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Week of league cup final too if we got there? So stitched up with less recovery days.

£8m for Whittaker Christ, that’s a great deal being missed by so many clubs, ourselves included. Solid squad player at worse where money is easily recouped if things stall.

Also Chelsea must be desperate for a new stadium when you see even them being left behind these days. That for them would see match day and commercial increase by a collective minimum £150m you’d assume (£100m match day and £50m stadium commercial).

They’ll always remain top 8, unless TV deal collapsed, but they’re sliding down and it’s not far fetched to think come end of this decade they will be 8th unless things suddenly improve which no-one 10 years ago could ever see happening. Barca will leapfrog up there once stadium is built. Bundesliga think have got a new bigger deal so more money for Bayern. Arsenal I’m sure are coming up for sponsorship renewal and now they’re back regularly at top end should be a big increase and Liverpool are continuously increasing with the stadium redevelopments and from being successful.

Team going through the emotions as they approach yet another fun game.

Probably say around 42k would be mark if a 70k stadium. 60% of stadium on seasons tickets. Then up to 10% away fans, between 5%-10% corporate (if they’re counted those seats, which I assume they are for safety purposes), leaving circa 20% for members / general sale for lower cup games. Need to keep some gateway for new fans to get to games, having 70% season ticket would be daft. Seen the issues currently of getting tickets if 35k estimate is close (which is 70%+ of stadium).

I mean, as much as we want to cook the books, we’re a side that has one season in Europe in past decade and no cups. Consistent seasons in Europe, with a cup, that will start to shoot towards £250m+ mark by end of decade. Then a new stadium will help drive it further as we move into 2030. There will be limits to what we can do, why we need to get off the field spot on for players to keep us in that consistent top 6 group and the increased commercial that comes with it.

People are still hyping up PSG like a top side when they’re anything but. Got a gift of a penalty last kick of game last season against us to avoid going out in group stages.

£50m shows Man Utd are desperate for money, despite the reports saying they’re not.

Guessing knee injury wrecked him? Because he had low level ability where he should easily be chugging along in L1/L2 picking up circa £3k+ a week.

Defo. Gamble moving forward is spend beyond their and PSR means, and hope PSR is binned / watered down over next 12 months. Enables them to be in a better position than others who have tried to play it by the book. At worse, they have countless players of good selling age to fall back on.

Giving how Forest have operated since being back, wouldn’t be shocked if they spent a load by end of Jan on a big signing and if they make some form of Europe, spend another £100m+ to try and stay at top end. Owner will gamble and happily run the risk of a small points deduction.

They will drop off soon and in that time they’ve signed Kovacic, Doku, Nunes for £135m, all who won’t have much of a market to recoup unless Saudis bail them out. Ederson, Ake, Stones, Akanji, Walker, Gundogan, KDB, Silva, Kovacic and Grealish. That’s a big group of players where Ederson aside, the sales are likely not there for good money. So need to find funds from somewhere in coming seasons and they can’t keep selling off the youth. Bobb / McAtee / O’Riley / Lewis all need to be key squad players and pathways open for them over next 18 months or they will be fucked. Do think Pep will hold the side together next season, but when he goes, people will act shocked at the drop off because the squad is overlooked.

Any full back will lose against a winger with pace if they are one on one every time Need to be like a prime Ashley Cole otherwise. You can get a full back that matches pace like a Davies, but then often you see them have lapses of concentration when play is on other side of pitch and not be goal side. Probably because they’ve used pace as a get out so often in their career. Having a CB that can eat up ground in seconds is key for a top side. Just makes attackers question themselves and gets side thinking outside of ‘clip it direct’.

Always happy to give people a pass when they’re in a toxic environment. I can imagine the atmosphere at Wolves is horrendous, similar to Everton of the past seasons. Scouts will know peoples mentality and behaviours from good due diligence, so anyone we sign I’m confident they’re a good egg.

Man City used Alvarez loads, one of the reasons for their drop off. And for all of Man City recent stuff, they have made some seriously bad buys which will come at losses and they’ve decimated their youth team so will need to wait a few years to be able to sell again on same scale. They will be restricted in coming seasons unless they move on O’Riley, McAtee, Savinho for good money. But then their squad is aging so can’t afford to lose them.

Not really a surprise when talk was of him leaving on a free and it was just saving wages. Utterly pointless in that case. Wouldn’t even be shocked if come end of season, it’s Pope we try and move on and give Dub a new one year deal.

Aston Villa going to get a daft sale to help them right out. Guy is ok, but not £60m+ ok So many strikers out there for less.

And a CM for me, because Ugarte / Mainoo just won't work. Amazes me how often I see Man Utd, how slow Mainoo is tracking back. I just don't think it's in his natural mindset to sprint back which makes him in a two an issue.

They regularly spend like the 2nd highest amount on average across seasons, with one of the top 3 wages. Doesn't matter who is in charge, by virtue of throwing enough shit (money) at things, they will pick up cups. It's why the cup competitions are dominated by the select top clubs, despite how shit they can be. Like if we got to spend another £400m, wages increased to matched top 4, we'd be winning cups regardless who is manager.

Played RW more than LB this season according to Transmarkt. Straight swap for Antony squad position.

These are a shocking side. Turn up with right attitude, should be scoring 3 goals minimum, which should be a win even with some routine mistakes. Schar in and same team again because we have no options. Miley at best for Joelinton, but can understand Howe rationale for not changing the midfield.

Said in the press releases, that he was moved on because he questioned Amorim approach, wanted a consistent approach across the club to help with long term recruitment (i.e. not 3 at the back just for first team) and Ratcliffe was not impressed all he could come up with as ideas were Prem based managers. Small bust up and Ratcliffe got rid. I mean, Ashworth is a total knob and funny how it ended, but he's looking to be on the right side of things again, bit similar to his time here. Be a bit blinkered to not think the same situation couldn't happen to Amorim. If league form doesn't take an upturn, it'll depend on how much weight Ratcliffe puts on the cups to paper over things.

Nah, nice looking player who will do well but not a priority and many more will come along at LW. Giving how the game has gone past decade, the talented right footed attackers are more and more getting played on left from an early age and as a result the quality in depth in that position is vast. Left footed players are less of, so naturally there's less depth to the RW if wanting the same. Why I'm coming more round to the idea of getting a right footed RW, or one who's playing LW at a young age and retrained to RW to be direct. Because the directness I feel gets most out of Isak with his movement knowing a ball will come in first time when played out wide.

Honesty is one thing, but saying this is shit that is shit, and doing little about it isn’t some master manager because he says how it is. He’s a good coach because he produced at Sporting and you don’t get the heights he did by being average, but then certain coaches need the perfect environment and when it’s not that, they’re clueless and flap. That’s something fans can’t grasp. Narrative is ‘he’s finding out who’s staying here next season etc’. The XI he keeps putting out, have to all stay because there’s big money tied up in them. And we all know the manager is easier to replace than players which makesMan Utd are no different to any other club. The days of SAF are way in the distant past. He’s long way from being the first coach that’s been superb elsewhere and crash and burned in a different league because the environment hasn’t been right, and neither will he be the last. His blessing is the Europa is weak so should get something going if they avoid Bilbao till the final.