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Didn't it burn down or get flooded at some point and due to the team not being good anymore they just didn't really fix it? Think it's the second oldest stadium in professional football (in Italy) as well iirc.

Only really feel there's major issues in the PL. Possibly to do with the poor standard of referees in England.

Probably better in here: Just seen Venezia or Cittadella will be promoted to the Serie A tomorrow. Both teams with stadiums in the 7.5k capacity range. Venezia not been in the top division for 20 years and Cittadella for the first time in their history, on the third lowest budget in the Serie B. Venezia has a rich owner so not that impressive, but fun to see teams like that make it all the way to the top division anyhow. Venezia having their stadium in old Venice and Cittadella having theirs within the medieval citadel. Fun trivia teams as well. I am entertained.

I so hope Lincoln make it up to the Championship due to it being the perfect starting FM22 save

People in not liking change shocker. Not saying I prefer the new option, but change is inevitable. It is on us, the fans, to influence the change happening ( )

He played his entire youth career as an AM before being converted to a CB/DM when he was around 17/18, made him a lot more offensive and comfortable on the ball than your average big and tall CB.

I'm the opposite, away is away. No point in an away kit if it's not used away. Third kits are pointless however and I dislike them very much.

Probably around mid-table PL quality with potential to be better in a harder league (or fall through in a harder league). Potential is there. Big and strong yet agile. Sometimes played as a playmaking DM in the national side. Could compare him a bit to Colo really, but taller. Time will tell if he can do as well in a big league but he's taken all the steps up well so far.

So 5 out of 19 away matches then, great job for an away shirt

Yes. We'd be the perfect stepping stone for him to either ruin his career or play well for a year or two and move on to greener pastures (if we remain in our status quo). Not that we'd afford him if we don't get bought since £16m is £4m more than our entire transfer budget this season.

Bale in the beginning of the season looked like a League One player straight off his summer holidays at Blackpool. Took him ages to even look like he knew what a football was after all that golfing. Once he got going, though... Still a great player in there.

Ajer is class though, type of player I'd like to see us buy if we get taken over. Young-ish up and coming that can make us a great side without us "buying" a great side.

Planned to head down there in two weeks time to stay 14 days before entering the US, guess that's off the table at the moment

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From the WBA statement: "our goal of surviving relegation" Wouldn't the correct wording be "our goal of avoiding relegation"? To survive something surely it has to happen to you? You couldn't survive relegation before being relegated, no?

Horrid take.

If not "punishing the fans" mattered then teams wouldn't be relegated from point deductions due to their owners fucking up the club's finances. At least Barcelona, Real Madrid and Juventus are still likely to get barred from the CL.

The Bodø/Glimt -1 train is off to a great start with 2 for 2 so far

Pardew's main fault was that he was quite obviously on the narcissistic spectrum. I fully buy that Pardew thought he was the king and thought he could do anything even if he clearly couldn't. Liking Pardew was essentially impossible, but I always had a minute sense of pity for him in that I didn't believe he actually knew any better due to his mental state. Pardew saying the stuff he did felt like he actually meant it no matter how insane what he said was, which is down to me believing he's a narcissist. Bruce is just a genuine asshole/bully that insults the fans with intent. I have no pity for him and genuinely dislike him.

The week of March 10th was the only week we were below (though still equal) to Fulham odds-wise to go down, so that's a lie.

