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[Abacus]

8 minutes ago, Ashley17 said:

It's all very reminiscent of us in 2009. We "only" had to beat Pompey, Boro and Fulham at home and we'd be safe, as if somehow winning three games in a month would be a piece of piss for a team that had won something like 1 in 13.

 

 

 

Oh the Keegan / Kinnear / Shearer season? That's etched in my memory. 

 

Boro at home. The away fans having a right laugh, I'm at the gallowgate end full of nerves wondering why they're all having so much fun.

 

"Because they don't give a **** lad, they do this every year", in the words of the sage sat next to me.

 

3-1 to us, I went home convinced we're staying up. Then Fulham, and the sick feeling then that we were all but down. Hoping for anything, a deflected fluke, a sending off, anything. But deep down you know it.

 

In saying all that, even though it felt the world had ended, that next season under Hughton was one of my favourites. So, that's the ride, isn't it?

[Superior Acuña]

I thought Solanke would be a cert for leaving with him wanting to  get a look-in for England.

[SteV]

24 minutes ago, leffe186 said:

We’ll be selling a few. Probs not the ones you want though .

 

Got a ton of young players that could come in - Ashley Phillips is nominated for YoungPlayer of the Year in the Championship and has captained Stoke at times this season. Lankshear, Devine and Donley have all done well in the Championship. Vuskovic has been amazing for Hamburg and Mikey Moore has done well for Rangers but I’d expect them both to stay on loan another year. Couple of other kids coming through.

 

The problem is all the players with long-term injuries. We’d want to offload a few and the contract situation with relegation is unclear. We probably won’t take Palhinha and Kolo Muani. I’d expect Romero, Bentancur, Bissouma, Richarlison, Davies and Vicario to go. De Zerbi will make a call on a number of players but the ones who we are prepared to shift to generate money will probably include Porro, Van De Ven, Dragusin. Possibly Sarr, Simons. No idea about Gallagher. 
 

You’ve got players De Zerbi would probably like to keep like Solanke, Kudus and Udogie but who may not want to stay in the Championship. Maddison and Kulusevski have been out so long it’s impossible to say - they may want to stay to rehab and other teams may not want to take the risk. Odobert is another in this category. It’s such a young squad you could see a lot of them staying. Decent chance next season starts:

 

[keeper]
Spence Danso Phillips Souza

Gray Bergvall

Kudus Maddison Tel

Solanke

 

Kinsky

Sarr

Lankshear

Devine

Donley

Odobert (maybe back end of the year)

 

We’d be generating an insane amount of money in sales.

Wages will interesting. Apparently (and somewhat ironically) Harry Winks is the highest paid player in the Champ on £90k.

 

Obviously we don’t know who’s got what in terms of clauses for a wage cut in the event of relegation, but it feels implausible to be having many players on £100k+ in that league, even if it is only for one season.

[TRC]

19 minutes ago, The College Dropout said:

When you get relegated - it’s the players that are good and other teams actually want that go. 
 

Gray is going. Bergvall is going. Kudus is going. Would get £150m or more for the 3. 
 

It’s the Bissouma’s, Richarlison’s that are hard to shift. Late 20’s, big wages, low fees these are the ones that end up staying.  

Like whatever we get for Livramento, we throw that on Spence. 

Spence is a bit of a twat isn’t he?

 

Did the whole penitentiary thing too this season and then lost every game possible.

[Moose]

1 hour ago, geordiesteve710 said:

Arguably the worst thing about the run in for these is that Forest and West Ham still get to play against us

 

Entrenched in a tight relegation scrap? Dr. Newcastle will see you now!

 

Seriously though, by the time we play those two we'll likely be all but out of contention for Europe if we're not already. In that scenario, I wouldn't mind us rolling over for them and play our part in hilarity of Spurs going down.

 

Sorry Leffe.

[Skeletor]

Its getting sexy.

[Disco]

3 hours ago, Ashley17 said:

It's all very reminiscent of us in 2009. We "only" had to beat Pompey, Boro and Fulham at home and we'd be safe, as if somehow winning three games in a month would be a piece of piss for a team that had won something like 1 in 13.

 

 

 

God, Allah, Vishnu, Buddha I ask for little and will not ask again. Please make it so.

[Decky]

I don't think as many will leave as people think. A few will obviously but there'll be a group who'll want to get them back up at the first attempt. 

[toontownman]

 

[Menace]

6 hours ago, leffe186 said:

We’ll be selling a few. Probs not the ones you want though .

