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Supposedly we could have spent in the summer (as we could now) but that would mean we'd have to make substantial sales before 30th June, which is the same hole we got ourselves in when we had to shift Anderson and Minteh.

I don't think anyone is suggesting that a new ground automatically equals better atmosphere. You could build the most acoustically perfect cauldron on the planet but that guarantees nothing. What a new ground could provide is the chance to allow or indeed encourage like-minded fans to all be in the same area. "The Grumpy old Boomer Stand" or "Uncle Buzzcock's Stand Up and Gan Radge Stand"... The only way you're going to achieve that is by uprooting season ticket holders en masse - in theory there's nothing stopping the club doing that now but it's probably an easier sell if you're starting from scratch.

Big long area with unreserved seating, food stations at each end with three carts serving different stuff. Food from them is free, drinks you have to pay for.

He says in a reply that he's talking about a rebuild on the current site

I'm very sceptical. He doesn't seem to actually know what the plans are but he's got a hold of a slightly wonky image and a tiny snippet of text? Plus that picture doesn't really show anything other than "We can't just extend L7 all the way round because all of this stuff is in the way". He seems to suggest a rebuild on the current site is what the picture is referring to but I don't see any evidence of that. I'm much more inclined to believe Hope that it's either extending the Gallowgate or rebuilding somewhere else.

I thought the same. Between that and £90m for Mitoma I'm almost happy PSR is keeping a lid on things in NE1....

I thought it was "early 2025"? Although I can't remember where I read that. "Early" could be anywhere from January to April tbf and would fit with Hope's "closer to the end of the season" line. I suppose every day between now and the end of the season is technically closer to the end of the season....

I mean, there was a game not that long ago where the ref literally sent off the wrong person...

I don't think they've released the top tier of the Gallowgate

Tonali admitted it, that's the difference

"GIMMIE A K...." "K!" "GIMMIE A....wait...what?"

He's exactly the type of signing I liked us making, same as Trippier, Bruno, Botman. Anyone could have signed them, it's not as if we swooped in and blew everyone else's bids out of the water and put them on £300k/week. We scouted, we took a punt when others decided against, it paid off. Thanks to PSR we can't even do that now...

Definitely. Going to Arsenal or someone like that isn't a sideways move as such but he's so good that he'll just be looking to step up another level after a couple of seasons there anyway. He'll not just go to a Champions League club, he'll go to a club realistically aiming to win the Champions League.

That's exactly it. I don't think Saudia for example "sponsoring" our shirts for £50m is banned, it's just that they'll only allow us to use a fraction of that towards our PSR calculation.

The cost of building it doesn't count towards our PSR expenses but if we happened to find a multi-million pound sponsor for it that would qualify as income...

They could also already have £20m tied up in Le Fee and £12-15m in Frigan, plus whatever Isidor's clause is. That's just to keep the squad they have now. Even if they could spend another £70m would they have a squad capable of finishing above three others?

They don't, you're just not following all their activity day-by-day on social media, online forums etc. The first we usually hear of a player being sold is when they are sold.

From a purely financial perspective you're better off just having the year in the PL and all the extra money that brings, worst case scenario you go down and bag however much in parachute payments. If you manage to stay up in year one it's a bonus. Investing huge sums to try and stay in the PL first time is a massive risk these days, although Forest are proving it can be done.

Isn't that what happened to Leicester? They broke the rules in one competition but argued the punishment couldn't be handed out by another?

The 70% cutoff wouldn't be so much of an issue with Champions League qualification and the money that brings but if you just end up in the Conference League the 15% drop in "allowable expenses" wouldn't come close to being covered by the income from being in that tournament. Almost penalises clubs for almost getting there but just missing out.

Personally the idea of selling two squad players to fund a starting XI player (ideally a RW) makes sense. If that makes me a FFP nerd then I'm OK with that

Just had a look, Juve are 4th but they haven't lost a league game all season (8 wins, 13 draws!)

We just need a Bournemouth manager. Eddie Howe is the manager, but then we have a second manager who tags in leading up to any time we play Bournemouth, he takes training, picks the team and is on the touchline for the game then at full time he clears off and Eddie's back in again. An extra 4-6 points per season. Simple.

The shrug he gave at the end there, you let him waltz into the box and fire one in from about 7 yards away man