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The subject has obviously become extremely unpopular generally, I know myself and some others tend to bang on about it which often doesn’t help people who feel that way. That’s the idea, at least from my point of view just to raise awareness about the artificial constraints we are under and try to predict potential ways out of it.

Aye sorry about that. I’m sure all of the people contributing to this thread hate that the thread is needed.

Aye totally understand how you feel mate, I absolutely despise how we’ve been conspired against and the fact its gone totally unchecked as well.

Naaa, I don’t think it’s that simple mind. Let’s not forget how much people lost it at selling Minteh. I know it’s depressing but personally I can’t help but consider all angles when it comes to these things.

Yea we have in the past, not this summer mind. Maybe he was on the Tonali list but Chelsea always asked for crazy money.

As per my post earlier and with the caveats of the numbers I used are the clubs figures from 22-23 if we close Guehi and everything else being the same, our squad cost deficit would be 60m. I don’t see how that could be bridged by Commercial revenue or TV money tbh. Can we bridge that without selling a purple?

They have to try and maximise the sale mind, this is the last chance and literally peak value for them. I think Guehi is very good mind, but I do question this transfer, it’s a bit like the Barnes one for me.

Leaks all from Palace, they are desperate for a bidding war.

I’m not sure, my assumption would be added on as and when they are met? Maybe a provision is made I’m not sure. Looks like we’ve offered 65m for Guehi, that’s 20m per year to find I really do wonder how we will manage that.

thanks lads, I don’t follow what’s posted on socials so I appreciate the insight. I can only go by based off what’s posted here.

Match thread over reactions aside does anyone actually have any issues with Miggy outside of we need to upgrade him and in order to do so we have to move him on?

Yeah I was perplexed by Silverstone words about Needing the right partners etc. just go to PIF and ask them for a company to give a one year deal whilst you work on those long term deals. I can’t knock the adidas deal, according to reports it’s very much a revenue sharing agreement, it is gutting seeing our rivals sign much bigger deals though especially if your locked in for such a long time. In really anticipating the stadium question being answered as it will tell me all I need to know about our direction.

Can’t wait for this, hoping for a good performance from the boys.

Yeah I don’t blame, he is the best they could hope for. Chris Waugh was panting a picture of Howe being unsettled as well.

For all the nerds the thing which is worrying me is the incoming squad cost ratio rules paired with PL’s heavy handed punishments. in our last accounts or wages to turnover ratio was 80%, the problem we have though is the new rules include amortisation which for us currently stands at 86.8m salaries stand at 198m. Basically as of our last accounts are squad cost calculation is more than 100% or revenue. To comply with these rules in future we need to either increase revenue by 60m or reduce costs or player trade to get to 60m basically squad cost will put a big dent in our ambitions. PS this came to mind due to Guehi deal, if it happens I expect it will cost us 20m per year.

Waugh is on the latest athletic podcast discussing us and for some reason they have Phil Hay on (Leeds United reporter) and he’s absolutely desperate to talk us down, quite shocking like. “Asking if deep down Eddie is desperate to take the England job”

Wish someone would explain to that dipshit we can’t because of clubs like his and the stupid psr rules they back.

He has to be, truly amazing manager.

Tbh I don’t think fans have any bearing on these things, all depends on what the goal of the ownership is.

Absolutely thanks for the concise data too! I’m not even the optimistic kind of fan, I just believe we have the quality to be challenging for the top 5. We’ve lost a third choice winger who never kicked a ball for us and our 7th choice cm. im desperate for signings but i dont see our squad as weaker.

I think we can just look at the form table since Eddie took over, we are bonafide contenders and have been for awhile now. I think our style of play with a less congested fixture schedule will really shine again. im sure we all remember how rocky we were in December and January last season, i dont expect a repeat of that.

Yes, challenging for top 5 is what we will do this season imo. What happened last season was an absolute freak occurrence and then we were still just pipped to Europe because City went on the piss instead of actually trying to win the FA cup. don’t get me wrong I’ll be gutted if we don’t sign anyone else but I Eddie is a magician and if you look at the spine of our team it’s really elite and befitting that.

We will be challenging for top 5 at minimum imo. It we stay injury free will qualify for the CL.

The history of the clubs aren’t particularly relevant imo, it’s more the make up of the owners involved. Ultimately just surviving in the premier league is very profitable. Who really has the ambition and financial clout to challenge the top? Might as well accept our place and ride the gravy train.

We will know soon enough thankfully, for me we simply have to have a new stadium, the location seems to be of upmost importance to the fans hence the current site talk.