GeordieDazzler

Soft red for Forest

Fun fact, India got to the moon for less than Antony cost Man United

I don’t get the Antony signing. Is he just really diligent defensively? I mean Ten Haag of all people must have known he’s this single most predictable footballer ever. Bizzare. Makes Ryan Babel look ambidextrous.

Yes but only if we have a replacement sorted obviously

Ryan Bertrand to…Man United? https://www.express.co.uk/sport/football/1806076/man-utd-news-ryan-bertrand-erik-ten-hag-transfer-news/amp

good signing for the Spammers

Most of the Saudi clubs are unexpectedly old - Ittihad were founded in the 20s. It’s just that no one outside the country gives a shit.

If he plays more than ten minutes it’s an obligation to buy hopefully Yeah it’s weird how it worked out for him, made some big contributions in the fight against relegation. Goals vs Everton and Brighton and two (?) assists vs Brentford. There’s definitely some burnt bridges from their time at Bournemouth. Considering you have players like Dummett and Lascelles hardly playing at all but seemingly integrated with the team. We put him on the bench vs Bournemouth last season didn’t we? Almost felt like Howe making a point.

https://www.football.london/chelsea-fc/transfer-news/chelsea-transfer-darwin-nunez-liverpool-27590097

https://archive.is/iVGbu

Yeah I sit in level 7 and saw those lads in the queue. Pretty certain they were Saudi. fwiw they seemed pretty quiet and it didn’t seems like they were trying to wind anyone up.

worst Romano photoshop so far?

Heffernan getting an official announcement perhaps indicates they have high hopes for him? Perhaps reading too much into it

Yeah only think we’d move again if a mutually beneficial loan to buy came up. Club seems to want to keep any expensive stop gaps to a minimum.

I hazard this is part of a their ‘vision 2030’ plan so it will likely have to be self sustainable by then. They (similar to the Chelsea owners) seem to be going for the Netflix/Uber style approach of taking massive losses in the hope that you can achieve market dominance. It’s an absolute open question as to wether that approach works in football. For all it’s faults the Premier League is the the most successful league on its own merits, it’s an established brand and in the main generates the money that keeps it viable itself. For another tech world analogy, the Pro league is Threads - trying to take all the successful elements of the market leader but ultimately is providing nothing new.

Dazn just got the rights to go along with the uncompetitive boxing matches they show.

Maybe in the Middle East. As I’ve discussed on here before this is all impart a big tourist attraction to other Muslim nations. Outside curiosity no one in the west will give a shit.

Still hardly sustainable unless the league itself starts producing actual talent.

I get peoples complaints with FFP but what sort of madness would the last decade have been had it not existed?

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-12437537/Nuno-Espirito-Santo-tells-Al-Ittihad-board-Karim-Benzema-does-NOT-suit-style-turning-Frenchmans-captaincy-request.html second Saudi transfer going wrong

We’ve got exactly the same amount of scousers in our first team as they do. For a club that is supposedly prides itself on being the heart of the community they have a criminal lack local players. Wasn't it mentioned somewhere that they have been quite close at times to breaching the homegrown rules (possibly in Europe). Slight deviation but related, TransferMarkt stats actually show that we were the only club in the league that gave more than 50% of total minutes to domestic players. https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/premier-league/legionaereeinsaetze/wettbewerb/GB1/plus/?option=spiele&saison_id=2022&altersklasse=alle