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Normal fans one, the players version, the Carabao cup final one, the winners one & now the sam fender one

So? The club will look after itself first. They knew they were in the final and released the shirt with the Newcastle v Liverpool thing on the front leading up to the final so they were never gonna bring it out and clash with that and then we won it and brought out the winners 25 shirt so they weren’t gonna bring it out then and have it clash with that. common sense really edit: they released that shirt on 14th Feb they were never bringing the sam fender one out 7 days later

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

Album release was 21st Feb. Cup final was March 16th.

I don't follow these things that closely but what are the 5? The normal one, the winners 25 one and now this one (which is turboshite in my humble opinion).

Am I right in thinking that’s now the 5th time the home top has been released with a slight difference? 5th it’s not even that good a home kit

Like I said, I dont think we have to spend big to replace their quality. With the way PSR works it could easily be financed by what we would get for them in the short term. You might have a point about not overdoing the squad turnover. We seem to be doing a good job integrating new players into our squad, might not want to push it though. Dont really think the team morale would get hit by letting them go, surely the team is aware of how things have to go going forward.

On the Sam Fender stuff surely a collaboration of a nufc tshirt/hoodie etc would be far better than bring out yet another version of the home shirt with the artwork on the back. Realistically how many people are buying that if they’ve already either got the home shirt or the home shirt with winners 25 on the back?

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

As I said I’d imagine it was because of the cup final/winners shirts

Longstaff speed of thought is really exposed now we have top players around him. You can see our attack literally drop a couple of gears when he has the ball. That said, in the right system he can be effective. Its just not with us anymore sadly.

Because we can't afford to replace both. How much would two Premier League level midfielders cost in your opinion? Add to that the fact that massive squad turnover isn't helpful for team dynamics and both those players have been mainstays of the team for years now so it would be a drastic change for players around them.

Why not? Not like their performances lately will be hard to replace

I get the idea but I'd much rather Longstaff leave. I can't see any way we could let them both go.

Well that's even better than I thought originally and it's a no brainer then if we can get that done in the summer.

Nothing would be better than getting Willock back to his best. Its been quite a while now though. For me he has these 4 last games to show some glimpses of his old self. If he doesnt I would let him go in the summer. Should be able to get a decent fee.

Bit out of touch old Potter. Either that or he fancies another quick pay off

Yeah this is correct, we'd extend the remaining amortisation over the new contract length or up to 5 years for PSR purposes. He's currently into the 3rd year of 5 so we've effectively amortised £37.8m of the £63m paid. Giving him a new 5 year contract would reduce the amortisation from £12.6m/yr to only £5.04m/yr

That's right - if you extend the contract you also extend the period of amortisation which decreases the amortisation per year. If we gave him an extra £50k/week, that'd cost us £2.6m/year more but as your sums show we could potentially cover that (and then some) with the reduced amortisation costs. Edit - it's the remaining amortisation that is extended so if he's got (for example) £30m left over three years and we extend by another two years then the annual amortisation drops from £10m/year to £6m/year

Terrible performance incoming...

Just ignoring Villa and City, if we win on Sunday and Chelsea and Forest don't we only need 2-3 points. If tat situation happens we ensure we finish above Chelsea the week after and it would also take a miracle for Forest or Villa to finish above us.

I remember in 02/03 thinking it was going to go to the last day away at West Brom to get top 4. Then in the penultimate game Liverpool lost at home to Man City (Anelka) and Chelsea lost another game we expected them to win and we already had 3rd wrapped up (Viana v Birmingham home). Would be nice again.

I think we get 69 points and qualify with a bit to spare. I've long thought 68 would seal it too. 67 and it might go to GD. Good chance 6th/7th get 65-67 points imo.

They can qualify but not by finishing above us. They're basically 6 points behind with GD. They'd need to pip someone else. I think these kinds of things are why our chances are much better than we want to think.