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People mentioning a single good period for DCL should remember Cisse had an absolutely insane season once then never again, Miggy was tremendous for one year. Mo Diame became Michael Essien for one year under Rafa. I could name 20 more just for Newcastle. The most likely outcome is the performance levels from the 9 out of 10 other seasons. (also why Bowen is so highly rated, he’s delivered every season)

Only bad thing about this game is Rio as a pundit.

The argument for Bowen is he’s a banker. PL experience, done it for years and would be very low risk - as close to guaranteed performance on th pitch as it’s possible to get in a transfer. The first rule of PSR is don’t fuck it up by buying flops, as then you can’t recoup the cost and you get nothing on the pitch. A Thauvin, Cabella, Luque, Viana style big money disaster signing from abroad could screw the club for years. On price, West Ham were probably expecting to sell Paqueta this summer, and may need to cash in on Bowen instead, that might make the price more reasonable. I don’t think it’ll be a PSR matter as much as just needing cash.

Legal cases don’t really work like that though. There is a single judgement at the end after both sides have presented arguments. Both sides will be confident of success, or they wouldn’t have taken it forward.

🤔 Better having had a skinful? Yeah sounds fair enough

Southgate is a defensive minded manager and Trippier is way way better defensively, so it’s not surprising, however it’s not like Trippier gives nothing going forward

It was really incompetent to take one left footed LB when the formation relies on the LB for width. It’s incompetence on incompetence to then refuse to change the LF to get width there instead when the left footed LB is out. And then I think it’s triple incompetence to stick a RF as LWB for width if he does do that.

Howe has said before more than 4 or 5 is disruptive and every summer has had that cap. I’d expect 3 more max, given Kelly and the Keeper are already in. Ruddy seems more like a coach/emergency role so maybe doesn’t count. There will not be another 5 or 6 incoming for the first team squad. There could be Minteh/Kuol type immediate loans

Bellingham is getting a bit tetchy as a result of the pressure. Really tough for the players mentally to put the effort in individually but for the team performance to be shite.

Could be a long penalty shootout with this finishing

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.