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Fucking hell.

*sick in mouth*

Come on, you fuckers.

Revenue for this season is massively up already - £70m earnings from UEFA alone in the CL this season, that's not including matchday revenue, significantly more lucrative sponsorship and shirt deals, a youth policy that generates decent revenue, astute spending, clever recruitment (Tielemans and Kamara for no transfer fee) - the NBA commercial bloke (who is a massive wanker) they brought in has the target of hitting £400m revenue asap. For years the club was run like a corner shop, and that didn't stop when Ellis fucked off, Lerner was the same, threw money at it but had zero idea how to run a football club. Finally, people who understand it, and have the money to back it in charge.

They're here for possibly as little as four months each, so it's not a multi year commitment to stupid wages. We're in the last 16 of the CL, and clearly in need of a shot in the arm. Football is for fun, fuck it, have a go at it. The alternative was what, mook about fretting about wage bills? The people running us are not stupid, they are aware of the rules Again, I keep saying this, but we are really clever in the way we move players around. We've sold two youth products twice each in the last season and a half because of clever sales deals. We've just booked, what, £50m profit on a player who wasn't even a regular starter for us, who we bought from the MLS.

gambling the house how? Three loan signings plus Malen plus we’ve sold 85m worth in this window. We’ve got plenty of money, we just can’t spend it as we want for the same reasons you can’t. The difference is we make a ton of money selling players too.

That is correct. What an awesome beard he has.

Yes, standard arrangement these days on loans with options / obligations to buy. Agree the personals up-front. Not saying it happens every single time, but i think it is the norm.

Ever since we bought Iling-Junior, every time i see his name, "You Be Illin'" by Run DMC launches on my internal jukebox

Not sure I see why. When he came it was largely accepted he'd probably go out on loan.

I don't have anything against Arsenal particularly, but I always hope they fuck up games like this just because their fucking moron internet fanbase is so amusing afterwards.

He is unspeakably shit, isn't he?

We've apparently made over 70m from the Champions League so far, it is insane, no wonder the gap is so huge - and that's just the money from UEFA. As far as I am concerned, any club taking it away from the usual suspects even just for a bit is to be applauded. I hope Forest stay in the top four, for the same reason.

Worst comes to worst, we send him back at the end of the season.

He'll stay but having said that, if we signed Rashford, Asensio and Felix, I'd suggest something might be happening. He's great, and vital to how we play, but then again, he's also 29 and if someone waves 60m at us, then you've got to think, is there something worth considering here? Also, his goals and assists figures are awesome, but fuck me, I don't know how he manages that AND manages to miss so many easy chances.

Well, strictly speaking, if you look only at things that have happened, it has been pretty shit, we're weaker than we were at the start of it.

Fuck it, we're in the last 16 of the CL, have a favourable looking line up for the next round, need some bodies in, need quality, a one-stop shot at doing something, fuck it. Let's have a pop. Bearing in mind, if you'd rewind 5 years ago and told me I'd be dreaming this, let alone actually thinking it was feasible, I'd have thought you were fucking insane.

It's basically getting a job in a place where that job doesn't matter. Like becoming Napalm Death's triangle player.

So long as we're in the rules re wages, who cares? I never understand why fans are arsed about wages.

I've just read a rumour about us selling Bailey to Man United for 30m. Please do. Absolutely terrible this season.

Both loans, though. Suspect we'll bank the credits on that one until the summer, given that big money permanent deals take so long to put together, and there's only two days left.

We need to, we are at bare bones at the moment. One fit Centre Back, only have one striker full stop, only one experienced right back, just got shot of Buendia. We're definitely feeling the strain of the champions league campaign, no getting away from it. It's all very well signing Rashford and Asensio and Felix but our defence is an absolute car crash at the moment. If we don't sign a CB, and ideally a decent RB, then it's insane.

Exactly, it doesn't even stack up as a sportswashing exercise. Two or three years into it and the Saudi league is every bit as irrelevant as ever - it is the project of people who know the price of everything and the value of nothing. How many Saudi clubs can we even name? Al-Nassr Al-Ettifaq Al-Yankovic Al-Jarreau Al-Gore And that's about it.

FWIW i reckon we'll go for Cunha at Wolves. Only they're going to be twats over it because this is one of those one-way local rivalries we have in the west midlands and they won't want to sell to us.

Maatsen and Moreno, and he moved Moreno on when, after his injury, he'd lost his pace. We have two good left backs. The likes of us and you, and our fans, are so used to not thinking this way, but we need to get past the idea of a starting XI and then a supporting cast. Emery wants two good options in every position, and that is what the likes of us, and you, are going to need to make the next step forward.