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Thanks for sharing this. Promising news regarding the feasibility study results hopefully being out by end of April.

And even if he doesn’t, I doubt a player who ran at the first opportunity will be returning here.

Yeah we don’t, so why gamble? And yes, the degree of separation between Howe and Edwards wasn’t ideal but given we weren’t likely to get Edwards it’s a moot point, and Edwards own reputation would have carried him, he wouldn’t have needed Howe influence to get the job. When speaking of Monchi and the guy at city, it’s a bit different, Sevilla and Barca are not Bournemouth (with all due respect to Bournemouth) we are taking about serial winners and people who have achieved more than most. The same can’t be said for Richard Hughes. (Again no disrespect to him or his achievements). One of the things we are most lacking in is elite experience and this is a theme throughout all levels of the club, and as this season has shown it’s area which we have found wanting, we have copied well with an elite schedule. And we absolutely do need the best people, however I’m not sure the best person is Eddie’s friend.

Michael Edwards reputation outstrips Richard Hughes at this point, it also outstrips the of Eddie Howe as well. At this stage leaving Liverpool when they desperately wanted to keep him and joining us after his small break would have represented a step up for us. Richard Hughes leaving Bournemouth for us would have been a step up for Hughes.

Basically, the manager should obviously advise what position he’s after and what attributes he’s looking for and of course the sporting director should take this into consideration. Ultimately for it to be successful the manager has to be fully on board with such a set up and the sporting director better have a clear idea of what’s required. The reason why it falls to the sporting director is because he’s responsible for implementing this across all levels of the club and hiring the next manager.

I prefer a system whereby the club has a Philosophy of its own, a distinct playing style which we fit everything else around. A bit difficult because we obviously got the manager first, either way hopefully we things turn out the way we hope.

From the reporting he’s very influential over the uk members of the board and has a very large say in our transfer business

Speaking for myself, I just want separation between manager and Sporting director. It’s certainly nothing personal with Richard Hughes. for me, it’s important the sporting director is in charge of the long term strategy and that includes managerial appointments old boys networks and nepotism and things I’d like to see us avoid. Given media reporting (of course impossible to verify and know if it’s true) but the manager already has more sway over things than I’d like. Just my views.

Would avoid someone with this injury personally.

I like Madueke a lot too, but isn’t he a walking injury?

We are cursed

That has nothing to do with it it was always likely the premier league would get an extra spot this season.

Such a glib way of looking at it

In terms of the future plans, especially if we are diverting/extending our previous time scales. As other have mentioned it doesn’t take 3 years to find a plot of land for a training ground. Maybe I’m entitled but ultimately such delays will lead to people asking questions. And I couldn’t agree more, I’ve got no issue with Europe’s league in the medium term but my point remains that if that’s what we achieve how do we push beyond it? Maybe people disagree and are being too polite but for me, it’s quite simple. We need revenue to compete with the big boys and the only way we can now raise revenue to a level whereby we can be competitive has been closed(related party deals). Others may suggest we strike deals with others which we absolutely can however it will be a lower rate, only Adidas have been mad enough to pay us crazy money this far. Anyways let’s see what the future holds.

Do you consider perma Europa league contention to be success? My personal concern with the rules as they are is we get stuck with this being the best case (we may push CL every now and again like last season sometimes but our ceiling will be 7th) I think it’s a matter of perspective and a lack of communication from the club which isn’t helping either.

Once politicised it will be a case of who can lobby enough to get what they want.

Thanks Ben, I stubbornly refuse to sign up for Elons Nazi breeding ground. That being said, the new rules are even more revenue dependent and seemingly without the ability for any direct owner investment.

Yes, we did indeed.

Wanted to read it but paywall. That being said, it has been discussed that the new rules would make things even worst for us.

Pif got us for a great price by most valuation metrics.

It’s not a question of being out of ideas, it’s a question of not being successful enough to warrant brands sponsoring us and not Liverpool for example. If you look at commercial deals across the league, big clubs get big money, the rest get scraps.

The bot was an auto correct typo apologies. And as mentioned given our commercial and match day income will lag the others player trading is all we will have left. And that’s working on the assumption they want to challenge for honours.

How are we bridging the ever increasing gap if we aren’t doing it via player trading ? Im just repeating my earlier posts at this bot so I’ll give it a rest but something has to give and we will all find out what in due course.

This is one deal which we don’t know the details of and it’s obviously an optimistic once. If we aren’t successful when it’s up for renewal I want expect it to be renewed at the same valuation. Also lovely, we have a good kit deal. We still need to find another 200m per annum to get on the level of the lowest big six 6 clubs.