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We think about long term value, not short term. Form is temporary class is permanent and all that.

brother nobody wants to give us money for Ben Parkinson. The sellable assets we have at Academt level are either too young to have value to make a difference. ( Sanusi/Sahar ) or Miley whom we obviously shouldn’t be letting go. So that leaves us with the first team squad whom we don’t want (we’ve been trying to shift these guys for 2 years without many offers) or selling Anderson and Minteh. I think the pinch In future won’t be as bad as we have higher revenue and a better overall squad now than we did then.

Aye far too easy to connect those dots to not do it. Literal win win for someone stealing a living like Bailey, we just need Bein Ben to hop on board as well as that other tosser who’s name I forget.

It’s been obvious if FFP were to be imposed our FFP position was bad, the numbers have been clear for awhile. your speaking about player trading and it’s exactly what we’ve done with Minteh and Anderson, we’ve let two fringe players go for massive money and are clear now to keep our star players who nobody wants to lose. On this front we’ve been damn near perfect. I think questions should be asked why certain sponsorships have been done and what the actual goal is. Because as I’ve said many times I don’t see how we bridge the gap financially to enable consistent success.

Cmon nobody batted an eyelid when we got Tonali, the price was totally fine. I’m also pretty sure most fans are perfectly happy having Tonali Bruno and big Joe in midfield, I don’t think we can better that midfield if we let Bruno go.

If so then it cost nought so they would be laughing. im no AI expert so wouldn’t know.

I think if we take a step back and look with the Benefit of hindsight your point holds weight. But at the time, we were talking about Tonali being a bargain it was the point deduction that focused the minds.

That’s a lot of marketing dollars, that’s Shibuya crossing.

Truthfully the position couldn’t have been avoided imho. I know what you’re saying and understand your reasoning but I don’t see it. If we didn’t sign Tino for example we’d have been screwed when trips was missing. I know people will point to Barnes too and whilst I agree he was the right player wrong time I still would have had us spending that money on a rw. We needed to invest heavily to close the massive gap and we’ve actually come through the over side unscathed, the perfect deal doesn’t exist and all that.

Am I the only one who thinks he’s going to be really good but we did the right thing selling?

His technique on his left foot is awful

It’s probably bullshit and can be ignored.

Halfway through my vacation and still nobody brought in

A lot of our up and comers getting minutes in front of the gaffa is significant.

Ohh thanks for sharing.

Friendly for Tonali I wonder.

He needs peddling asap unfortunately, we can’t have another season of him being injured and Isak being flogged.

They were always going to unless he was unequivocal which it seems he wasn’t.

@Yorkiehas secretly outed himself as Howe out with such statements

[x] doubt.

We did raise the funds by selling two players who are quite trivial to us at this stage. Also, the counter point is who wouldn’t you have bought to cover the shortfall? You can’t have it both ways.

What psr fuck up is that?

I know what you’re trying to say here but it isn’t coming across particularly well imo. She’s a minority shareholder.

If we are to expand the stadium and training ground this will require significant capital investment which will have to be done by either taking on loans or from our owners. Doubt it via loans would be crippling as interest rates are high, doing it via our owners requires them to actually put up money; AS simply doesn’t have the finances to do it. They should have the feasibility study at this juncture and have a full executive team in place. It’s a very logically time for her to take her profit and move to being a fan.

Highly unlikely, I think it’s just the right time. Ultimately they can’t invest to the levels needed and if they keep diluting the shares they are just further delaying actually profiting and also incurring further interest and risk. The club is an investment for them; sure they fell in love and all that but the prime motivator was profit which they will have handsomely.