Mattoon
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Chelsea taking the same approach to managers as we do to players, I wonder how long they'll monitor other managers for? #trendsetters
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In fairness I completely forgot Lazaar existed, so Ryder did well to even remember him. Aye but neither of us get paid to write the stuff, i mean a quick check would have took a few seconds, so you get the facts right. The man is a buffoon, a total buffoon. Who according to Ryder was a decent keeper in his day so he accepts the analogy
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It was difficult tbh but he should have been alert to it rather than it just bouncing off him
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Lukaku [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]
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I'd be fine with that if it meant Ashley had no more excuses for not spending. The reality is he probably pays clever accountants more than anyone else in his empire Almost looking forward to studying next years financial submission from the club. If we don't buy a couple of players soon we're going to run out of contracts to amortise, then where will the imaginary debt go?
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We've raised a generation of self entitled nobheads basically, I'm not saying they're all like that because that's what's annoying me about the "All England Fans are the same and we actively want you's to lose" mantra. Yes we've got a load of pricks causing havoc, wrecking public and private property and throwing beer around, it's not indicative of England Fans, it's the Ingurrrland "fans" that jump on the bandwagon when it's going well and only own an England shirt, maybe a 2018 Man City shirt and an old Chelsea shirt in the wardrobe on top of an early 2000s Man U shirt. A bit of nice weather, some beer and a mob mentality is a disaster waiting to happen. Like HTT I stay far away from public gatherings of said nob heads when the game is on, I've been hosting World Cup days at my gaff for 5 or 6 friends and it's been a quality tournament. Don't let pictures on social media and in the papers form your opinion on England Fans as a collective, as NUFC fans you know how easy it is to get caught in a clichè.
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Most of those are not "England Fans" they're just dickheads with an excuse to get pissed because everyone's watching the England game. But don't let that stop the agenda of cellulite Sally being the face of English fan hooliganism. Most of what I have witnessed has been passionate and respectful.
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Exactly how I wanted it to play out, a gruelling 120 minutes of football and a draining penalty shoot-out won by Croatia. Nervous but excited for Wednesday night!
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One of Rafa's close friends Micky Mellon's daughter goes to Cheerleading with my daughter, the Mrs keeps trying to put it out there that I need to meet him at some point. He's a sound bloke too
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We are asking for £15m for Ritchie apparently, If you can negotiate them down, the hit wouldn't be so bad. In Rafa's hands, Townsend was a hell of a player, I think he could do far more with him than he can with Ritchie. And had he stayed with us and learnt from Rafa he'd be a £30m player, right now, at Palace, after that season I'd argue he's closer to a £13m player Well, one thing you can be sure of with our negotiating team, we aren't about to overbid for a player so you can rest assured there. £3m and that's our final offer, we won't be held to ransom! "We tried".
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We are asking for £15m for Ritchie apparently, If you can negotiate them down, the hit wouldn't be so bad. In Rafa's hands, Townsend was a hell of a player, I think he could do far more with him than he can with Ritchie. And had he stayed with us and learnt from Rafa he'd be a £30m player, right now, at Palace, after that season I'd argue he's closer to a £13m player
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Disappointed not to win and continue the form we had but the outcome is the better option of the two. It was a strange match, I didn't want us to lose but I didn't want us to finish top either. It was a nothing game and we treated it as such, the "B" team didn't exactly cover themselves in glory, Dier, Delph, Vardy and Pickford were all poor, Trent-Arnold and Loftus-Cheek both faded out of the game and we weren't the same at the back once Stones went off. Our best team should be enough to see off Columbia and hopefully take us to the Semis. Croatia will destroy us if we make it that far but I'd be more than happy with getting that far.
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£30m for Townsend? [emoji23] Someone at Palace needs to lay off the crack.
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This for me, it can't be said enough how huge that victory was after everything that went before it. We should have been home and dry in the first half an hour but as it was with so much adversity to keep our heads up and keep going until the last whistle was pure grit. Refreshingly different from England teams gone by.
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Cash cows are business which produce stable, predicatable and high-quality cashflows. Football clubs rarely are and NUFC certainly isn't. MA is not beyond sharp practice, there are plenty of stories out there, but if he needs to extract cash from NUFC, he can. He just repays a bit of the shareholder loan. He's not going to set up a convoluted Balti pie scheme for a few grand. With the merchendise, almost certainly SD providing the service will ensure greater profits. The only question is how these are shared. All of these are minor points, the real issue is that the club has utterly failed to exploit its commercial potential and continues to run itself with a skeleton crew operating at the whim of a barely interested control freak. It wouldn't surprise me to find out Ashley was siphoning every available penny out of the club, including the Balti pies. However you are correct, the main point is exploiting the club to advertise his tat brand without compensation. Interest free loans he owes to himself are a smoke screen for multi-million pound advertising for free on a worldwide stage, this is what needs to be addressed if we are to compete at a higher level.
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100% any budget is inclusive of contract length wages, funny that's never factored back in once a player is moved on before his contract is up?
