TheBrownBottle

He hasn’t been costing us match after match, either

The only people who could know that are those at the very top of the club - Howe, Ashworth, and the owners. Anyone else isn’t ITK.

Utter bollocks, every part of that is wrong

The entire football world is limited in the same way. I don’t see why NUFC would be the club whose reputation damaged by it. It is a section of our support who never accepted that FFP was a real thing who are going to be the upset party. It was pretty obvious that the majority of the players being signed over the last two years would not be here for a long time, due to FFP. There will be cycles of players until we get to where we’re aiming.

Christ, I hope not. Our dead ball routines are absolute gash and have been for some time.

I’m perfectly ok with a game plan which hasn’t been working changing tbh

Would have thought so. Besides, it’s Bayern Munich - that’s a bloody hard move to turn down

Someone wants to tell Bayern they’re bidding for a player who isn’t interested. That would be embarrassing

I doubt that this is FFP. There’s been rumours circulating about Trippier for a while; besides, Bayern are one of the world’s biggest clubs. He can hardly be blamed for being interested in the move.

Like the Nou Camp? No, there wouldn’t be enough space to make it worthwhile - the Nou Camp had a running track originally

We paid £12m for him two years ago. He would have literally no resale value even if he was to leave Bayern in the near future. No way they pay much more than we did. The £15m+ talk is crackers.

Can’t be true mate. Kimmich is worth several times what Trippier is

That the Twitter gadgie? What has he said?

I’m perfectly ok with him leaving, but he’d still be the best RB I’ve seen in B&W to date. I’m hopeful Livramento will take that crown quickly.

It’s good to see that Taribo West’s barber is still going strong

Yep. He’s a right pretentious arse.

That’s good news - is the source reliable?

I’ll join you with that one. Chelsea’s team was set up to make the most of his strengths and hide his obvious weaknesses. It’s why he was painfully exposed in an England shirt. The question was always asked ‘why can’t Lampard and Gerrard play together?’ The answer was - they weren’t intelligent enough to do so, and neither should have been picked ahead of Paul Scholes.

Not quite. The length of Trippier’s new contract doesn’t come into it. And he’s only been here two years - his previous fee is still being amortised. Also, the ‘head room’ as Eales called it doesn’t create anything like £240m worth of transfer availability. If we allow for Trippier going for £15m, that would mean £15m - c.£5m (outstanding amortisation). So that would be £10m. We then knock £100k off the wage bill. Any new players coming in would likely have wages of a similar level - let’s say you want to bring two in. So that’s £200k p/w plus signing on fees. That would be at least an extra £2m in the current FY (season). You’re down to £8m, comfortably. Allowing for amortisation over two five year contracts, that would mean you might be able to buy two £15-20m players off the back of the deal - at a push.

I know this doesn’t help, but I had all of them taped from 93/94 through to 98/99. They’ll likely be in a dump somewhere in Northumberland at the moment - wish I’d kept them and transferred them to digital

I bet you get all this ‘ooh MrRaspberryJam, you’re a brilliant poster, but you’re stuck on N-O, while there’s Pixelphish getting all the laughs’

Cracks me up like a daft lad when I read this. Gets me every time. Their fucking droopy accents are comedy gold

Beale’s had just over a month in the job. That’s more than enough time for the loyalist and most patient supporters in world football.

A 45 yard shot just left of centre of the goal - the keeper was watching it like a spectator

‘The journey’ can’t take ‘the mountain’, grasshopper. I was red belt black dan - l’ll tek yee.