Gemmill

I assume this is the website it's come from (transfermarkt). Squad wise we are over £200m and £300m behind the clubs referenced. Which at current rate, and factoring in player trading ins and outs, is probably knocking on 3 to 5 years for us to catch up. And that assumes those clubs just chill out and stand still while we do it. Which they obviously won't.

We could do with Salah getting an infected ingrown hair between now and Wednesday.

We're over £100m behind both of them for a start - that could be 2 or 3 game changing starters. And that ignores the fact that they have top talent that they've brought through their academies - what value is being applied to them? Because we don't have that. It also ignores the fact that they could probably field an entirely separate 11 that would meet or exceed the market value of our first 11. Whereas the drop off to our second 11 is vast. Just putting the above up does not mean that we're on a level playing field with these teams. We're self evidently not, you only need to look at our relative ability to spend to see that.

Aye the new Chelsea, Liverpool and Man United managers have all improved their incredibly expensively assembled squads, backed by decades of investment in their academies, and incredibly successful recent histories. Why can't we go from 19th place in the PL to that within 3 years of the takeover whilst being bound by the rules of PSR? I genuinely don't believe what I'm reading at times. Have you been radicalised by NUFC twitter? You're talking as if Howe hasn't improved us since he arrived. I wouldn't swap Howe for either of Areola or Frank btw.

I was just thinking earlier on that he'll be on GB News before too long cooking up Great British Bangers. He'll be on about 15 minute cities on twitter within 6 months too. Retweeting Sharron Davies.

https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/4ef86a85-3632-57a4-866d-cba5c6f5fecb And that's the rss feed if you don't do Spotify.

I use Podcast Addict and it's spot on.

You can hear some people coughing towards the end of the clip. They'll never get that dust out of their lungs.

Oof. The osteoporosis makes sense now.

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tldr farken

This cunt. The AUDIENCE is the problem, not Greg's great material.

That needs spelling out as well btw. The impact of your PSR calc taking in three historical years worth of losses. Because yes, we've improved our commercial income more recently, but the PSR calc doesn't give a fuck about that because it looks back 3 years, and as things stand that looks all the way back to when our commercial income was at Ashley levels. So there's no sense going but our commercial income is now improved, so WHY AREN'T WE SPENDING BIG? Because see above.

Aye if we were to get the thick end of £100m for Isak, and we start to see our no commercial income financial years drop out of the PSR calc, we could start having some big windows. But losing Isak will be seen as a big negative within the squad, I'm sure. He seems well liked and at the end of the day, you're losing a top player cos you haven't kicked on.

Aye that's pathetic. It wouldn't even cost them votes. The majority of people think Brexit was a mistake and giving young people back the opportunity to work in Europe is part of the fix. Nobody but the most blinkered would see that as a betrayal.

Starting to wonder about Isak like. He's a brilliant technical player and dead sharp in his head, but he doesn't present a physical challenge at all to PL centre halves, and he breaks down a lot too. I really like him but I wonder if he wouldn't be better out wide or something. Not that we have a space for him out wide.

Burn and Schar are doing alright at the minute, but I also think we shouldn't kid ourselves that they remotely compare to other central defensive pairings at the upper ends of the division. We're getting by at the minute but it's not gonna last. Central defence is another key part of the squad where big investment is needed.

Well I know fucking Watson and Keegan aren't starting, SUTCLIFFE!

Your Native American name is Breadsticks for Collarbones.

So you do think we should be top 4 with our current squad then? I'm not gonna waste my day arguing point by point breakdowns of the starting value of the first team. You could go round the division and pick out teams with similar starting values to ours who occupy similar spots in the league. We're on a journey here, and there are gonna be transition points where things don't go the way we want them to. We're in one at the minute, and replacing the manager is not gonna fix it. It's not going to be a linear progression, and we are being held back by PSR, a genuine drag on our progress that at times you don't even seem to believe in. Like it's possible to be a PSR atheist or something. Your expectations have come unmoored from reality imo. Brought about by the incredible overachievement during Howe's early period at the club. And the answer seems to be to remove the bloke that made that possible at the first sign of trouble.

It should go without saying that we, and the club shouldn't take any notice of noise online. People generally are fucking morons and the super moronic are the most vocal online. Fuck them all.

Hey dickheads. We don't do the "Hohoho someone who isn't even playing gets the winner" shit in my threads. That's what started the rot.

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