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Not to be that guy but Pope being able to play 4 days after being on the bench is odd, he surely could have played against Manchester red.

Believe they can extract more in 12 months

Really goes to show how far behind we are, still a lot more investment needed.

I’m not sure Brighton get relegated, the financial gap between the leagues are becoming so big it will be harder and harder for established premier leagues to get relegated. that being said, they are taking huge risks every summer

Solanke would cost a fortune. I don’t see it.

If true I would assume we are over too

Aye: a bit earlier actually.

They have to be very careful with it though and really think it through if they are going down that route, don’t want it becoming a tool to slow the game down at certain moments.

As we are in the banter era my recommendation is a big red button right by fourth official, the manager has to walk over and press it and we get an awful airhorn sound to indicate a challenge.

Was proper cynical by Arsenal too, new contract to protect the value and boom replaced. They will be desperate to flog him but want stupid money.

I don’t think he does no, anything less than Bayern offered would look and be a bad deal for us. and nobody will offer us that. (Unless Saudi) but I don’t see it.

Glad to know we aren’t the only ones who will clutch at absolutely anything to validate our hopes and dreams.

Off topic slightly but do Waugh and Caulkin break any news? Seems to be always hope and Edwards with Ornstein for the transfers.

What is a performance director meant to do?

Time to start our own multi club models. Discounts to be had.

Anyways let’s stay on topic, who gives a fuck if you can use Face time in KSA.

I don’t know enough about Saudi but I think the investments have a different nature, City is a crown jewel for the owners as is PSG. I feel we are just apart of PIFS massive portfolio. But as we’ve discussed, I will make my judgement on that when I know the stadium and training ground plan. (Not that my judgement is worth anything).

The problem is, we are too small of an investment to warrant having some stationed here 24/7. It’s definitely inefficient though, unless we can prepare things we in advance and get some form of pre approval. That being said, football is rarely so straightforward.

It makes sense too, all of the money is fronted by PIF in essence. I’m assuming the structure in place means such big capital outlays have to be signed off by someone senior at PIF.

I mean to cite Watkins very winnable comment. I don’t think any away game is very winnable for us this season personally. This might be pedantic to some.

I don’t think this is an unreasonable take personally. Definitely lines up with my recollection of December in particular. I do think however at that point in time the injuries we had were unprecedented and we were running on absolute fumes. It’s fine to have doubts and reservations as well. I would suggest we get behind the side and see what next season brings though because no matter what we will have a more accurate gauge at that point. (If we suffer the same amount of injuries for example we have to link this our training and conditioning methods etc).

I think we have two schools of thoughts broadly. 1, we don’t need such drastic changes as if we didn’t get wrecked by injuries we would have been around and challenging for top 4. 2, we need a drastic revamp because we’ve underachieved/fallen back.

You said very winnable, which to me it isn’t we will be lucky to get a point imo We’ve been rancid away all season and don’t look to handle pressure to well either.

The problem is, in order to essentially do what needed do we would have had to break the rules weather it’s related party inflation or breaking FFP. the issue with that is the punishments are now very large points deductions which would have been difficult to bear.

You think Brentford away is was winnable? Boy your going to be disappointed.