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Maybe they are impacted by the other charges? Like, if there are issues in the reporting of revenue/income that meant that the “real” income took them over the limit?

Yeah, somebody suggested (the Athletic?) that Man U had actually sent a delegation over there back in December. Looks like the powder will be dry this Jan. They’re supposed to be looking for younger foreign players going forward.

Fucking hell lads, i presumed we’d be playing you in the next round. What happened?

Your question should rightly be “if we paid the same as you, would he turn us down?” To which my answer would be, yes, I think so.

It’s not like that hasn’t been Henderson’s entire career

We’ve been sniffing around, supposedly.

If that’s what he earns it’s a lot for a back-up midfielder for anyone, that’s partly why he’s available. I really like him but suspect he will go abroad. You didn’t sign Maddison for more reasons than that

In this market where nobody can spend anything? I think STMs value are close. I’d probably bump Gordon up to 60 and Joelinton down to 40 maybe. Might bring Isak down a bit - I just don’t see anyone paying that.

Obviously transfer window timing, but so much of this is because there‘s a bit of a break now. And I’m talking about me, whose team has done all right and bought somebody. If I supported you lot I’d have been in here posting more words than HTT.

Levy’s a dick, but he’s useful.

Glad I didn’t bother . I think the Athletic’s Spurs podcast is really good, the general football one is occasionally good, anything else worth checking out?

You mean 1882? We’ll struggle to sell tickets to that constituency Most of any club’s attendance history is not all that relevant. Demographics have changed, the economy has changed, fashions have changed, the teams have changed, the grounds themselves have changed etc. It’s certainly worth looking at the last, what, 30 years, say? Then you can make an educated guess. I would very much like to see @brummie’s working on the “thousands and thousands” of Korean fans going to our home games though. Genuinely . Maybe there are? I truly don’t know. It didn’t look like it when panning the crowd at the Sheffield United match but I stand to be corrected.

He is . Comes from the South-West. He was a commentator on Capital Gold for years and years. Bit of a cult figure. I still have a cassette somewhere of his commentary on the Spurs-Arsenal semi-final in 1991. It’s a work of art. His schtick on Capital Gold was always that he was a fan of all London clubs. He probably bent over backwards to not favour Bristol City and overdid it.

I Googled it. Wow . Now I’m really curious what triggered Murray. https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/13/cult-of-ange-lives-on-in-north-london-but-is-he-really-all-that-different Edit: Oh right, he was the guy that asked the “trophies” question. That’s absolutely hilarious . Lower down in the Google is a Celtic View piece commenting on his childish column titled “Smart Arse Jambo Ewan Murray…”. What a twat

I really think you’ll be fine with the increased revenue. You won’t be able to spend as much as you have been, but you’ll still be able to strengthen the squad and cut off some dead wood.

The latest Athletic podcast covers this reasonably well: https://theathletic.com/podcast/144-athletic-football-podcast/

Hey lads, it’s not just us two who have injury crises, Liverpool are struggling too: Just to be clear, I believe Alexander-Arnold, Salah, Endo and Szoboszlai have missed a total of zero league games so far. This tweet is so on-brand it hurts.

It serves all the non-cartel or lower division teams and fans by preventing wealthier clubs unsettling and/or taking their best players at any point during the season. It serves fringe squad players and youth development by making clubs give them opportunities when players are injured rather than just going out and buying a player. It’s definitely worth discussing, because you could argue that a lower division club in financial trouble in, say, March can‘t sell players to make ends meet. You could argue that that’s a bad thing too. Just…every window somebody says “I don’t know why we do this” and every window we have to say the same thing.

That’s amazing mate. Will def give you more than that. PM on the way.

It’s not just that. It’s idiot supporters too. The George Carlin quote about “average” intelligence. Every team has them.

Glad we’ve been vaccinated now and are immune .

All circumstantial isn’t it? Our Jan windows this year and two years ago are and were mint. This Jan it looks like most of the big clubs with obvious issues don’t have the FFP room to splurge. Our last two Jan windows have turned out amazing but didn’t seem so at the time. This window seems amazing for us but might turn out to be the opposite. Jan does seem to mainly be loan or loan-to-buy deals and getting rid of deadwood - which often amounts to the same thing. Look at 2022. Juve give us two players they didn’t want, we get rid of players we don’t want (Dele Alli, Ndombele etc). Villa pick up Coutinho. Arsenal get rid of PEA. There’s always one or two big transfers though - 2022 had Bruno Guimaraes and Luis Diaz among others. I still think the end of the window will be busy.

Yours is artificially high because as he says you are in “investment mode”. Your revenue will increase drastically and the ratio will come down. Everton’s hints that they’ve been operating beyond their means for a while, and their chickens have been coming home to roost for some time. PSG are cunts.

Oh don’t worry, I didn’t think you were being disrespectful. Just that when you said we weren’t operating under FFP constraints the opposite was true, we’d been operating under effectively those constraints for far longer. It just meant that we didn’t have to change how we operated when they actually came in, unlike many other clubs. Thus you end up with these wages to turnover figures (first thing on Google):

Massively this. Also the practice of teams buying other teams and using them as farms, although that’s more complex.