orangecity23

At least you'll get rid of some stubborn shit stains. Ours just hang around until their contracts expire, or are made Director of Football and Horse Racing and the Academy and President of the "you can't say he's responsible for anything" club for life.

In the case of Nyoni we haven't even got the few quid yet, still waiting for that tribunal.

We should raise our commercial income by leaning into the infamy and marketing it. Start selling a half time ffp meal deal in catering. Comes with a free carton of transfer Umbongo

There was a notable difference in MTX between Resident Evil 2 and 4 Remakes as well, they went from a single DLC to unlock all the bonus weapons in RE2, to selling an individual "Golden Ticket" DL to upgrade 1 weapon in RE4, along with bundles of multiple tickets. So there's defintely a direction of travel where they are ramping up this kind of thing at Capcom.

Fair enough. I was grasping for straws on the basis we'd be compley stuffed for squad numbers with people leaving and had a vague recollection he started out pretty well thee last season. Hadn't realised he'd gone downhill so rapidly On second thoughts, would make a good metaphor for what's happened to the club over the last 2 years, gerrimback.

I suppose Zack Booth for midfield and Nathan Opoku up front are possibilities as well, given they are both on loan at a reasonably high standard leagues in Holland and Belgium.

*Not trying to be mean to anyone here (except the Mercury headline writing AI Bot) , just couldn't resist the meme-ability

No. It's a grand plan to ensure that Man United, Liverpool and Arsenal are the only clubs with a chance of ever winning the league. Man United are shit, but it's okay. Just keep giving them dodgy VAR decisions, ban everyone else from spending money, and keep inflating that commercial income until LEADING FOOTBALL RED BRAND #1 is top of the table, it's best for business. Tune in live on Sky Sports, for the top of the table clash between Man Utd and Liverpool, as a greased up Gary Neville and Jamie Carragher wrestle in a padddling pool full of oil, in front of a braying crowd of red shirt wearing glory hunting nobs from around the world. Support American owned Red Brand #1, or American owned Red Brand #2, in the all star studded superbowl clash live in Dubai, for the prestigious SuperLeagueFFPBowl Tournament Cup. Buy your £220 replica Red Brand Shirt fo choice from Adidas and Nike, and argue with your friends and colleagues in Wales, Dublin, London, Milton Keynes, Shanghai, Boston, Nairobi or The Line, Saudia Arabia about why your red team of choice is the bestest at the Football product. Stop asking questions, and enjoy consuming quality glory hunt televisual media sport product, for a low low subscription fee of just £100 a month* worldwide! *Monthly fee introductory offer. Monthly fee increases by Max(RPI, CPI) + 99% every year. Commercial tat such as official REDBRAND match style non match replica shirts, official REDBRAND Cadbury's chocolate, REDBRAND Nivea face cream, REDBRAND Chevrolet cars or REDBRAND DHL Logistics delivery not included.

So the board's quest to avoid FFP and a points deduction that might result in a potential relegation from the Prem this season (if we'd actually stayed up), has ended in a definite relegation last season, AND we still failed FFP, AND we're set to fail EFL FFP this season as well to boot. And if we do go up, we'll start on negative points, with all our best player assets already sold, and decreased 3 year allowed loss margins due to our year in the EFL purgatory. Plus it's not guaranteed we'll go up this year, so there's a chance we get stuck down here where the EFL will try and stick us with an enforced business plan to flog off our players, transfer bans and more points deductions as they make up their own FFP rules on the fly to see what they can punish us with. And they couldn't afford to sack Rodgers? It turns out they couldn't afford not to sack Rodgers, and the season of stupidity has put the club in a very risky position for the next few years. What an absolute cluster of massive proportions.

The clappers started turning up on the regular at the West Ham game that marked the start of the great escape. There was a lot more atmosphere after that point, but that might have had more to do with the fact that it was a desperate situation, and the fightback had to start there, so there was a collective consensus amongst the fanbase that we had to do something, and it coincided with a big effort by the players as well. Pearson tweaked his wingbacks to make his back 5 formation more attacking, and a late King winner set the tone for a real shift in momentum compared to the previous home game against Hull. So what we need isn't clappers themselves, but the collective realisation that we are in a sticky spot, and a real desire to try and drag the team over the line by making a din to encourage them. Clappers might be useful for the more silent parts of the ground, as it at least means they contribute something to make the overall noise level a bit more continuous around the bowl, but the most important thing is a consensus that we aren't all just going to sit there in our seats and do nothing to help while it unravels on the pitch in front of us!

The beauty of it, was that we were in his hands, as he dropped us to the floor and drop kicked us into the EFL with his size 6 Gucci loafers.

