James

for me it was because they were clearly trying harder in terms of their performances when the game was on TV

suspect a lot is on the player side, ie informing Chelsea that he does not intend to sign a new contract and would like to join NUFC. Not much you can do from that point

I just got Excel out and calculated the amortisation fees of the whole squad (so even players like Manquillo) After we sign Hall, our annual amortisation fees will be £107m (my method over estimates a little), representing a £31m increase compared to last season. why do I mention this? Well if you factor in new income - Sela, CL, higher league prize money, ASM well this more than covers this increase. In fact I reckon that there is now room for two more players if we want to.

isn’t there something in terms of wages that we can’t exceed either? So if he is earning £15k a week and is an initial loan with a subsequent contract of £60k then this season we would only be paying £15k a week staying therefore below a wage bill threshold?

make your mind up I thought you were a prophet

Fair to say that were we to beat Man City on Saturday then my happiness levels as NUFC fan would be higher than at any point in my adult life.

got to acknowledge Ando for this one too

think our England team would be competitive against the world elite

probably and I am expecting Targett to ask to leave just like he did at Villa

Wonder whether Targett will put in a transfer request

Bah I was about to start this Fred

All I can say is that women’s football has gone a long way, both in the world and on this forum, I recall the time I received a threatening PM for trying to start a ladies football thread

yes I don’t get it when people are saying he should play for pride and glory elsewhere. what is he meant to do as a squad player for Everton or Norwich that will lead to pride equivalent to the £2m a year he would thus lose out on.

No way Krafth earns more than Fraser

Fees are so crazy now, and yet to a kid when we signed Barnes it must have been like when we signed Damien Duff for £5m

if that is true I hope Sandro doesn’t check out the most recently watched YouTube videos on the SmartTV that was left behind

When he came on I remembered all our recent Leicester games and thought…big mistake

Have a feeling Longstaff and Botman even booked the table for him

There was an article over the summer about Eddie Howe’s time doing his coaching badges in Ireland and it was very notable that whilst the instructor rates Eddie as the course’s best ever pupil, Gary O’Neil was second.

If we win the internet will break as journalists try to retrospectively unpatriotic their start of year predictions

After Saturday, any chance of the likes of Arsenal or Chelsea thinking we are a good choice to loan a player to is no longer zero - it’s negative.

So how are we looking? Would anyone from Spurs get into our first XI?

Surely this doesn’t need its own thread, all feels a bit RTG and could have gone in the first team squad thread?

The European Super Cup Final is a dynamic I hadn’t considered

He is the sex