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He's underrated by most because the majority of people still think we spent Saudi billions to get here, which also means any struggle is viewed as severely underperforming.

Joe Harvey one FA Cup Final (1974) and one UEFA win (1969). Stan Seymour consecutive FA Cup wins (1951-52). Frank Watt four time league winner and six FA Cup finals (two wins) in 37 years. I believe that’s the entire list. Three other managers between 50-100+ years ago.

That would be awful.

Probably not going to be the keeper for the final, which shockingly now might be a controversial topic. Fair play to him.

Legend

Tonali smartly slowing things down there. We can't make everything a rapid counter.

It's outrageous that this is considered acceptable. Either put sensors on body parts, put as many cameras as necessary in every stadium so you have perfectly straight lines, or give VAR 30 seconds and if they can't figure it out then keep the on field ruling.

I'm giving him a pass since his block at the other end was outstanding.

RULE THAT OUT

The volume is low but you can tell it's rabid. I'd give anything to be there.

Except that one uses quality technology and the other is 40-50 year old men drawing lines on a screen at inconsistent frames and from irregular angles.

A disallowed goal and a couple unpunished pushes from them will get the crowd going. Silver linings.

That's one where the angle isn't quite right and it's so close that it really should just be inconclusive and ruling on the field stands.

Do we not get to see it?

We were very prompt last year. Many clubs released them in Feb/March.

I feel like this is going to happen too.

I wish every club was publicly traded just for the transparency. Confirms that the £15m came from the Italian side and the £20m would require add-ons to be met.

You're in the ballpark. There's some math in the first post of this thread if you want to compare. We really need the new accounts to be released so that we're only 7-12 months behind instead of 18+.

The only way Eddie should have a real problem with what we've done this month is if the internal expectations of him do not align with our approach and the realities of our situation. If this is a necessary and/or strategic reset of our finances then he also can't be judged too harshly if we fail to qualify for the CL or win a trophy. There's no reason to think that is happening.

When wondering what sales could do for our budget (assuming they aren't making up for shortfalls), here's a better method than multiplying the fees by five like you'll often see the engagement merchants doing: - Take the profit of the sale - Divide by 3 - Add the departing player's wages There are a lot of caveats and exceptions but it's a quick way to think more realistically in terms of annual costs. So Kelly + Miggy = £30m* in, which is £10m/yr. Combined wages very roughly speaking of £8m%. In theory it could free up about £18m^ per year, which is about a Tonali. some caveats and exceptions... * I can't be bothered to look up what of Miggy's fee would have been left and it's very likely Kelly had a signing bonus we amortised. I just made it £30m for easy math. % Not starting the Kelly wages debate so putting it between £90-100k/wk. The larger numbers on some sites may be nonsense or could be inclusive of signing bonus + add ons ^ Almiron didn't have 3+ years left on his contract so you're still making up funds in some of these years

Even in a world without PSR and where the only thing that matters is the club's cash flow I cannot imagine being even moderately upset or worried about either of these deals.

I will take this falling through harder than Saturday's second half.

It's actually just one season, but three windows sounds more dramatic.

Very annoying that Brighton just let them fix their GD.

I think you have a bit of blinkered memory of the game. It's partially what you said, but they also had some legitimate chances: - Right before halftime Dembele from 12 yards out takes a shot that hits Schar in the chest. Pope was behind him and may have saved it. - Barcola at 66 minutes from 5 yards out and all alone has their best chance of the game. The ball skims off of Pope's knee. If this was one of our players they would have been crucified for not scoring. - Barcola again a minute later is through on Pope and gently pushes the ball into the outside of the net. I cannot imagine the posts about him on a PSG board. - Dembele in the 82nd minute beats Schar and has a chance from five yards out. He misses entirely.