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Yes and no. The selling club would naturally slow down the deal to invite the big six, and it’s working.

I’ve seen little proof of that considering the glacial pace the two main infrastructure projects are moving at.

Then we need to come to terms with competing with clubs who aren't CL material for players. Our competition for signings should be Villa, Brighton, Brentford etc.

He’s a RW, wonder if he’s going to be Murphy’s main competition this upcoming season

And that’s while up and coming teams like Brentford and Bournemouth weaken. PSR working a treat.

You won, Chelsea. Enjoy Joao Pedro, I hope he makes you very happy. Dear Lord, what a sad little life you have. You ruined our summer completely, so you could buy everyone, but I hope now you spend it on getting some lessons in grace and decorum because you have all the grace of a reversing dump truck without any tyres on.

You don't think Chelsea would have muscled in regardless? They've allegedly been talking to him since early June. We've just targeted another player where the competition has far deeper pockets and more clout than us.

Brighton signed Charalampos Kostoulas for £30m. A striker.

Imagine we missed out on him to Chelsea.

Burn the thread!

Someone can correct me on this, but it appears, your Liverpool, Man City, Man Utd, Arsenal & Chelsea are buying, but many others aren't, yet. No coincidence it's the teams who can throw money around, all the years of fixing has facilitated that.

The loophole we should be exploiting would be for the club to purchase any property that the Ruebens are looking at & then immediately sell it on to them. The initial outlay wouldn't count against PSR but the income would.

Obvious answer to most of this is we're not a vanity project but just an investment

I imagine it’s because we’d easily become the most hated club, the cartel already want to destroy us and they’d lobby the governing bodies to hand out the harshest punishment in the history of football. We’d probably go down minimum three leagues and get transfer bans for years as well. It would be a dream scenario for the cartel if we broke the rules

I think so. Because if we would have been able to agree a fee earlier then I doubt he’d turn us down and wait for Chelsea. Every penny counts in this PSR era unfortunately.

Not sure what else the club can do tbh. If another club comes in with a higher bid, offers higher wages, then we’re fucked. We’ve clearly been able to sell the ‘project’ to certain players but others just will always go where the £££’s are. Clubs aren’t going to do us favours, especially if they don’t need to sell. Seemingly they (or the players agent) make it known we’re after player x to drive up more interest, why wouldn’t they? And if a high profile club with bottomless pockets are interested, we’re likely, fucked. Can’t even blame Chelsea really, they didn’t set these rules. (Onboard with them being total cunts though).

I'm not sure why at this point, PIF don't just blow the whole thing apart, buy whoever they want, pay the wages required and see what the premier league do. Make it political, whisper that it's anti saudi/arab and dare Masters/UK government to fine, relegate, sanction or penalise the Saudi owned NUFC. Speak with Villa, Forest and other clubs in a similar situation to us and get them to do the same thing. Alternatively we continue to struggle to compete with the six existing clubs whose revenue is off the charts compared to us and in some cases always will be.

Don't think speed has been the issue.

The mackems will finish rock bottom.

Chelsea in for him yet?

Trafford and DCL incoming. There’s our two in before pre season.

We should have some idea that a club like Chelsea will go in for him though. Again, his value is the price someone is prepared to pay. We can’t just bid for a player at the value we decide, then just shrug and say ‘oh well’. If we aren’t getting players at the value we decide, then we need to change our approach. Nobody is forcing us to shop for established PL players from clubs who don’t need to sell.

I wouldn't even be angry. I'd just laugh.

Don’t fucking christ me. Yes I do believe this. It’s as simple as if the PSR stuff wasn’t so tight and we’d be able to spend more freely then yes, we wouldn’t have to haggle as much and could have spent slightly more to get the deal done quicker.

It's pretty amazing that many seem to emphasise the latter over the former though. A 'safe' pair of hands is pointless if you've got nothing worthwhile to protect. It was obvious in December 2021 that we were predestined to have a serious run in with PSR - so long as anyone wanted us to achieve more than with Ashley, it was just a question of when and how. Building things is far far harder than sitting still and letting them rot to pieces under the guise of steady, sober leadership.