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If this was a tv show I’d switch off and Wikipedia the ending. Really want to know who is out but it’s not a classic, even if Portugal move the ball 10x faster than England

Southgate is such a coward. Must be so demotivating for Gordon, Palmer etc so see him try Saka as a wingback. Just drop Saka on form grounds and drop Foden on tactical ones and the whole thing is sorted

He’s not worth very much in £££, you’d have to buy a replacement and that replacement is going to know they are second choice with no plan for them to become first choice. Basically it would add some bang average squad player on a 5 year deal, probably for the same cash recouped from a sale. Meanwhile you remove the player that sets the bar in terms of standards at the club. After Howe, Trippier is the most important personality in the squad.

Mad to be selling Trippier, have no idea why people keep repeating that as if it’s a good idea. £100m seems credible to me, I think that’ll be a CB at about 30m, RW at 60m and a punt on a young striker if Wilson leaves. Already brought in 2 new faces, expect 3 more

The regulator is a terrible idea - there is already the FA, the last thing football needs is some minister adding even more rules on for clubs to obey

He’ll go to extreme lengths to duck the big decisions. If he dropped Saka and Foden he could solve his problems, if he tries Saka at left wingback it will show he got his squad selection totally wrong

Very entertaining- wouldn’t have minded the extra time but great save Netherlands vs Turkey could be another good game

On the revenues, those figures from a few pages back show for that season Spurs very very crudely could spend 480m and be within PSR, Newcastles limit was 285m (assuming you spread the 105m max loss equally over the three year period so add 35m to each years revenue) 195m extra to spend per year. That’s more than 5 players bought for 100m each and paid 250k pw on 5 year contracts. (Which would be 100m in amortisation and £60m in wages) Its an enormous difference, and that’s versus Spurs, the lowest revenue club of the 6. The others are even further ahead. (there’ll be other factors in practice, like other clubs having debt etc which reduces their spending power but this is broadly what the club are dealing with) Only solution is to get the revenue to be comparable and in the meantime spend more wisely than everyone else but that will take years.

You’d be asking Isak to do defensive work on the right side with this to cover the full back, given this is how Real Madrid play in not saying it’s impossible but IMO Isak needs to be kept as a 9 high up the pitch, and if you want to put Isak and a 10 in behind you’d be better to drop to two CMs with the 10 dropping deeper when needed in a 4231

Good prices but we are fans of a football club not accountants We want the club to keep the best players not sell them to meet some arbitrary cap designed to limit competition

One at best come on we all know him by now

What’s important that drops off is the PSR limit is a max 105m loss over a 3 year period. That’s why the drop off of 21/22 is important - the club lost 70m that year, which meant 23/24 was highly constrained (the club also lost 70m in 22/23, meaning the club has to turn a 35m profit in 23/24, hence the sales) 24/25 will be easier as the club can run up another 70m loss and be within the spending limits.

Let’s hope he has a lovely time on Tyneside and the contract isn’t too long. All parties understand the deal here so just embrace it.

If you think selling Anderson for 35m is insane goodness knows what you’ll think of the fee being forked out for this goalkeeper…

And I’d also mention if they’d got further in the CL or finished higher in the PL and got more prizes money the loss to cover would be less and probably could have been fixed by selling someone worth less. ie winning a few extra CL games and reaching the knockouts or having an EL run, plus finishing 5th in the league might have meant you could get away with selling Fraser. But crashing out of all European games in the CL group stage and finishing 7th meant a big sale was required.

Yes some of the higher revenues will be offset by higher running costs. But the issue they are trying to fix this week is the 105m limit. IIRC Swiss ramble believes the club lost 70m in 21/22 and 70m again in 22/23, meaning 23/24 had to turn a 35m profit to balance the books. The CL money and Minteh has essentially gone on PSR. However this means to balance at end 24/25 the club can run up another 70m loss, and lose 70m the year after again and still be within the rules. Meanwhile revenues can be grown, like the adidas deal, so more can be spent in total.

Perhaps not. The issue the club got in is that FFP / PSR is done in a rolling 3 season block. By the end of this June the total losses for the last 3 years need to be £105m. However the season 21/22 season, where the club bought a load of players but revenue was abysmal, now drops out and the 3 year period becomes 22/23, 23/24 and 24/25. the club can go again, but with higher revenues. I would expect a similiar spend to last two summers. We will never ever get a crazy summer with PSR though

Maybe the club agree with you but other clubs aren’t bidding for Lewis etc are they. Id prefer to sell Miggy for £100m but it ain’t happening. ASM was the only sale of note last year too, a lot of the squad just aren’t worth much in the transfer market (although many can still do a good job on the pitch)

It’s just how the accounting works, a 5 year sponsorship deal the income would be split over 5 years regardless of when the bill was paid. Incoming transfer fees come are all at once as there’s no further relationship- the player has gone

Even if the payment is upfront it will end up spread over the length of the deal in the books. Same as players transfer fees.

If hes good he won’t want to come back. He’d have other clubs in and probably won’t be desperate to rejoin the club that booted him out for a quick buck a year or two earlier.

With Lascelles and Botman out until January and Dummett released be helpful to have another CB around next year, and perhaps loan in January (alongside another new CB)

Be lols if Cronaldo gets another yellow for dissent

I’d love Bellingham, I’ve never seen him play but if would wind the mackems up no end.

Wrong way round - they only go abroad for ‘bankers’ - these have all worked except Tonali. PSR means the club cannot get a single big transfer wrong, so it’s a safety first strategy of PL experience is a must UNLESS the player is young and definitely going to be CL quality. If they spot a RW or CB in this category abroad they will do it, if they can’t find a banker at the right place it’s domestic. Tonalis suspension effectively derailed last season so you can see why the strategy is there.Other clubs can afford to take gambles on players who might not work out, NUFC can’t and PL experience is the best proof a player will succeed. Id love for the club to be taking all sorts of fun punts but the PSR situation doesn’t allow it, as a £40m flop on a 5 year deal with big wages is the stuff of PSR nightmares.