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I think limiting the squad size and tightening the loan system would probably do the job.

Is this a trick question?

I think Wilson would have been replaced earlier if he hadn't gone on that amazing run of form that got him into the England picture. It was very hard to justify selling at that point.

Righto.

The Olympics are fairly civilian already TBF. A lot of athletes aren’t professional and those that are often have to sacrifice a hell of a lot and struggle for funding to keep going. Most are there just for the joy of the sport.

Our business was very good IMO, just had absolutely dire luck. We were never going to be able to fix all the issues this quickly.

It's very unclear what the FA are actually doing, and why. No news since November and even that was mainly one-line stories with no sources and no details. I don't see the point in it unless they might want to punish him further, which seems very unlikely given he's already serving more than Ivan Toney got anyway.

I'm not completely clear on the sporting director role TBH. He basically oversees all the football-related activity as opposed to the commercial? So he is interested in recruitment but it's not the only thing, and he's not the person that actually does it. So you need a capable exec with a record in building and running all sorts of teams, but also ideally someone who has taken a club from a low to higher position. As to who it could be, I haven't a clue. But I'm sure it shouldn't be someone like Rafa who has never done the job before.

Well it’s quite obvious we should, we were cheated by a decision.

Well maybe, guess you could say it’s an indictment on his patience as well.

If it's just about his personal wages. But then again, you still need to have standards and you can't pay people anything just to keep them. The best justification for him leaving is that he thinks FFP will limit us too much and he can do more, quicker, at Man Utd. But pure speculation of course.

It’s more about the project than the traditional status of club. Of course Man Utd are currently a bigger name club around the world, but that’s not the only consideration. Anyway it’s up to him, if he wants to go it could be for any reason. Maybe just more money.

Agree but if he doesn't want to be here we just need to extract as much money and make it as difficult for Man Utd as possible.

I’m undecided about the penalty box itself. Agreed on the decision-making aspect but there is some drama and excitement as a player approaches the box.

Definitely for diving, been wanting this for years. I thought about starting a diving social media account to call people out each week, but I couldn't be bothered in the end and thought I might be sued for libel

It feels likely to me that the regulations will have to be relaxed soon, in some way anyway. It doesn't suit the PL to starve itself of money and have deadline days where nothing happens. It's meant to be the most glamorous league in the world. I know top clubs don't like others to catch up, but the PL as a whole doesn't benefit from keeping money out. I guess because of the members-club nature of the organisation, maybe it doesn't have the capacity to make decisions for the benefit of the whole.

Bruno is not likely leaving, wash your mooth oot.

Whatever happens surely he can't join them any time soon? Like when we got him from Brighton, there should be a long notice period and a long period of gardening leave, so he can't take too much knowledge with him. Disappointed in him if he wants to go like, and I don't really see the Man Utd project as being any better than ours. They have made some changes but it really remains to be seen if they actually care about the club.

A lot of penalties aren't almost certain goals though, it's a guy knocking the ball past an opponent out of play and going down or the ball randomly touching someone's arm.

On board for them all I reckon. I have mentioned before about making the rule that a penalty can't be awarded if the attacker hasn't tried to continue play. Also I think a penalty is too harsh a punishment in such a low-scoring game, might be good to introduce something more like a penalty corner instead. A free goal for a very minor infringement is too much in this sport.

Would be absolutely immense, possibly my ideal signing from the Prem apart from Bernardo Silva.

No harm I suppose, recently he's been decent. Solid enough squad option, hopefully we can get rid of the likes of Dummett and Richie to make some space.

Maybe photoshop jobs like Castore did last time

It's hard to say what fees are going to look like with the new FFP fear knocking around. Could see a bit of deflation.

He’s not a top 4 player, think it’s a closer call for top 6. Either way I’m sure we see him as a squad player or sale in the long term.