Tiresias

What on earth were arsenal doing stalling on this guy

Leicester have arguably had a pretty poor season in the league i remain a little unsure on Rodgers but it's not like chop and changing is guaranteed to do anything manager wise. With poch wanting to return to the league end of season he may be looking over his shoulder a bit

Think I have seen it before oddly can remember involving Samuel Etoo but can't remember which team hah. Having said that haven't they conceded loads of corner goals so maybe it's not a good idea

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I think you're missing the point, you buy a club with the clubs own money and put them into debt doing so, you take as much money out of the club as possible, the club implodes and then you pull out leave them in administration and through complex legal fuckery you depart enriched some point. You keep them in premier league for more money to rake in thats great but it's not like they give a shit about it.

Yep basically same way Man U was bought, they have huge money making ability though Burnley do not. Basically classic vulture capitalism, come in buy something now it's going to go down and they will leave it with profits sucked out in a pile of debt. Fit and proper is a joke always has been

Mad way too late and feel he's probably owed chance to take them straight back up too

Would love Philips

We will spend our way to the top, but I don't think it is going to be splurged. To get there you need top of the class backroom staff. You need facilities to attract players which we are a long way behind on and if we start giving out the mega wages now it will destroy the dressing room. Equally to appease financial fair play as feeble as it is we need to massively improve our commercial revenue. Until we are challenging for titles etc it will most likely (if we are sensible) be young prospects who are not yet finished product that the likes of real madrid etc wouldn't be after yet and really solid experienced players like Trippier and we will build up over several windows. If we went and bought Pogba nad a bunch of super high wages mercenaries in summer, not only would it stop us signing lots of more reasonable players, the squad would be unbalanced shit.

I am not sure any manager could fix them, they need to fundamentally shift how they buy players, shift a load of players who they can't because of wages and stop signing players based on marketability. They will make all the right notes initially maybe even have a good first season and then they will be unable to resist signing a arthritic Messi for the shirt sales at the expense of 4 or 5 other players Hag wanted and they will be no better.

Did he get on with Trippier from his Spurs days? Maybe someones had a word. Regardless transfer rumours at this point are very very unreliable and a lot can change even if that is true

I think 1 quality centre back who may well displace either Schar and Burn and if we get another it will be a promising young inexpensive one who will mainly be used in cups.

My expectation/hope would be 2022/23 - Solid midtable, maybe 9th with fun cup run 2023/24 - Pushing for top half 6th or 7th and a semi final at least in a cup 2024/25 - First genuine push to get top 4 maybe even expense of a cup, just get 4th 2025/26 - Would expect a very good squad with depth by now so now 3rd and cup final 2026/27 - Now basically in league or champions league contender, not that it won't take time to actually win something still but this is where probably any excuses for not being in the mix due to still building stop Looking back think may well take another season before we get to the top 4 push, but who knows.

Only a couple of years ago Fulham spent a huge amount of money on coming up from championship replacing a large amount of the squad and they flopped hard. It's really not simple just buying new players every position and expecting it to work out. We have a good team spirit, it needs to be carefully managed not binned for sake of spending a lot of money. I suspect we will be looking at signing 3 or 4 first teamers max and the rest of the signings will be young prospect squad players. It will also depend on how many we can ship out and we may struggle to get rid of some

I agree with signing competition and I agree he lacks pace but whole sale changes to the squad the club have made clear aren't going to happen, they are planning to evolve the squad. Considering how often even the most well run club sign a centre back who turns out to be rubbish there's no way we should let a player who is performing well leave. Contract extention should be a priority. A centre back to provide high standard competition should be signed

Watford are a weird one, I think their recruitment is generally pretty excellent, what's holding them back is the turnover of managers, none have the chance to build anything and the squad aren't going to listen as they know they will be gone after a bit.

It's probably a long way away from that, hawkeye can detect where a ball is in relation to a line, both simple objects, whereas detecting human body shapes in motion is a lot more complicated. Sure some tech bro will come up with some machine learning ai and that will somehow be worse. I think on offside it's largely getting things right and it's kinda silly to complain if something is 'just' offside as that's still offside. Bit of me wishes that as a rule of thumb if the VAR dudes back at base can't very quickly eyeball the static image it's close enough for it not to be a 'obvious' error, but I do see flaws in that.

I was disappointed he didn't stick around with us as thought he was mint at times but in kinda the wrong team. I also wondered if other behind the scenes stuff was up and didn't gel with us. Who knows if true that and not going to be upset, he would not have flourished under bruce and would have ended his career for good most likely.

On the Man U returning to the 'top 4' I think tbh the big 6 or top 4 descriptors are bit misleading now. I think Liverpool and Man City are a long long long way ahead of everyone else. Chelsea last won the league 2017. The only upset in that was last year with Liverpool (and indeed City if above 90 points is the hallmark of these teams) underperforming and Man U somehow getting to second, and yet I don't really think anyone thought they could plausibly win the whole thing so that can be chalked up to Covid disrupted season and Liverpool. Chelsea are closest to them and yet with their ownership situation who knows if they still will be? I think it will be a long time before we are challenging them, and in fact more likely they will slump before we get close. Those teams are basically winning every game all season apart from a few (which are then always a crisis), everyone below them isn't close to that level. You have them, then 5 or 6 plausible champions league contenders below and we can maybe hope to be a sort of best of the rest for next few seasons. I don't think we will be serious champions league contenders for a few years. There are so many questions, what are the expectations really, it could be all this is a long term project we want Howe on for the long hall, but if he has an indifferent season next year and Poch is still free and asks if we want him do the owners say no? Things will be different, and Howe will be perfectly aware of this. He is kinda on a free hit now, he has almost achieved his most important aim. Personally I would be very happy to see steady improvement but I might get a bit unhappy (but not SACK THE COACH unhappy) if we get knocked out the cups super early and it's just a grindy mid table year next season.

No actually have us winning 1-0 that one

I have us finishing on 39 points and burnley surviving on goal difference ahead of everton

as if he knows how to use zoom, it's not like he's needed anyway except to save on food waste at teh buffet

Son is absolutely mint, kinda a shame he's spending best years at Spurs of all places but he does have lovely chemistry with kane

Yeah probably best counter attacking team in league

think between everton and burnley for the last spot now