Dr Jinx

I'd very much like it if he stayed here until he was into his 30's but we also need to be realistic. If we can't hold onto him then we need to sell when his value is at it's highest. Is that now or one more epic season? I think we can get 175m for him that would help the club massively. We're so dependent on him because our other options are so poor. If by selling him we can bring the averages up, it will soften the blow a bit. My gut feeling is one more season or.. if we end up top 4 then all that goes out the window.

Also seems the players thought in exactly the same way as the supporters. We're light years from that terrible place now.

3-0 down.. "i told you i don't do tactics.. put your boots on and work hard" Absolutely stealing a living that chap. You have to admire it.

Love the way he picks up Willock.. mad as a brush this lad! Seems very popular in the squad already.

The deluded minds still think their club is some way relevant. The previous couple of derby games is where we were literally at rock bottom. Worst shape the club has been in the modern era and beating us at that point in time is their peak as a club and city. Forever in our shadow.

Hopefully Sunday has added another 5-10k seats to the agenda

Good morning everyone 🙂

In the bleekers in Dublin, home away from home. Packed with black and white. Balled my eyes out for a good 20 mins. Is this real? Did we actually do it!? Fuuuuuuuuuckkkkkk

Yes! Bunch of paranoid cunts, they have their whole forum on private.. afraid of outsiders mocking them etc.

They are the most arrogant bunch of cunts.. up there with Man Utd's supporters. You should see their forum.. playing the victims already saying our midfield are going to get away with murder etc.. and "we'll probably get booked on our first tackle"... absolute shite. Oh and it's a complete echo chamber for those who like to virtue signal.. like the whole Saudi thing.. as fucking if they'd be out protesting if they had bought their club instead. They are our bogey team.. no question about that but we can beat them..

It all depends on how capable the design team are. For a brand new site, why couldn't the build take under 5 years? Spurs new ground didn't take more than that iirc. Everton's the same. Modern building techniques can take a lot of time off total construction time. It really depends on what the unique selling point of the stadium will be. Sustainability, energy efficient, multi purpose etc. The more bells and whistles will add time.

5 years should be the maximum amount of time. Even the Bernabau got done just under that amount of time (during Covid, whether that's a plus or minus) 75k is the magic number

We've been waiting for PIF to flex since they came in.. will it happen this summer?

I think it's safe to make an assumption that Anderson or Minteh may not have been sold if there was strong interest in any other players like Targett, Lascelles, Longstaff etc. We may have had to sell one of them to bridge the PSR gap, but there wasn't the interest. No bid or indeed firm interest stays hidden.

Aside from selling the players we don't want to sell.. who exactly aside from Minteh and Anderson could we have sold? There was no interest

They were one of the worst teams in the league when we played them in November and yet they were made to look like a top 6 team by how shite we were. I'm expecting nothing tonight. Players have been on the beach since we got to the final.

We were in the relegation spots. That first January window couldn't have gone any other way. Of course we had to over pay to get players in. 40m on Barnes is the only one i can think of where we just didn't need to spend that, the rest there's a case for.

I don't see how she could have done much differently. The summer after we qualified top 4 perhaps. All signings were either unavailable or took a long time to bed into the team. With the overall injuries we had, you can pretty much pick at any decision and give a could have/should have comment, but ultimately she delivered what the manager wanted. The previous window was pretty much perfection. I agree she's not the person for the CEO job but there's a place for her to keep PIF invested. Her real skill is getting these ultra wealthy types interested and participating.

For the cup final, it may be a silver lining that he's not involved as Salah seems to have his number and also the ability to foul him repeatedly without any repercussions. If Trippier is fit, Tino can fill in at LB but also Targett returning to fitness is a big plus as he's always been underrated.

Zero lessons learned from the post reaching the final form 2 years back. Every time it looks like we’ve turned a corner, we turn shit again.

Bad pass from Tonali but Burn had a chance initially to step up and recover the ball. He didn’t and then he ran back towards the middle of defence super slowly which opened up all the space to run into. Botman coming back is just as important as Isak being on the pitch imho. We’re so poor at the back.

Will that be Isak out for the cup final now?… slight groin strain usually ends up being a few weeks for our lot. FFS

I would say earning 350k a week whether they play or not, play well or play shit etc.. is a huge contribution to players just deciding they don't want to listen to a coach. Where is the motivation going to come from?

"Oi, Brad.. over here"