 

Got a ton of young players that could come in - Ashley Phillips is nominated for YoungPlayer of the Year in the Championship and has captained Stoke at times this season. Lankshear, Devine and Donley have all done well in the Championship. Vuskovic has been amazing for Hamburg and Mikey Moore has done well for Rangers but I’d expect them both to stay on loan another year. Couple of other kids coming through.

 

The problem is all the players with long-term injuries. We’d want to offload a few and the contract situation with relegation is unclear. We probably won’t take Palhinha and Kolo Muani. I’d expect Romero, Bentancur, Bissouma, Richarlison, Davies and Vicario to go. De Zerbi will make a call on a number of players but the ones who we are prepared to shift to generate money will probably include Porro, Van De Ven, Dragusin. Possibly Sarr, Simons. No idea about Gallagher. 
 

You’ve got players De Zerbi would probably like to keep like Solanke, Kudus and Udogie but who may not want to stay in the Championship. Maddison and Kulusevski have been out so long it’s impossible to say - they may want to stay to rehab and other teams may not want to take the risk. Odobert is another in this category. It’s such a young squad you could see a lot of them staying. Decent chance next season starts:

 

[keeper]
Spence Danso Phillips Souza

Gray Bergvall

Kudus Maddison Tel

Solanke

 

Kinsky

Sarr

Lankshear

Devine

Donley

Odobert (maybe back end of the year)

 

We’d be generating an insane amount of money in sales.

 

Good post - thank you for sharing.

 

Never seen Dragusin have a good game of football btw.

[Ben]

7 hours ago, leffe186 said:

We’ll be selling a few. Probs not the ones you want though .

 

Got a ton of young players that could come in - Ashley Phillips is nominated for YoungPlayer of the Year in the Championship and has captained Stoke at times this season. Lankshear, Devine and Donley have all done well in the Championship. Vuskovic has been amazing for Hamburg and Mikey Moore has done well for Rangers but I’d expect them both to stay on loan another year. Couple of other kids coming through.

 

The problem is all the players with long-term injuries. We’d want to offload a few and the contract situation with relegation is unclear. We probably won’t take Palhinha and Kolo Muani. I’d expect Romero, Bentancur, Bissouma, Richarlison, Davies and Vicario to go. De Zerbi will make a call on a number of players but the ones who we are prepared to shift to generate money will probably include Porro, Van De Ven, Dragusin. Possibly Sarr, Simons. No idea about Gallagher. 
 

You’ve got players De Zerbi would probably like to keep like Solanke, Kudus and Udogie but who may not want to stay in the Championship. Maddison and Kulusevski have been out so long it’s impossible to say - they may want to stay to rehab and other teams may not want to take the risk. Odobert is another in this category. It’s such a young squad you could see a lot of them staying. Decent chance next season starts:

 

[keeper]
Spence Danso Phillips Souza

Gray Bergvall

Kudus Maddison Tel

Solanke

 

Kinsky

Sarr

Lankshear

Devine

Donley

Odobert (maybe back end of the year)

 

We’d be generating an insane amount of money in sales.

 

When we went down with Benitez we ended up loaning out a few players just to get them off the wage bill, we did get a few quid off Spurs for Sissoko though.

[Stifler]

3 hours ago, Decky said:

I don't think as many will leave as people think. A few will obviously but there'll be a group who'll want to get them back up at the first attempt. 

Everyone thinks there are some players who will stay either out of loyalty, or pride. Sometimes you even think the player who you brought into a relegation battle in January will stay. They generally don’t. The only players who stay are the ones that other Premier League clubs don’t think are good enough.

 

The good news for Spurs if they do go down is that the transfer fees that they will receive, plus their matchday income should make so they can buy 2 full teams good enough to win the Championship.

[McCormick]

The teams you want to go down hardly ever do, unfortunately. See: Everton. 
 

This lot will stay up through some bullshit on the last day, I just know it.

[KingArthur]

7 hours ago, leffe186 said:

We’ll be selling a few. Probs not the ones you want though .

 

Got a ton of young players that could come in - Ashley Phillips is nominated for YoungPlayer of the Year in the Championship and has captained Stoke at times this season. Lankshear, Devine and Donley have all done well in the Championship. Vuskovic has been amazing for Hamburg and Mikey Moore has done well for Rangers but I’d expect them both to stay on loan another year. Couple of other kids coming through.

