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Rod loving Shola yet constantly being on Bruno’s back has boggled my mind.

Eric Dier to Monaco.

Our biggest advantage we have over spurs and Man U is that our owners aren’t really in it for money. Same goes for any American owners. None of them want to max PSR headroom. Yeh Liverpool have won the league but they managed to do so by bringing in a new manager and not backing him at all.

I expect Spurs to go through, as they should do really, they're a Premier League team playing a Norwegian team, but I don't think its nailed on, mainly as I would think over two legs Lazio would beat Spurs, and Bodo just beat Lazio, and are in the semi-finals on merit. Spurs are utter utter trash, and go to a team that play on a 4G pitch, and the last time Spurs played on a 4G pitch they required extra time to beat Tamworth.

They’re billionaires mostly because they inherit wealth to have a head start, manipulate things, hostile takeovers, exploit the less well off etc. With a small bit of ‘business acumen’. Why so many of them would love Premier League to have no relegation, because yes that would then see club values sky rocket. That’s not being business smart, that would be one of the other points.

It's crazy when people say "I can't see that happening" about billionaires and football clubs, right? These guys are billionaires for a reason; they see things we don't. Especially a fund like Clearlake. Nobody thought a club would be worth $100 million, let alone a billion, 50 years ago! Fenway bought Liverpool for $300 million – what's it worth now? Four or five billion in just 15 years! Maybe ten times that in the next 15. Don't be short-sighted; even Mike Ashley profited from Newcastle despite relegations. These guys are billionaires for a reason

Probably can’t be underestimated how just falling to like 3rd or 4th behind Man City / Liverpool / Arsenal would hurt Ratcliffe. They’ve likely been brought with future target of being number 1 leading club, not 3rd or 4th.

But the football landscape is miles apart to the 80s, where domestic attendances were one of the primary driving factors and exposure to other clubs. Just so different now, with many competing clubs and other destination venues / things to do. They won’t ever fall away to levels of being relegated, unless TV deal blew up where every club would be fucked, but falling to like 6th largest is feasible because of how football is now days. One thing that’s helped Man Utd, because of their current wealthy over others, they’ve been able to consistently qualify for Europe, spend beyond levels they should be, and keep picking up odd trophy. Means the sponsors etc still happy to be associated for big value as they’re regularly in the main comps and ‘successful’.

Wondering myself. Worrying

Gameweek 35 Man City 3-1 Wolves Villa 3-1 Fulham Everton 3-0 Ipswich Leicester 0-1 Southampton Arsenal 1-2 Bournemouth Brentford 3-1 Man United Brighton 2-2 Newcastle West Ham 1-1 Spurs Chelsea 1-2 Liverpool Palace 1-1 Forest

You're missing the point, mate. Nobody said Man U's revenue will drop. I'm saying constantly missing the Champions League will hurt them because other clubs will catch up, making it tougher to grab one of the 4 or 5 CL spots, maybe even 8 or 9 teams competing. Their massive debts mean they'll need cash injections, and the owners might not be keen on that. It's totally wrong to say Spurs and Man U don't need European football. If they miss out, other teams will get richer and closer, forcing them to spend even more – they can't keep that up. Plus top players want to play CL how do you convince players with no CL.

Decent money to be made here for you @Kaizero

Man City 2 v 0 Wolves Villa 3 v 1 Fulham Everton 2 v 1 Ipswich Leicester 1 v 1 Southampton Arsenal 3 v 0 Bournemouth Brentford 2 v 2 Man United Brighton 1 v 2 Newcastle West Ham 1 v 0 Spurs Chelsea 1 v 3 Liverpool Palace 2 v 0 Forest

Could make for a cracking display. But to make it truly authentic, it would have to get taken out of service and block the view of the Gallowgate for the first half.

At bingo? Heard he was marking 5 cards.

Bodies of Glimpt nerds slain all over the xG battlefield, burnt out spreadsheets smouldering in the breeze Lest we forget

Some club in Saudi apparently after him for silly money

Absolutely sickening.

Does he not mean "if" he (Postecoglu) is "in trouble"? That's my take. No coach would say "if" you can call him that (a manager)

For someone who is mad for stats you sure are ignoring a lot of stats with these observations of yours. We battered Glimt. It should have been a cricket score. I would expect Spurs to do the same based on what I've seen. Even the poor Premier League sides usually have too much for these kind of teams in Europe.

Who is this guy?

I agree. I genuinely don't think it's who we need. Plus with AFCON he'll be away January/February.

That’s on the proviso they start buying well and are ever ran properly again. I’m sure these exact arguments have been made for that past decade and if anything they've continued to regress. its all very well saying they have more money, but they still have to invest it effectively. Their recent actions don’t suggest that is something they’re about to suddenly achieve.

No chance they vote for it - the PL was established to reduce the top division to 18 clubs 33 years ago; they didn’t do it then due to money, and it’s even less likely it happens now. There are 17 clubs who have to seriously cock up to go down; why would they vote to guarantee at least one of them going down?

Qarabag were infinitely better than Man Utd, there's a bunch of teams that were in the EL this season that should've easily dispatched B/G in a knock-out match-up. Spurs and Man Utd aren't among those, because they've been absolute shit all season and just because they're English doesn't mean them being horrible all season will suddenly change. Bilbao will bum Man Utd so hard they'll not be able to walk for the rest of the season. Spurs'll most likely get a win at home, but not by more than 2. Only two teams have bettered B/G by more than 2 in the last five seasons of European football, like fuck will Spurs be the third. Bilbao though? They'd be capable of doing that, which doesn't bode well for Man Utd.