GeordieT

One of the worst cameos I’ve ever seen, if - and I hope we do - we release him in the summer, he will struggle to get a contract above League One.

Is that not fairly inconsequential though? My reading of it is that it would be advantageous for Everton - e.g. if they knew it was a CB pairing of Krath and Burn. Hopefully BS anyway.

Southampton “annoyed at manner and timing of [Man] United's approach” with the latter also deeming Southampton’s demands “unrealistic”. Sounds familiar. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11667/13106078/jason-wilcox-manchester-united-make-approach-for-southampton-director-of-football

It would help them for the current accounting period yes. But the structural issues persist - these accounts already are mitigated in part by the sale of Gordon. Incidentally, and I’ve posted on here previously about this, I work for a company which is often approached either directly by clubs or brand intermediaries with regards to front of shirt sponsorship / other opportunities. About six months ago we were asked as to our interest for headline naming rights for their new stadium - and they were asking for an absolute pittance (c. £6-8m). Reeked of desperation.

That’ll be Dummett signing a one year extension Monday.

An alleged 50 bets between August and October 2023.

Absolutely criminal from the medical team. Verging on professional negligence.

Far from encouraging from Mark Douglas this morning. Hope we hold firm.

One year extension for Ritchie and Dummett incoming.

Struggling to find it - can’t recall which piece it was in. But it wasn’t the Ornstein Q&A, albeit that does further insinuate the power dynamic at play.

Jack Ross is a new name, but the idea that Howe wants the DOF position to have less sway in first team recruitment was in the Athletic over the weekend too.

Louise Taylor in the Guardian, not a quote that inspires confidence.

Interesting, for what I believe is the first time ever the quotes this morning would suggest it’s not guaranteed and could be appearance based?

Douglas in the Independent seems to be suggesting we won’t replace like for like, or at least his successor will have a slightly different remit. Which I’d hope wouldn’t be the case.

£20m would be fantastic business. I’d drive him there myself.

As much as I’d like to try and rationalise this in my head, it would be a major set back.

And this shows just how stacked the deck is. Estimate that our CL participation has earned around €34m in TV money with the coefficient model largely to blame. Benefits the traditional elite, while clubs that have only recently qualified are effectively penalised. And this brought a wry smile. PIF’s £27m outlay in the last two years is nearly four times as much as Ashley spent in preceding 12 years. Should say you can sign-up to him on substack for a month and cancel. But there’s excellent analysis across the board and worth a few quid.

It is profit on player sales and the tables only up to Chelsea’s annual financial results for the year ended 30 June 2022 - of which they made £123m alone in that season. So will jump again. It’s not net spend as you say, because as I understand it’s less relevant in FFP given the amortisation period. As demonstrated here.

On the need for player sales: ”One area where Newcastle have plenty of room for improvement is player trading, considering that they have only made around £11m profit from player sales in the last three years. It will be a bit better this season following the sales of Allan Saint-Maximin to Al-Ahli for £23m and Chris Wood to Nottingham Forest for £15m, but it’s still a lot less than their rivals. To illustrate how poor Newcastle have been in this area, they had the third smallest profits from player sales in the Premier League in the five years up to 2022 with just £62m. In stark contrast, Chelsea generated nearly half a billion pounds (£467m) from player trading in this period, while five other clubs made more than £200m“

No worries, it’s a big read so let me know if there’s anything of particular interest.

I’m a subscriber so will post a few choice excerpts later today, it’s an illuminating read as usual. On FFP, his suggestion is this season might have been closer than anyone else previously had imagined: “PIF inherited a pretty solid FFP position from Ashley, as the former owner’s tightfisted approach to spending meant that they had a fair amount of wriggle room. In fact, I estimate that they were £109m better than the £105m maximum allowed loss over the three-year monitoring period up to 2021/22 (including the single period average of the COVID-impacted 2019/20 and 2020/21 seasons). However, the FFP monitoring period is a moving target, so the 2022/23 calculation dropped the £41m 2018/19 profit, replacing it with last season’s £73m loss, i.e. a negative swing of £114m. After making deductions for “healthy” expenditure (infrastructure, academy, community and women’s football) and COVID losses, I reckon that Newcastle were still just about within target, but it must have been mighty close”.

Perhaps! The “no one wants to grow up and be a Gary Neville” springs to mind. Do many budding youth prospects aspire to be fullbacks? When I was at a school I used to know and played with Patrick Nzuzi who had just moved up to join the academy. An unbelievably tricky winger that everyone else was just in awe of. But Pardew / the club shifted his development to RB and whilst obviously his career never took off, always found the positional move interesting.

A friend has oddly become quite pally with him over the last couple of months, and whilst he hasn’t been brazen enough to explicitly ask how he feels about his current situation and what he expected upon signing, they have spoken about the positional question. He has said that long term he saw himself as a winger or a number ten. Whether he has any say in it, I don’t know.

No one at home, thankfully. First instance of this that I can recall up here? Seems to be fairly commonplace in the North West / London.

https://x.com/craighope_dm/status/1745739940917383274?s=46&t=x_gwvtxKMs0B7zGA7uNbvA Does not sound promising.