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The International break technically ends on the 15th, agree we won't play that week but it isn't in the international calendar

Is there a cut off for when they have to be able to fulfil the fixture before we get a bye? Looks to me that the only week they don't have a midweek fixture before the next round is the week of the 14th October which is between the internationals and the first premier league game back. We're playing a weakened team then

Just on the first part, waiting until the new year would be the worst thing they powers that be can do. its either he’s the man to take us forward or they have serious doubts. If the latter then why give Eddie another transfer window? For me it was either part ways at the end of last season or Howe has the full season with a full expectation of being in charge come August 25. Everyone involved is fighting a losing battle if the position is somewhere in between

Tbf pretty much all managers are in their own way. Pep can’t dominate europe like Ancelotti has, Jose couldn’t sustain a level past 3 years, Wenger couldn’t win successive premier leagues or a European trophy. i have a feeling that Eddies strength is in being a catalyst and having a massive short term impact but is someone who will struggle to take a second evolutionary leap with us. 2022/2023 will be his peak league year I reckon, but he also has a cup win in him this year or next. and there is no shame in that at all, it will be a spell of complete success if that is all it is but we will get to a stage (pretty soon) where we need a different type of manager

1 minute 25 that would have been 15 seconds if you remove the fucks

Get the win and it’s a real top of the table clash next weekend, genuine chance of ending September top of the league

But we didn't buy him to flip him in 18 months, so if that had been the outcome the strategy that allowed us to buy him was ultimately flawed.

But then Keegan may have never happened so it all worked out in the end

The point is it’s rule bending and not breaking. we could argue spirit of the rules as well as the letter but they are playing dirty bit ultimately fair. it will catch up with them though, only so many times you can do it before running out of road

With at least one of the top 2 guaranteed to drop points next weekend

ditto barnes when he comes on at 75mins and creates 5x as many chances as Murphy has

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!

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