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Your a much better poster than giving patently terrible transfer windows 7’s.

I think we’ve all been sold a goal a lofty one at that, since PSR has shown its teeth we have no strategy to pivot to. It’s obviously really soffit with a lot of moving plates and stakeholders line ultimately we need absolutely visionary executives to pull of what needs to be done.

Why? The critique of PIF would be what they’ve appointed bad executives?

They can’t can they? Pissing away careers which are better than conference league challengers. We will be back to square one with a lot of money to burn. Let’s hope next time around we actually come up with some form of cohesive plan because it’s patently obvious we do not have one atm.

The point about selling and contracts expiring is a big issue kind, ultimately we can’t player trade because we have a squad full of players who are old with expiring contracts. Yes we will save on wages but we will have to pay fees to get in replacements. We better pray city win the case and the owners are willing to get investing via sponsors.

It didn’t have to be no, although as time passed the options narrow. Our commercial performance hasn’t been enough, far too much inaction and money left on the table. We literally need every penny but that message seemingly hasn’t been relayed. We seem to have a concept of the perfect forever player who we can keep for 10 years which is a bit silly, the only way to bridge the gap is to player trade did we even get another potential Minteh in who could help with the future psr issues?

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I'm with you on this, I'm waiting not so patiently about what the plan is for the stadium. It will tell me all I need to know. If you take out the emotion, it's quite clear we need a new ground which can be a hub and a commercial engine for the club moving forward. Spurs have given the blueprint we don't even need to think for ourselves about what needs to be done.

Kudos to you as well for engaging and thinking critically over the long term strategy and planning the club have done.

Maybe, maybe not we will know for certain either way. If it was a factor I’d expect some form of pivot in regards to strategy or the goal was the same kind. Of the goal posts are shifted and your ambitions remain surely you have to change something to achieve your aims? Or have the goals changed and the plan is muddle along and see where that gets us? I doubt it as that isn’t even a viable plan I guess what I’m getting at is, what is the plan to be number one? How do we plan on reaching that lofty goal?

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Everyone loved when he said, rightfully so and myself included. It’s just a shame we haven’t backed up his words with actions to warrant the lofty ambitions. People keep moaning about the fans being unhappy but it’s the ownership who’ve raised expectations to where they are.

Will pass on giving a numerical rating or ranting too much. amateur hour window with brought back memories of a time I thought we’d left behind. If we do not qualify for EL at minimum things have essentially stalled for 24 months.

Not sure what he’s done wrong if honest

Fair, I think la Liga have stricter rules than what we have mind. I do agree wholeheartedly these rules are hurting our competitiveness they are very much based upon clubs looking backwards and not forwards. These rules being thrown in the bin would bring forth the second unknown I have which is how invested are the Saudis in this, so far I’m personally using the stadium as a proxy signal to draw my own conclusions.

Our Saudi overlords bout to drop Liverpool yet another bag.

What makes you think that? It would require a shift In the makeup of the leagues ownership.

20 years ago such financial rules didn’t exist mind, times have moved on and the league has been stitched up. Man united haven’t been competitive since Ferguson yet they have some of the largest revenues in the world. They are grandfathered in and the ladder has been kicked down. And yes, I agree things could change but I certainly wouldn’t be counting on it.

It isn’t enough man, this is the point we’ve over achieved since Howe came in yet we were 70m short. That’s with as you mentioned a nice FFP headroom to play with, no we are out of headroom and essentially at a glass ceiling with revenue a long way short of those we wish to disrupt. If we aren’t growing at a faster rate than those clubs we are falling further and further behind which is obviously compounding the issue we face. I understand the outlook of these clubs make x we have a lot of growth but I don’t see us ever being same to close the gap under the current rules.

Absolutely; and the only innovation which is possible IF the stated goal is to be believed is to trade our best players aggressively and boy does that absolutely blow.

Which means catching up is an almost impossible task.

Uh please, it’s quite simple in order to grow we need to invest and in order to invest we need to grow. We are trapped in a cycle which we can’t get out of due to the rules of the league. Nobody is going to sponsor us for what they could sponsor man united for. So with such a situation how do we close the gap ?

We had to mount legal challenges, we’ve chosen not to far. Why haven’t we? Nobody knows are we ok with the rules? A lot of unasked questions if we are keeping it a buck.

They don’t give a fuck about the silly rules. They have self reported breaches from the Roman era yet no action from the PL

Glad to set people coming into contact with reality. The rules have fucked US and we’ve done nothing to challenge them. It’s pretty much the start and the end of things.