The Fish

Got to admit I'm curious to hear what Eales said that's got some of our esteemed friends from down the road in such a flap.

Paging @Isegrim

7 players for 3 positions, especially when the style we play takes it's toll on those positions. I could see us picking him up now, not because we need him, but because he's available now at the right price.

#DeliberatePartridge

I was honestly expecting that to be an SNL bit. Had to google it to be sure and, yup, it's a real fucking thing.

Driving up to see the folks with my eldest today. Forgot that it's Leeds festival this weekend. I'll sack off the A1 and take advantage of the Middle Class Heaven that is Tebay Services instead. £7 sausage rolls, extortionate coffee and excellent fudge awaits!

Someone from Sunderland being a massive racist? That doesn't sound right.

I think that's why we've signed a stack of players for the U21s; Sanusi, Pivas, Heffernan etc. There's reports we're after an Argentinian DM called Hezze from Olympiakos. I know nowt about him, but he's foreign sounding and not from Sheffield so I assume he's mint!

Sorry to hear that mate. Like everyone has said, if you need to vent, here's a good place to do it.

Who the fuck keeps a snake in a cage? Surely you want a solid box? You know nothing!

He wins a small number of Aerial Duels, compared to the rest of the players analysed. But, as ever it only shows some of the picture. Schar isn't usually the CB that marks the most dangerous header of the ball at set pieces, most of the goals scored against us aren't headers (because we stop the cross at source, or they're low crosses).

And that's fine, but if that specific player is proving too difficult to sign, it makes sense to step away from the pursuit rather than eating further into our PSR wriggle room, and thus potentially losing out on another specific target further down the line. Guehi was targeted because they think he's the right player now, but if the price isn't right (which I don't think it is) we should have alternatives. I would be surprised if we weren't negotiating for several players, for various positions, Nothing to stop us signing a RW, a CB and some youth player on the same day, barring the difficulty of the selling team. Because, say we have £120m to commit towards transfers, and we value our targets around £65m for CB , £40m for RW, then £15m for a promising kid. Suddenly CB costs £70m, that means we either don't sign the RW target, or don't sign the kid.

Well, we have our first choice 'keeper back and fit, and hopefully we won't be absolutely decimated in the centre of the park. As Gloomy says we should be playing football further up the pitch, which will limit the number of chances the opponents have. We were brilliant defensively before Botman, no reason we cannot hit those heights again, with better players to boot. A better RW will mean we can force their fullbacks and potentially their wingers to neglect their attacking responsibilities to focus more on defending. Also, more goals.

It might be that ewerk includes all player wages? But yeah Capology isn't reliable, just a guide.

We didn't concede 62 goals because we should have spent £70m on a £40m centreback in Guehi. We conceded 62 not because of the paucity of talent, or poor coaching. It's because we had our first choice centre back missing for great swathes of the season, our integral goalkeeper missed half the season, our midfield was either absent, or limping along exhausted.

Really? Holy shitballs! Can't imagine Maatsen, Gallagher, Hall, Hutchison, and Moreira were on that much.

Yup, but he does produce more than Almiron.

£15m adjusted for football inflation is £222m. Shearer, not for the first time, is wrong. Neymar went for £200m in 2017.

Nope

Well I'll Brie. I showed this to my son and Edam near cried laughing.

Yeah, that's the ill-defined point I was trying to make. They make money from selling players, they pull in enough money from commercial deals, selling themselves hotels and car parks and all that. In terms of PSR I think they're fine. Which is, in and of itself, a damning indictment of the PSR regulations.

Peak Shearer would be north of £200m.

Well, according to Capology (which I don't take as gospel by any means), they're spending at least £200m on wages a year. Their commercial revenue is around £210m, total revenue around £500m. So they're spending 40% of their revenue on wages alone.

Ok Veruca Salt.