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I was thinking similar this morning. Could absolutely see us filing a personal lawsuit against him if either Man United pull out or they somehow weasel him away for just a few million. Breach of contract, damages for sharing confidential information, etc. etc.

It's all been quite strange since Bournemouth away.

Seem to remember Eddie getting slated for being interested in him.

People will joke that it doesn’t matter, but it’d be really nice to have a friendly start to get our confidence up. And give us some CL teams at home in October / November.

Same, it’s why I expect us to have no shot on wages.

A cheaper / riskier option like Madueke is also a bit easier to take (and maybe an easier decision to make) if we think Minteh also has the potential and is getting close.

Not even entertaining the thought of Olise -- we are going to get blown out of the water on wages. It would take an all-time good sales job combined with a player who is genuinely ok leaving a lot of money on the table.

If Madueke's published wages (~£50k) are remotely accurate then it could definitely be attractive.

What's also interesting there is no mention of Tosin.

I’d love to see who we’d get that would actually level us up. We’d almost certainly go backwards because of things people now take for granted.

Tindall can handle the qualifiers and stuff. Eddie will just show up in America, win the World Cup, and return for the 2026 season a legend.

The thing I'm starting to understand less and less is why the 6 (and particularly 4 of them) aren't interested in blowing up all of the current rules in favor of a generous cap on wages + amortisation (let's say £4-500m). They'd still have a massive advantage over most, it would slow down City, they'd have UEFA's rules as a backstop to help hold back the likes of us, and, critically for them, it would allow profits to be claimed while slowing down the never-ending spending race. It may put them at a disadvantage to a handful of European clubs, but I don't get the impression that most of these owners care more about beating the likes of Madrid than they do about putting money back in their pockets.

Can we please not make vague comments like "Linked with City again" as if it could be Ornstein saying it when in reality it's a bunch of pathetic people on a dying platform?

Too many good points in that to even try to quote them all. And, funnily enough, his proposal at the end (a £400m cap) is exactly what I think the right solution and amount is.

But he’s nowhere near good enough to get the most out of his squad. Excellent news.

Forget the specific players for a moment and you can see the potential appeal of a deal like this as it seems ripe for accounting shenanigans. There are a number of ways you could structure this, but I'm not sure what will be enforced.

If not the Super League then I could imagine a renewed effort from the highest earning clubs to get more of the broadcast revenue, which could be more of a percentage based on merit in the way it's done today or by trimming the PL to 18 clubs. And, whether the PL has 18 or 20 clubs, I could see the number of relegation places getting reduced to two (or even one). And there will be another push to expand the CL again.

We’ve done the Pope height conspiracy before. It’s all Burnley’s fault apparently as they listed him as 6’3” at one point. The man himself: "Six-foot-six-inches-ish. The average door is six-foot-six-inches... I've banged my head on a few!"

I think this is a very tough call to be honest that comes down entirely to our evaluation of him. Selling him is PSR gold, but so is keeping him if he’s good enough to play. The fact both his fee and wages are so low needs to be part of the equation. The problem is we almost certainly can’t confidently go into a season with Minteh and Murphy as our RW options. Selling him may be the right move and is certainly the easiest choice if £40m is accurate, but a wholesale change at RW where we bring in a starter + Minteh while selling Miggy and Murphy is also pretty compelling.

Isn’t ours 30 + sales?

This is my biggest takeaway from the video. Get people singing it like that and it will piss all over You’ll Never Walk Alone.

I’d feel sick as a Dortmund fan, which is kind of fitting because I still feel a bit sick at how the group stage played out.

Pretty sure it all gets amortised.

This is great news and also another example of how, in many ways, we're still playing catch-up. This maybe completes our executive team now?

By allowable losses I think we'll be in decent shape for this summer. But UEFA's cost control ratio drops to 70% for 2025/26 (which is assessed in the 2025 calendar year), so we'll have an eye on that as well. I've been a little pessimistic about our summer spend pending the money coming in/wages out for Ashworth, Miggy, Wilson, and maybe a surprise or two (Longstaff? Trippier? Anderson? Targett?).