What will get Brighton eventually is the death by a thousand cuts. The big 6 keep coming after their players, their managers, their DoF, their scouts. They've done a superb job so far of replacing, but their recruitment of players and staff keeps getting tested again and again. If they lose their way even slightly, it's a downward slope. It happened to Southampton when they were on a great recruitment run (they've lost Bale, Mane, Van Dijk, Lallana, Schneiderlein, Lovren, Walcott, Oxlade-Chamberlain, Shaw and so on until they got worn down into relegation), it happened to us (we've basically been strong-armed into selling every saleable asset we had, and now KDH is next in the firing line). It's going to get them eventually, there's only so many key staff you an cope without, especially if they are going after your recruiters at the same time.

We gave it a go, ultimately, not too fussed we are out as there was no way we were winning this competition - even if we were playing Cov in the semi final, and had won, we'd have had to play Man City, Liverpool or Man United in the final. The first two would have won anyway, and United would be given as much ref help as necessary to win even if they were shit.

That's the power of being able to spend 60 million on Academy products from Man City and Villa, on top of the fat end of a billion quid rinsed in 2 years. Still, better make sure we don't make a loss though, wouldn't be financially fair

BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

All started when Faes gave the ball away stupidly in their half. Put Vestergaard and Doyle right in the shit

Second outside the box penalty in a row

Top BBC directing there

They broke down our Left Wing. Then we got it back, countered and Doyle was our furthest man forward Don't forget to do your day job, Callum.

YAAAAS YAKUB

Also, lest we forget, completely invented a new handball interpretation when they kicked the ball against Matt Mills hands that were on the floor at point blank range. Then booked Kasper for complaining. Then sent him off for "kicking the ball away" when they scored. He had kicked it to the half way line - which is A) Where it was supposed to be. B) Our ball as we were kicking off. He's always looked out for Forest when they need a hand(ball), no wonder they were upset he's gone.

Meanwhile, tough financial times elsewhere (BBC Gossip): Poor babies, only get a meagre 80 million PER YEAR off Adidas if they finish outside the top 4, how will they cope? Don't worry though, the Prem are on the case to make sure King Power don't sponsor us for an "artificially inflated" amount, that wouldn't be faaaaaaaaaaaaaaair.

In my mind, the explanation that makes the most sense for signing Vestergaard, is Rodgers asking for something "like Harry Maguire" when getting a new centre back, because he knew Maguire worked well in his system previously, and he was desperate for more height at the back to cover up the fact he was an appalling failure at coaching defensive set piece organisation. (Interestingly, when he got to buy a centre back again, he went for Souttar, once again desperately trying to inject more height at the back) Of course, he forgot that he got fofana in the first place because his pace was very useful for covering the fact he wasn't very good at coaching and organised high line defense either and needed recovery pace desperately, so when that was immediately exposed with Vestergaard playing that role he just chucked Jannick under the bus and went back to Amartey, who was merely below average at both aspects.

The big 6 are a poison to the whole game, they corrupt everything they touch, they destroy the other clubs through their financial manipulations of the structure and financing of competitions. It's never ending, it's ffp, it's changes to champions league seedings to include all prior success no matter how far ago, it's champions league wildcards, swiss formats. Changes to fa cup gate receipt division, TV "facility payments" for more televised games, even though all Prem games are televised worldwide. It's worldwide Prem payment distribution, that used to be an equal share amongst all 20, but was changed to greater reward finishing position. TV advertising, constant commercial deals from multinational companies that only reward the big 6. How many times have we had to sit through mason mount sure commercials, or Liverpool Nivea ads when watching a game? Now it's Arsenal women advertising Google phones. In the women's game, man Utd didn't even have a team a few years back, and they've already managed to speed run their league to a big 6 tossfest where everyone else is cannon fodder in record time. Go to a shop and look at all the big 6 shit on sale. Get your Cadburys dairy milk with a Tottenham logo in a supermarket in Leicester, but you'll never see lcfc bars for sale in there. ****ing Cadburys don't even include villa or wolves in their sponsorship, and they are (were) a west midlands company! So in short, balls to the big 6. Football will never be healthy until they are destroyed. Man Utd should be broken up like Standard Oil were, they are a disgusting, filthy, evil cartel, and it should be socially unacceptable to support them or Liverpool, for companies or people. Every plastic fan of either club, who chose to "follow" the winningest team in the country when they were a stupid glory hunting little twat at school in the 80s or 90s should be rounded up and Shame walked down the street like that episode of game of thrones whilst they are pelted with products from all their Uber clubs commercial partners (up to and including Chevrolet's and DHL vans thrown by trebuchet).

Peter Ridsdale angry about Leeds spending loads of money, or just angry he can't afford some quality rented fish for his office at Preston 😄