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No they don't. Once they've sold him the first time he's classed as an academy player. Once they bought him back they amortized the fee like any other player.

His numbers are actually insane. His attacking output put him in the top 90% percentile then you look at his defensive contribution and it only drops off slightly. Madness.

Entitled to his opinion but seems a bit delusional. I hope he continues his prayers to the PSR gods because they are what's keeping his team relevant.

Exactly. This is why the rules and punishment were written in such an opaque way and also why Evertons initial punishment was so severe. It was a clear message to upstarts such as ourselves to not even think about it.

Imagine being this cunts neighbour.

We should have made a difficult choice in the summer and tried to move on Pope. His value is only decreasing and we've seen how important having a goal keeper who doesn't panic when the ball is at his feet is. We simply can't allow players to run down contracts and leave on a free. We have to sell players and preferably ones who are replaceable.

As I didn't watch the game I'm guessing having Botman and burn effectively shut down arsenal's corner threat?

Yeah but the rate of improvement is staggering.

It probably is different but this isn't something you say after a loss

Gutted I missed this now

Given they sold him and bought him back they won't benefit from the old selling an academy player ffp boost.

To be honest, despite my disagreements I think a lot of the hesitancy related more to the potential of moving elsewhere somewhere less central which is understandable. Obviously with the amount of unknowns and trade offers which we will inevitably have a lot of people would rather embrace what they know.

I think people should understand the atmosphere is created by those in the ground and not the ground itself. Sure you can design for better acoustics but you can't amplify silence.

Botman is better on the length side, he's very much filling in and doing a job. Let's not put round pegs in square holes.

I've been saying forever that these clubs hate competition. They also lack a sense of irony given a lot of them became established when no such rules existed. And the way forest got done was total bullshit on top of that. The rules penalised them being promoted as the allowable loss is much less in the championship.

Can see how Reform are making inroads with the way some people go on about overseas fans watching a game of football.

Affordable tickets aren't a thing anymore. Doesn't matter if it's SJP or a new ground ticket prices are only going up.

Sounds too good to be true, what's the catch

When your dealing with Italian clubs it sure is.

The difference in defensive contribution alone is massive. We started to struggle defensively once Murphy tired. Given this you can really see why we haven't replaced him as quickly as some might like. Sure we can find someone with more quality but can the output be matched? Particularly defensively.

It's all Chelsea at Selhurst.

Spurs hard done by according to Ange. All things being equal they would have won. Obviously doesn't do stats either.

Not sure what was up with him but he looked like he was running in treacle to me.

They created absolutely nothing once we brought those subs on. That should have been far more comfortable but I'm delighted none the less.

Eddie what are you doing get more fresh legs on FFS.