Colos Short and Curlies

If he's replacing Wilson rather than being as well as Wilson the sums might look different. If DCL wants a pay rise as a free agent then he's going to Saudi.

I'm sure I read that out revenue was going to be £300m either last season or this season so the calcs are out of date, we didn't add that much on wages for 23/24 either. Tonali will be on a wedge, new deal for Bruno and Big Joe and then whatever Hall and Tino are on. Bear in mind were going to save a fair bit with Wilson, Lascelles etc al leaving as well as some amortisation dropping off. Not to say we won't still be negative, but it won't be at the level shown

£50k a week for 4 years

I think that's the total package of fee and wages

It's what a lot of clubs including us did with TV money back in the day. Only difference is time as the TV money was within a year then fee instalments will be over a few years Om guessing they have some hefty fee instalments to make over the next few months themselves rather than looking at finding new signings

Just imagine if they did, that's the best part of £150m-£200m to replace those 3 without a penny coming in. Salahs £400k a week being saved would be a help mind

Must have a transfer to Chelsea sorted for this window

Just watched the sky highlights, jeez we took a beating. 5 massive chances for ManU and we were hanging on after our 2nd

Sandro is more AJ Styles there

They've got a problem this summer with recruitment. They should be fishing in the same pond as us and Villa bit because they are Man U they will chase the superstar names first, not be able to attract them, miss out on whom they should have been after then panic buy at inflated prices. It needs a total reset but in some ways they are too big to do it properly and don't have the PSR levers that Chelsea have to cheat the system and buy their way out of a slump. Basically they need to be lucky with who they get

Wouldn't surprise me if the current top 6 are the top 6 come May, different order but same teams. City will improve on the first half points haul, Arsenal will be pretty flat, Chelsea will stumble, Forest will hit a sticky patch, Liverpool will lose 6 games and we'll be perfect to win the league

He seems to enjoy playing Spurs though so Saturday should see a better output

Even Pardew managed that man

+2

10 ahead of this lot, 10 ahead of Spurs after Saturday.

But only played 2 and a bit games

A stretch using the Hughton version of HBA, swap him and Colo round

Egg on the face prediction….. he’s going to score the goal that wins the league cup final for us this year

That's the one. Looked very assured, looked for the ball and a threat at set pieces. Don't know if he's got another step up in him but definitely a solid championship player.

I was surprised with the quality on show with Swansea and Luton. well Luton I expected to be bad with their league position but Swansea are supposedly one of the the better possession teams in the league and they were pretty abject. Really fun game but not for the quality. the Swansea number 6 (Darling), was the standout.

Dodgy keeping for Lutons goal, pantomime villain ref missing at least 2 pens for Swansea, red card and injury time winner right in front of us. so all in all a great first game for them 😊 also a comedy moment where a Luton player went down ala Schar in the 90th minute but the ref called the physio on so he had to go off for 30 seconds before he could be substituted, which had been planned before he went down

Boys first game today …. Swansea vs Luton. Gonna be a memorable one for them 😂

it’s still the same argument though, quick glance down the squad and I think we have 24 players in the squad today who we would look at registering, which includes all 4 goalkeepers, and then you have Miley who is a ‘freebie’. I may have missed someone. I guess you would not register Ruddy and Vlach plus 1 more so the question remains is the squad stronger at this 21 plus Longstaff and Miley or do you make the 21 stronger by selling Longstaff. We’ve got a bench padded with list B on players regardless. Its not an easy answer either way

Howe - Bruno Bruce - Wilson Benitez - Lascelles McLaren - Wijnaldum Pardew - Ben Arfa Hughton - Enrique Keegan (either spell) - Albert Allardyce - Beye Roeder - Martins Souness - Kluivert (super sub) Robson - Robert Gullit. (Manager) Dalglish - Given using the version the manager got ‘rule’ centre half was the difficult bit, Albert came in at the end but that took Shearer out. there is no protection for the back 4 at all, we’re simply gonna score one more than you!

The prime version is a bit of a get of jail free card, we had a high managerial turnover between 96 and 00 and then again 04 through to Pardew and that gives a high cross over of players. much more difficult and interesting if you have the version that the manager did