NWMag

What happened to the judgement due about the City/Pl case? I’m sure I read something was due a few weeks ago but haven’t seen anything about it since

Saw so many people shit the bed on Twitter about it being ‘5 at the back’. Really annoyed me, this isn’t Steve Bruce any more lads, it was quite obvious that even if it’s a 5 on paper, it would be fluid, and very tactical. people need to have more faith in the man, he’s proved us wrong many a time.

Walker Peters didn’t move this January and remains out of contract in the summer. He would cover LB and RB so I’d be amazed if we were not offering him a deal.

Also, and this is probably extremely ignorant of me considering I know F all about construction, but it does shock me at how long these things take. Ive seen videos from China of them throwing up buildings in 2 weeks etc. surely (if they wanted to) PIF could employ 4x the normal workload and get it done a lot quicker?

You’d hope that the design would allow for fairly easy expansion if needed, 70k could be a conservative starting point but with the ability to fairly easily add an extra couple of thousand if needed

I spent all last summer reading that we would have to sell Bruno or Isak, and it didn’t happen, so can we just put that to one side and just see what happens rather than saying with absolutely certainty one will be going?

Forest aren’t going away are they. feels like we have to win today & beat Forest later this month, going to be a key game that one.

Because the Saudi league is a higher priority for them than we are, which I would expect tbh.

Spurs getting Tomori for €25+5, feels like good value, surprised we aren’t interested

I think the PL get around the restraint of trade because I don’t think they stop the actual sponsorship, they just limit how much of it is included in PSR calculations. i.e if a company wanted to sponsor a part of the club for £20 million, but the PL deemed it only £10million for FMV, they can’t stop the company giving us £20million, but when it comes to FFP calculations only £10 million would be included. thats my understanding of it anyway, happy to be proven wrong if so.

This has been the deadest transfer window of all time, so boring.

Another reason why PSR is not fit for purpose occurred to me today. As unlikely a situation as it is for us, it could happen to other teams I.e Villa when they cashed in on Grealish. say hypothetically FFP year 24/25 we make £200 million profit. Then we don’t spend anything for 25/26 and 26/27. By 27/28, that £200 million profit doesn’t exist any more (for FFP), even though the money is still in the bank. or even if we made £200 million profit in 24/25, and spent it all 25/26 and spent £0 in 26/27, we’d be even in terms of the accounts - but for FFP 27/28 the £200 million would drop off, and we’d be £200 million in the red and breaching. How is that a measure of sustainability? there are so many different reasons as to why the rules don’t make sense, it really needs highlighting in depth by multiple people within football who have a big following & whose views are respected.

Apparently Juve in talks for Kelly for €30 million. isn’t this guy a decent source in Italy? Although not sure I buy it.

I feel like us as a team/club are in a similar position now as to what Arsenal were when they sold him to us. He was only young at that point but I wouldn’t say he has progressed to the same level, so as he wasn’t up to it for Arsenal at that time, I feel it’s the same situation with us now, which is unfortunate as I do like him.

Not a rumour as such but Dewbsury Hall free to leave Chelsea, rated him at Leicester. I know CM isn’t a priority but imagine he would be available for a decent fee