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Reply | Benchmarking against Burnley summer transfer action
at 20:21 7 May 2024
20m gets you 1 PL quality player. Alex Scott and Wharton cost that without even kicking a ball in the PL.
No way will Gamechanger restrict spending to 20/25m (unless you meant net, and we sell Davis for 40m?). |
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Reply | Eddie Nketiah rumours being picked up by more sources...
at 14:16 7 May 2024
“There seems to be a majority view that we won't be spending much..”
That really comes down to how you define ‘much’. I imagine the sums will be stratospheric compared to what we’ve spent in the last couple of years, but minuscule compared to Arsenal.
I wouldn’t be surprised to see us spend £20m on a players, it doesn’t get you much these days. I think the key will be signing players that are going to be an asset on the balance sheet, with greater resale value, I.e no Dele Ali’s/Jesse Lindgard’s. |
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Reply | Financial sustainability rules
at 14:12 7 May 2024
It’s getting to the point where so many clubs are getting, or on the verge of getting points deductions, that you have to ask what is the point of it all.
You may as well spend what you want safe in the knowledge that any breach will see the penalty reduced on appeal, or have the lawyers tied up in knots for years. |
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Reply | Liam Rosenior sacked
at 14:09 7 May 2024
There’s no doubting he underachieved with the big names they brought in.
However, it was hardly disastrous form, looks like a case of BWYWW. Look at the dire season Sunderland had after sacking Mowbray, and Birmingham with Eustace.
Seems utterly shortsighted to me, sure Rosenior will find another role easy enough. |
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Reply | That was as professional a performance I've ever seen
at 16:26 4 May 2024
More comfortable than I could have dreamed of, made it look like a training match.
And great to see Burns net the goal that put our place in the PL beyond doubt, after all the drivel Frimley has posted about him for the last couple of years ! |
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Reply | Raise a glass to Paul Cook
at 08:32 4 May 2024
Surely we should raise a glass to Ashton getting the deals done, and the Americans funding them. Cook scribbling a few names down on the back of a fag packet is about the sum total of his achievements at Town. |
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Reply | Manager-of-the-year
at 18:00 3 May 2024
Rohl - the very definition of polishing a turd.
Honorable mention for Cifuentes (especially after last Friday), but he had far better players at his disposal). |
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Reply | Hopefully the Leeds game will be irrelevant
at 14:51 3 May 2024
Southampton have a poor record versus the top 6 so I think we need to assume Leeds will win this. I think Southampton will be up for it, they don’t want to take their abysmal form into the playoffs, but I just don’t think they are as good as some (mainly Russell Martin) make out… |
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Reply | Dane Scarlett
at 11:02 3 May 2024
I’d expect a return to Portsmouth in the Championship is more likely. |
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Reply | Wild orangutan seen healing his wound with a plant
at 08:43 3 May 2024
I also like the reminder of the healing aspect of nature. A contrast in an age where we pump everything full of chemicals for convenience or cost saving. We have ultra-processed food full of forever plastics, and hair styling products containing chemicals linked to cancer.
Like Mr Orangutan we need to return to more organic products. |
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Reply | The moment that won (or lost) it for us..
at 13:12 2 May 2024
Perhaps we need to go back as far as the first game of the season. Sunderland away with a talented young squad that made the playoffs in the previous season, looked a REALLY tough opening game. To win that must have erased any niggling doubts in the players minds about being able to compete with the top teams in the division.
The win there also meant we carried over our incredible run and momentum from League One. |
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Reply | Bookies have us at 1/40 for a top two finish…
at 07:15 2 May 2024
Because of the last 15 years of mediocrity and underachieving. We aren’t used to being so close to a major success.
97pc feels about right - Huddersfield have a puncher’s chance that’s it. There’s a reason they are getting relegated. Let’s not big them up to be world beaters! |
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Reply | Dele Alli
at 18:45 1 May 2024
No d1ckheads, no mercenaries! |
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