https://www.bbc.com/sport/football/57047602.amp Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds: Stars never met before buying Wrexham A Hollywood script along similar lines might be laughed out of Tinseltown. A famous actor with a soft spot for the spirit-lifting romance and bitter disappointment of sport is inspired to buy a club by a Netflix fly-on-the-wall football documentary. What is more, he manages to persuade an even more famous actor to join him. And, oh, they had never actually met. If the takeover of National League club Wrexham by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds still seems somewhat far-fetched, the tale of how it came about takes this narrative to another level. Speaking to Radio 5 Live's Scott Mills and Chris Stark show, McElhenney was asked how his wife, and co-star of 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia', Kaitlin Olson responded when he told her he wanted to buy a football club. "I remember the moment. I was sitting on the couch, I was watching Sunderland 'Til I Die. And I was falling in love with this team and these people and the story," said McElhenney. "In all honesty it was the first time I had understood the concept of promotion and relegation. I didn't know that that's how the system worked. "So I opened my computer and just started Google-searching promotion and relegation. I recognised that if you can get relegated, of course then you can also get promoted. "Then I looked up how many leagues there are and realising there are five leagues with the National League included… that if you could ostensibly go down, you could go up. "So even though I couldn't afford to buy say Liverpool or Sunderland for that matter or Man City, Man U, maybe we could afford to buy a lower-league team and have them ascend through the ranks. "And maybe there are a lot of clubs that might be in trouble because of Covid. Then I just looked up at her and said, 'I think I want to buy a football team'. "It was all within like 20 minutes. She was like, 'Okay'. And I said, 'No I think I am going to do this'." As McElhenney's ambition took hold, he wondered if he could persuade Reynolds to join in, despite only being acquainted via modern technology. Although the 'It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia' star recently revealed on a US television show that the pair met last month for the first time to shoot a promo for the football club, prior to their successful bid for Wrexham the pair had never come face to face. Explaining the situation on the Saturday morning BBC show McElhenney said: "The weird thing is I have known Ryan for years but I have never met him (at the time). "We are just text buddies. He lives in New York, I live out here (in Los Angeles). "He is on movie sets all over the world. We met on social media. One time I looked in my Instagram DMs (direct messages) and he had DM'd me. "From that point forward we became friends and we would just text each other every once in a while. "Then I was in the shower and I was thinking, you know he is super entrepreneurial, I wonder if he would be into coming in with me as a full partner, because he could really raise the exposure of this thing exponentially. "I got out of the shower and I said to Caitlin, 'What if I ask Ryan to be a full partner, do you think he would do it?'. "She said, 'I guess that depends whether or not your ego can take sharing the screen with Ryan Reynolds'." That response prompted McElhenney to "furiously" send Reynolds an email. "He just said, 'I'm in, call me'," said McElhenney. "I never thought I would be the guy who was on the edge of my seat screaming in joy for a 0-0 draw. I have found myself doing that. "We are in play-off contention. We only have a few more games left. If we win out we are in, but if we draw out there is a potential that we are still in." 'We're stewards, not owners' If the manner in which McElhenney and Reynolds took over Wrexham was unorthodox, they plan to be "as authentic as possible" when it comes to running the club. Amid the continuing fall-out from the failed bid by some of Europe's leading clubs to form a Super League, McElhenney's words might be a source of comfort for many football fans. "Look what happened with the Super League," said McElhenney. "That was misstep after misstep after misstep and people let them know very quickly how they felt about it. "The word owner as it pertains to a football club makes no sense to me. "I don't understand how I, an American who was born in 1977 in Philadelphia, could own a football club that was born in the middle 1800s in Wrexham, Wales. It doesn't make any sense. "The way that I approach is that we are stewards of the club. I like the title chairman much better than I like the title owner because I truly can't own that. The town owns that. "Our job is to come in as chairmen and to help facilitate the success so that the town can continue to flourish, the team can continue to flourish, and they can have success long after we're gone and there are new chair people that take over." In the meantime, amid the coronavirus pandemic, McElhenney has yet to see Wrexham play, "I've never been there, because of Covid. This whole year has been such a wash. "I just got my vaccination so I'm ready to travel as soon as they'll have me. We're actually working on that schedule right now, I can't wait."

In theory, both examples should do the same and work just fine. This thread removes the optimistic "Keith" style musings away from the main takeover thread to, in theory, allow for more discussion regarding what most seem to find more "realistic" news than twitter rumors and the types of bread a lawyer makes. This thread allows for the people that want to discuss those things to do just that without being of any hassle to the other posters who don't want to do that. Yet, the posters that don't want to discuss those news, come in this thread and spew bile. They don't do that between the braindead twitter transfer rumors thread and the realistic transfer rumors thread. This is a well managed and well functioning forum and examples such as separating a thread due to two very different discussions going on at the same time are plenty, as it just allows for better discussion. As @thomas very aptly exemplifies, it seems like certain posters believe this thread isn't dressing right and they can't utilize the minimum required self-control to not yell that all over. I'd have issued warnings to everyone making non-contributive posts and removed said posts that aren't constructive with regards to the purpose of the thread.

We already have that so it would be merged, it's the brainless twitter rumours thread. Yet, people behave there, even if things posted are outlandish.

The only truly annoying thing here is the constant bickering instead of actually staying on topic.

They do it in their dedicated thread, they don't do it in every thread or start 10 new threads for it - that would be RTG levels. However, the people who are annoyed at the positive posters are reaching RTG levels in their responses. Just don't use the optimism thread. The thread states in its opening post what the subject will be, and the thread title states it. Respect that and don't break forum rules by making non-contributive posts.