The Fish

To be fair I think that the sudden and unprecedented changes to the sponsorship rules brought in to stymie our progress would have caught the club off guard and meant we were forced into a selling position earlier than we would have liked/expected.

Depends on the depth of the water at high tide, dumbass. High tide is needed to wash away the bodies.

Well, to be honest Wolfgang, I don't think that's any of your business.

To be fair, Eales and Ashworth's departures came kind of out of the blue.

Nah, we just need high tide and a cliff.

Guess we now know why the first marriage didn't stick.

It's not like. What's your average person's career? 30 years? 50 years? And what happens to the average career if you blow out your knee, or whatever? And no, you don't have to buy a flash car, but can you let me know how many Premier League footballers drive about in a Kia Ceed, or a Honda Jazz? And you have offended me Dougle, you've offended me to my very core. I will not rest until my honour is satisfied.

I'm not sure we can offer the same kind of matchday experience (and bring in the money that that kind of thing would demand) without a new stadium?

It's a video, basically Plymouth manager says Whittaker didn't show up for the match, despite being originally in the selection.

It's the corporate, the average ticket price ( I wonder if Season ticket income is included in matchday?), the cost of pies, pints and so on.

Is there an element of the matchday experience being a little average?

Hang on, how many footballers play for a decade in the Premier League? It's way more likely that for the vast majority their top flight career will be shorter even than 10 years. Then you have to factor in the cost of living for a PL footballer. If they rent a property in the popular "Golden Triangle" area of the North West, they could be paying up to £8k a week for a house. Plus renting a flash car and all the other things too.

Sounds like he's a bit of a cunt https://x.com/Beesotted/status/1882352488495645089

Thing is, they can have loads of boxes, matchday experiences, expensive "premium" tickets and so on, without pricing out the local fans. Honestly, fill the majority of a new stadium with varied but affordable season tickets say 70%, have a portion of tickets that go on sale to members (15%), the rest can be sold at a huge premium to tourists (15%). Have the new stadium able to host concerts, NFL, and all that shite.

I love the romantic view of the world and wish it were true, but Isak, Bruno and the others would push our League Cup chances into the bin if Real Madrid came along with a £500k per week contract.

This shows how far we are behind when it comes to matchday revenue and commercial. The latter we can improve with sound negotiations, the former we can only really improve by building a new stadium.

And where he could also become a club legend.

Yeah it's not real.

When the fun stops, stop. In all honesty, Betfair offers a free £1 acca every so often and one of those ridiculous 7 game accas came in at about 10/1, so I had a little cash in the account. Then there's a £5 free bet builder if you bet £5 on a bet builder. I put Joelinton to commit 2+ fouls, Bruno to be fouled 2+ times and Gordon to get a shot on target, which usually come in at around 1.8/1. So won around £15, plus the £5 free bet builder. I've been doing that same bet for the past few months. and it keeps coming off. So I get about £10 profit, plus £5 free bet builder.

Put £5 on Barcelona who were down 3-1 at half time. Only got 9/2, but still, knowing how fucking bent the officials are when it comes to Barcelona I knew it was easy money.

All seems to come from a report in Fichajes which, after a quick google, seems to be an entirely unreliable source. I'm sure @Diego21 could tell us.

I can't wrap my head around the value of this TBA rule they've brought in? Essentially wages can be 5x the revenue of the poorest club in the PL, right? So, without even looking, this year Ipswich's revenue will be £100m as a bare fucking minimum. So, that means Man City et al are allowed to spend £500m on wages this season. I think they spend around £300m a year. And their spend has to abide by UEFA's FFP rules anyway. So what exactly is this new level of bureaucracy for?

Isn't that Alfie Allen?