Stifler

I don’t think his 1st chance is as easy as people think, he got his shot away and it was a decent save to be honest. The 2nd he should have done better with and got the shot away sooner, I think he was in 2 minds of taking it early, or going round the defender and didn’t get his 1st touch right. Every forward has been there, it happens. If he keeps the injuries away, and we build a good team behind him who can provide him with more chances, then I fully believe he’ll beat Shearer’s goal scoring record for us if he stays long enough.

Murphy speaking as if he never played for one of the clubs who brought in diving to our domestic game.

Not a booking ref?

Piss off man, that’s not a freekick.

What the fuck is the point?

Aye, Man City will get Coventry in the semis.

What the fuck is up with pep, looked like he was crying.

Should just go out and spend what we want. The going rate is what, 6 points for every £20m? Just buy some stars, finish high up, then come back the season after.

Oh fuck off Murphy man.

Right, dishes to wash.

Turn a blind eye if he had a city shirt on.

If that’s a yellow, why didn’t he stop the game, hardly like they were in on goal for the advantage.

Danny Murphy is insufferable. Nowt much wrong, was an unlucky deflection, going on as if they have been hammering us from the start.

Fuck sake man, not 1 bit of fucking luck.

Would certainly suggest that Liverpool are looking into the multi club model.

Surely fair market value has to be subjective as well? Let’s say I’m a successful businessman, I’d be willing to pay Newcastle £50m per year in sponsorship, because I believe it could help them buy a player to win us a cup. I’m a Newcastle fan, and to me that’s a reasonable price for me to pay. On top of this, if my hunch comes off, my company will have it’s name on every photo of our trophy win forever, and as much of my business is in Tyneside, that’s basically a lifetime of advertising and good vibes for me. Now the Premier League have told me that I’m not allowed to do that because it’s an inflated fee, however I can pay Liverpool £50m for sponsorship. I don’t want to pay Liverpool £50m so they can win the cup I want Newcastle too. I don’t have business in Liverpool, so being on the good side of their population means fuck all. By my initial request to pay Newcastle £50m, I’ve actually said I’d pay £50m for Liverpool not to fucking win a cup. Let’s go further, surely fair market value has to be applied across all aspects of the business. How is it ok for Liverpool to get inflated sponsorship, and also to pay their players, manager, and coaching staff more than the market rate? If you look at it across society, surely they should only be offering NMW as anything above that is classed as inflated? If you are looking at it across the average of professional football teams, it’s still inflated, across Premier League teams, still inflated, across teams competing in European competition, still inflated.

I know that someone worked out that we could win the Champions League by winning every game, and if wasn't for the fact that the winners get put into pot 1, we’d likely still not have enough coefficients to get out of group 4.

Make sense, Serie A have been more receptive of Middle Eastern commercial ties, they have had cup finals in the area.

I was more on about the 3 clubs mentioned, but if we are proposing say a closed Premier League, both of those clubs would snap your hand right off if they were confident of falling on the right side of the divide.

Would have known those clubs would have been in amongst it. They are itching for a super league breakaway.

Looks like they are doing decent ‘origin stuff’ with Celtic next season. It could be decent for us if they do similar. https://www.footyheadlines.com/2024/03/celtic-irish-origins-2023-24-collection.html

That Celta Vigo job, they were never going to be doing anymore than challenging to stay up. They don’t have the budget or the players. No idea why they have binned him off. The Everton job, he should have been wiser on that one. The job in China, again he should have been wiser to accept that. They were spending big, but everyone else was spending bigger.

Could be a decent player for a team further down the league, or Championship. Heck he could join his brother at Toronto and be a legend. Sadly with us I doubt he’ll ever be anything more than a squad player.

Can we not just let them have the bye to the semi’s and we can fuck off for a week or so for team bonding or some shit?

It will be a slow window, the Euro’s are on, that always delays things. Also it is rare for clubs to actually do things early. If any of our targets are in the Euro’s, then not only do we have to wait for them coming back, but the selling clubs will be waiting to see if they have a good campaign to ramp up the price.