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Although tbf Liverpool as a city is responsible for around 90% of all adidas tracksuit sales since day 1 so its fair that they would get special treatment

Fun fact, Barclays have a wall in their Canary Wharf HQ with photos of every team who won the premier league when they were sponsors. we’re also on there as the Barclays first division champions under KK. No other. One premier league club has that honour

I had the pleasure of a few Merseyside derbies both in the home and away end and they were so disappointing from an atmosphere pov. literally had a couple of older Everton fans in the home crowd chatting about Everton during the game.

If we have a really strong run to December then maybe Howe would be more relaxed about bringing people in with a view to the final run in and then next season. All depends on his targets and the teams performance, can totally see on the other hand that if we are only there or thereabouts then he would only look at a 'sure thing'

And if we get the on the pitch bit right our day tripper demand will massively increase as well. might not be what we want to hear but this will be an important revenue stream in a few years

Yeah but Liverpool's support is swelled a lot by non locals so the 'pool' of supporters is larger than that really. When I was there (99-05) I came across a lot more Scousers who were Everton fans than Liverpool fans, but you do obviously get group bias where a friend of a friend of a friend is likely to have similar interests

There's already a defacto wage cap with PSR as wages are the highest operating cost line for each club.

I guess the more players involved the less relevant FMV would be as it is so subjective. related clubs might have more scrutiny. Let’s say PIF also owned Napoli and we swapped Longstaff, Targett and Miggy for Omishen and declared the ‘sale’ value at £100m. That would raise some eyebrows. If Chelsea offered 3 random players, less so

the magic PSR fairies decide that. Transfer fees are odd things, not only in value but the transaction is for the license to play in a league, not actually the player itself. There must be a way of standardising fees but of course the big clubs wouldn’t like it

The clubs would agree a notional value for the players which would magically equal each other out. So for the sale you would show this value as the sales proceeds of your players as if it were cash. for the purchase you’d just use this agreed value. So in effect it would work no differently to if you sold all 3 for £100m and bought one for £100m. How you agree on the value is another matter.

I see it slightly differently, they would have had a (operating and financial) plan set in early July that took in the summer window, projected performances based on said window, some new commercial income and a little contingency. its definitely fair to say it was a plan based on optimism. we then had some shocks along the way, not getting at least EL football post Christmas, relatively poor cup runs, injuries making any outgoing in January difficult and probably finishing a couple of places lower in the league. All in £10-£15m revenue hit. any plan can face shocks that knock you off course, that’s not the fault of management. so the contingency - maybe 2 sales in Jam which we couldn’t do for whatever reason, then maybe someone triggering Bruno’s clause or selling Big Joe (injury probably put that to bed before any contract extension if it was for pre June 30th. So the ultimate fallback was Minteh and Anderson, the accounts will show how much we needed both sales vs giving us some headroom for this year that we haven’t been able to exploit. i don’t blame them for going for it in the summer, nor do i see January as a surprise, more the world conspired against us to render the plans redundant. There may even have been doubts on Howe in Jan that moved some options up or down the table. Sometimes we have to look beyond the (retrospective) numbers to see the rational for actions leading to them. i really don’t have a scooby on what the plan for this summer was or was leading to mind!

Half time jelly wrestling and pillow fights

I doubt the CEO is involved other than agreeing the budget. his role should be to make sure others are doing their jobs properly

I wish the kid no ill will at all but it would be hilarious on Palace if he has an injury hit campaign

Not saying it’s a deliberate ploy at all, but the failure of this window to land a high profile expensive target plays into his hands for a change in approach going forward

fyp

He’s missed that boat now

I think the summer as a whole has let the management team down. To me backing would have been an offer, negotiation and a second final offer before moving on to the second choice if we can’t afford the first. Not playing around the edges with structures for weeks. We can afford him or not.

I said around Easter time that come the end of the season they had to make a decision to back Howe or sack him. The club appear to have done neither but they/we have to be behind him for the season and if it goes wrong change things then.

im not defending it, but if Arsenal play in week 1 and Liverpool week 2 and they draw each other where do they fit the game in? as I said, id have banned them from the competition if the rules had to be changed to accommodate them

Keeping the European teams apart was a necessary evil isn’t it? Due to the split euro fixtures over 2 weeks. Should have just banned them from the competition though. the home/away bit is just stupid though

They won’t be as obvious as last season so city away is out. it will be a trip to anfield instead

And there would be no shame if Eddies peak was the 4th place season and he wasn’t able to evolve the team to the next level. there are very, very few managers who would be able to take a team at the low ebb he did, transform that to a team securing safely and then some, then take this on to champions league qualification and then push on again. And then add in the usual PSR restrictions….

no, longstaff has done his ACL