Unbelievable

He probably is. Bloke is unhinged. His patter about Max Verstappen is almost as bad as about NUFC. Thoroughly loath the guy, massive piece of scum.

What does “everything else” entail though? I presume the club’s name and strip are even more sacred for the traditionalists, and rightly so. That leaves selling the advertising hording and shirt sponsorship for more than we’re currently getting, but we’re so far removed from the other big clubs in terms of commercial income that those wouldn’t see us compete on an even level with the likes of Chelsea, Man U and Man City anytime soon I imagine. Unless the owners find a way to bypass FFP somehow, for example by selling Dummett to some Saudi club for 500m, how do you suggest they bridge the gap? The avenue used by Chelsea and Man City, unlimited spending until you get it right, has effectively been closed now.

25m a year is roughly a 25% increase of our income, is it not? We can’t expect the owners to keep shelling out their personal wealth to subsidise out rise up the pyramid. FFP won’t even allow them to even if they were willing to.

Let’s put it this way: given the choice between staying at Saint James’ but it being renamed “Saint James’ Park powered by Noon” or moving to the “Noon Area” somewhere on an industrial estate, if one of these options was needed in order to allow the owners to get around FFP and make us competitive to challenge for titles and trophies, it would be option #1 wouldn’t it..?

If done with subtlety (“powered by” and not forcing broadcasters to use it as the previous fucker did), after consultation with the fanbase and supported by majority I could live with it as a means to get around FFP and help us build the club. My main gripe with the SDA shit was that the club wasn’t benefitting from it at all. It was even taking space from advertisers willing to pay, hence our pitiful commercial income development vs the competition.

Ekitike coming on for an injured Neymar edit: for Sarabia

Lucky bastards edit: PSG get offside given against them just as they concede a pen

That’s a cracking goal tbf

Agreed. Joelinton, Shelvey, Kraft, Almiron and now possibly Murphy. His ability to get a tune out of previously all but written off players is something else.

FT. Brilliant effort. We’re a proper good team now, one year on

And still we are pushing for more

Brilliant ball to Joelinton by Willock. We’re a force to be reckoned with

Own goal

5-1

We are. Until the big six come up with a new rule to stop us…

Stuffed that Murphy and Almiron are both on the scoresheet today, well deserved

Dodgy ‘keeper

Get in Miggy!

ASM on for a knackered Bruno

WTF ref

Phew

Pope

The fuck ref?

Love how we just always keep pushing for another rather than sitting on a lead, bringing on extra defenders, etc.

Another big chance goes begging. Feels so weird that we could literally score a handful every game nowadays. We’re pretty fucking awesome.