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Really surprised Chelsea or Man Utd aren't knocking about for him this summer.

Seem to remember plenty of people scoffing at Pickford's price as well. Obviously he's a mackem with teeny tiny arms, but he has proven to be a top keeper nonetheless.

Plus he's literally been quoted a couple of posts above as saying he was disappointed he at not joining Newcastle from Watford.

As with any target, we wouldn’t be bidding if they weren’t interested, all that stuff is done before any bid is placed.

Any pics? (Got one each for me and my son on way on a slow boat)

8 years ago Pickford was on a similar trajectory to Trafford and went for 25-30m. I'm not saying they're the same player, but 8 years later... 30-35m for Trafford seems a snip.

Baldylocks tremendous 👏

It doesn't. I think he's just saying that the Plc losses are the ones people report and focus on, whereas the actual footballing losses are less than reported by the Plc. Haven't looked into it to find out where the difference comes from - it's just when accounts come out everyone focuses on the headline loss number, but you can only really guess at the real PSR loss number. Anyway, it's quite funny how some didn't want Elanga, but now he might cost a wedge we're outraged by that too. Think he could be great here, personally.

No shit, baldylocks. Who wouldn't want be here.

Aye, that was the point I was trying to make. It's not as if keeping Tonali in over Longstaff would have meant we'd continue to lose against Brentford, Sheff Utd & Burnley. I know he wasn't exactly brilliant in those 3 games but it was a massive baptism of fire to the PL against the 4 teams we had first. I don't even think it was necessarily wrong to not play him, I don't buy this line that results and performances improved because we started playing Longstaff, though. We just weren't playing the previous season's top 6 anymore.

He’s a soon to be Premier League Keeper though?

Bowen and Wharton were championship players when they got signed. I see it as £40m for the best young English goalkeeper around. If Howe wants him, that’s good enough for me.

It's pretty clear why we can't use those loopholes, it's because of our income. We make about half of what the Sky 6 make, so those loopholes won't help us in the long run. Until we get good academy players to sell and revenue closer to the Sky 6, those loopholes are for short-term gain and could really hurt us later.

And this is why capitalism is a total fucking sham. The people with the money completely game the situation across every industry and the same thing happens over time, the rich get richer and the percentage of the rich gets smaller while the poor get poorer and the percentage of the poorer grows larger. It’s a totally completely and utterly fucked financial system

Yeah no idea but one company has less losses than another allowing them more money to spend is what I got from it. Why & how I’ve no idea

They aren’t my taste but they look better coz black and white just like your bog standard adidas trainer that we’ve seen for decades. Villas colours look a bit different

He didn't explain a thing there. How does the existence of that other company provide a backdoor out of PSR constraints?

Moratta II or money laundering every time.

It is perfect

Exceptional. The Adidas template this year is absolutely banging.

We should be collectively banding together against this absolute horseshit, but it seems like all is happening is that it's creating groups of people buying into it along tribal lines.

Why? NUFC are still hamstrung - despite all the loopholes others are using

honestly just scrap PSR it’s an absolute farce

Any signings won’t have much of an impact on PSR for 30th June unless we sell