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Lewis and Lascelles are out of contract.

Why are there over 10k seats not available for sale?

Long as fuck, and utterly pointless. Could have just been: ”Ever had any drones spying on your training?” ”Nah” ”Think this Bev Preistman should have been banned?” ”Couldn’t give a fuck”

And probably did less damage than McClaren.

That our transfer budget was surprisingly small.

Purely in terms of results given the quality of squad he had available, it’s a fair shout.

Agreed, he has looked better in the last 20, especially of late, but probably all season, in comparison to last season anyway, when he was often completely spent, and pretty much a passenger. Albeit, he was probably being asked to keep going whilst being well short of 100% fitness. But having Wilson to come on, even if it’s to partner him if we’re chasing, will be a help.

Quite probably, which is why it would be helpful to have someone a little better suited to those situations.

Yes, because unfortunately Isak’s race is generally run after 70 mins of most games, as shown by his extremely low goal output after that point.

So therefore he is GUARANTEED to be out the rest of the season? As I said, I totally understand the reticence towards his fitness, but it’s still a very negative take to completely write him off for the rest of the season.

Tbf, Hope still seemed fairly convinced it would be Arsenal in his post-presser video.

Whilst I understand the frustration with his injuries, that’s an incredibly negative take.

Why is he going to miss what remains of the season?

Yes, I suppose so. You’d think that’s just roughly levelling out though, rather than actually making reductions?

So Villa were at like 96% wages to turnover ratio, and now they’re taking on someone that’s on £300k a week? Alright, Man Utd will obviously still be paying a chunk, but I’ve no idea how the hell Villa are intending to comply with the new rules?

"What dance? Oh, to Remy. I just felt he was trying too hard. He had a lot of publicity last week and I just felt he was kind of tense. He had a couple of great situations for us in which he didn't deliver and that's not like him. So I was just trying to get him to play with a smile, that is all." (Q: Did it work?) "Well, apparently not, no.”

Hadn’t Spurs already qualified though? If so, then the story from tonight would be Rangers also managing to do so.

Try emailing [email protected] Not strictly there to help with this kind of stuff, but you never know.

I don’t disagree with the sentiment, but you do realise that hoping for ‘pay on the day’ in the modern PL world, is as likely as, well, something very unlikely.

Douglas was overall in charge. Not sure they’ve really replaced him since he left? Ryder has always reported exclusively on NUFC. And for all his (crayon-related) faults, he seems to literally never miss a single match.

Or someone’s getting a whopper of a new contract…

But is that not to do with the change in atmosphere’s generally? If you look at the Match Atmosphere thread, people (probably justifiably) are forever romanticising of the atmosphere in the 90’s and before, in comparison to that of today. As it is, I think it’s almost impossible to ‘improve’ atmosphere whilst also substantially increasing capacity. I can’t really think of a stadium in Europe that has a capacity of 60k+ where the atmosphere is consistently rocking. Somewhere like Dortmund is often very visually impressive, but is it really consistently loud? If, as seems the likely direction of travel, we end up with a new stadium, the best we can probably hope for is that they make a genuine effort to incorporate the (seemingly obvious) things that will at least give us some kind of a chance of cultivating some atmosphere - getting like minded folk together, large areas of safe standing in multiple parts of the ground etc etc The easiest time to do all of that is when you have a blank canvas, once people ‘have a seat’, it becomes far more messy.

Feat. Ando

Need to remember he’s only got 18 months left on his contract. His value is already depreciating.