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Match report can now be written: Crystal Palace defeated Manchester United 4-0 on Monday night at Selhurst Park, but the visitors will be aggrieved at a first half goal that was ruled out for a foul on Rasmus Hojlund. After an energetic opening period, United thought they equalised after a lovely floated header to the near post. The valiant visitors gave their all, but an injury depleted squad came up short. Michael Olise scored four goals. Erik Ten Hag may be under increasing pressure when they host league leaders Arsenal this weekend, but fan representative Froggy assures us his hands are tied and he's doing the best he can.

Palace better be out of sight at halftime.

You could make a highlight reel of players being dribbled past just from the last five minutes.

Eze just dancing through people. Please Palace.

It might be bad in the near term, but seems like a gift longer term. I can't imagine it was going to end well.

These football positions are different to the normal world, but in the normal world going all the way to the end and getting an actual offer is sometimes the only way to get a counter.

I get some serious Pardew-type vibes from these quotes. “What concerns me is that in 18 months I have never had my favourite team on the pitch once, because players were injured – that concerns me. In fact there was only one time, against City at home last season. That is the only time I had a full squad to pick my full team.” “In all the other games there was an injury aspect that we have had to deal with. “That’s normal in football, but not as many as we have had. And I know that when we’ve had so many injuries in crucial key positions, you can’t deliver the results you want to bring. That’s OK, but that’s my truth – others can have different truths but I can’t put any energy into that.”

Journalists in general (some are better than others) have been so slow to react to covering the financial side of the game. It took way too long to move past the headline transfer fee figure and get on board with amortisation. Now most seem to be hip to amortisation, but so few talk about wages and it seems no one is doing the work they should be doing to really push clubs/agents/players to share wage numbers, bonus details, etc. All of this is necessary information to understanding the actual cost of a player and how it impacts a club's finances. Trying to find out Wilson's salary is comical - sources range from £43k/wk to over £100k. It makes a huge difference to what benefit (or not) we'd get in selling him.

What a dumb rumour. Even the club won’t know what the exact situation is yet. Each league place is worth roughly £3m, so 6th vs 8th is a £6m swing on its own.

That’s what I meant actually. Just read your post too fast. I have a hard time imagining we’d be able to sustain success without our top three CBs but who knows.

I think we’d be right there if we simply just had Pope all season.

Pretty sure we’d have to sell Bruno to fund anything of the sort.

Does the club own the land the training ground is on?

Yeah, whatever happens this season happens. I’m more concerned Poch has found something that will stop them from sliding into oblivion.

Amusing that Masters says a government intervention will create a "complicated and duplicative system" while at the same time the Premier League is creating new financial regulations that are quite clearly a complicated and duplicative system with UEFA's.

Really don't want to rehash this, but the problem is what does it mean for a game where he doesn't bet on us?

It's very frustrating how they put things like "unlimited budget" in the tweet and then the article is saying "Newcastle fans are expecting 'the best in the world' with an 'unlimited budget' for the project" and then you read it's just a quote from one person. What it should say: "One Newcastle fan is hoping there's an unlimited budget for the project, but i does not have the first idea about what PIF is planning."

These sites provide some directionally accurate data, but they all seem to be lower than reality. For example, the two most popular sites list our club wages as ~£90m for 2022/23 while our published wages were £187m. Part of this can be explained by non-playing staff but Swiss Ramble estimates that first team wages account for 85-90% of a club's published wages, so these numbers are still off by over £50m. A huge part of that is likely variable bonuses. But the main flaw is the data on these sites is predicated on reporting from various outlets and, for the most part, football journalism is bad and clubs/agents/players have kept wages shrouded in secrecy. Look at Gordon's page on Spotrac: https://www.spotrac.com/epl/player/_/id/49831/anthony-gordo It was reported he's on £60k/week (who knows what the original source was) so they multiply that by 52 and show £3,120,000 per season. If that's accurate that's obviously just his base salary; we have no info on bonuses. We know the bare minimum and we have no idea if it's right. Now look at the NFL's Patrick Mahomes: https://www.spotrac.com/nfl/player/_/id/21751/patrick-mahomes The headlines were that he signed a 10 year, $450m deal. But we know everything. We know his base salary in 2024 is $9.85m with a $27m restructure bonus, a $7.9m roster bonus, and a $1m workout bonus which adds up to $45.75m this year. And we know this breakdown for the next 8 years, plus the fact that he has incentives in his contract like $1.25m for winning the MVP and another $1.25m for winning the Super Bowl. Part of this is because the NFL has a salary cap and knowing how a contract impacts a team's cap is necessary, but you can see this type of thing for all sports (including baseball, which doesn't have a cap). I find it very frustrating that the financial side of football has become so important, but the only 100% accurate data we get comes out once a year on a one year delay.

I'm having trouble imagining a more nerve-wrecking final interview than meeting with Yasir.

If we're able to get Tosin and Kelly then I would be very into the idea of finding somewhere to send Targett on a subsidized loan with a buy clause. There has to be some creative way to offload him.

Maybe but I don't really remember that being a common criticism. He just wasn't very good so his normal performance was an adventure in defending.

Shout out to David Young, tax partner at Deloitte and Touche... "The financial rewards of the Champions League have become so great that there's a danger that those clubs participating in it now will become so rich that clubs will be unable to challenge them."

I'm also not sure I've ever heard it used to describe a white player. Gives off the same vibes as black NFL QB has trouble processing fast enough.

Him sitting out their final games would be some concrete information. Happy to see us take advantage of this market.