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Could not care less how we play the rest of this season. I will take ugly, fluky, undeserved, controversial wins and draws. It’s so important we finish as high as possible this season.

Dubs looks annoyed that he had to get up.

Areola, seriously

Every time one of our players messes up on a counter I just assume Isak is thinking about living in Barcelona.

That's always the case. If it's not the first 21 minutes v. Spurs then we are terrible and any player who falls over is out for the season. Bar a little spell in the first half though this is pretty poor.

I feel like the only version of attacking play he's comfortably with is dribbling towards the goal. But when that's not an option (and it's usually not for a fullback) then he greatly struggles with decision making and then, bizarrely, if he does make the right decision he often loses all technical ability in those moments.

3 points just sitting there. West Ham is going to be the reason we don't get CL/Europe if we don't figure something out in the second half.

Final third Tino™

Final third Tino strikes again.

His technique is just bad. Doubt it's changing at age 32.

Tino's final ball is so often terrible. Needs to spend the whole summer working on final third play.

That's a really nice save on replay.

A quick succession of nice things by Bruno.

Damn it, I was like why isn't the lineup out yet.

We should all just agree that all of the following is true and then never talk about this again: On the whole our business since the takeover has been spectacular We put ourselves in a terrible position through some combination of hubris, gambling, poor planning, and bad luck We avoided a points deduction and selling a key player at a discount, but we were forced to sell two young, solid players. This did not help our wage situation and we had to take on a useless player who we'll be paying for for years. It was not the worst (or second) worst case scenario; it was also not good. On the whole our business since the takeover has been spectacular

It just doesn't make sense with him writing about summer plans. 2025/26 sees 2022/23 drop off as well and that's what starts to really help the three year calculations.

Yeah, he's a bit mixed up there.

Keep in mind we made a ~£60m loss in 2023/24 if you take out the player sales. This was the same point being made all summer. As of now our default position entering each new accounting period is running a loss of tens of millions before we've spent anything. Despite losing the CL money though 2024/25 should be solid with Adidas, Stack, lack of incomings, and Miggy / Kelly. We should be in decent shape for the 2025/26 PL period. The UEFA numbers are much more questionable due to the adjustments, so it really depends on whether we're in Europe or not and what we're willing to do.

It depends on where we finish, if we qualify for Europe, which European competition, how much we care about fully meeting UEFA's rules or if we're open to being fined, which players get new contracts, new commercial deals, and who we're selling.

Interesting fact in there is our player sales profit for last season was the 17th most ever in the PL. A lot of the ones above can be tied to a single, massive sale.

That's actually outrageous. Most of it should go to the associations of the countries involved or something.

Ha, I'm color blind so I just let Google handle it. I was annoyed they didn't keep the colors going from the line graphs, but couldn't be bothered to fix.

The two most stable revenue sources are commercial and matchday. For English clubs the only significant differences in broadcast revenue are UEFA money and the merit portion (approx. £3m per league place). Transfer profits are obviously very lumpy. Matchday is impacted by extra games (Europe and/or cup runs), but there is a solid baseline for each club based on capacity and ticket prices. Here's where we stand with the latest numbers... And the main reason I did this was to be able to see whether we're gaining ground or not. There's been a lot of debate about growth rates and when we might catch up, but percentage gains don't buy players. Ultimately, it all comes down to cash. Honestly I could be positive or negative about this chart (and I could guess which forum members might fall on either side ), but it does show how we are continually running uphill. Let's end on a happier note:

For anyone used to American prices this is basically the cost of going to any live event. In some cases it's the cost for one ticket. For some sports and teams it's the last seat in the building or standing room only.

Is it that or is it something to do with the Anderson/Greek swap? That's the G3.5 section. Much better news if it's what you said though as it's a big adjustment.