Stifler

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.

Just allowed to pick the ball out of the air with your hands now?

Fuck sake man, why take fucking chances?

Get in! As poor as we have been, I don’t think we deserved to be behind.

None of our wingers have passed it. Just Gordon and to a lesser extent Toni running down the wing and not passing.

Are we just allowed to challenge a player from behind and when the ball has gone now?

Can Schar please stop shooting?

Fuck sake man, they were offering fuck all as well. One of the weakest goals ever.

That’s my point. So let’s say for example our revenue was £100m and we ran at the 70% for wages and transfers, so that’s £70m. Now let’s say that non-playing squad expenses (stadium & training ground upkeep, travel & transport, and everyone else’s wages) runs at say 15%. That means we would be spending £85m, and would have £15m in the bank that we could never spend. Year 2 and it’s £30m, 5 years down the line and you are at £75m, 10 years you are at £150m.

With our current wage budget, and our current income, over a 3 year period we can spend £384,612,000 on players. That would obviously be amortised, but would then mean it would accounted for in our revenue to spend ratio. What I don’t get is that if you are only allowed to spend 70% up to 85% on your transfers and wages, assuming your none playing costs are below the 15%-30% ratio, overall you’ll end up with a massive surplus of cash that you could never spend.

Year on year.

This new rule will just replace the £105m cap over 3 years, which still had the sponsorship rules in place. They want to keep the glass ceiling, saying you can spend more if you earn more makes them look forward thinking, but keeping the glass ceiling of not being able to earn as much through the sponsorship fair value test will be what holds it back.