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Tell you what, this is a great weekend of Football. Barcelona vs. Real Madrid Arsenal Vs. Liverpool Inter vs. Juventus Marseille vs. PSG

Seminal moment tonight. Officially the start of yellow ball season.

But they are improving the club, it may not be at a pace that you're liking, and to that #1 level, but to deny they're not actively trying to improve the club is just factually wrong imo. What you're essentially saying is you believe the club are purposely trying to go backwards, which they're not.

What evidence is there that they aren't? Just off the top of my head: Stadium: We're in the process of putting plans together with an announcement expected in the turn of the new year, with them stating they want to sign one big cheque, no announcement doesn't mean its bad news. Training Ground: They've completely redeveloped the current site, multiple times, since they're taken ownership. Exploiting Loopholes: This shouldn't be something that held against them, and like I said, I personally wouldn't even want us to exploit loopholes. Sponsorships: Just looking at the "Partners" Pages of the clubs side, in the three years since the takeover, we've announce 14 sponsors, with Eales saying in his last communications that our revenue has increased by 33% in the last year. I get that some of them things aren't sexy, and shiny, but they're things that show they're trying to improve the club, and to think otherwise is honestly mental to me tbh.

To me, its literally comes down to a very simple question. Are the people behind the scenes looking to improve the club in every aspect they can, yes or no? That answer is undoubtably yes to me, So therefore i'm happy. Could there be things we could have done differently that may have had a more positive outcome in the here and now, absolutely, could we have tried different techniques to the way the club is structured, sure, but that is just conjecture and we have no way to know whether it'd go one way or another, and besides every club could say the exact same thing, its not just unique to us. So it comes down to that simple question, and simple minded as that may seem, as a fan, thats all that matters. At least to me anyway.

Personally, and I understand I may be in the minority here, i'd rather us not do things like exploiting loopholes like the loans from Saudi thing, and would much rather us play things by the book like we currently are, and have a slow build, even if it takes another 5 years before we get any real success. I don't need us to win a trophy right now, or get Champions League right now, so long as we're progressing as a club. Which, despite the blip in the summer we most definitely are.

Premier League coming out with utter horseshit shocker.

Football League sacking season is well under way:

League phase performance bonuses will be paid for each match: €400k per win and €133k per draw.

Love a bit of Total Networking Solutions me.

We're all Jose Mourinho tonight right?

Leicester 1 v 1 Forest Villa 2 v 2 Bournemouth Brentford 1 v 1 Ipswich Brighton 2 v 0 Wolves Man City 3 v 1 Southampton Everton 1 v 1 Fulham Chelsea 3 v 0 Newcastle Palace 1 v 4 Spurs West Ham 1 v 1 Man United Arsenal 1 v 1 Liverpool

The guy we got instead has been pretty fucking good himself like

Thats a very interesting graphic in the background of that Gordon interview.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/DBbrmZmtcsQ/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Be more like Gaz....

For those that a stat nerds, this is a decent read about sources to find information: https://www.ntt20.com/p/the-ntt20-research-bible

Sake.

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Hell of a start, Charlton are the favourites for the league too aren't they? 😊

You said it'd be a stretch to get in the top 10, we're in the top 10.