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This was my main takeaway. Assuming the club hasn’t been totally reckless I’m guessing the ‘’must tear down” type headlines are overblown. CL revenue plus Adidas will obviously help. But it seems there will be little room for major additions without some sales.

Do you have a link to the actual accounts? I haven't seen them and don't see them on their site.

Sounds like the £56m in Covid losses is helping them bring that number down and then I guess infrastructure, women's football, etc.? Going to be interesting to see how they balance the the three year period ending in June without those Covid losses included anymore.

That's an eye popping increase to their wage bill. Seems likely to cross £200m in the 2023/24 accounts. Higher wages and amortisation costs than NUFC on £33m less revenue.

More Mintehs will be a big part of the plan to beat financial restrictions; more young players to come in this summer More detailed focus on making loans successful (we helped Minteh find an apartment, Shola visits often) Club will evaluate in preseason, but another loan most likely. Feyenoord interested, Championship possible. Hall is getting closer to "triggering" his deal, but there are no details. He may be loaned out next season.

I'm struggling to get excited about CM links without knowing if these are Bruno replacements.

It's not just more complicated than that. It's not remotely true that a £20m sale affords two £50m players.

Yes, would be revenue for us and costs for them. Though they can probably offset it by making his title Director of Football presented by Burger King.

You could also easily argue that a Man United collapse would just be regression to the mean.

They really could have no complaints if they had 10-12 less points. It’s infuriating.

RW and LB are the two positions where the right signing could completely transform the team. My preference between the two is the best RW option money can buy, ideally someone who can be a backup striker also. Striker and CB need succession planning / young depth. CM is interesting because with no outgoings we have enough bodies, but the mix feels a little off to me. It will be interesting to see what we do. And we really need a backup GK that plays similarly to Pope.

Seems like Southgate’s sole job at this point should be figuring out how to construct the best XI and system around Bellingham, Saka, and Foden.

I haven’t seen confirmation anywhere, but this is my best guess.

Here’s a complaint from a pro-Eddie / pro-patience perspective… I will caveat this by saying we obviously have way less information than the coaching staff and we also have an extended break before the next game plus only two in the next four weeks, so it may have played a factor. But I think the most fair criticism of him has to do with player rotation and rest. Isak starting three games and playing 200 minutes in a week and Willock playing in all three on their immediate return from injury seems an unnecessary risk given the seasons they’ve had. And if Isak is going to start today then it would have been the perfect time to give Gordon a rest. Instead he played 300 minutes this week. Gordon is going to hit 4000 minutes this season; maybe 4,500 including the U21 Euros. Eddie also doesn’t consider any game won or lost until there’s more than a two goal deficit. See: Gordon coming off immediately following Tino’s goal today. It probably won’t matter much for the rest of this season, but it’s going to be critical that he accepts rotation as a necessity even if it may reduce the likelihood of winning a given game and that he trusts squad players to see out games earlier than he usually does.

I definitely had a Shearer / NUFC shirt in that style that I got in Norway in like 1998.

The only good news is he could be out for almost a month and only miss two games. Probably also our best backup behind him.

Good win, but you never know what PIF might do.

Looked like the kind of goal you see at U8.

You only think that because we’re happy to cede possession and then counter. They haven’t threatened at all.

If we’re worrying about Fulham we’re not qualifying for Europe.

Wasn’t ready for the ball.

The only thing I have a problem with is Isak and Willock playing three games in a week right after coming back. It will be hard to defend if either one has another setback.

Forgetting for a second the temporary logistics of where to play for a couple years, would those opposed to a new stadium be more open to it if it was on the exact same site?

This game is well on its way to selling out. Entire lower level was gone within 2 days. Revenue is going to get split in a few directions, but pretty sure each of the three clubs will make more money in just ticket sales from two friendlies each than we did for the three CL home games.

They very clearly didn’t. They both spent more relative to others and had less competition.