Fantastic. This is the winner for me.

You should read up on how Lyon became a "big club" themselves in the 2000s by selling off their top assets at peak value and buying young, promising replacements.

I love your analogy.

Bale is absolutely at peak value, his conversion rate from outside the box shots is certain to regress going forward. Spurs are nuts not to cash in if there are offers for the amounts rumored.

Well, the new stadium severely hamstrung Arsenal for six years financially. Spurs don't have oil money funding the team, nor public money funding the venue as they would in the US, so how is it going to be better for them?

Please explain to me, a biased Gooner, how Arsenal's recent top four qualifications are the product of, more than anything else as you say, "pure, unadulterated, unbelievable luck".

It doesn't matter how much actual money they are getting from QTA, FFP will only account for it up to market value, which is €50m at the absolute max.

While I find most of King's writing meaningless drivel, I am looking forward to what the site brings as a whole. If you like more analytical writing instead of invented narratives, as I do, keep an eye on Andy Benoit. He's fantastic.

If they can't break into the top 20 in Deloitte, they can't possibly buy the players they are buying and stay in compliance of FFP. As I said, if their (self) sponsorship money from Qatar Tourism is outlandish, and it is, UEFA will adjust it to market value for compliance.

UEFA will determine market value based on what other teams are getting and not count anything extra towards the break even goal. That's the plan, anyway.

PSG has not been a "big" club for long enough to pull in the kind of revenue that Chelsea is. Assuming that UEFA accounts for their sponsorship deal only at market value—one of the tenets of FFP—then PSG will surely not be in compliance and subject to ban.

It will be really interesting to see what happens with the French clubs and FFP next summer. While Chelsea and Man City have admitted they couldn't pursue Cavani out of respect to FFP, PSG and Monaco have basically thrown two middle fingers at the proposed UEFA sanctions.

Unfrozen Caveman Laker.

How is it DRM if you can put the disc into any one of the 99.99% of internet connected Xboxes and play it?

You make some good points. I think that parity is good for the NFL and bad for the NBA. The entire lottery system, that essentially rewards the teams that had the shittiest seasons, is absurd, and way too much rides on having a high draft pick in a certain year (like the Spurs).

Saw a link via twitter that he is the only seven footer in NBA history to have a season averaging less than 4 rebounds per game while playing 28 minutes, and that was 2012-13. Stats aside, anyone with eyes will tell you if he isn't the worst defensive player in the NBA, he's a close second.

Probably worth noting that the Spurs are celebrating if they:

Where did I say that they were related?

I'm just going to point out that you shouldn't claim that women unjustly earn less if your supporting statistic is that they are breadwinners in 40% of households.

Such a tragedy that Melee was never followed up on, at least, in spirit as a competitive game. If this is "in between" Melee and a game that was for 5 year olds, it's still not good enough.