The College Dropout

Looking at this there's 2 exceptional sides. And a glut of teams at about the same expected goal difference. With Bournemouth & Forest as outliers.

I think the APT stuff is illegal and the only amendments that will stick will allow us deals 10-30% higher than what would’ve otherwise been approved. Maybe more.

It sounds like Staveley and the club thought we could secure multiple deals at a price point higher than the PL allowed. That seems to be a fact at this point. And this is with APT in place. You would assume they thought higher was possible prior.

From our collective memory - if they had seen this coming and put in sponsorships day 1, things could’ve been different. I guess everyone was just so keen to get the sale over the line. In retrospect, how this has all panned out was obvious. I also think significant relaxation of the rules is inevitable. But the PL will try and kick it down the road for as long as possible. May end up being years still.

Am I wrong in thinking they could’ve announced a £100m stadium sponsor day one of the takeover? The APT rules came in 2 weeks after the takeover iirc.

The last line is how I’ve felt for some time. Arsenal are a bigger club than us, better location, better existing infrastructure - there’s no ‘organic growth’ that will catch us up to them if they are being run properly. We need to leverage our advantages. Our advantage is the power of the Saudi state.

Arsenal are a massive club with solid infrastructure who had been underperforming for at least 5 years. In the best market for revenue and academy players in England and maybe the world. Thats a massive difference to Newcastle United. Prior to this Arsenal had fallen to 6th in revenues from the big 6. A successful Arsenal should generate more revenue than Spurs and Liverpool.

Last season was their first year back in the CL for some time too. Decent co-efficient and a run to the QFs is a decent chunk in additional TV and gates.

Arsenal results published. Big jumps in both revenue and wages.

He has great movement and box instincts. Tall, fast, decent in the air. Can strike off both feet. And most impressively he doesn’t shrink when he misses. He rushes his shooting too much and is off the cuff with his finishing. The best finishers have stock finishes and a high level of composure for the impromptu finish. Isak has both but is weakest when he does an impromptu finish when a stock finish is better suited. Nunez has neither. But this can improve with experience and confidence. Nunez is like Dembele to me. Got a lot of tools to be a great player but it hasn’t come together. Dembele put it together at 27. Nicholas Jackson is similar. There’s a lot to like imo.

Atalanta played with a headloss from the first minute. No composure.

The bet was even more money iirc. Like 4 or 5k. The guy would regularly bet large sums on foregone conclusion games like some interest payment scheme. Then bam.

Fancied Celtic at home. Unlucky here.

You can do that with anchoring and other things.

Rafael Saint-Maximin

Milan going through is a positive for us with the Juve Europe need

Massive call by the ref in Milan. Possible Kelly repercussions.

Nunez will get it together one day imo. Legit it might be in 6 years like Chris Wood.

This is it. I would assume Isak is on 100-150k. He’ll want close to £250k imo. Looking at an extra £5m in wages for 1 player and the ceiling raised

Might not be running on a Sunday mind.

I think they are confident of securing considerably higher commercial deals with this APT stuff coming into scrutiny. The future of what financial controls the PL will use is unclear.

He’s not going to get the choice. Slots professional and tactical flexibility is a large part in why he was hired. He was going to come in and work with what he’s given with a smile on his face. He’s not ostracised a single player. Big clubs are moving away from the Mourinho and Conte personality types who demand a certain specialist profile of player or unduly ostracise capable players for stylistic reasons. I heard that was a major reason Liverpool didn’t go for Amorim. He’s married to 5 at the back.

You would think Miley and Osulu take up a couple of those or they’ll need to go out on loan. A player like Targett would nice replacing. I can see him not leaving though.

If that is true then the club expect PSR fall out to also favour us. This squad needs £120-200m investment to really go again. CB. RW. GK. Minimum.

Never going to Happen