 

The problem is all the players with long-term injuries. We’d want to offload a few and the contract situation with relegation is unclear. We probably won’t take Palhinha and Kolo Muani. I’d expect Romero, Bentancur, Bissouma, Richarlison, Davies and Vicario to go. De Zerbi will make a call on a number of players but the ones who we are prepared to shift to generate money will probably include Porro, Van De Ven, Dragusin. Possibly Sarr, Simons. No idea about Gallagher. 
 

You’ve got players De Zerbi would probably like to keep like Solanke, Kudus and Udogie but who may not want to stay in the Championship. Maddison and Kulusevski have been out so long it’s impossible to say - they may want to stay to rehab and other teams may not want to take the risk. Odobert is another in this category. It’s such a young squad you could see a lot of them staying. Decent chance next season starts:

 

[keeper]
Spence Danso Phillips Souza

Gray Bergvall

Kudus Maddison Tel

Solanke

 

Kinsky

Sarr

Lankshear

Devine

Donley

Odobert (maybe back end of the year)

 

We’d be generating an insane amount of money in sales.

No chance Kudus, Solanke, Tel or Maddison stay in Champo. They most likely would be loaned out. Like you said though, Maddison and Kudus have been out for a long, so a small chance. But players don't waste a year of their short career in the championship (with greatly lesser pay) very willingly.

I would also guess teams will be lining up for Archie Gray.

[Ben]

1 hour ago, McCormick said:

The teams you want to go down hardly ever do, unfortunately. See: Everton. 
 

This lot will stay up through some bullshit on the last day, I just know it.

 

West Ham play Leeds on the last day, imagine if they both need a point to send Spurs down 

[Nucasol]

4 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

West Ham play Leeds on the last day, imagine if they both need a point to send Spurs down 

[Danh1]

9 hours ago, Abacus said:

Oh the Keegan / Kinnear / Shearer season? That's etched in my memory. 

 

Boro at home. The away fans having a right laugh, I'm at the gallowgate end full of nerves wondering why they're all having so much fun.

 

"Because they don't give a **** lad, they do this every year", in the words of the sage sat next to me.

 

3-1 to us, I went home convinced we're staying up. Then Fulham, and the sick feeling then that we were all but down. Hoping for anything, a deflected fluke, a sending off, anything. But deep down you know it.

 

In saying all that, even though it felt the world had ended, that next season under Hughton was one of my favourites. So, that's the ride, isn't it?

The atmosphere at that Boro game was incredible. Shame we followed it up with that horrid Fulham game. I’m fairly certain their goal shouldn’t have been allowed, which would have kept us up had everything else worked out the same. 

[Danh1]

11 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

West Ham play Leeds on the last day, imagine if they both need a point to send Spurs down 

For once the last day of the season will be worth watching. 

[Fenham Mag]

4 hours ago, toontownman said:

 

 
All valid points. 

[TK-421]

26 minutes ago, Ben said:

 

West Ham play Leeds on the last day, imagine if they both need a point to send Spurs down 

[Ben]

14 minutes ago, Danh1 said:

For once the last day of the season will be worth watching. 

 

Burnley v Wolves should be a goodin 

[SteV]

Games like last night reminded me how shit it is being around relegation when it comes to other teams games.

 

When you’re up the top you probably expect the teams you’re competing against to win the majority of their games, because that’s what teams up the top do. So when that happens, you just shrug and move on. It’s the opposite down the bottom, you’re expecting them to lose, or at least not win, most of their games. 
 

So when they do win one, especially one like last night where you’d have definitely marked down as a loss, it’s a proper gut-punch.

[TheBrownBottle]

5 hours ago, toontownman said:

 

Funny thing is he’s spot on re point 2 - it is absolutely a better design than the chatty European Cup knockoff.  
 

I can remember us winning it in 1993 and as a kid being a bit confused as to why we were being given the league championship trophy against Leicester, and my dad having to explain how the PL breakaway that season worked (I’d been used to seeing Liverpool and Arsenal winning it).  

 

That’s when football started getting fun …

[sushimonster85]

5 minutes ago, TheBrownBottle said:

Funny thing is he’s spot on re point 2 - it is absolutely a better design than the chatty European Cup knockoff.  

 

And I've always actually found what I will always call the UEFA Cup a sexier trophy than the European Cup. 

[Colos Short and Curlies]

Arsenal fan at work is convinced that final Day Arsenal lose the league and Spurs stay up.

 

Told him he's being optimistic thinking Arsenal will still be in the race last game