TheBrownBottle

Excellent - feels like this must’ve been lined up. I’ve actually heard of the bloke; I reckon this is a pretty damn good appointment. And no leaks - which feels like lessons have been learned.

Perfectly happy with it myself. Football clubs are community assets, and have shown that they can’t self-govern

Oh he is good. Taboo-busting semi-incomprehensible team talk

No, I don’t think he’s shite. Just saying that Howe doesn’t come out and say anything less than positive about his players - so it’s not a barometer of quality.

Fuck me what a save

Cracking game this mind

Which makes sense - doubt Al-Ettifaq has huge piles of cash to throw at Almirón

Yeah, completely agree. This is pretty balanced

Howe was unlikely to say he’s shite, and I heard that stuff about ‘brilliant in training’ re Ameobi for over a decade

We’d have to pay teams to take Lewis and Hayden - and I don’t mean figuratively; we’d have to pay a hefty chunk of their wages. Fraser would be a free transfer. It’ll be interesting to see what we’d get for Almirón from KSA if he goes there. Either way the numbers don’t stretch to anything like £200m

What I’m saying is that we didn’t spend £130m net - we spent more like £30m net. I think we’ll spend more, but it won’t be over £130m without more sales. At the moment we’re at £300m amortisation and wages - and we’ve not got European football this season. Back of a fag packet, our net spend won’t be anything near nine-figures.

Funnily enough SJP’s great location is also a hindrance on commercials. Most football clubs can sell pints and pies to the punters as a captive market - when a football ground is in a shite location, fans will turn up earlier and spend their cash there instead of in city centre pubs. I’m not advocating a move from the city centre btw - should NUFC get a new stadium I’d want the location to remain city centre - just pointing this out

Yep. My understanding is that it isn’t about throwing out FMV

We’ve just panic-sold around £70m worth of players in the same season. So the net spend last year was more like £30m. The loss from 22/23 is still on the books.

50+ appearances is a fair bite of the cherry by that age - though I agree that doesn’t equate to 50+ 90 mins. His being a local lad bought him time, but in all honesty I wasn’t at all upset with the sale - especially at that price. He didn’t look like he was about to kick on to me.

Would be interesting to go back through the thread and see if anyone has ever raved about the lad when he played for us. I wish him all the best but I don’t think we’ve lost a super talent - I’d rather he didn’t go, but he’s not worth half the amount Forest paid atm.

I don’t think any agreement that was rushed through before 23:59 on 30 June suggests that we came out on top tbh. Seems far more likely that it was used to prop up PSR requirements and we backed down. I don’t care if we did, frankly. I’d rather the club pulled its finger out and appointed his replacement. This has gone on long enough.

Yep, reporting speculatively and stating that it’s speculative doesn’t really get the journalist off the hook - it plants the idea in the mind of the audience / reader

Greggs’ and its sandwich-based mix-ups are precisely why the UK has no first amendment. See also: queue-jumping; cyclists during rush hour; grocer’s apostrophes

True, which can absolutely happen with unvetted stories - and no news outlet is perfect; but the BBC does have exacting editorial standards re its news output (and I agree re coverage of Israel/Palestine particularly the terms used in relation to either side - though I wouldn’t expect the Beeb to put out the stuff I’ve seen shared on social media etc).

I was once given a cheese and onion sandwich in Greggs when asking for a cheese one. I could’ve happily went on a shooting spree after biting into it. Fucking hate onions, me

It cripples us, unless we can find another couple of hundred million per year quickly

Got you It’s a daft story, and does how those sort of narratives can become ‘history’ (tbf, my understanding from reading various Great War histories was always that Princip’s opportunity was the result of the car turning down the wrong street and it’s also where Princip happened to be following the earlier attempted assassination attempt. No mention of sandwiches from memory - though whether he was eating one or not hardly seems like the biggest historical slip-up).

I haven’t a clue on the truth of the Gordon story tbh. I’m open to either story being true.

Either the BBC was formed a decade before it actually was and reported this as news, or you’re referring to a story on the website which wasn’t a news story - and therefore not relevant.