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They need to release the kit asap because I’m sick to the back teeth of people discussing this fucking shirt sponsor

The official history as I understand it is that football was introduced to the area by British workers of indeterminate origin (allegedly from the south coast and North East), but it wasn’t until about 15 years later that Athletic started wearing red and white stripes and that was because it was the only shirts they could get their hands on. Every club has a Bilbao link they like to amp up. I file most of them as apocryphal bollocks alongside “Brian Clough was almost our manager” and “we nearly signed a young Maradona”.

It’ll be able to be paid off, but why would you at this juncture if you’re NUFC? Not likely to be able to raise a massive sum in the ultra short term because of these rules around market rate sponsorship, and the government are likely to legislate on gambling shirt sponsorship soon. In all likelihood it’ll make greater financial sense to spend 12 months focusing on growing the other commercial revenue streams into the club and improving our league position. It’s not entirely inconceivable we’ll have a clean break with Fun88, and we’ll have a much stronger hand at arguing our fair market value should be much greater than it would be now.

Thank fuck I’ve accrued a load of flexi.

I wouldn’t brag about your encyclopaedic knowledge of individual NUFC fans. It makes you sound like a bit of an oddball.

Same. They’re not good enough now for where we want to be but they’ve been fantastic servants for the most part, usually during pretty dark days for the club. I always got the impression that this group of players genuinely gave a fuck, which isn’t something I can say about some others.

I’m incredibly laid back about this summer. I totally trust the club to get it right. The business we did and the way we went about January was impeccable IMO. It’s obviously fun to speculate on how much we’ll spend, but there’s a long road ahead. If we’re able to box clever now it gives us much greater scope in 12/24 months time when you’d hope NUFC is going to be a much more attractive project for players who will demand big money. The last thing I want is to piss away this golden opportunity and end up like Everton - handing over enormous sums for name players with little regard for whether they want to be here or are actually any good.

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Is there a chance Anderson could feature?

We really shouldn’t give a fuck what a perennially pissed second rate Guardian ‘journalist’ writes tbf.

Do you think it’s likely you’ll be able to spend much if at all this summer? I know you had to move pretty cannily during January (paying Alli in instalments and only after he’s played a certain number of games), but there’s only so much of that you can do. I wouldn’t mind Lampard if the media weren’t so determined to give him the soapiest of tit wanks for being a pretty mediocre manager thus far. He arguably underperformed with a financially doped Derby he loaded with Chelsea loanees (and made a cunt of himself by crying about Bielsa in the process), eventually got found out in a big way at Chelsea (and made a cunt of himself by repeatedly throwing his players under the bus), and at Everton he seems to have turned you into an absolute basketcase on the pitch yet gets lauded for it.

He’s made himself look a proper twat there.

You could get decent money for Woodman and Darlow. Not so much Gillespie. If we’re as concerned with generating cash as is suggested it’s a no brainier.

Maybe just me but I don’t have a problem with that Matt Law tweet. Seems fair. It sounds like clapping managers is the done thing among certain journalists but knowing very little about what goes on after the dictaphones are turned off I thought it was fucking deranged behaviour when I first saw the clip tbh. Things can ultimately get a bit weird when journalists get close to clubs and personalities (Duncan Castles, our Lukey and his obsession with Bruce etc). It’s not that unreasonable that some people in the profession might not like it.

All speculation on my part, but my feeling is the club want to shift the deadwood first. We won’t see many current first teamers leave unless they personally really want to go and at the moment I don’t see that being an issue.

I think Darlow and Woodman are more likely to move on than Dubs. They’re definitely looking to increase competition.

I remember him being outstanding for Sheffield United, so much so that Ramsdale looked a bit shit when he followed him the year afterwards. Haven’t seen him much since then. Feel like his return to Man United coincided with De Gea remembering he was meant to be the best in the world.

Don’t rate Bamford. Championship striker who hit a bit of form last season. I think Toney would be a fantastic addition.

Absolutely dreadful. Rabbits in the headlights from minute one. We got the gameplan bang on tonight. Never let them settle. By rights we should have won by a few more.

All this money sloshing around in the club and we still get the POTY trophy from Timpson’s.

Oh aye, this thread is proof positive that no one would kick off if the Trust started striking off their suggested charities Each charity is different. Different projects, different scale, different charitable spend. You could conceivably spread this money around in the wrong places or provide it to the wrong organisations - best of intentions - and make much less of an impact than if some thought was put into where it was sent. That’s why the Trust’s approach is better than what you’ve outlined.

Sorry, but you’re talking complete bollocks. Collaboration and consultation is a great idea but entirely inappropriate in this instance. You could end up with the entire pot spread across dozens of different charities in quantities that are too small to make a difference in most cases, alternatively you could end up with a massive lump sum going to an organisation that isn’t set up to deal with that influx of money.

4 months isn’t particularly long like. It’s entirely reasonable to do due diligence when you’re donating other people’s money that was given to you in completely different circumstances for a different purpose.

If they’d dished the cash out people on here still would’ve complained.

Everton are backloading deals out of necessity. They haven’t paid a penny for Dele Alli yet.