TheBrownBottle

It feels like that’s running through the entire club atm

I think I’ve lost the ability to be angry during a match. I just feel sad watching this. The only modicum of anger I have is watching this lot sleepwalking their manager to a sacking.

Yes

ftfy

Christ, how is that not 0-2?

Yep, this is his squad - 10 of the 11 signed by him, the other a youth product. The idea that Howe had nothing to do with the make-up of this squad is one of the more bizarre defences of the man’s management

Kin hell

It is - and unfortunately there probably isn’t a good answer to this. Last summer has fucked us for years.

There isn’t an issue selling players to the KSA league - only clubs owned by PIF

With the best will in the world, I’m going to put this comment down to naivety. I hope so, anyway.

Should be able to do that watching it on telly too, given the porvorts FIFA employs for cameramen during WCs. Always zooming in on women in the crowd.

Who is going to pay £14m plus his wages to have him on loan for a year?

You’d hope so - he’s the one who gets hung up by the bollocks ultimately. No-one wants to be set up to fail.

It really was - wandering around inside the section with the dome with the guts completely ripped out is a sort of haunting experience! Bank monitoring is such a great thing to do - you’re only accountable for drawdowns, so the pressure is on everyone else. So I got to wander around what felt like a post-apocalyptic Whitley Bay contently (though with an unhappy bank, as the bats pushed out program and costs - the contingency was gobbled up by bats alone!) edit: I’m going to see if I still have some of the photos - I think I kept some of them. I don’t usually do that on projects - but it was too surreal not to

I have - it’s an absolute classic

Malcolm Gladwell did a good podcast once on penalty shots in basketball, and how NBA players should throw underarm but they don’t because they see it as unmasculine, despite the advantages of additional accuracy when throwing underarm. Maybe he should’ve done the same one on late night pissing.

It was - I was the bank monitor QS on the Spanish City refurb

Forgot about point 2

There are obvious net uplifts to taking that risk - and loaning the capital attracts interest payments, which would reduce the clubs’ gains under PSR. Football isn’t like any other business

Sorry, you don’t think that PIF is capable of funding massive infrastructure projects (and I’d argue that a stadium isn’t one)?

It’s been reported that PIF were looking around for funding for a new stadium - if that is true, then there isn’t an appetite to build it out of their own pocket. I’m not at all convinced that this is what the owners want - even if it is what the CEO wants. In terms of looking at the one available site - a simple feasibility report would be all that is required. You have to know what you intend to build first, though - again, a scope of work would need defining. All of this doesn’t take 5+ years, it really doesn’t. It feels like PIF’s absenteeism is leaving a void and it’s being filled with people’s hopes and expectations. Maybe they will end up building a stadium - and they’d have to, to even have a chance of getting close to their stated aims. But it cannot be said that this is on a normal timescale - it isn’t. Also - I’m not quite as convinced that they’d be that worried about the location of the stadium. If they’ve got any local intel, they’d know that everyone would bitch and whinge before rocking up to the new stadium regardless.

Selling in June would be crackers given how PSR works

That’s not how defining a scope of works works, though. You know what your intended outcome is, then you start looking at land purchasing. This lot don’t know if they want to built something or not - this is not at the planning stage - folks need to stop saying it’s in the planning stage; it’s at the investment decision stage. And that doesn’t take over half a decade to make.

Sorry; who was the bald cunt on twitter who claimed just yesterday that Gordon thinks he’s ’outgrown the club’? It is one of the wonders of the age that the gaslighting cunt is listened to by anyone

I’ve said this before, but as someone who has worked at a senior level on billion-pound construction projects, it doesn’t take five years to ‘plan’. You also don’t need land in the first place to draft up concepts - you should have an idea about the intended scope of works before you start even looking at land. They still don’t know if they even want to do it - and you can add almost two years to the give given how long approval took from the PL. Yes, a major project done well will step through the stage gates of RIBA’s plan of work and spend a long time in the pre-contract planning phase - but this is absolutely not where we are.