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14 minutes ago, Joey47 said:

Still can’t get over how badly Milan played us with this one 

They'll be getting worried about turning up here, in the coming weeks.

I bet the hierarchy give a fantastic welcome, and there'll be some behind the scenes discussions.

Is Howe unwilling to change the training / tactics ?, never pressing it's probably the same as we use to play as kids , kick and rush.

1 minute ago, TheBrownBottle said:

A goalkeeper is the second most important position to get right after a centre forward, for me.  Spending £50m+ to get the right one wouldn’t be a worry. 

I'm not aware of any club paying large sums for a keeper in the same vein neither do they pay large sums for a defender yet a striker scoring 30 a season then the world's your oyster. It appears to be that clubs don't think of keepers as the most important as they appear lo be less flexible in the sell on market.

5 hours ago, 80 said:

I said many times last season, and I stand by it, that this season will very much be about learning lessons. Both for the players, management and fans. So it's acceptable if things like this happen in my view, we just need to bank as much success as possible and learn from these experiences so they're minimised in the future.

Whilst we are ahead of the project which I think has caught everyone on the hop , hindsight is great, but perhaps if it was possible to sort some insurance out incase thereof. Whilst we have brought players in am still wondering why we haven't played those guys, after all if Barcelona can bring  a very good 16/17 on the pitch we are always reluctant to do so in a competive environment.There is no point in statements being made to the effect they're not ready or don't want to ruin careers, as needs must , if good enough then on you go bonny lad.

Believe Howes decision making cost us against Liverpool and yesterday, don't know about anyone else , but , Tripps clearly drained along with one or two others no reason to me why he couldn't of brought Liverimento, Hall, and couple of others on, can't keep using s me lot if it costs us points

He punches it, costs us, fumbles it costs us, think I would of tried to of caught it .

Hope this doesn't end up being a setback for him, playing really well at the moment, may be difficult to get that form back following injury as we have already seen with other players

16 hours ago, GideonShandy said:

Even if you knew that the prospective new employer was paying a non-refundable £50 million to your old employer for your services?  And you knew that you had created circumstances that might very soon render you unable to provide those services?  And are you saying you "would" have kept it to yourself (even though it was wrong) or that it was actually morally OK not to let on?

 

If you or I change jobs and don't tell the new employer about, say, an addiction issue, then when it comes to light and the new employer finds out, the employer can just sack us and hire a replacement.  He's not all that much worse off.  But here you've got the issue of the £50 million, which changes the whole moral calculus.

No such thing as loyalty , know guys who have given their all for 40+ yrs to a company and get royally shafted by them , employers don't care about any employee, so works both ways

We all have skeletons in the closet regardless of how minor they are , so would we say anything to anyone including new employer if we thought we could get away with it , and the answer is no.

We would all take a risk and hope nothing comes out, it's a dog eat dog world .

2 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

We can't spend. Only loans. Unless we sell. And we can't afford to sell anyone useful.

In that case gonna need some out of the box thinking !

2 hours ago, Solitude20 said:

Yeah, we definitely should let go of the league cup. We just don’t have the depth for it this season. If we are to make it to the final, we still have to play 5 extra games. Our squad can barely rotate for the EPL and UCL. 
 

Apart from all those injuries/suspensions, any card suspension there will carry over to the league. This almost guarantees Bruno missing some games. 

Agreed, makes Jan window evenore important , will need to spend, but additional those we have already bought need to get bedded in rapidly, wonder if we recall Minteh or would that be unfair to him, bearing Feyenoord doing well in UCL

1 minute ago, macphisto said:

If he's on full pay then you can kiss goodbye to any discipline in the club. How could you ever fine anyone for being late to training and not someone who through their own actions is suspended for the season? 

You can bet your bottom dollar that the club / owners will be watching him like a hawk with 55m invested and he will no doubt in no uncertain manner told what the upshots gonna if this all goes pearshaped

3 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

Ahh ok, but if they beat us 12 nil here we’d need to beat them 13 nil there if we end up on level points?

All hypothetical, off we go see if we can get something away to them, injuries is a big issue here

1 minute ago, Shearergol said:

Genuine question though. Is it goal difference or results against?

The result counts , g d totally immaterial in this league

8 minutes ago, Shearergol said:

Do results against not count? 

Points make prizes not a 1-0 defeat

Just now, Shearergol said:

That’s not 100% how it works is it?

But gotta go for it, table far too tight after tonight

All or nothing now, may as well get beat by a dozen as opposed to 1

2 hours ago, Erikse said:

 

And then they give us another player whos addicted to gambling

Nowt wrong with that , might end up with a few Italian internationals on the cheap ?

This situ will place AC Milan into an unrecoverable position along with  the Italian FA, further all Italian players are now going to be suspect , along with Italian transfers to clubs outside Italy well and truly collapsing, there's gonna be a massive fallout and I can see clubs elsewhere in Europe with Italian players going through them with a fine toothed combe.  Milan may as well come clean about what they knew, things are going to get very sticky, wonder if his girlfriend has thought about ditching him and what did she know.

5 hours ago, Optimistic Nut said:

 

Wondering what? That he's bet against us days after all this has come out?

 

Come on man.

 

His mental state given all that's gone on is a different matter though and one only he and probably Howe will be able to make the call on collectively. 

People will wonder , for all we know you can bet your bottom dollar his actions will be checked here, do you not think some people will be asking the same question about Ivan Toney when he returns? doubts will always be there.

1 hour ago, Mazzy said:

Let's just hope the investigation takes a little longer than expected and he can play a few more games before its done and dusted.

Question being if he gets a game can he be trusted , a non tackle here, miss pass there, a shot missed, would have the troops wondering.

On 13/10/2023 at 18:42, Miggys First Goal said:

Milan should be booted out of the competition for selling dodgy players.

Was just thinking that , surely they and maybe other Italian clubs may also forfeit their places as part of the Italian FA investigation .

34 minutes ago, ohmelads said:

Investigations like this don't just come about overnight. The Italian authorities have allowed Milan to sell him for a huge fee right before going ahead with this. The timing stinks and Milan will be laughing all the way to the bank, as well as whoever's getting the kickbacks. We've been had.

 

Not sure what the club can do about it.

Italian authorities may well be open to being sued if the investigation was ongoing prior to the sale of the player, and they were aware he was one of the components, where does leave Italian soccer bearing in mind upto 40 were mentioned by the plea bargainer I believe.