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Yeah, I'm sure they'll be just as thrilled once Hillsborough is renamed the Sports Direct Stadium and it gets plastered in SD advertising. Kinda hope he goes there now, will be fun to watch from afar.

The stripes are much much thinner too.

First game I've been back over for in a couple of years and just couldn't have asked for anything more. Absolutely buzzing, won't be getting much sleep tonight!

Same for me. Him and Barnes were sublime down the left today. He's been an absolute revelation at LB since coming in. Wonder if Tuchel fancies giving him a shot there now after that display.

This with stripes down the arms tbh

Yeah it's been weaker but still had the whole squad travel. Hopefully they're playing away at least on the Thursday!

Why what?

Thing is it's just all complete speculation at the moment on both budget and targets - the 50/50 fate of being in the Champions League is so huge that anything until that's confirmed one way or the other feels like nonsense - apart from maybe Trafford.

Chelsea home game is such a massive one. Game will be moved to Sunday now as they'll play on the Thursday, which certainly hurts them more than us.

Imagine 1 but Saudi green... 🤢

Better rest the full squad ahead of next week now imo.

Hahahaha

Stripes!

A bit at the bottom but mostly blank white space.

Have also seen the real one and it's most definitely a fake - no stripes on the back. This looks like an alternative prototype.

Was also factoring in the fact that it's likely 7th would be Europa due to the FA Cup. Then again, after last season maybe not!

At the very least surely we're no longer looking at that Conference League playoff place anymore.

Such an opportunity now to turn around the goal difference. Could be huge.

Absolutely phenomenal.

Confused by the talk of the Minteh and Anderson sales and that PSR is crashing down. Isn't this solely about the APT sponsorship rules which means we would still have had to comply with the 105m PSR rule? There's an argument that if we had been allowed the higher sponsorships then we would have easily met PSR, but I can't see anything that suggests PSR is going to change as a result of this. Have I completely missed something 😅.

I just don't get why the limit is not at least increased in line with inflation compared to the 105m when it was implemented, whilst they flesh out any bigger changes to the system. *edit* - well, obviously I do know why they don't want to do this...

Random Wednesday brainfart. Back in April 2023 I'd heard that the Sela deal was for 2 years initially - which would mean it's coming up for renewal this summer already. When it was announced, it was simply called a 'multi-year deal' which could mean anything. If the two years is true (and I believe it was given where it came from), would we expect an increase and more PSR headroom next season? Or same terms? Given the partnership so far feels pretty successful, it feels like one we'd probably be keen to extend. Curious if anybody heard anything about where we stand?

Yup. It was always looking like this summer will be easier to spend once the 2021-22 finances drop off the calculations, so adding another 20m into next season's headroom should make for quite some leeway in the summer. Arguably better for us to back that later rather than now if we had no plans to buy this window.

50th appearance today already - seems wild considering a year ago.

Not in the squad tonight either, although probably not a shock given who's available.