doesn’t.

I think the blue cards will give referees more freedom to enforce the rules without completely changing the dynamic of the game, and as long as you don’t actually believe the refs are conspiratorially disadvantaging any teams then this is a good thing.

Let’s go Maidstone.

I enjoy that they’re third. One would think the FA cup over performer would be topping their own league, but nope.

Hope they crumble