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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.

We also replaced them mid season, certainly in Robson's case there was a number of managerial changes that summer and we were left with a shit choice. KK wanted to quit summer of 96, who knows if we would have been able to entice Bobby at that point, but certainly would have of we had held out until summer of 97. The worst thing we can do is to start the season with Eddie then be looking to change before Christmas.

Would rather see them have their income capped for 10 years at the premier league average and have to comply with SCR/PSR or whatever is on play at that time

Still think the just needing a draw will hinder spurs and they'll get caught in the stick or twist scenario first hour then nerves kick in last 30 and they concede late on. Everton 1-0 after half an hour 1-1 55 mins 1-2 87 mins

We would be complaining that the top was too white and black rather than black and white if we had the Juve design

Not a chance Gabriel sees red and misses the first game of next season. Arteta will have provided a list of players potentially out of the door, including some u23s and one for those will get a red, probably a second yellow for a foul giving away a penalty

Spurs have the stick or twist uncertainty with only needing a point. Can see West Ham either easing last a Leeds team on the beach or getting hit for 5. Spurs I can see going 1 down within 10mins, equalising mid way through second half then conceding a late goal to lose.

Arsenal are looking for a White replacement, not a Timber replacement. Can't see them paying the money we'd ask for a full back who's not going in as a starter. But then if they are only looking at bringing a couple in who knows

It does, but it also keeps the dream of spurs being relegated alive.

They'd miss it just to keep us out of Europe

The Manu goal was special, his first today was a strikers goal, love to see the variety. His little footwork to get clear of 2 defenders was nice as well