Gemmill

15 bookings this mad cunt handed out in his last match. What on earth is he doing still reffing matches in the tournament ffs.

This ref looks like a livewire. Get him on co-comms and let Dixon ref the match.

Slovakia looking the better side. Which is really quite the achievement by Southgate.

Impossible to tell if it's serious or not cos every time a camera is on the lad he looks like he's having a full tourette's meltdown, and this was no different.

My lass wanted it on. Five minutes in she wanted it off.

The one with Starmer as Lord Kitchener?

Lads, we're in PSR profit.

Some other places say July 1 for the Saudi window BTW, which would probs have been near enough for the PL to accept, but it's mostly tabloids reporting that so I suspect it's just wrong.

Could still happen, but the Saudi window is currently shut (opens July 17 according to transfermarkt). I think our last chance to offload him to there to fix this problem was Jan, when he was refusing to go. I think we might still see him and Wilson go there, but it would have been too late to fix our June 30 problem.

"If we breach PSR, something's gone seriously wrong" is just rank shit patter. It's an almost inevitable outcome of the club trying to make progress really quickly from the absolute doldrums. He's basically saying "Guys, I like what you've done taking us from relegation certainties to beating PSG in the Champions League in the space of two years, but could you PLEASE be a bit more responsible with transfers while you do it." I hope this spells the start of the club turning away from him and his mates tbh.

It's a real shame for him personally, but I'll be amazed if he ends up good enough for where we want to get to.

He sounds shit, get rid!

It's a good point, well made.

McCoist bang on talking about VAR doing handball snickometer now.

Disallowed, boooooo.

Germans losing.

He's having a VERY bad week.

We've not waited a month. No one is trying to help us out here by doing deals with us at the start of the month. Buying clubs will obviously wait til the last week of June cos that's when their leverage is at its highest, cos they know our predicament.

For what we're trying to do, and the stage that we're at, I think you basically HAVE TO put yourself in a PSR hole and back yourself to get out of it? By growing commercial income, signing young players to flog, getting into the CL, having a higher quality squad with a greater resale value, etc etc. We've started this journey with a bargain basement squad and the worst commercial income in the PL. Given the restrictive rules, you either take calculated gambles, or it's a 20 year project.

I think they've just gambled on some stuff and it hasn't worked out - getting out of the CL group for example. Which, if we had been in any sort of reasonable group, we would have had a chance. Had we had Tonali for the season, that would have changed things too. They've tried to sell Almiron and Wilson, with the former refusing the move. That was probably plan A for sorting this and it didn't work out. Also, don't forget, the PL has moved the goalposts during this three year period in terms of associated party transactions as well. It's not an exact science when it's being done over a 3 year period like this. They're trying to balance making progress and improving the squad with not breaking this stupid fucking rule. It won't be easy. There's so many moving parts, and we're in this massive growth phase for the project - if they're not pushing the boundaries, we'd have had to be much more conservative in previous windows, which none of us would have wanted.

Hmmmm

It's around £26m of the PSR hole, which, according to Swiss Ramble is around £44m. £18m to go.