Colos Short and Curlies

It was one training session, never mind a game!

Some players just dont cut it after a move regardless on what they are/have done in the league. See Sanchez, A as an example

what order did Dalglishs signings come in? Given, Solano, Didi, JDT are a million miles away from the rest, wonder how much of a panic the Barney’s, Rush, Pearce types were. (Although of course Pearce did alright for us)

I was in Kos when Robert signed. Just remember thinking who?

Imagine the summer of 2001 if this place existed when we missed out on Jeffers and Zenden, only to get an unknown from PSG and a striker from a relegated club who only scored 6 goals that year.

An excellent drive into the box for the pen. we’ve been short on players willing to do that for ages

was it 2 kids who came on? give them the experience of running on the pitch I suppose.

wont Brighton just wear their away kit?

Why not? Its not like they've all gone in off his arse. He's getting into good positions, linking well with Bruno and Trippier and actually seems to have some conviction in his shooting. Of course he could have JDT moment against Forest and it all goes out the window but as it stands today he has improved our RW position from last season and bought the powers that be a little time to get a real improvement signing through the door

Realistically you're looking at a centre mid and right winger as the 2 positions that could be transformational at the start of the season now - Wilson is currently fit and whilst he is fit he is a top 6 striker. Almiron's form (albeit preseason) makes it that bit more difficult to get a transformational signing there so you are left with the third peg of the Bruno-Joe/? triangle to fill as an immediate priority. Yes we need another forward to cover for Wilson's inevitable injury and a winger to push on ASM/Almiron or whoever would be sensible but its not going to hurt us if they come in over the next fortnight compared to being in pay for Atalanta

Harvey Spectre (no Phillip) in the pros

It’s not often you see a manager looking better and more relaxed 8 months into a gig.

CFO still to be appointed…. Might start pestering Amanda on linked in ?

the non Tom Cruise version obviously - that’s Fraser!

sorry but if you buy at 30 and sell at 15 you’ve made a loss. it may be an acceptable loss but it’s a loss

Still waiting for a phone call about my CFO application

I have a feeling it was Danny Mills and accumulation of naughty hacks that day rather than one specific incident

Deffo one for the milf thread

Big Joe wearing kids shorts?

rather have him on the pitch than in a factory

Lies, it was delayed by an hour

You're forgetting about a certain team in black and white (or Saudi green and white)

or it just forces more money into the game through ensuring that stadia are sponsored.

He's an artist now

Not really, You only start depreciating (i.e. allocating a cost into the accounts) once the building is complete. So unless UEFAs FFP relate to timing of cash payments rather than established and recognised accounting rules it would be tricky to work it that way. As Unbelievable points out any stadium or training facility spend would be spread over a long period of time so you could look at other ways of bringing costs forward to create the same impact - writing down contract values would put a lot of cost in the current year should we wish to as even modest £20k a week gives you £1m of cost per year of contract write down. Its a nil sum game though, over a 3 year period it would even out so only of benefit if we are very confident of significant increased revenue. Edit - another option is of course to get the training ground sponsored. Nobody is going to be able to argue that £4m a year is not market rate for sponsorship, put a 20 year deal in place and you cover the cost and get around FFP I'd personally be lumping as much into this years accounts that relate to Ashley's time here, write down contracts, accrue for early termination fees etc and do a mega friendly in Saudi just after the World Cup that magically has the same value as these write downs. I'd also be looking at how much of the training ground could be classed as land as this is not depreciated so theoretically no cost ever in the accounts for it.