Mashed Potatoes

None of the clubs you refer to had their issues from being in the Premier League - which is the most popular football league in the world - so I have no idea why you have dragged them in to it. The FA don't have sufficient jurisdiction - it is the EFL who have the jurisdiction. The new system for the independent regulator provides for more protection for clubs from unsatisfactory owners.

In the case of young players who interest Premier League clubs like Arsenal no Championship club is going to be able to match wages available from the Premier League club. The question will be whether the player - more likely his family - thinks it is in his long term interests to stay at the Championship club for the time being.

Chelsea have just become world club champions so how can he look any higher ?

Wharton has been included in the England squad for the forthcoming World Cup quaifiers.

The problem is in football it's speed over the first 3 to 8 yards that is usually decisive.

Interesting if he has pace because guys that tall usually don't.

Hasn't it been said that he intends returning to Norway at the end of this season ?

The hallmark of champions.

Hull were so poor that it is difficult to say how good we might have been - but you can only beat what is in front of you and at least the new signings look to be reasonably good which should calm the nerves of supporters

That was Joni Mitchell first.

To be fair, I think he has 10% of the franchise. They declined last season when I think people thought Brady's influence might see an improvement. Obviously it is early days in a sport where, unlike football here, you can have poor years without a penalty as there is no relegation.

Yes; the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Which is why it is so ridiculous to be falling at the feet of owners now when they haven't achieved anything other than a lot of noise in the media. Tom Brady was the GOAT in the NFL as a player; but as an owner he has still to cut it as the franchise that he bought into last year - the Las Vegas Raiders - had a terrible season.

Looking at the BBC website on 2 March 2015 there's a new owner of a Championship club saying ; "We will do whatever is appropriate to invest in the club to get them to the Premier League" The club was Sheffield Wednesday; the new owner was Dejphon Chansiri. You would have fallen for him as well. What matters is achievement; not loudmouths making extravagant claims to suck in the gullible and the naive.

As has already been pointed out you came out with this gloom and doom stuff this time last year ahead of a season when we finished 7th.

Come on. In their first season those "proper owners" got Birmingham relegated to the third tier despite all the big talk when they came in to the club. Let's see them actually achieve something.

That's always going to be the problem with distressed sales of anything.

Yes - it was obviously a distressed sale at a knockdown price - but bigger clubs than Crystal Palace didn't want to get involved even then.

I usually ignore your posts but the simple fact is that when he was sold there don't appear to have been any competing bids from bigger clubs able to offer higher fees. Yes, I could see he was a "good" player - ie one likely to make it at Premier League level.

It's not "contrarianism" - it's looking at the facts and expressing an opinion founded in facts. You seem to have a problem with people expressing opinions you don't agree with.

If "EVERYBODY" knew that I would have expected the likes of Manchester City, Liverpool and Arsenal to have come in for him when he was available for sale - instead it was Crystal Palace.

I don't think the new independent regulator has been appointed yet so is that meeting a promise to meet when appointed or a meeting with a member of the Regulator's Office ?

Might be a bit much to ask the journo to write the minutes in the first instance, but could act as an independent arbitrator in dealing with the sort of dispute that has arisen here.

Players can only be shipped out if they agree to be. Regarding Tronstad, haven't people on here said that he wants to stay for the last year of his contract and then move back to Norway - where I guess wages are rather lower- where his wife has already relocated to ?

The powers of the EFL are extremely limited. At Sheffield Wednesday there has been a pattern of non payment of wages/taxes and reports that part of the ground is not safe - yet the EFL have been unable to force a sale. There was a pattern of similar behaviour at Reading over a period of years before the owner was forced to sell. At Blackburn Rovers we are talking about a failure to publish minutes 23 days after a meeting between the club and supporters representatives - which is hardly in the same league of misbehaviour - so I don't think the EFL are going to do anything. The new Football Governance Act does impose an obligation on clubs to engage in an acceptable level of fan engagement and once that is up and running properly - the Independent Football Regulator is yet to be appointed - then there will be a process by which supporters can complain to the Regulator if the club is not engaging in an appropriate manner.

I don't think the government regulate the EFL as government interference in running football is against FIFA and UEFA rules. Also the local MP is not a member of the government.