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Has vards touched the ball?

No goals at millwall and Plymouth it’s dreadful

Worst display of 5he season for his passing I reckon

Who the hell is buying him ?

What’s the point in leaving daka on for that 5 mins ? No game for another 8 days poor game management AGAIN

R we really blaming mads for their goal?

Big moment for enzo when does he abandon his formation ? he doesn’t have the bottle to do it yet he needs to do it latest 60 mins

He doesn’t pick himself the coach does sadly with janiick there we have to put a CB with some pace next to him. That’s not coady and enzo doesn’t seem to want to put Nelson into the firing line. Even when we were winning I was moaning about his arrogance he doesn’t believe he should be at this level - he should remember where he came from

They’ve made 5 changes I’d have been shocked if they weren’t

They’ll be on whatever their contracts say we can’t move goalposts mid contract

Perfect illustration of how sh1te we are we could easily have sold madders for 50m and paid 20m for winks which sticks another 10m in the positive column for a period we knew we would fail. Do you think we inflated 5m on the deals we did?

Not sure about that but I will have my eyes on whether we see a Southampton player sold to Man City (or one of their overseas clubs) over the next few windows at what looks to be quite an inflated price

It does seem to be open to abuse. I mean we could do the esr deal instead (not that arsenal would agree to that) and there could be a discounted buy back clause available to them which effectively means we’re loaning the fellow but able to make the most of an inflated kdh fee this June to avoid further sanctions from the efl.

Appreciate what you’re saying but that’s not how ffp works and we are in a deep hole

Some of their decent players can still be ‘performing’ whilst the general output of the team isn’t good enough. Just because the team isn’t getting results doesn’t mean certain players aren’t still maintaining their value .

Yep - I just used nketiah as an example. Wherever we have to sell kdh, we should be looking at one of their players and doing this.

Fair but many of their good players are still performing. They’ve had big injuries and their squad isn’t as deep as the one we had. So instead of being able to buy someone for £5m and sell them for £60m, they’ll have to make do with £40m. That’s still a mile away from where we ended up with no one even prepared to cover the amortised value of what we were selling because of the ridiculous wages we were paying. (Plus we’d overpaid for average players)

We competed for several seasons recently West Ham have completed for several season recently Newcastle competed last season villa are competing this season it’s not just about how much you spend. Yes it stacks the odds very firmly in your favour but recent history tells us that it’s not the be all and end all. The mistakes around recruitment and inflated contracts is what screws you over.

If we take us when we were turning over £215m. On wages, amortised transfer spend and agents fees we can spend inside europe 150m outside europe 182m I’m not sure how transfer income is accounted for in the system. transfer spend is annual amortised amount as per now but wages will have to be well down on where they were Perhaps owners of the other 14 have decided that this system means they won’t have to dig into their own pockets as much as they do now.. if all clubs are in a similar position then they’ve basically given up on trying to break into the top six. But the reality is that they can’t spend what they need to now in any case and they end up pumping in their own money to try and compete. You’re probably right that this makes the difference between the rich six and the rest even bigger but owners may be thinking about their own dosh.

Under the proposed new regime, clubs will only be allowed to spend a set percentage of their annual turnover on the wage bill for the first team and its coaching staff, plus the amortised costs of their transfer fees and all agents’ fees. Amortisation is how transfers are accounted for in club’s financial reports, with the cost of acquiring players, including fee and salary, spread out over the length of their contracts. The major difference between the Premier League and UEFA regulations will be that the Premier League will operate a two-tier system, with clubs playing in European competition only able to spend 70 per cent of their turnover, while clubs not competing in Europe able to spend 85 per cent. Contrary to recent reports, clubs that breach the Premier League’s rules will still be subject to points deductions.

There was some stuff on social media about a swap deal with kdh and nketiah. lots of comments about how this makes no sense because we need money pre June 30 it occurs to me that we value kdh at 40m but no one will pay that given our situation. Arsenal value nketiah at 40m but again, no one is paying that for him. so here’s a thought …. We sell kdh to arsenal in June for 40m we buy nketiah in July for 40m positive in our ledger to June 30 of 40m For 24/25 onwards we have negative 8m each season on nketiah. He isn’t worth it but the consequences for our psr position is excellent. the reality is that we will be v lucky to get 30m for kdh in June. arsenal similar with nketiah. The above shows how we can manipulate the situation to our advantage,

Absolutely there are players like rodri who seem never to get a rest (winks) but others are often rested

Israel’s attack on Iran was pretty surgical in taking out generals and other army figures. Do Iran need to be just as targeted in their response? Responding by random targeting of civilian areas would surely be less likely to be seen as reasonable. Causing severe damage/loss of life at a military installation would surely be seen as being proportionate? re the political aspect, netenyahu can only go so far with his military before it’s obvious what he’s doing. The strike in Damascus was justified by one of the generals apparently being involved in oct 7 planning. whilst the ultra nationalists in his coalition wouldn’t be opposed to anything aggressive, there are others who would not support blatant war mongering towards Hezbollah in s Lebanon or Iran itself to keep him in power.

The noise around the Iranians attacking Israel gets louder I still think whatever they decide to do, they’ll do it via Hezbollah and houthis rather than themselves. Hezbollah may not be overly keen on really ramping up stuff though.

I think their three year running total is 90m To end June 2024 they have to get to 83m I don’t know what sales they did post July 1 last summer so don’t know what they need to do this June.