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hakka

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  1. Hang on, how is top class defending yanking someone down by their shirt?
  2. Our passing from CMs is really poor at times.
  3. Maybe all those fucking Dachshunds running around the pitch is putting us off.
  4. Closer to hitting it verticle than straight ahead.
  5. Play it around the back and then hit it long. This midfield seems to have totally forgotten how to play from the middle.
  6. Why we hoofing it forward so much ffs.
  7. I thought Rolando Aarons was going to be the next big thing, but that fizzled out as quick as the original thought forming.
  8. Gotta be similar to goal difference. Doesn't always reflect your position but more games you include the more correlation between higher position predictor. Maybe less accurate as its expected over delivered, but should have some correlation.
  9. West Ham and Man Utd also have big variance. In fact Man Utd is absolutely honking where their expectation peers are
  10. Either way, PSG didn't bid for Wilson and no Saudi club bid for Almiron so maybe move on from FFP fantasy discussions and criticisms of things that never did happen.
  11. They are both situations that never happened, hence why I see equivolance and pointlessness in using them to discuss possible FFP stuff. I get you fully believe the ASM sale was dodgy and our owners dictating one club over there buy our player to help us, but I don't believe that is the case. Nor do I perceive it as a mistake or even an option by our owners to force a Saudi club to buy Almiron in the way you described for our FFP benefit.
  12. I just want to deal in reality and facts my friend. I could sit here telling you about how if PSG could have bought Wilson for £50m and how we could have used that in some clever FFP manner, but they didn't happen, so it's all a bit silly. We have no idea at the extent of whether our owners forced ASM sale or not, or whether they were stupid not to buy Almiron or any of our deadwood in fact for a handsome fee we wouldn't normally get, but it never happened so it can't form a key part of a debate that we should of used money from a sale that wasn't on the cards.
  13. I have no idea, and neither do you. Let's stick to what happened, which is nobody bidded £30m Almiron.
  14. But they didn't come bidding so its moot.
  15. This is how I see it. This FFP selling stuff only works if you can sell an older first team asset for way over its value and bring in younger at same quality (or better) for cheaper fee/wages, which is incredibly difficult and rare, and no doubt why we haven't.
  16. And unlocking money now only locks it later down the line. I swear people talk like selling and buying is so easy and is some FFP trick, but if it was that simple eveyone would be doing it. Only clubs I can think of that have sort of done it is Chelsea (and arguably has been done badly) or Forest (and its been risky and not always worked out i.e. Shelvey).
  17. Almiron should have been second fiddle this season to a class RW/RF, the fact he is first choice again isn't his fault. He has a role for us, it just isn't evey week across multiple competitions. We opted to double up on LW/LF side and guess we needed it with Barnes injury, but we badly need that equivolance or better the other side.
  18. All this peak FFP resale stuff I really think isn't helpful or entirely as accurate and as simple as people suggest. You have to replace a player with one of equal or better quality, but it will cost you more than what your selling. Our issue isn't the quality of 1st team, its the depth of it with quality. Even more so complicated with several legacy players on high wages and no way to sell on.
  19. Seeing FFP only being used to punch downwards so far is certainly the opposite of what I thought it was supposed to be about.
  20. What on earth could Eddie teach a Maverick like Ben Arfa?
  21. I want to agree, but feel like apart from our two goals we were largely horrendous and clueless.
  22. Can't see what you ain't looking for.
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