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Striker you expect us to be creative with if funds are limited. Someone on a free who’s experienced (DCL…), or someone who’s raw but talented from abroad. As Isak is number 1 guy, so why spend £40m+ on someone who’s back up to that when we have other pressing areas to address of genuine starting quality to up the bar. Then if they can play outwide, I’d rather it be a specialist outwide, who could fill in up top in exceptional circumstances, instead of other way round, if it needs to be someone to cover two position.

Linking to some of this, the atmosphere is often quite shit though, because that's how the lopsided stadium lends towards and would only get worse with an expansion. For the ticket prices, no need for them to go up any more than current rate of inflation. Whether we're at SJP or not, if club is in Europe consistently, the ticket prices will rocket up to levels we've never seen before which will get people moaning. If the avenues are restricted for new/young fans to get a ticket, then the atmosphere petters out eventually as we all become miserable old guys who still rock up to have a moan and sit largely in silence unless there's some action.

Then how can we be more like Brentford but with a bigger budget? Brentford have dropped a load of money on players that haven't really improved them. Wages are low, but money is still spent. What's that for us to aspire too? Hall/Tino are ones of Brentford style in recent years but better and bigger. If it's that, then sure. If not, then I'm confused to what we want to copy from Brentford when their current success is still about maximising the squad from 2018/19. Mbeumo is probably their last decent sellable asset too, after that, it's all their recent buys where they need them to step up to make money since they have no-one youth wise to integrate and sell, and likely a contributor to the lowly wages as more is needed to be spent on signing players for continuous depth.

As much as I’d love to remain at SJP, and bring it up to spec, let’s be honest, it’s bit of a dive inside. Can slap some paint on and what not, but fundamentals can’t be changed. Only because they could smash down countless crack dens to expand 2 (and assume eventually 3 stands), Liverpool will be only top half club in Premier League who’s been able to remain at their ground. Even if we could build out the east stand, Milburn is still limited because of Barrack Road. As highlighted earlier, the newer stadiums are mostly larger (and newer stands) because of what they pack inside, rather than just squeeze seats which is what our stands are.

Anyone seen much of Harrison in the u21s this season? First season stepping up to that age group, so wondered how he was getting on? See his stats say a few appearances from RW too.

I still feel Leazes Park needs to be the venue. It’s within a close proximity of existing site, and it can transform that area into an actual proper community area / park. SJP pitch can be a centre piece of a new park area, so it remains a focal point for decades to come for future generations to play on.

Spend money wisely on wages, and in their early years good spending on players, but I’d say wages aside, their spending hasn’t been good. Those players may have room to grow because of age, but by large they’re not offering much to them and it’s the players from when in championship still key to them (Pinnock / Henry / Norgaard / Janelt / Mbeumo). They also got rid of their academy for 7 seasons, which will mean playing catch up in future seasons and need to keep spending on squad filler as they lose players.

Brentford one of those clubs people will still think in seasons to come are flawless with their transfers, when it’s not been that in recent windows. Flekken £11m Scahde £22m Collins £23m Thiago £30m F. Carvallho £27.5m van den Berg £25m Nunes £10m All I would say haven’t moved the needle for them. How can we get bigger than that here? Edit: Looking at Brentford further. All their top buys have really been when in Championship. Who have either moved on, going to move on, or into their 30s now and been strong players for them. Still relying on those key players. And the window before those players I’ve listed, Damsgaard £16m, Kane Lewis-Pottee £16m. We have this run of buys here, club would be in meltdown.

If he’s to ever move to next level, it will be as a LW. Hardly any top end clubs play with an out and out 10.

More of a potential market for Eze to extract maximum value before release clause kicks back in for £68m next summer. They've fucked it with Guehi.

Eze I could see moving in January. Arsenal need a LW IMO, perfect player for them. Even Man City need some more dynamism in attacker, so suits them. Guehi is stuck there till summer.

Loved that kit. Mostly for the nostalgia of getting back to a feel good factor about Newcastle in championship, which was soon ripped apart again.

Their saving grace, same with Everton again, all three promoted sides are so shit, that just getting an average of 1 PPG across the season will see safety. And established prem sides should get that, at worse it’s a 35/36 season, which opens the door for relegation but the newly promoted sides just don’t look like even getting that.

£10m for DCL January with Wilson going other way. We get our back up striker who has some resale, Everton get a fee for someone who’s off for nothing, and get a striker who may chip in with same amount of goals (2 year deal for Wilson).

Another big L in the ballot. Is anyone successful in this? Got to try and make sure I’m not pulled away at work for 10am again to try and get a ticket.

Just purchased a silver lab, picking him up 18th December. Called him, Isak Now for Isak to be sold in next 7 months.

For all of Ashley tightness, it’s still amazing how shit he ran a steady prem club that could’ve easily sweeped up the youngster market and sold every summer for profits. Just a depressingly incompetent owner, as that should’ve been an easy thing for him.

We have near enough effectively sold nothing though till this summer. Need to at least churn out a few sales each summer. 22/23, 21/22, 20/21 like £10m max made on transfer outgoings Then 23/24, helped out by flipping Wood back out and ASM to Ah Ahli. Still in same situation now where we have fuck all to move on for any cash, unless we move on someone who’s on fringes and has value (Barnes) or a main starter. Need revenues to grow and to unearth some more Minteh to able to maintain what we did 21/22 to 23/24.

The best they can get now IMO would be £40m-£50m mark based on incentives. Outside that, there's little appetite for a club to push it beyond that when he will clearly leave for a free, and he's not some unattainable talent that means a club pays over the odds to get him before he can speak to more clubs. Our offers were insane in summer, and Palace stupidly turned them down. Proper short termism from Parish which will cost Palace in the long run.

UP THE GEORDIES

Yep. Can’t fault his pressing, tracking back and overall ball retention, but actually doing something meaningful with the ball and getting the better of his defender just once, he’s been so poor.

Gordon is having an absolute junk game. Can see him coming off at HT.

You can tell when Madueke got ball a few times on inside right, and Kane is 2 yards in front of home he’s thinking “WTF are you doing there?”. Just wants to come get involved for the sake of it.

Walker is worse than Burn with his head

Interesting positions Tino being asked to take up.