Stifler

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.

When essentially your entire midfield has been taken out by injury and you are suffering the effects, you have to start being wise elsewhere in the squad. Having Burn play with sub-par performances, when you have 2/3 players available is no good. It doesn’t matter if you think those players are not quite ready, when the guy you are staring over them repeatedly has shown not to be up for it. The little things like not acknowledging Schar going into the number 10 position and leaving a major hole at the back has never been addressed. Neither has the fact that so many of our players try to take on players on situations where they are crowded out and have players available to pass too, and they still think they can be the hero. There are lots of little problems that everyone can see that just results in massive problems. There is only so much you can put down to injuries, and fixture fatigue. There has been quite a few games this season where we have looked beaten as soon as we have kicked off, and players have dropped their heads. Even in games where we have actually been in an alright position, we have let our heads drop, Everton, and Chelsea in the cup are big examples. There is other examples of where we have just been absolutely fucking stupid, the AC Milan game at home was the biggest example. 1-1, and we throw the whole defence forward, knowing that if we don’t score, Milan will, and we’ll go out. We should have been more careful, and honestly, we should have been happy to be prepared to drop into the Europa League. I always thought that with Bournemouth he was naive, he could win a game 3-0, or lose one 3-0, and there would often be very little in between. Now I’m starting to think it’s bordering on arrogant, and that he’s just a little too happy to risk a heavy defeat for a good win. We are not Bournemouth, our target didn’t start out with staying in the Football League, and are just happy to just be on a whirlwind journey that none of us could dream on. Our target is to challenge, we need to be more consistent. Can Howe really deliver? As much as last season, and the half a season before that was fantastic, I’m starting to wonder.

Between the Cup game, and tonight, we have single handedly kept Poch in the Chelsea job.

Too little too late.

PASS THE FUCKING BALL! Fucking hell man, player next to you and the opposition blocking you off, just fucking pass the bastard fucking ball. Every single fucking one of our players has been guilty of this game in game out this season.

Him being defensively niece with Bournemouth was my main worry with him when he first arrived. Last season things obviously changed, but this season has just reversed all that.

Nah, absolutely bang fucking average, but gets away with his persistent fouling.

Getting stuffed by a name. If we were playing these same players but they played for Wolves, we’d win. We have turned up beaten today.

Fuck me man, made Jackson look like a decent player, and made Mudryk like Ronaldo.

It’s alright lads, we are not losing or anything, so passing the ball repeatedly across our back line as if it’s the final 5 minutes of the first training session of pre-season is perfectly ok.

Of all the possible fouls in this game, you give that?

Allowed to lunge in from behind now ref? You fucking cunt.

All we had to do was fucking close them down and pass the fucking ball to each other instead of hitting it away, fucking hell man, it’s not fucking bastard rocket science, and these aren’t fucking world beaters.

Aye, which lead to him not being available for a pass, and our player having to take it on himself, losing the ball, and Chelsea going up the other end and creating a chance.

It’s weird because I don’t think. Chelsea deserve to be ahead, but I don’t think we do either. But then both of us have been bad enough to be behind. They are here for the taking though, they are showing nothing above the position they are in, a poor side with 1 or 2 players who have something a little more about them. If we were just that little bit sharper, then we would have these.