TheBrownBottle

Trippier and his agent may have a very different opinion from what they appear to be telling all and sundry. I doubt Bayern would be bidding for a disinterested player.

I don’t think it’s FFP driving this at all. A few million in FFP ‘profit’ isn’t likely needed.

Wouldn’t be difficult for his agent to let Bayern know this I would think. They would stop bidding then. Remiss of Trippier and his agent not to do so.

Well now I know where I’m not having my next coke and hookers one-man party. The Vermont. The innkeeper’s a grass.

That’s ok - we hate them too. Scabs.

They may be in FFP trouble this season too. We don’t yet know what the ‘double dip’ punishment is liable to be. I don’t think the Wood deal can be restructured to fix FFP

Dead easy then. NUFC reject the bids, nowt happens. For some reason Bayern has it in their head that he might join. Also, aren’t signing-on fees nice?

Imagine if we’d still had Jonjo in midfield next to him

Don’t recollect Barton ever coming across as particularly left wing. He was knocking about with Morrissey when he tried posturing at intellectualism, which would be a red flag to most about where his politics were. Old Mozza is a far right buffoon (shame as I still love The Smiths) Brand was always a nihilistic arse also playing at politics

It would be more about financial flexibility I would assume - I don’t think the current owners would be bothered about a couple of million in actual profits on players. It’s more the accounting flexibility within the confines of FFP. But if we are selling Almiron, I doubt we have any concerns on that front.

I don’t necessarily think that’s what is driving a move. Both player and club may judge it’s for the best. Howe might think that he has the opportunity now to really bed Livramento in - and an ageing Trippier has one last crack at a big trophy. Plus we bring some money in. Happy to be wrong on the above, but I doubt any sale would be ‘FFP-driven’. We’d only get a tiny FFP profit on Trippier. edit: again, to be clear I don’t want Trippier to go. But I’ll back Howe 100% on what he wants to do with the squad - and Trippier will always be a top player and gadgie in my mind now whatever happens

Also, it looks like I might be the only one non-plussed by MGW. Just looks like a good PL attacking midfielder to me.

£25m plus a shitload of add-ons tbf. Not sure how those add-ons get reached though.

Yes, absolutely. Would make the season a success as far as I’m concerned. If Villa win it, they’ll make around the same as we did in Europe this season - with a trophy and UEFA Cup qualification to boot. Plus our club’s coefficients would be boosted. Not sure why any football fan worthy of that title wouldn’t want their club to qualify for European competition. If people don’t want the club to qualify - which is the entire point of the league (other than winning it), perhaps they should take up a different hobby.

Sort of. We need to make an FFP ‘profit’ this season otherwise we’re in breach. So next season we can run a loss again (if we choose to do so).

8th is still something to aim for. The club should be trying to finish as high as they can. 8th would have been a decent finish at the start of the season for me - and there still remains the chance that this could be the best season in my lifetime if we actually won the cup

We’re not locked in for X years if you use PIF-affiliated companies to do the deals with them. Whack them in at 20% of the value of the Man Utd deals on one- or two-year contracts - which would likely be enough to pass the ‘FMV’ shite that the PL has, and most would likely be under the related party transactions threshold.

We aren’t, but that’s more to do with valuation of the deals rather than the deals themselves.

I get it to an extent. I wouldn’t want to see the town moor replaced with a bunch of Barrett homes. But the tactics of ‘Friends of Leazes Park’ and that daft bint who led them was underhand. Canvassing for signatures in Sunderland was the lowest. The pro- move side had far more signatures (over 100k from memory) before John Hall pulled the plug. And there was very little hand-wringing from the support at the time. People seem a lot more attached to SJP than they did in the mid-90s.

Why keep bidding for an uninterested player?

I’m not praising the UK govt, I am though saying that it is less shit than an atavistic theocratically-driven dictatorship

I’m with you on that mate - but honestly, the UK govt being morally and ethically bereft isn’t the same as a country which has pretty recently executed people by means of beheading for the ‘crime’ of witchcraft and sorcery. Cosplaying as Harry Potter is a capital punishment over there …

Worst thing is having read all the complaints about it I’m off to listen to it for the first time in yonks as a result

We definitely got robbed on ASM. All those clubs queuing up to give us more for a player we were happy to lose. They were all desperate to give us more, but we accepted the lower offer. I think.

He’ll monetise the cunts at some point