WilliamPS

The best thing about brand new stadia or new stands are the single tiers. leazes and gallowgate were both built in the post Taylor report era where that wasn’t possible. I’d like any changes to try and fix that. the flaw in any new stadiums business case will be capacity will max out at about 65k, so it’s a lot of investment for a more limited pay off (+13k). White Hart Lane was only 36k. If it’s about revenue per seat then there’s a lot of opportunity to re-corporate the milburn and leazes. When they reopened they had a lot more extras and clubs than they do now - but it means fans paying more.

Wilson should be kept and used only to finish games. His current injury is a freak one so a bit of an oddity but used sparingly he could be immensely valuable. Look at the state of the bench this season - the squad needs more depth. This is totally separate to a backup for Isak, a role Wilson can’t fill as he can’t handle starting twice a week in those busy periods like Xmas. If there’s European games next season then a second striker is key. But selling Wilson creates two striker vacancies at the club

Like Miggy he can look good with Trippier or Livramento behind him, without that backup it’s a different story I think it’s good to be fair to some of the players like Murphy in where you set expectations- he’s supposed to be a backup and sub option, not a regular starter

Don’t like this Man City rumour as it’s a bit too plausible. They need someone who can cover the Rhodri role when needed and who can also play alongside - Bruno could do both easily Beyond Man City there aren’t many clubs that are a risk

Barnes, Isak, Gordon is a top front line and they was very evident today After 2.5 seasons the squad is incredibly thin and lopsided, and they was also very evident. Hope Krafth, Burn and Lascelles don’t get too much grief as they are still needed and for the end of the season to go well they will have to contribute Bruno, when teams can’t close him down, is superb. Just need his teammates to take a bit of the weight off and he delivers

Pretty massive ‘apart from’ there. The integrity of the sport means clearly players can’t bet on it and especially can’t bet on their own games No one would care if he was down the casino, that it was on football games is the whole issue

This is the FA…they are utterly inept

See ya next season Harvey

I think this has to be the front 4, play the elite attackers in positions they are good in. Appreciate Foden preferred the middle but he can do LW well. madness to shift Bellingham back given his year so far. I fully expect Southgate to fuck it up though.

He is a top player and was a big part of last years success

Man City will prevent it impacting him on the pitch. Look at Walker with his messy private life. Clubs are good at protecting their stars from consequences. Foden will have been in the system for years and the squad discipline will be part of who he is As long as players stay off the booze and avoid anything that damages them physically they will be fine.

Not man city Not man city Not man city

It’s clearly a joke post that a few on here have fallen for

By recent standards the bench is quite good! Murphy and Livramento are genuine options

I hope he stays, this just underlines his abilities. If he leaves the club are now in a position to get a quality replacement however if we already have a top candidate better to keep him than start afresh. Maybe one for PIF to pick up the phone on. They can offer much more than Man Utd in terms of building things - e.g. run a multi club model

Playing a midfield 3 means needing 5 decent CMs in every match day squad and at least 6 in the 25, plus youth players behind. Always at least one short this season, two following Tonalis suspension, so some of the impact of the injuries has been self inflicted IMO only RB, LW and GK have adequate cover. (I know there’s a drop off between Pope and Dubravka but at GK there will always be a difference between first and second choice as there’s no game time for no2s), but FFP means probably restricted to fixing CM and RW plus getting cover at CB and replacing any outgoings. Unless there’s a decent young CB in the club there is going to be a cover problem there at some point soon as Dummett must be nearing the Ritchie stage of being a footballer in name only, so that leaves only 4 including Burn

Now have to keep it tight. Cannot concede so easily and win PL games

Howe is unbelievably stubborn. It’s one reason for his success but it does have some massive downsides when games aren’t going well

The league sounds great. I say do it! Have a CL that’s Spain, Portugal, France, Belgium and Netherlands and another that’s England, Italy, Germany, nordics Maybe a third for Eastern Europe and turkey then some mad playoffs between them Share the money more equally and ditch the bloated UCL that always ends up with the same teams at the end

Yeah - FFP is deliberately designed to stop this, and any other form of owner financing. everything is set to revenue to protect the clubs that want to make profits from competition from owners who don’t. Setting a max 85% of revenue for clubs a) prevents smaller clubs competing with Man Utd / Liverpool b) allows their owners to make a profit ie protect the Glazers and Liverpool owners etc from ‘another Man City’ People hoping Man Utd or the like will seek to soften FFP are deluding themselves. If anything they’ll want to do the opposite

Why bother? Training complex and other infrastructure doesn’t hit FFP

Great news - what a bunch of doom mongers in here

You should pop into the Wilson thread to hear about how now is the time to sell him…

Given there doesn’t appear to be a RW ready for the first team about to sign Almiron can’t be allowed to leave - squad has enough holes in it without adding RW

Hope they don’t go for Howe Presume Alonso will be their first target