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Still think it would look better with white/cream shorts but yeah it's a really smart kit like

Personally I'd rather have Tonali/Barnes for 65min against fully-fit opposition than 25mins against potentially tired opposition (or fully-fit substitutes)

"Having a strong bench" doesn't count if you're just starting less good players ahead of them in the starting XI ffs

RIP @gbandit's bits

Tino Schar Burn Hall at the back then?

Am I right in saying we couldn't sign/register him until January because he only became a free agent after the transfer window closed?

I'm not sure I'd particularly want the two of them to be speaking regularly at the moment. The transfer window has just shut, regardless what anyone thinks of our performance during the summer, the squad we have now is what we've got until January. Howe should be 100% focused on getting the best out of that squad and Mitchell should be 100% focused on getting our scouting systems up to scratch. They can start discussing the January window (and beyond) nearer the time.

This 👆🏻 ...followed by this 👇🏻 Could not have been more perfect

Is suppose the difference is that Chelsea's hotel sale was technically within clearly defined rules - that asset sales can count towards income as far as FFP is concerned. Man Utd's numbers just read like they've gone "That's an allowable deduction...and that's an allowable deduction...oh and so is this...and these..." and the PL have meekly responded "Yes sir..." I've said it before but PSR calculations should be publicly available. If there genuinely isn't anything dodgy going on and everyone is being held to the same standard, both the PL and the clubs being accused of wrongdoing would be better off.

I'd bloody well hope we're planning at least two transfer windows ahead...

Kynan Isaac got 10 years for deliberately getting booked in an FA Cup game. Edit - There was also Bradley Wood who got a six year ban for doing it twice so I've no idea what the sentencing guidelines would be.

The problem is that clubs' accounts are (often) public record, but the PSR calculations submitted to the PL aren't. It opens the League up to claims of cronyism when they tell us teams are compliant with PSR and their evidence is essentially "Trust me bro".

This 👆🏻 But also this 👆🏻

Looking at the previous two fixtures away at Wolves I think it's fair to say that our presumed lineup has improved and theirs has probably weakened. This is our best chance of winning there in quite a while I reckon. We still haven't "clicked" yet though which is dampening my confidence a bit.

Meanwhile, at NUFC... "Yasir, as I'm not talking to Paul, ask him to pass the syrup" "Pass him the syrup Paul" "Darren, tell Eddie I will pass the syrup if he stops only signing players from the Premier League" "Eddie, will you stop signing players from the Premier League" "Yasir, tell Darren I will sign who I want because I'm the manager" "Tell him yourself, you're ignoring Paul not Darren" (and so on)

For a while I thought maybe they were waiting until they had something more concrete before announcing anything - a proposed location etc. But with the amount of outside parties that would need to be involved in that there's no way something wouldn't have leaked out by now. Presumably the feasibility study has suggested what we all suspected - that a substantial expansion is either impossible or logistically/financially too difficult to be worthwhile - and the delay is basically because "What do we do now then?" is a very tricky question to answer.

Not to turn this into a political debate, but when one of the main stories of the day is cutting the winter fuel allowance to save £1.5bn a year, giving (by Jim's own estimates) £2bn to build a stadium isn't the best look...

Was it the City of Manchester Stadium that was built with a certain capacity but with relatively simple expansion opportunities as part of the original design?

Good result today judging by this - they predicted 2nd for London

I'm not sure there's anything massively wrong about what he said in all honesty. He said we have overpaid for some players - well obviously we had otherwise we wouldn't have found ourselves in a £60m black hole in June. Even if we'd progressed in the CL and finished top 6 we wouldn't have made up that much. He's also criticised our scouting. Haven't many of us on here spent multiple transfer windows wondering why we never seem to unearth any hidden gems? Of course, we've signed excellent players in Botman, Bruno, Isak etc but they're all £40m+. If Ashworth and others have taken offence (per Luke Edwards) maybe it's a case of "truth hurts"?

That would certainly present a challenge. Having said that, seeing what ended up happening to both the Odeon and the majority of Carliol House, I imagine Grade II Listed Status would only prove a relatively small hurdle to the Reubens...

You wouldn't even have to move the bandstand. You could use this area here without touching any of the lake, bandstand etc. You'd then be able to keep everything where it is, plus increase the size of the park by about another 50% or so by using the land SJP sits on now. As I say, I don't know anything about this land so I'm just looking at Google Maps and hypothesising.

He appointed Poch at Southampton but I think he joined Spurs after him. At RB he was entirely player recruitment based I think? Then Monaco hired Nico Kovac and Clement when he was there, did he hire Adi Hutter too or had he gone by that point?

If we can get a front six of; Gordon - Isak - Barnes J7/Willock - Bruno - Tonali to click, we're going to have a lot of fun this season.

I don't know enough about who owns/runs each specific part of the land but there is (or should be) enough land between the buildings further up Barrack Road and the key features of Leazes Park (which I'm classing as the lake, bandstand, cafe, playground and the car park to the NE) to build a fairly substantial stadium. If you could also promise the land SJP sits on currently back to the city once building work has been completed, I don't think there is grounds for too much push-back.