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Am I right in thinking if clubs try and unsettle our players (for argument sake Isak) forcing us to offer them a bigger contract probably 6-12months earlier than planned and also having a knock on effect in the dressing room so certain contracts adjusted also… This would all go against us being able to compete and buy players to encourage our better players to stay so either way the so called “bigger” teams win in the end by just upping and upping their wage bill and enticing players from competing clubs on to theirs?

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Apparently (co coms mentioned ref wristband not vibrating) but VAR wanted to get involved and delay the game a few mins.

1-1 Vini Jr pen.

0-1 Barca Cristianson header after GK misjudges the swing of a corner.

Council funding sounds just like FFP it seems.

Speaking of… Did he get the chance to call both coin tosses for penalties or did my eyes deceive me?

It has resumed play.

If we finish 5th who do we want to win the FA Cup? Repeat question for us finishing 6th and 7th!

Still confused

So if Man City win it 6th gets you EL whereas 7th would get you ECL?

What effect would Man Utd winning the FA Cup on the European places compared to Man City?

Do you want me to pipe up now or later……… (Get that Wenger rule in ASAP!)

Not condoning it but the bits of the game I saw thought Young give away two penalties. At least one with the handball. Was very telling how sheepish he looked after both incidents.

So with that in mind and rewind several month when many on here thought we should be trying to get Harrison shows the lad is no mug. Thought he stood out at Burnley too the time I saw him play for them. I’m sure he’ll be a bit inconsistent hence never reaching further heights but definitely not a player to deride.

How do you rate him compared to Harrison?

Local elections in the next few weeks I believe…

He’s quite a good player actually. Always a stand out when I watch Everton and seems to have a diligent attitude.

That’s how it was sold to the fans but no sign of things returning to the way they were on neutral grounds.

Was that using only one queue position though?

It was revealed the other week it was both finishing position and minimum amount of squad inclusions.

One of the main things I’ve always had against Gallagher is he’s currently playing and captaining his home club. The one and only thing he’s wanted to do in his footballing career if you follow his story. If he moved to us I’d automatically feel we’d be getting a lesser player. The fact that some of the qualities you’d lose are actually the ones making him currently stand out at all to me spells danger. Think of it this way. Does Longstaff play at any other club as well as he has at ours? Look at the effect it’s had on Burn going the opposite direction. Just a player that for me you just leave happily playing for Chelsea. Certainly not one you even think of blowing half your expected budget on.

I don’t agree with you except for a small handful of games midweek initially. The last seats you’d sell would be the highest and you wouldn’t even see that on TV and the stewarding I wouldn’t see needed to be increased but even if so there nights work would be covered by the sale of one maybe two match tickets. Go into the membership or ticket sections and read how much people on here alone are missing out and this is a team that’s been mid-table most of the season with most of its best players missing for long periods. As I keep repeating. 32-35K ST holders. 75-90K memberships = Over 100k home seats alone on the safe side potentially and we are still in phase one. Even if you downplay the figures further what’s the point in building a once in a lifetime state of the art stadium to only sell it out first game allowing the club no room to grow further again? If Sam Fender can sell 2x50k over a weekend surely he could sell 1x80k for a one night only. Imagine holding the Champions League Final. After corporate sponsorship allocation and local allocation 65K wouldn’t leave much left for two major teams. Need to stop thinking about Bournemouth on a Tuesday night and start thinking about what the whole point of a new stadium is and that is to grow the club into the No.1 spot.