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That's misleading though because some matchday things show up in commercial and any use of the stadium that isn't a club's games is going to fall into commercial.

What Ornstein says there is kind of wrong anyway because part of UEFA's model is effectively a luxury tax. The difference is they do also have the PSR-like max loss over three year thing, which I think is the worst part of the three UEFA pillars.

The Aramco Pitch at St. James' Park. £15m per season.

I can certainly understand the merits of selling a 32 year old striker who, in a best case scenario, requires a managed workload to be consistently available. And we need to be bringing through a younger player anyway. But I do think it's generally underestimated how difficult it could be to replace his output.

It makes sense - they don't want to go back to a club / nation being able to completely take the piss. And it wouldn't make sense with UEFA's rules anyway. But new rules with defined penalties and the ability to go even 10% above whatever limit would be a vast improvement. No matter what comes in increasing revenue is still going to be paramount.

I regret bringing this up as I really can't be bothered to do the Wilson thing again. But if you look back to before the pec injury the majority were still on board with the idea of Wilson as an extremely valuable 2nd/3rd striker. The pec injury sent everyone over the edge, which is silly because it's such a dumb/random injury. It's the fact that it was his fourth injury of the season that made it the last straw, but it's not really fair because his second and third injuries this season were down to completely irresponsible usage.

Wilson could be fit enough if we could use him responsibly.

That fourth tier would also include Alvarez and probably has to include Wilson also, which is why I'm not as keen to rush him out the door as some.

Haaland Isak Watkins Nunez Hojlund Solanke Toney Nunez and Hojlund both have the potential to climb a tier or two. The next tier probably includes Adebayo, Awoniyi, and Richarlison. When you do this exercise you realize that it'd be insane to sell Isak for anything less than a top 3 transfer fee of all time.

It's all hypothetical still and the devil is in the details. But yes, any version of rules that imposes fines as punishments means we could effectively do as much as our owners want. At the very least it would provide a level of flexibility that doesn't exist today.

Balancing this with the UEFA rules will be interesting, but I think they can be approached with some confidence that as long as the overspending is within reason and at least for the first few years then the punishment would only be fines. If this gets voted in and the PL and UEFA both effectively have luxury taxes then we will know pretty quickly how big PIF's ambition is with us.

For some reason I only noticed it this season, but I just looked it up and they installed the two-tiered advertising boards in 2021 so they could offer "the most commercially valuable pitch side media space in the Premier League." Took out 1,100 seats to do it.

I don't know who else has it but one thing I've noticed recently is Man City's advertising hoardings are obnoxiously big. They seem to be twice the height. I assume everyone will do it soon. Not sure if that would require killing the first row?

They will be more than fine. I would not be shocked if they experienced a golden era sometime in the next decade or so.

It’s the difference in the season, but also half of those games were very unfortunate timing.

If we had won (and we should have whether 1-0 or 2-0) I would have described it as a professional performance. Considering the injuries, the lack of bench options, three games in a week, and our defensive frailties the approach seemed spot on to me. They were dead at 2-0 and we should have gotten there.

This idea that gets floated that we should have seen improvement since December as if the manager is the only thing holding us back is such a crock of shit narrative.

The live table was looking so nice...

Can't wait to see the negative slant this one gets. Some stats before the drama starts: 58% possession 17 shots to 10 6 shots on target to 3 8 blocked shots to 1 7 corners to 3 2.38 open play xG to 0.35 Not included in the above - a game killing goal ruled out for offside

Do they?

Sickening

Why isn't the ref seeing a replay that shows the flight of the ball?

Not sure if it's more ridiculous that we only have one goal or they only have one yellow card.

Anderson didn't seem as involved as the first half. He's probably not ready for 90 minutes.

Isak's chance was the same xG as a penalty.