TheBrownBottle

I don’t care that Guinness tastes like burnt socks (and I used to be a Guinness drinker, and have drank Guinness in Ireland), get those sponsorship quids into the club.

I don’t, there’s more than enough games, the quality suffers and the cups have been undermined by too demanding a fixture list. I’d rather reduce the numbers of teams and reintroduce FA Cup replays.

The justification the FA gave for backing the PL breakaway* was a reduced number of clubs in the top flight to help the national team, per their ‘Blueprint for Football’, and the intent was to reduce the PL to 18 teams in line with Europe’s then top league, Serie A^. I still think that there are too many top flight clubs and too many games - greed is the reason for a 20-club top division, not better competition. * and of course nowt to do with undermining their century-plus rivals The Football League ^ Serie A eventually ended up matching the PL’s 20 clubs

Reads like a cry for help. Ornstein is a right wanker

We’ll need to keep this open for when he inevitably scores his only goal of the season against us

Barcelona next summer was always my assumption - he’s said he’d want to go back to Spain to join one of the big boys, and Barcelona can’t sign anyone atm

I’m sat typing this in Australia, which is currently edging towards Asia at the rate of about 7cm per year, and I think I’m edging towards Asia faster than Wissa is edging towards SJP …

Doesn’t mean that the lad doesn’t become ‘elite’, of course. But I wouldn’t bet the house on it.

In terms of centre forwards, I can’t think of one - even everyone’s favourite Champ Man 97/98 CF Mario Jardel who scored a gajillion goals in Portugal looked like a carthorse in his short spell at Bolton.

I used to enjoy when he’d talk about being a world class athlete and therefore understood what pressure it brings - as if playing Forrest Gump’s hobby counts

Aye, fair enough - feels very ‘stopped clocks’. Can’t stand the cunt. He’s a ping pong playing Tory wanker.

Haven’t seen one, and if the quoted price is true he looks like a fucking colossal risk to me. I’ve zero faith in goalscoring exploits in Portugal for starters.

There’s not a chance he gets grief if he’s scoring goals for us.

I laughed I have to be honest

I just don’t see Howe buying that type of player - we have a system and we fit players to it. Seems to work, mind.

This is the first time I’ve ever read praise for that ping-pong playing wanker - hopefully it’s the last Can’t stand the bloke. Thankfully, the feeling is mutual - my ‘favourite’ quote of his when we were protesting against Ashley is when he described us as ‘whining, whingeing, self-pitying, self-indulgent and deluded’. Fuck that cunt.

It’s like when ‘Toon Army’ crept into all the club’s gear in the mid-90s. Never wanted to chant that ever again.

Hire a sports lawyer to do it and save millions. I’ve never understood paying an agent the amount that they pay them, given the work required

True, but each position in the PL is worth c.£3m - and nine points could be the difference between finishing 4th and finishing 8th.

Leaving potentially nine points on the table looks like negligence to me

Yep, it’s complete bollocks. Even if they went with an AP, they could get said AP to offer say £15m; the PL then adjust it to £5m, and if Man City win their case it gets backdated to £15m and corrected going forwards

When we signed Isak, we didn’t know we were getting an Isak Yes, that sentence makes no sense - but it sort of does at the same time

Maybe he has the phone number of a good one?

Almost as if … no, I’ll save it for the PIF thread.

Yeah, 100%. I’d be comfortable with it being set at different limits for different clubs. Something like: Europe, £125m; most PL clubs, £150m; Liverpool, £300m