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I said when they signed about a million players in a season and a half I didn't understand how it was sustainable. Absolute maniac running the club like an absolute maniac shocker.

With the amount of positions England gets this year, they're almost guaranteed Europa League aren't they? Don't see them getting Champs League on current form though. Sadly we'll no doubt do them a favour mind

The fact you think a couple of gowls shouting generic punk crap about dead Tories are "dangerous terrorist lunatics" is pretty much why 99% of foxestalk sighs and rolls their eyes when they see you've posted.

If his tactical approach is anything like his old pal Hansi's then I'm all for it. Don't really watch any Wednesday but Flick is a nutter that doesn't believe in defending. Like a Klopp flavoured Kevin Kegan.

I suspect he'll be a fairly decent Championship box to box midfielder, to be honest, if his heart is in it. Whilst he'll never be worth his fee, I have a sneaky feeling he might do well enough next year (again, if he has the right attitude) that people will generally forgive him for having no impact this season. Low key think Woyo might wind up being brilliant next year, too, based on little but a hunch.

The handwringing over Kneecap is ****ing ridiculous. They're punks, for as long as there's been punk, bands have said crass, offensive shit and it hasn't harmed anyone. If they weren't Irish, nobody here would give a ****.

Nobody is going to use a stadium that size in Leicester. Leicester isn't Birmingham. I also wouldn't want us to build a stadium we could only ever half fill as well tbh. Don't get me wrong we are missing a trick a bit, we could do more, but I wouldn't want what they're doing.

It's potentially quite clever. They're not idiots, they know 62k Brum fans aren't going to go to home games. But Birmingham is a massive city, the second city, that's fairly under represented in stadiums and sport. There's definitely a niche there to have a solid, executive stadium doing a lesser version of what Spurs ground has done for them but in the middle of the country. It'd be it's potential use as a venue that'd be what'd drive significant revenue which could then be reinvested back in to Birmingham City allowing them to spend more within the limits of PSR.

Stahp

ffs

Ally McCoist & Jon Champion is the combo.

Anyone enjoying this match, you're welcome. I'm busy tonight. Absolutely guarantee if I was at home watching it'd be 0-0.

I think Boston United could do us if we played them tomorrow

It reads like they retrospectively take action for the last two years tbf. So I'm not entirely certain.

Birmingham are going to be the Chelsea of the Championship in all likelihood. Shit house as much as is possible to allow themselves to invest big money in to the playing squad, sailing narrowly around every rule going by inches. They might not go up first time out but they should be a force and it won't be many years til they're in the Prem. Wrexham are a bit weird. Very low match day revenue and their owners were extremely wealthy in the lower leagues but they're not quite syand-out wealthy at this level. But their commercial revenue is unlike anyone else. They have, even at Championship level, a huge commercial income that offsets PSR and lets them spend because of all the Netflix cash and the US merchandising that goes with it. They've not just got money behind them but they'll be allowed to spend so much of it. I still think they'll plateau in the Championship and then it'll be interesting to see how long the American audience sticks around if they do for a few years. I can see Birmingham being top six next year but I'd be surprised if Wrexham are.

They're closing the loophole we stuck them with in the past two seasons.

Womp Womp

I swear Todd Boehly is on a one man quest to find every ridiculous exploit in the Premier League's rules and take the piss out of it. It's almost impressive. They're by far and away the biggest joke club I can remember seeing in my lifetime. At Man City's worst they couldn't come up with half the shit Chelsea pull off.

Nothing will change except a name on a form. Just more joke rules that'll get ignored. Marinakis isn't famous for caring about rules all that much.

Can I also just say, the music in Clair Obscur is ****ing amazing

In fairness, there isn't significant shame in that.

I wouldn't go that far. For a start, we hugely over spent based on prize money. When you're signing players on five year contracts and bumping up your wage bill to a degree you'll be locked in to and you're betting that against prize money, you're always taking an enormous risk. The Big Six can offset this with commercial revenue but we can't, as soon as we stopped winning we were always in big trouble even despite covid. Now, again, is that unfair rules? Yes, but we knew that when we took the gamble. We took an enormous risk because we thought we had a genuinely elite coach in Rodgers and we were the next big thing, so we allowed ourselves to pay for a consistent Europa League standard squad and then we stopped finishing in the Europa League places. Not because anyone sabotaged us but because we performed badly. We won the Premier League and followed that up by signing Islam ****ing Slimani for 30m, Ahmed Musa for 15m, Adrien Silva for what, another 30 odd? Unbelievably wasted opportunity. We made equally poor signings following the fifth placed finishes and the FA Cup win. We did and still do have an eye for a resellable asset (Maguire, Fofana and now probably BEK and Mads) but the players we've bought to actually fill out our squad have been awful. No club in the 21st century that doesn't split the management role in to a Head Coach and a Director of Football and actively target a working pair of both that are compatible in footballing philosophy can even claim to be well run let alone "THE model of perfection." That's an unbelievably hyperbolic claim at best and straight delusional at worst. I agree with a lot of your stance on the laws of the league and I don't think it's a conspiracy theory at all to suggest a lot of them are specifically designed to stop clubs exactly like us. But there's a lot of us just straight up denial in your post and it's the sort of attitude that our board seem to share which isn't helping.

Too ****ing right. "Wildlife And Gardens Thread"? What is this, a Tigers forum?

He doesn't have one. By the end of the initial contract duration, a book value becomes 0.