janpawel

Think he has a £60m - £65m release clause

Wow. I thought there was a hard cap on the CL places. Max being 5 Spurs / Man U are favourites for Europa, so 6 is a real possibility

Just seen he's responsible for 52% of our goals this season (goals and assists) Needs wrapped in cotton wool

That looks AI for some reason 😂

That would be a fair bit more than canny 😂😂

I love Tino. He has the full package of attributes to be genuinely elite But his form / development this season is a concern

Howe would never do it yet and understandably so, but I'd love to see him against a one of the top PL teams, since they play with a higher line / more space in behind. Would cause havoc

Yeah, though that isn't my opinion about other leagues, I'm pretty sure that was Sir Jim Rats comment about anchoring. I'm just saying how anchoring with the upper revenue defeats this excuse

Aye I get that, but I'm still wondering Without thinking of the finer details, anchoring on the higher limit of PL revenue just seems the most fair way to me

Why isn't anchoring calculated on the higher end, ie based on the club with the highest revenue rather than the lowest I know that will probably still allows clubs to spend a shed load and that's probably not what they want But it defeats the argument of the PL losing status to abroad by restricting the top EPL clubs, and instead of 'restricting' teams it 'enables' teams

C'mon Spurs

Ouseburn Garden with mates, can't afford to go to London for it

I think Liverpool could afford them if they wanted. But they're probably gonna find the next Salah and Van Dijk instead for a fraction of the price, such is their brilliant recruitment

Think we can become, or already are, an excellent cup team / bogey side again the 'big' teams, including in Europe Howe is very tactically astute, seems very creative and good at nullifying better teams, as well as us having a good blend of athleticism / intelligent players Wonder why this is why we can sometimes be lackluster against mid table sides, as there's no 'masterplan' needed

Isak will be kryponite against big teams in the CL if we make it, he feels unstoppable when against a high line / spade to work in

He loves to beat Arsenal and Villa

God I love an in form Trippier, what I'd give for him to be a few years younger

Yeah, maybe losing Joelinton's height was the key reason

Cringe at the thought of a back 5, we already aren't the best in possession to begin with

Thought Adeyemi was class against Madrid in the CL final. He was pretty much a 1 man counter attack that game until he came off I used to want him a lot for our RW, but now would rather someone similar to the style of Olise

If Villa make top 5 / CL this season then these loan moves are an absolute success and moment of genius. Apparently they have banked 70m for finishing in the top 8 in CL If they don't, then they're covered by the Duran 70m I presume

I've said this before but I'm not sure we'd sign a third striker, I think it would block Osula's pathway. More like a RW who can cover upfront, in the ilk of Mbuemo? Having said that, that's assuming Osula does a Hall and actually gets used next season rather than bench warming. If he's not good enough to take reasonable minutes off Isak and cover in his absence, then yeah we'd need further cover up front

Just had a good read of it, thanks for this!

No FFP expert here so apologies in advance, quiet time at work so thought I'd try and better understand our situation 😂. @The College Dropout Any thoughts from you as you seem well versed with it? 21/22 and 22/23 combined were (£144m) losses. So in 23/24 we needed a profit of at least £39m to hit the £105m threshold To do this, we sold around £60m of players, and Deloitte estimated our revenues for 23/24 to be £309m Does this mean our annual costs as of June 2024 are 309 + 60 - 39 = £330m? And therefore our current 3 year cycle could look like - 22/23 - (£70m) 23/24 - £39m 24/25 - (£21m)* *309 rev-330 costs , obviously won't be right as our revenue will have changed

Did you miss the part where they signed Malen, Rashford, Asensio (I think?) and tried to sign Felix? Looking at Disasi etc Seems very much like they're bolstering their attack ahead of an impressive CL campaign and whilst they still have a chance to make top 5 in the league. Not just replacing Duran, and he wasn't anywhere near as key for them as Isak is to us, since you mentioned Isak previously Your first reply suggests you think I was comparing their approach this window to ours, and that for us to do similar we'd need to sell Isak. I made no comparison at all to us. I just said fair to them making a right go of it Having said that, I do wish there was 1 decent attacking loan option we could have made from abroad somewhere