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Not that I wanted Hart but if that thing earlier about us offering a quarter of his wages for a loan with no obligation to buy is true, then our approach there is laughable. Depends completely on no fucker else being in for him and the selling club deciding for some reason to do us a favour. Does seem to me from everything we're reading that the needs of the team are still nowhere near the top of the list of priorities even after all these years, it's generally just a scattergun of derisory offers and release fee punts, and a fuckload of hope for the best.

Class

Can only assume Jacob's crackers.

Just waiting until all of the other clubs get tired out, man.

It's sort of past luck at this stage with the likes of De Jong and Aarons though, we can't rely on either as part of the squad and call it a bad luck story later given what's happened in the past.

Bizarre that like, he'll be 36 in a couple of weeks.

Genuinely had to google who Rudy is. Stop your messing around

None of these had poor sides behind them though, Bill?

Zamorano and Salas for Chile, rest of the team was shite iirc.

I'd love to see figures for Sky subscriptions as I suspect they'll be decreasing, not least because of increased competition from the likes of Netflix and Prime for entertainment (especially younger audiences) and illegal streaming in homes and in pubs. I think we'll be at a point in the next few years where their model of throwing insane amounts of cash at football rights will be unsustainable at the current levels and the domestic TV deals will start to decrease for clubs, although maybe this will be offset somewhat by the foreign TV deals which seem to be increasing and becoming a bigger part of the overall picture.

Apologies for the spoiler.

Patience can pay off NUFC fans, just look at Series 8 Episode 3 of Only Fools & Horses when Del & Rodney finally become millionaires.

Yeah, why trust one story and not the other?

Clever lighting, can't see the cuffs.

Mole said about 3 or 4 million, didn't he?

By this time last year we'd brought in Sels, Gayle, Ritchie, Gamez and were a day away from signing Hayden. 3 signings followed in late July/early August, with another 3 in late August. Definitely seems a lot slower this summer, especially given that the need for signings is arguably far greater as we need players for the first team as was so abundantly clear last season, whereas at least half of the signings last time were about fleshing out the squad and having competition for places all through the team.

More bothered about competing with the 19 teams that are actually in the same league as us, just seems more important somehow.

I can't shake the feeling that I heard this last year. One of the teams that finishes above Man Utd will win the title.

If it's not a "bargain" we're not interested.

This.

Fuck, no wonder we're struggling to pay for Delph!

There's no struggling here surely, more us refusing to spend the money that's there

That Virgins-Online stuff was spot-on in hindsight.