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It hasn’t taken 40 points since 2010/11. If we get 37 points we’ll be fine.

What the 17th place team got is misleading. 35 points would have been enough last season.

People need to stop saying we need 40 points. Almost certainly not going to be true and rarely is the threshold.

Bony scares me.

We should have scored one of those chances but could easily be down 1-0 and to 10 men so I’ll take it. Don’t think the other scores are bad if we win.

Gayle couldn’t have done more things poorly this half. He can’t even pass a ball into space.

Only had time to skim this - what am I missing here? This seems like a pseudo wage cap that would also make it really difficult for a club to invest heavily all of a sudden (e.g. if a takeover were to occur).

If I can play body language expert for a second, he just seems bemused by the whole thing at this point. He's at the stage beyond anger where all you can do is laugh at how ridiculous it all is.

Yeah, so it's conceivable we don't have much money sitting in the bank assuming he's wanting that paid back first.

Did Ashley loan us any money last season similar to the first time in the Championship?

Good article: https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/jan/11/premier-league-great-divide-mid-table-clubs-gone

Massively clutching at straws I know. I just want a f***ing cup run. Ah right I thought you were taking the p*ss tbh. The semi finals of the league cup are two legs anyway Yeah I know, but all to play for in the second leg now. Maybe we'll see an extra kid or two against us.

It’s been said on numerous occasions that it won’t be a Man City style ownership. It's also been said numerous times, just because (if) they have a lot of money why should they pay more than something is worth? You don't buy a £250k house for £300k because the current owner is being a t***, no matter how much money you have. I once bought a ticket for a gig that was only worth £50 for £75 off eBay, because I had the money and really wanted to go to the gig. Supply and demand. As far as we're aware the only demand is coming from PCP. Not even the richest person in the world would want to pay an extra 50m for something when they are bidding against themselves. PSG paid Neymars €222m release clause? Surely that's at least 50m more than he's worth, and i don't think anyone else was bidding. That's an entirely different scenario and not really relevant. There is no release clause for the club, there is no deadline to buy/sell clubs, and (presumably) Ashley wants to sell the club. Also there are a number of complicating factors, most notably the fact that the value of the club could be cut in half in five months for what is, from a business perspective, an arbitrary reason. If I had to guess I'd say the two sides aren't 50m apart in isolation. I'm guessing it's more a gap in valuation with certain clauses attached or not, which makes this pretty complicated.

Massively clutching at straws I know. I just want a fucking cup run.

It’s been said on numerous occasions that it won’t be a Man City style ownership. It's also been said numerous times, just because (if) they have a lot of money why should they pay more than something is worth? You don't buy a £250k house for £300k because the current owner is being a t***, no matter how much money you have. I once bought a ticket for a gig that was only worth £50 for £75 off eBay, because I had the money and really wanted to go to the gig. Supply and demand. As far as we're aware the only demand is coming from PCP. Not even the richest person in the world would want to pay an extra 50m for something when they are bidding against themselves.

Good result for us.

I forget - did Ashley give us another loan when we went down last year?

Know nothing about him but I'd take him over Kenedy solely for the position he plays.

I hope they do make an approach and offer. Maybe he could use it as leverage to get something out of Ashley.

What could we reasonably get for him as a fee? Seems like we should try to cash in the next time he scores a couple goals.

I'd love to say Eintracht's finances are irrelevant to us, but they are probably willing to spend more than we are.

3rd wasn't it? Didn't we draw Arsenal right after that?

Chelsea's fixtures for the rest of the month if they win the replay: 1/10 Arsenal (h) - LC 1/13 Leicester (h) 1/16 Norwich (h) - FAC Replay 1/20 Brighton (a) 1/24 Arsenal (a) - LC 1/27 Newcastle (h) - FAC 1/31 Bournemouth (h) They barely have to leave London, but that's a lot of games off the back of the Christmas period and with an eye on the CL in February. Really wish we were at home.

Fuck off