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Italian media who started the "devastated from being forced out of the club" narrative that everyone bought. So reliable!

If all is booked in the current year regardless of installments or not, why does it matter that the money is paid upfront? Our owners have infinite money, pretty much the only thing that matters is the FFP limit.

What if we buy a player through installments? It's just not evenly split between each year of the contract anymore?

How does it count in terms of FFP? For the buying club, even if they pay upfront, the FFP money be split over the length of the contract. What happens if they pay in installments?

I'm actually surprisingly calm about it, and I would surely not be if it was Botman, Trippier, Schär, Gordon, Isak, Wilson, Joelinton or Bruno. Longstaff would probably also be a bigger loss for us atm. I think even Almiron being gone would be a bigger blow considering his latest form, the lack of right wingers and also the injury of Barnes. I think Willock will do a better job when he's back than what Tonali has done. That being said, we literally just spent £55m on him, so ofcourse it hursts. And he hasn't even had the time to settle properly, so we don't know what that would look like. Obviously it could be a huge loss long term. That's hard to tell though.

What a summer window this is turning out to be short term.. If Tonali gets suspended or doesn't play now, it's basically just the fullback backups left at this point until Barnes comes back.

Fab keeps saying the clause is £100m. I hope it's not just £100m without any other condition.. Feels like a waste when we can potensially get a little more. Would like to know if there's any other conditions, and also what they are.

I've heard that Ashworth and Howe made bets on him signing for Newcastle

Exactly my thoughts too..

What if he changes his name and do surgeries to become unreocgnizeable and look much younger. We can shove him into the academy, falsify his documents so that he's now 17, and then pick him up to the first team after a couple of months. Any name suggestions?

How will anyone be able to prove that Milan knew about it?

When a rumor about the contract we literally just signed with Bruno is supposed to get Barca fans all excited, you know it doesn't make sense. We don't do charity for other clubs.

Why would we sign a contract that puts us in a much worse position than the old one? Did he say "if you don't put a cheap clause for Barca, then I want to leave in january"?

Yes for sure, I would assume that those who really do care will care regardless. At the same time there are definetly some fans who pretends to care because they are bitter about having another team being able spend nearly the amount that their team can spend, and having yet another team compete with them long term. That's where the "amazing what oil money can do" comments stem from, made by fans of teams who has spent far more than us since takeover.

Yeah fair. I just have the feeling that many of those Liverpool or United fans who were really vocal us are going to have quite the change of tone if the Qataris had bought them.

Funny how it goes from "might aswell sell him" to being rated as the 18th best footballer in the world in just 5 games.

Yeah, 4 points against Dortmund would pretty much guarantee that we finish above them becuase of the head-to-head tiebreaker. The exception is an unlikely scenario where Milan also end up at 8 points. In that case Dortmund can beat our goal difference in the games between the 3 teams, because points and goal difference from the Milan games against us and Dortmund will be factored into the tiebreaker aswell.

They probably didn't even watch the game, they're just supporting their team mate. All that drama just so they can use the clickbait headline.

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Toney couldn't even train with the team for 4 months. Banned from all football-related activity.

Just looked into our next fixtures. Palace (H) Wolves (A) Arsenal (H) Bournemouth (A) We took just 3 points from these 4 fixtures last season.

Just found this on twitter.. PGMOL apologized after the game for not giving Fabinho a red here. Isn't this basically a copy of the Kovacic tackle, except from the fact that Kovacic went in with more momentum? The apoplogy: https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football/news/liverpool-fabinho-red-card-brighton-29090880

Why take it out of context? I was replying to a comment that seemed to think that he was miles above the rest of the team, because that would be the only reason we would need to "enjoy him while we have him" as if he's literally Mbappe or something. Even said "he's different from what we have". So yes, I actually had to point out that he's not. And no, I wasn't saying that to criticize Isak, don't worry.