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Was he trying to escape from Shawn Michaels?

Id chuck an extra £5m into the fee just to hear 50000 Geordies sing that

Names closer to Dreamboat though

You're right to fight back against the poorly coached line being bandied around, but it is fair to say the team was coached poorly last year compared to previous years. It's also fair to argue that some players peaked 12-18 months ago and (again relative to previous seasons) have regressed since.

How far could that team have gone with a manager like KK? Granted the squad was thin but the first 11 had something special

There's a nuance to comparing the sales treatment under PSR and SCR. Yes you now spread the sale profit over 3 years but you calculate the SCR ratio each year in isolation. Under PSR whilst you took the full sale profit in year one you did in effect carry it forward 3 years as you had a rolling 3 year PSR window to manage so you had the full profit impacting the same 3 years as you would do under SCR. I'm assuming that for the 26/27 SCR calc we will have 1/3 of sale profits from 24/25, 25/26 and 26/26 with a third of the Isak sale also counting towards 27/28

So are they saying the Chelsea penalty wasn't an error, or the arsenal handball in our home game? Or is there a specific criteria for these errors?

Was taking the 8 year old and his Liverpool supporting mate to a goalkeeper camp this morning when his mate came out with 'Pickford has tiny dinosaur arms'. Thought it was just an us thing who took the piss out of him for that, so happy to be proven wrong

Close. It's like a fisherman suplex, only it is done perfectly

Here's the maths. £55m over 5 years - £11m fee amortisation per year. We sell before 30 June then book value is £44m and anything less than that is a loss for PSR. Roll forward to 1st July and the 26/27 amortisation is booked in, i.e we take £11m hit regardless so a sale of £33m and above breaks us even for the year but with no gain psr wise. We would save his wages however. The smarter move is to send him on loan with obligation for a year, take a £5m loan fee then £33m next July. But that's pigs might fly fees for him at this point

A rare transfer that works for everyone I think. We've got an excellent deal on a player who wasn't looking to hang around, and in a summer where we need cash to reinvest. Gordon gets a move to the biggest club that he could possibly get and is on a league where he will post immense numbers. Barcelona get a player who will score bucket loads in La Liga and who suits champions League football - and despite the fee being good for us is not astronomical for them. ManU get Rashford back Liverpool have lost an option to replace Salah

I wonder if the order we went for players had a bearing on who we missed out on as well. By the time we got to Sesko all of the other movers and shakers in the forward world had exited the market, would ManU have come in for him had we moved 1st July for example? Either way, we were definitely the consolation price for all the strikers we went for bar Wissa (Wolte would have ended up in Bayern if they hadn't pulled out), that was a mistake in assuming we were at that table (fans expectations included). We're not at the 2am pity pull stage by any means, but we ain't getting early 00's Elisha Cuthbert into bed when Timberlake's on the dance floor

We should be targeting top 4. Yes there are 5/6 other clubs who have that as their aim but of the club have anything less than champions League qualification as the goal on game day 1 then something has gone seriously wrong over the summer.

Maybe close if you include corners and free kicks thrown into the box?

Not that I think there is anything in the Bruno/Chelsea talk (Tonali maybe), he'd flop (relatively) there. Bruno the package is so much more than Bruno the player and they'd just be getting the player.