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Because it would help them in PSR terms too? Get the money from a sale, amortise the purchase.

People need to make their peace with the fact PIF aren’t going to go to war with the PL. They know they’re not popular.

Not necessarily. If the sale is driven by a PSR concern it’s not going to be available, at least on the same terms, once we address the shortfall. The idea we might sell someone else and suddenly Minteh’s not available could put pressure on interested teams.

I think that’s fanciful, but I could believe were leaking stuff to try and force the hands of other clubs for players like Minteh.

Just because you think someone should exist doesn’t mean they do.

Let’s see how things stand at the end of the transfer window, eh?

That’s an overly simplistic way of looking at it because of the way FFP works. But even accepting that statement as true, we need to raise the floor as well as the ceiling. Last season our biggest issue was squad depth - the existence of it or quality of it. If we’re serious about competing we need a bigger pool of Premier League ready players.

The sooner people accept that deals for players like Minteh, Harrison, Kuol etc are just as much about grabbing assets we think we can flip for FFP purposes as they are getting future NUFC players the better. We’ll be doing a lot of this over the next few years, especially with the way we’ve been aggressively hoovering up young talent to pad out the youth teams. Don’t get attached.

As a replacement for Wilson, fine. We’re not getting anyone of any greater quality to sit on the bench for most of the season. The Minteh stuff I don’t like, but it depends on the terms of the deal.

Club football management and international football management are completely different propositions now. We know how Howe works. He’d seriously struggle to imprint his very particular style on the squad with the limitations international management places on coaches.

Generally defend Southgate, but TAA in midfield is one of the most baffling decisions I’ve seen an England manager make. It reminds me of posters on this place insisting we bung a ball playing centre half in midfield.

Noon are 50 per cent owned by the entity that owns 75 per cent of us. Do we need someone at PIF to organise a meeting with themselves and explain why mistreatment of migrant workers is bad?

One of the first posts after the article was shared is “what about Liverpool’s sponsor” man

Football fans are fucking odd. Imagine breaking your back to minimise the misbehaviour of our fucking sleeve sponsor It was bad enough when we had people leaping to the defence of the Saudis, but let’s not completely debase ourselves by saying it’s fine for Noon to be cunts because Amazon are a bit shit too.

Wait until you hear what the Saudi government get up to.

It definitely strengthens our hand. Always get the impression that we could sell a glittered turd if it had an NUFC crest on it, but Castore’s supply issues likely left us with a quite a holey case. Completely different set of circumstances now with Adidas.

Adam Purple Aki.

That’s filth. Absolutely pornographic. Someone at Adidas wants me to go into debt.

There’ll be a staggered launch over the summer, you’d imagine. Already know that away and third kits are arriving in July and August.

He was papped walking his dog in full training kit not long after he signed. Been memed to death.

Elswick repeatedly sorted me out with away derby tickets, so I’ll not have a bad word said.

Colin from Peterlee.

Not bad for someone barely scraping 4’2”. I would love to go back and read Skunker’s gerld section. Home to some absolutely world class meltdowns. In its heyday that place was brilliant. Alas, it’s long since gone to the big server in the sky.

Mackems fall through the divisions killed off Skunkers for good. The place was at its best when you had a steady stream of fuckwits popping over from SMB who weren’t in on the joke. Met a few people from Skunkers over the years. All disappointing normal.

Yes. Away and third kit to follow in July and August.