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3h ago
The Football Association (FA) has defended its decision to scrap FA Cup replays and insisted an increase in games being broadcast in the early rounds will help offset any loss of revenue for lower-league clubs. It was announced on Thursday replays from the first round proper were being scrapped from ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
3h ago
The FA Cup has scrapped replays from the first round proper from the 2024-25 season in a six-year agreement to restructure the competition. The 2025 FA Cup final will be played on the Saturday of the weekend of the Premier League’s matchday 37 — the penultimate round of fixtures — with ..read more
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3d ago
The Athletic analyses how different life under the new financial regulations might be for the Premier League's haves and have-nots ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
5d ago
Chelsea's lasting agent commitments, the other clubs who spent big, how Spurs kept theirs relatively low ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Chelsea paid the highest amount of fees to agents and intermediaries compared to other Premier League clubs for the 2023-24 season. Mauricio Pochettino’s side spent £75.1million ($93.2m) on fees paid to agents and intermediaries — in figures published by the English Football Association (FA ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Nottingham Forest head coach Nuno Espirito Santo warns the integrity of the Premier League as a competition could be put at risk by the “mess” surrounding profit and sustainability regulations (PSR). Both Forest and relegation rivals Everton have decided to appeal against their punishments for ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Sheffield United will be deducted two points at the start of their next season ‘in the jurisdiction’ of the English Football League (EFL), with a further suspended two-point deduction ‘until the end of that same season’. The EFL announced the future points deduction and a ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Premier League clubs have unanimously agreed in principle to introduce new financial fair play regulations at a meeting in London on Thursday. The profitability and sustainability rules (PSR) that have capped how much money clubs can spend over the last decade are set to be scrapped from the start ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Premier League clubs have unanimously approved the use of semi-automated offside technology (SAOT) for the 2024-25 season. The English top fight will use the same cameras and software that UEFA uses in the men’s Champions League. That is slightly different from the technology which FIFA has ..read more
The Athletic » Sheffield United
1w ago
Everton have been given a further two-point deduction for a breach of the Premier League’s profitability and sustainability rules (PSR). The penalty, imposed by an independent commission that the Premier League referred Everton to in January, is the Merseyside club’s second of the ..read more