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98 was Arsenal in their first double year, 99 was Man Utd on the treble I’d rather have the team that isn’t still going for a historic achievement!

One game to go! Played and beat the teams in second, third and fourth in the league so far and probably the team in first to come next - quite a crazy set of teams to have to beat in a cup competition. Have to win it the hard way….

Anyone who suggested Trippier should be sold should hand their heads in shame. A good defensive performance so far, a leader on the pitch and a truly magnificent wind up merchant

Those 4 were a year later, the damage was done. Honestly I think it’s crazy to defend Dalglish. He took a fast attacking team and converted it in a year to a plodding slow side, a team that finished second to one that finished bottom half. Even if second place wasn’t sustainable (Arsenal were on their way) it is a dreadful record.

Dalglish sold Ginola and bought Des Hamilton, he utterly wrecked the club. He absolutely stuffed the squad with average players that took years to repair. I agree it was funny to see him try and do it again to Liverpool, straight in for Charlie Adam etc. Shame they stopped him before he’s done the whole squad

There are posters on here with a lot more understanding of PSR and the clubs financials than the Ronnie gill, I wouldn’t believe a word of what they say. Plus things like league position and European qualification will have a huge impact on the financials

What a lovely result. They were just starting to get some ‘turning the corner’ coverage after scraping a couple of results, this should put a lid on that

On the sales they all look fine in isolation, but the squad is really thin. I didn’t go into January thinking this is a squad that can lose 3 players without impact - it’s not like Chelsea where they have 6 teams worth. Theres barely any cover and absolutely no scope for rotation. It impacts on the pitch.

In the medium term they have big stadium debts to pay off, they paid 45m in interest last year, plus whatever capital repayments they had. They have ran up real world losses the last few years so I guess they don’t have the cash (in PSR land they are ok as it’s all excluded from the calcs, but not sure they have real money to buy players). Arsenal went through a similar phase post Emirates. Once that debt is down they’ll be very strong financially

JFK was terrible, but it’s more on Ashley as there was never any doubt he’d be rotten. I would say he met every fans expectations. Dalglish did the most damage IMO. had Dalglish not wrecked the squad and instead ridden the wave of European competition expansion life could have been so different! Instead Arsenal, Chelsea and Liverpool did. He wasn’t as bad a manager as some of the others, but he had the best hand when he took over. You can make the same argument against Souness, but I think the cash had already dried up when he came in, Man Utd, Arsenal and Chelsea were too far ahead financially already (Chelsea as Abramovich came in in 2003)

If he comes off the bench instead of Osula 10 times this season it’ll mean at least 3 more goals for the team. If it comes down to fine margins for CL qualification Wilson could be the difference in making it or not. Be useful to have if there’s a cup final too. Trying to get another season out of him looks a bit hopeful though

Doubt it was done to spite Newcastle, just that City knew they’d have competition for his signature in the summer and they might not win out, so they moved while other clubs couldn’t. He’s a player they want

With Almiron a sale makes sense as a new RW will almost certainly join in the summer. But with Longstaff, selling means only having 5 midfielders on the books, that is totally insufficient if there’s European games next season, as all 5 would be needed pretty much every match. Longstaff is a good backup, home grown, loves the club and probably pretty cheap. Although I think the player probably needs the move as there’s now a cohort of fans always on his back, he might fancy a fresh start with more starting opportunities

Need them to have enough players to scrape past Liverpool…

Agne and Amorim are cooked in the league but the Europa is very winnable for either, if either go out of that they are toast. Cant see either getting near the FA cup as PL teams have the beating of them. Although Ange might not last long enough to find out.

3 years is an ambitious and likely unrealistic timeframe if they’ve not appointed architects yet. It will need planning permission and all that. I hope it’s great but not tooo great - don’t want them all going soft

The player will be on silly money, as he’ll have had them over a barrel and probably wasn’t desperately keen to be a third choice keeper. He will see out his 5 year deal, might get a couple of loans.

I’m not sure Howe has tried to hang onto players for too long in the past 2 windows, the main issue IMO is nobody wanted the players they tried to move on at the wages the players wanted. The club will be better sellers in 2 years as the squad is containing more and more players who are young and talented, vs old and declining

With Haaland he may lose his pace (but that is injury dependent) but he’d still be a big powerful striker with a good shot on him. He’s also massively dedicated, so more likely to work on his game as his mobility changes. It’s not likes he’s like Owen or Walcott where pace is his game.

Please don’t tell me he’s going to turn it down.

Incredible how he finds so much space in the penalty area all the time. Just knows where to be

What are they considering? take the money and run!

Eddie has worked wonders with players who up to that point were abysmally coached. A load of players he inherited had been coached by Bruce, Gordon was at the career graveyard that is Everton. Elanga has a competent manager so it’ll be a lot more what you see is what you get.

Mark Chapman is arguably the worst person in the world. Arguably.

Would Kelly be interested? He’s on a long term deal and as far as we know pretty happy. Hard to see what a move to Turkey gets him. He must have known first team chances would be limited when he signed up