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He clearly wants things to be done in a particular way. We know this already - there were multiple reports that he wasn't going to commit to joining us in the first place unless he was allowed to bring key backroom staff with him. He knows ultimately it'll be his head on the chopping block if things go badly and he won't want to have transfers pushed on him or a "Performance Director" telling him who can play and when. However there's nothing in any of the interviews I've seen that suggests that is what is being proposed.

Seems like a fairly sensible position for him to take. If I am happy I'll stay, if I'm not happy then I'm open to leaving. Reading between the lines, he wants clarification that with Mitchell and Bunce coming in he is still ultimately the one who calls the shots, as it should be.

No, he's denied it from the start. In the short-term that works out for him because he's (obviously) free to carry on until the case against him is proven. The problem for him is that if he is guilty then the punishment is going to reflect the fact that he fought it. For example, one of the reasons the FA didn't add any additional punishment to Tonali's ban was because the only evidence they had that he had been gambling in the UK was provided by Tonali himself. He had also cooperated fully with the Italian investigation once he'd been made aware of it. I'm not sure what happened with Toney's case.

The problem with all these stories about PIF buying Sprus or Man Utd or Inter or whoever else is that if they really wanted to buy them, they would have done. If they just wanted the vanity project of owning an already elite club they could quite easily have delved into the coffers and plucked out a few billion or so and done just that years ago.

If you read the tweet carefully, we're going to build on LEAZERS Park. Clearly the plan is to rename Leazes Park "Leazers Park", seeing as its Leazes Park that's listed, not Leazers Park, we can build whatever we want on it. Genuis.

The hearing probably only took two weeks but presumably it can take ages for a decision to be made by the arbitrators.

Our own deal with Adidas is an example. There's no doubt that the clubs history with Adidas means a kit deal is worth more to them than it would be to Nike, Umbro etc.

I think that's fair. If it's 5-8k extra seats on the Gallowgate and tarting up the Hospitality areas then fair enough, getting more fans into the ground is great, but that isn't going to have a huge impact on our income. I don't think the timing of AS & MG leaving is linked at all. I'm sure they would have been in favour of staying but if the majority owners and executives think otherwise they would have been overruled anyway.

That's true, the irony of "Profitability and Sustainability Rules" that are punished through points deductions that could then relegate the team/teams in question is not lost on me!

I don't think anybody knows for certain, but I assume the Times are correct as they claim to have seen the 100+ page document Man City were presenting. Regardless, I personally don't think they'll win this one. I think the PL probably do have a case that it isn't either fair or sustainable to have inflated sponsorship deals with associated parties. If we pen a £100m/season kit deal with Aramco for 3 years, then the Saudis clear off and the best we can get is half of that we'd be in trouble.

From the Times article that originally broke the story;

To be fair, having listened to that Eales interview, I think he could be right. PSR pressure eased Club want to spend the maximum PSR allows Revenue has grown 30% year on year with further deals in the pipeline Eddie signed a new long-term deal last summer with no release clause Bruno, Isak, Gordon all here next season DARK CLOUDS EVERYWHERE

This is from NE1; I have absolutely no idea what that means, sounds a bit like "Well we didn't want Green Flag status anyway..."

If we really lost £140m over two seasons, we'd have to have made a profit of £35m this season just gone in order to be within the limits. 21/22 -£70m 22/23 -£70m 23/24 +£35m So now that first £70m has dropped off, we're on -£35m and could theoretically end up -£70m this season and still be within the limit. The problem is when that +£35m season drops off we could be in trouble again unless we sell more players or increase our income (which hopefully we will with further sponsorship and Champions League football...)

More evidence that we seem very capable of doing things on the quiet - manager signs a new contract and nobody picks it up until a year later??

That works both ways though, if he gets the England job and has a bit of a mare then he's not getting another job at a top club again. Southgate isn't going to be courted by Champions League level clubs and its certainly not beyond the realms of possibility that Howe would achieve less than Southgate has.

That's a really interesting point and not something I'd ever thought about. Everton's is going to be £500-750m depending on which source you believe, although that involved filling in part of the dock didn't it? Some of the American stadiums are in the billions. Anyway, 15% of the lower end of those estimates is £75m which is not a small amount of cash, even for the Reuben’s, who have most of their wealth tied up in land/property I think?

I'm no Instagram-er but presumably if he was tagged in the story, he'd probably get a notification and view it? Hardly random...

A "Sports Journalist" who is ex-Mercato but tweets almost exclusively about NUFC...

The DCL thing is more about him being in the last year of his contract isn't it? Rather than Everton needing to sell for PSR

And here's me thinking Roker Beach was essentially the Copacabana with nothing but chiselled, bronzed physiques as far as the eye can see

Twitter bullshit bingo; ✔ "Progress" on player already extensively linked in the press ✔ Nothing concrete, can't be proven incorrect even if he doesn't sign ✔ "Understand that..." The one thing going for him is that he's actually a real person using his real name, not some faceless, nameless account.

Mate, you've proven multiple times that you have no idea how company ownership, shareholdings or finance works. Just step away from the keyboard. There are plenty of other threads I'm sure you can offer an informed opinion in.

"Oh I need to improve the performance of the players, I need to prevent injuries" Fuck off and tell us how you think the atmosphere at St James's Park is class after being asked whether you think the atmosphere at St James's Park is class.