The Fish

Ewerk might be on to something you know. Even if it's nowt, get some zen shit going on. I know you love a stat, so I'll knock something up for you later on.

Just how bad are Liechtenstein?

There was a pub by Leeds Uni called the Library.

Sensational stuff from the stadium announcer.

36 And Hope is just a clickbait bitch.

No, but I was advocating for selling Willock. Imagine what we could have done with the £20-£30m we got for him. Maybe a better P.A. system at Stack?

That's my point though, we don't want to sell the stars, and we can't sell the fringe players. So where does that leave us? We have to inflate the PSR envelope by signing commercial deals and offloading from the wage bill. Those are both more incremental steps, but way more sustainable than trying to cash in on the players who we should be building a dynasty around. I think they messed up this window, by focussing too much on Guehi and not the bigger picture. We needed an athletic, technical right-sided CB. Not Guehi specifcally. If there were none available at the price we were happy with, then we should have quickly shifted focus to another area of the pitch. To fail to do that was shortsighted.

Really good news, he links up with Isak so well.

Well, they are getting more income, but that'll take time. And these stars you speak of? Who exactly could we sell and make good money on? We've tried offloading Almiron in two separate windows, no joy.

If they had any idea how much time I spend dicking about I'd have been unemployed a long time ago, my friend. This is pure top-down thinking. "We've got this space that we're spending a lot of money on, there's no business need for and nobody is using, shall we kill the contract?" "Nah, lets force the plebs to use it" Bravo dickheads, bravo.

Sorry to hear that mate, but it sounds like you were close.

Makes no sense in my particular situation. There's nobody from my team in the Manchester office, it's not even a dedicated office for my company. So I'd be swapping working by myself in my office at home, for working by myself in an openplan space. I won't have two monitors, I can't have some of my calls in public so will have to rearrange the series likely pissing some people off. Another bloke lives an hour from his office, childcare commitments means he can't leave home before 9 and he'll need to leave the office before 4. The same thing with hardly anybody working from that office too. One of these dumbfuck decisions where some overpaid chinless cunt has seen that people aren't using the office they're paying for and instead of just not paying for the office, they're forcing people to go in.

Aren't loads of those yachts owned by people/companies who let them out for holidaying morons? Paying for themselves quick time.

You'll find something mate. If you're too valued to be at risk of redundancy, you're too qualified not to find something else.

I'll need you to look at what they paid for them, look what they sold them for, adjust it for football inflation, and then I'm going to need you to get the hell off my fucking back.

Dividing attention between this and a conference call about having to go into the office 2 days a week. Which IS horseshit, by the way.

Lawyers gotta get their money.

Yeah too many have seen the sensationalised accounts first and (justifiably given the clubs last 20yrs) leapt to the worst case scenario. My read is that the way we were doing things is unsustainable. Either we massively grow our commercial revenue streams so we can afford to buy expensive players and just swallow the cost, or we recruit players before they hit the heights and develop them ourselves, either to use or sell. Or do both at the same time. The issue isn't just recruiting new players for a reasonable price, it's offloading old players without throwing money down the hole. Fraser, Lewis, Hendrick, Hayden, Almiron, Krafth, Lascelles, all of these players would be moved on for decent money if their analogues were at a "Big 6" club. Man Utd helped fund their recruitment by selling off Brown, Kleberson, Djemba Djemba for real cash money, chiefly due to the aura of being a "Man Utd player". Is The Fish saying we need more Minteh's and fewer Frasers? Yeah, we do.

Honestly, I reckon they'll watch what happens with Man City. Wait for the dust to settle then plot their course appropriately. If Man City escape with only lip service punishments we'll chance our arm and use their penalty as a benchmark for acceptable costs. If the hammer comes down we'll keep our noses clean. If they escape without any real punishment you can look forward to a £700m per year stadium sponsorship.

I don't, y'know. I refuse to give him credit, I prefer instead to feel better about myself. If people are so stupid, so supremely dense as to employ a serial loser like Bruce, and yet still be successful in their field, maybe I can achieve great things.

I don't get the whole beer and chaser thing. Just drink a proper beer instead of the Bud Lite shit.

Not well. Even worse when a mate leaned over and quietly suggested Howard probably would have been better off just taking the selfie.