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In the same circumstances with Rafa as the manager or most other fucker other than Bruce I would be excited takeover or not as we have improved our squad for a few years in a row now. Apart from last year, no? I said we have improved our squad for the last 3 seasons. Malo? I don’t think we did, did we? Losing Perez and rondon and bringing in ASM and joelinton, along with a shit right back?

In the same circumstances with Rafa as the manager or most other fucker other than Bruce I would be excited takeover or not as we have improved our squad for a few years in a row now. Apart from last year, no?

One of my favourite players. Gonna be weird seeing him play for Everton.

Nope, long term girlfriend (Rebecca Cooke)

Yeah Foden should get a lot of game time as Silva's replacement.

Didn't they claim that they'd written off the value of his contract including wages for the duration to look like they'd spent the money already...don't understand accounts that well but I'm sure that was the perceived consensus here....make the wage bill look massively inflated while not actually paying anything out as a veiled excuse for not spending What they did was write off the asset value of a number of players from the balance sheet, which increased the expenditure going through the profit and loss account and therefore decreased our reported profit figure. The actual players themselves were never disclosed, so it's hard to judge how justified it was from an accounting perspective. It was nothing to do with wages. The asset value is determined by transfer fees and any other costs related to the transfer (agent fees for e.g.), so the value of Colback's write off would've been trivial any way because he came on a free. If a player comes off the wage bill he comes off the wage bill. The accounting doesn't particularly matter - it's less cash going out of the business which is what matters. How was your holiday Luke? Glad to be back to work?

Even with Wilson signing we still only have two crocks and Joelinton as cover. Not a chance he's going anywhere other than the bench.

Ooh, the hope. I'm sooo excited about that.

The club is 100% owned by the owner though, so it's the same thing, no? I don't understand business transactions of this scale so am happy to have it explained why I'm wrong: but surely if I want something to become my property - I give money to the owner of that property, rather than to the property itself? So the 17mill goes to Ashley and he can do with it whatever the hell he wants? So the toaster owner could put that fiver towards a new heating element to improve the toaster, but they're not entitled to. They could go and spend it on anything. But on that same note, if there was a transfer budget of £30m, he could just use that to buy some more shops. So the £17m will in some form go towards him spending on players, whether it's specifically earmarked or not.

It's weird, most people on here think it's weak but then I speak to others and they think it's good. Most fans on facebook/twitter think Shelvey should be an England starter.

Looks terrible doesn't it. Hope the Longstaff's are up to it.

The club is 100% owned by the owner though, so it's the same thing, no?

Staveley effectively bought Wilson with her deposit tbf.

We're not gonna spend £35m on one player, and he's hardly likely to change his mind about coming here just because we might sign Ryan Fraser.

Hendrick dropped then?

I don't think they said that. People have assumed it. “Even now, if the Premier League came to us and said ‘we will approve you’ we would do this deal tomorrow, all three parties of the consortium,” Amanda Staveley interviewed in The Athletic on 30th July. Massive massive pinch of salt. I think that's pretty obvious. Why? Anyway, the point is that people haven't just assumed it, Staveley has been directly quoted as saying it. It's a fair point, yeah. But for me I think she's very calculated and says things for a reason. It's a moot point anyway, given we know it's not gonna get approved.

I don't think they said that. People have assumed it. “Even now, if the Premier League came to us and said ‘we will approve you’ we would do this deal tomorrow, all three parties of the consortium,” Amanda Staveley interviewed in The Athletic on 30th July. Massive massive pinch of salt. I think that's pretty obvious.

Stretching it a little there.

What’s happened with Watkins?

I'll miss Schär and feel that Lejeune had a lot more to offer, but otherwise, meh.

I don't think they said that. People have assumed it.

This. He performed much better than I expected, was very underwhelmed when we got him. Just shows what a good manager can do for a player.

4 goals in 2020. 6 yellow cards and no assists though, so promising. The argument that Bournemouth were shit doesn’t really work when you look at us For context, none of our players have 4 league goals in 2020. Almiron got 3 and St Max got 2. Yep, but I already know that Newcastle are shit.

Think that’s the most obvious scenario so also the most likely.

4 goals in 2020. 6 yellow cards and no assists though, so promising. The argument that Bournemouth were shit doesn’t really work when you look at us