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I think the best bit is they’ve had two shots at nicking a coach from Dortmund, and it looks like Norwich have the best one.

iirc Emilia Clarke (and maybe a few others) had it written in their contract not to show any Cheb. I hope Arya did too as frankly I don’t want to see anymore of that, I know she’s 22 but it all seemed very Adam Johnson.

That’s numberwang

Aye, can’t wait for all the narrative around that game. We won’t be able to get moved for all the narrative for the whole weekend, everything will just be dripping in narrative.

Spot on. His new one was “Manchester United DNA” he’s a parody of himself at this point.

Aye, I agree with the theory of her booting off after they beat the Night King. They’ve dropped hints over the last season or so she’s a bit tyrannical, and as DK and others have pointed out the scenes where Jon told her about his real parents, and Sansa pushed for the north to remain separate showed her being clearly a bit pissed off at both. I’d say it could be a bit of a red herring but Martin did say the ending would be bittersweet, which having one of people’s favorite characters going mental and having to be stopped before another favorite took the throne definitely would be. The only thing that seems a bit off for me for the ideas that this is it for the Night King storyline is that the menace of the White Walkers and the Night King has been building since the start, for it all to be wrapped up and done with in a big fight would seem a bit quick. I suppose it’s not like a typical enemy where they could be pushed back before another fight. I would have almost preferred it to have focused on that conflict for this whole season before having a final season focusing on the fight over the throne.

The potential is there? I mean aye it is because there are that many seats but they weren’t filling it in the Premier League, even with £5 tickets and free giveaways with blue pop and chicken dippahs thrown in.

Get in. I still hope we stop Liverpool at our place, we can then all celebrate like those skip rats did when they beat us 4-3

Half time pints and tabs as well.

Out for at least 3 weeks, so that’s his season ended. Not sure if it’s just me but from what I’ve seen he’s been kicked up a height every games he’s played, no protection from the referees either.

Makes sense, I half remembered there being some sort of deal when the Lannister’s were fighting the Starks but there was a good chance I was misremembering so that clears it up. Theon, I started re watching from the start of the program and I had forgotten what an almighty bellend he was.

There was some sort of deal to give his body back wasn’t there? It’s been fucking ages since those seasons tbf

I think the last 4 are all around 80 minutes each. The whole of next episode is the battle, longest in film/tv history apparently.

That’s completely different to what I said.

He’s literally wrong on every point, at least try and find some sort of argument that isn’t blatantly wrong no matter what camera angle you view it.

I was thinking the exact same thing, I feel like that would have been fairly big news the same as the Leeds fans being stabbed in Istanbul.

Agreed, I think another issue we have is that if we were to get Rondon (which we won’t) that’ll come from this £50m, so say he was £16m and they gave him £50k a week for 3 year deal that’s basically £24m of the £50m budget already gone just to stand still.

What a rush, we could potentially finish above the might of Burnley and the titans of Bournemouth as well!

Aye I don’t think anyone here would defend them (well maybe that toonraider2 bloke). It may well be all they have to hand, I just do have my doubts with all the years we’ve had in the PL while penny pinching the entire time (is it like £2m total net spend or something since he took over?) that it’s all the club can afford. I get your point that you just want to be realistic and clear, they’ve muddied the water for this exact reason imo as it’s nigh on impossible to figure it out really (unless you take the accounts as complete truth of course). I also find it extremely weird that they go on about wanting to be financially savvy yet they sell players with payments stretched over years while only opting to pay 100% up front for purchases. Literally the first thing a financial class teaches is time value of money they’re doing basically the opposite of what you should be aiming to do! Of course it’s yet another excuse in their locker as to why we don’t have more at hand to spend.

The way Salah goes down man. No idea what Morrison was thinking mind, it’s well known Salah just hoys himself to ground under contact so why would you grab him like that no wonder these morons are going down.

Does Van Dijk really think that little tuft on his chin looks good? I suppose he is Dutch, Kruls bowl cut was all the rage over there just a few years back.

The Fish jinxed it

Fair enough I get the points. I wasn’t meaning to come across as argumentative this lot just piss me off whenever I think of the bollocks they spout I never thought that £50m net a season wouldn’t be a lot, as you state there aren’t many that spend that. My issue is that the £50m has to include wages so realistically that £50m becomes more like £20m-£25m and comes with further stipulations about what type of player that can be spent on (so youth to sell on). I get the point of the question now, I can’t speak to how much we could afford but I would assume it would be more than £20m-£30m net on fees like they’re really stating. If it was really a straight £50m net on transfers that would be great, but again if it was truthful they wouldn’t state it since it’s always going to fluctuate, you may need an £80m net spend now to get the squad up to speed then you might run a small profit on them the following year, it’s always these big grand gestures with these nob heads that are never followed up on (see ‘the club can spend whatever it generates’). Aye, the wages thing is for sure a way to play around with the accounts and projections.

I think the fact solskjaer comes across as a right bellend makes it better.

The accounts published don’t have to be as accurate and aren’t regulated heavily like public company filings, so I can’t say with this lot running things I believe them to be the clearest, it’s entirely possible Ashley has been siphoning more out the club and labeling it as something else. You can feel free to trust what the club are saying if you want tbh. If you’re happy to accept a PL club in 2019 can afford nothing more than around £20m in transfer fees yearly (since the other £30m they’re quoting will go to wages spread over the next half decade) again that’s totally up to you. As mentioned in the past they always mention wages having to be factored in when buying, yet the remaining wages on a contract of a player sold are never brought up. We’ve never been big spenders under Ashley, even when we finished 5th we didn’t spend, all of that has all been eaten up by two single season stints in the Championship? It’s also worth noting that for his entire 10 year ownership he has asset stripped the club to such a degree it barely owns anything outside of playing staff, as Trooper points out we’ve lost a lot of money in commercial deals. All of that goes into why I am not accepting them saying all we can afford is £50m a season (inclusive of wages, fees and other expenses) I can’t factor these issues out as they are exactly to blame for all of it so why should I have to exclude that from what I think should be available for Rafa to spend? It can be rectified going forward but it won’t be. We are going to lose Rafa Benitez over honesty over transfer fees and a moderate amount of investment in the training facilities, it’s absolutely absurd. I’ll also add that the wage aspect is being double counted in their bullshit model. The money available that they’re claiming comes as a result of the accounts, which factor in wage expense, they then include these future wages back into the £50m budget, and they will be again included when computing the next amount available.