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Every club wants and has always wanted more money and will put ticket prices up as much as they can get away with.

Perhaps you should DM him to enquire. He'll probably be delighted to hear from someone.

I do think Gordon can do a job as 3rd choice striker when needed. With Barnes then on LW. Gordon's lightning with great movement and has a poacher's instincts to get into dangerous positions. Barnes' injury last year kind of put paid to that when we really needed it.

Would be the right time if he goes, but like Jonas, whether you think he's a good enough player or not, don't think there should be a bad word to say about him personally or as a professional.

C'mon Comic Sans, let's get those mid 90's vibes back!

Yeah someone was going to have to be sold. Hopefully, as our revenues have increased a fair bit compared to the first couple of years of PIF, and a year or two of heavy net spending drops off he books, we'll be a bit more comfortable going forward.

If we can't get a real top draw goalie I'd rather go with the greek and Ruddy for a year than get someone who isn't really good. People here who've met him say he's a nice funny guy and he has been playing regularly in the Championship so it's not like he hasn't played for 5 years. Perfectly fine as a 3rd choice. Alternatively if we do get Trafford he'd improve more out on loan than sitting on the bench, so it would give us enough goalies to do that.

Saw a post on a Brighton forum about Ashworth where they said he described his speciality as kind of setting up structures within an organisation, and once he'd done that there wasn't that much for him to do. Hopefully we've taken his ideas, the most useful element of his expertise, to get our organisation up and running properly from the Ashley shitshow and we now just need to find the next chappie/chapette to take us forward. Also, he left in February. We were already in the PSR shitter with him as director.

Yeah think the only way a signed player's book value ever gets to 0 is if their contract expires and then they sign a new one after.

Wilson was £20million on a four year contract, in 2020/21. Then three years later extened by a further year. So if I understand amoritisation correctly: £20 million over 4 years means £5 million per year. 3 years (£15 million off) then contract extension. So £5 million remaining when he signed a contract extension. 2 years contract at that point so £2.5 million per year. One year later (now) £2.5 million left on the books. Everything over that is PSR profit. By the same method I reckon maybe about 3.5 million for Miggy. [* Note: Approx figure as the exact amount will depend on exact timing of contracts. Also, it's perfectly possible I don't understand it at all ].

I think historically Southgate gets too much criticism for being conservative - you do need to be more conservative in knockout football. In the league, 1 win and 1 loss gets you more points than 2 draws. That won't cut it in a tournament. Also, as international managers get less time with their squads, I think he gets too much flak for sticking with some of the same players who he knows work well together. I remember though in his first tournament, after one match where we hadn't played well and he was questioned about the team struggling a bit he said something like 'well we didn't really have any way of changing it'. And I remember clearly being so irritated by that: an international manager who had a choice of every player in the nation to make a squad, basically admitting he had no plan B. You manage, like, 10 games a year. What are you fucking doing with your time? It was the tournament where we played 532 with Walker RCB, Trips RWB and Sterling up front. I remember thinking, just go to a back 4 with Walker RB Trips RW and Sterling LW and there you go, 451. There's a way you could change it without even making a sub. It feels like this has never changed. He has plan A and if plan A doesn't work he'll stick to plan A. Perhaps we'll nick something from a set piece. That's what I find quite irritating.

Mind you I'm going to predict 8 million. Based on absolutely nothing whatsoever.

We allegedly want 20 They want 2 Split the difference: 11 Add a million for Ratcliffe being a whingebag 12 million final and you can have him now. Jobs a good'n.

New financial year. A year where we had a hefty net spend and low income compared to now drops off the books. Should have some money for at least one really good signing. Tbh a really good RW and replacements for any players like Wilson sold and I'd probably be happy with the window. We have 2 players for every position. Cracking young CB would be nice as well. Would like to avoid more PSR nightmares though, and feel like there's value to be had if we have some financial leeway at the end of June, so wouldn't be against a relatively quiet window.

It does make the public moaning even more irritating though. Paying more now (assuming you have) is basically an acknowledgement that you were lowballing before. And lowballing is fine, but if you're gonna lowball, don't publicly moan when the other party doesn't accept it. That's the part of this whole saga that's a bit annoying really. It's not very respectful of the other club.

Hearing Gordon on the overlap he seems absolutely bloody-minded in his determination to get to the top. If it doesn't look we're going to be able to get there in the near future I suspect he wouldn't hesitate if he got the chance to move to one of the very big boys.

Yeah it's a shame, he really needed a consistent run of starts and he would have got one then.

Anyone else have a feeling in their waters that England are going to absolutely jammy these Euros and get Southgate a knighthood?

Feels like everyone's been calling for Gordon to play. If Southgate does it, and it works, he'll look like a fool for not spotting it himself earlier.

I'm just impressed you're still playing Championship Manager. Must be a very long save.

Random twitter person said £10 million. Actual journalists saying £35 million. We're also buying a dreadful goalkeeper with a fantastic name off them to say thank you. Not sure how much for yet though.

What are the odds the Anderson deal goes through and then this guy fails his medical?

I dunno, call round some modelling agencies and see if they've got anyone who can play football? I do think RW is by far highest priority this year. I would quite like us to not be in FFP trouble as well though, so happy to be more conservative and defer buying a CB till next year, unless we find someone we really like. Schar is still quality.

I want him for his name alone. Surely I can't be the only one?

Definitely agree on that. Top class RW and Schar's long-term replacement should be the priorities this window.