Gawalls

They’ve spent £140m less then us in the last 5 years.

Get relegated and possibly get fined when they come back up?

But we are struggling for money - we’d all love that but holding on and letting him go on a free to spend the money on a first choice keeper is done how? If we want a first choice keeper then I feel we need to get cash for existing keepers and he’s the one with the offer and only six months left.

Bruno essentially said this when interviewed after the game, I’m paraphrasing but he said something like “I’m now in a position where I can create more as I’m higher up the pitch as well as drop back and help Sandro as he can with me”.

Can't see the game as I don't have TNT - are we playing well? last spurs Newcastle game I missed was when I went to the Garden Center and we beat them 6 - 1 so maybe it's a good thing i'm not seeing this game although one of of Spurs mates has just offered to pay for the Channel for me to watch it lol.

all i'm trying ito say is both you and I are making assumptions on his personality and his wants - none of us know what drives him, what would make him want to stay or want to leave. Look we're currently doing well, having a good month and are 5th in the table yet in the last few hours i've opne to the Isak thread where it's full of people saying "I hope he doesn't leave", the Dubravka thread is full of people saying "oh crap - why are we selling now, what wiill we do", the Almiron thread people saying "he's unsellable, we're stuck with his wages" (I agree with this one for what it's worth) and this thread people saying "He's going to want to leave isn't he? ". I just find this place gets to me sometimes.

At 27 you could argue Barnes is just hitting his peak now - it's all well and good turning players over to bring younger in as they have a higher ceiling but there has to be a balance, in order to maximise your success you need to enjoy some of these players at their peak as well. There is some hard decisions to be made but i'll be very surprised if selling Barnes happens - for what I can gather there will be no money to be made on him due to what we're srill surely paying off for him with Amortisation and all that.

You can't see any scenario he stays? The lad signed for his home club at nine years old then played for them thick and thin until we came knocking. We're only his second club (not including loans) so he's never proven to be a player to kick a fuss and leave, when he came to us he said the opportuntity was too big to turn down, he's proven he has confidence in his own abilities and can do what's asked of him when needed, it's being also proven that we were short on numbers last season with a few injuries we struglgle, Howe has shown he rates him and he has barely been here five minutes - yet you can't see any scenario where he might want to stay and fight for his place? I personally can

The Acedemy is a massive part of the long term fix for me - create a new revenue stream at the very least and hopefully get new players come through.

They'd have to be idiots to take that job as get it rid nobody cares and get it wrong and you're hated, also they'd have to know nothing about Football. So looking for Idiots that know nothing about football, all I can think of is Mackems.

The only way it will ever change imo is if we have quite a few dry transfer windows back to back then sky turn round and push the matter saying “our transfer window viewing figures are down as nobody is interested in watching sensible shopping” and they push to less for rights.

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I mean he was wrong but you have cut the quote off right at the point when he says “but I’m not saying he won’t…”

My apologies- I printed the same as I didn’t read yours.

I think it’s 1.6 - misprint 😉

So he’s put himself on a pedestal

I actually fully trust the system now so going to be 100% upbeat about it (maybe 99%)

Knew he was going to be listed as the exception. You’re right he’s come good but just about the only one.

They’re worth very little - the pre take over players

😂😂😂 that did make me laugh

😂😂 Almiron (even my autocorrect won’t acknowledge his existence) although he often plays like an Allison.

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Ahh yes that all makes sense 😁

Howe has always said two for every position and Barnes fits one of those two, add on to this the amount of games he’s put to bed by scoring when coming off the bench I feel Howe will want to keep him, especially if true he asked Allison to stay then he’s surely defiantly going to want to keep Barnes.

Same reason we paid bugger all for the same players years ago.