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It’s OK Stifler. Just knuckle down, invest in your academy, buy and sell players, save up until you can build a new stadium and then in a few years time you can join us. You can already cut 10 or so years off the time it takes to do so by having a country pay for your infrastructure instead of having to live within your means for years to demonstrate to the banks that you’re good for a long-term loan.

Yeah, for all your injury woes, their team really doesn’t look great either.

It’s like you to a lesser extent. The fact you didn’t win a trophy in the decade from the mid-90s was kind of miraculous and just incredibly bad luck. We won two League Cups despite being a bit shite, then won nothing when we were great. Luck plays a big part.

Yeah, it’s not going to happen. We’ve got too many gaps to fill. Arsenal makes a lot of sense though, sadly.

Sorry lads, I’m bored, our kick-off is stupidly late.

So we are the Elite. Excellent. All those years of sacrifice and patience have been worth it.

Hang on lads. Are we the Elite or no?

And Bergvall. Haven’t heard Isak seriously mentioned at all. It’s almost as if the Sun makes things up.

I did like the reply about not knowing how much more his pitchfork could handle

Yeah, he’s somebody that every single PL team will be after if Leeds don’t come up.

Oh yeah, I was just making the point that it wasn’t just Man U who have people thinking the financial factors might play a part.

Tbf, Stifler’s first reaction was that Man U could afford to just cut ties while you guys have less financial room to manoeuvre. Every club will have people putting forward the financial argument. It’s sometimes just important to do the right thing and that’s hopefully what will win out. I do think that the negative PR doesn’t matter as much as we would like. Having a Russian oligarch/kleptocrat throw money at a club was horrible to watch from outside but Chelsea fans by and large loved it and they got tons of new fans. We’ve already seen a significant number of Newcastle fans on this board saying “fuck it, let us just spend whatever we want”. If you’re successful you can just bludgeon on through. It’s harder when it’s just one player, but we’ve already seen Antony play on with any pushback dwindling. And isn’t his case similar - accusations but no charges? (Genuine question, I’ve not been following either story closely).

Did you have that jpeg ready to go?

Think the ref has done a nice job here so far.

There’s a long way to go and a full off-season to come, but it’s hard not to think that Ipswich would get obliterated if they go up.

Two cracking games back to back so far.

Fucking hell, great scramble

Hull and Coventry have been good every time I’ve seen them this year and neither are in the playoffs. Not all that surprising that Sunderland have fallen off tbh.

Thought Southampton looked really good. The playoffs are going to be tough as nails.

Would be nice if it also stopped after the keeper’s had six seconds and only restarted when he cleared it.

Anyone complaining about English refs relative to those abroad should be made to look at that red card every time. It’s worse abroad, it really is. I think that might just be the worst straight red card I’ve ever seen: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/s/8NwJElLIEz

Arteta is trying to be him in every way.

Also without at least four or five ludicrous bookings and the bribery.

Man City > Liverpool > Arsenal for me.