Howay

Is anyone able to get to the radio stream on the clubs website? Nufc.co.uk seems to just keep timing out for me.

You get the first year of payments but then it'll stop, they changed the rules to say that teams that come up and go right back down only get 2 years of payments rather than 3 or 4 ( can't remember how long they normally go).

I'm not being funny here but what did they really expect? Their team has been fucking crap all season and they're playing one of the top sides, aye they didn't expect them to roll over like that but howay they were very unlikely to be watching a win.

Fabian Delph coming on meaning he's cup tied for the FA cup now, not that it would stop us signing him given the chance mind.

That's about what it'll look like. I suppose the stadium will be nicer though (Aubemeyang is playing Heaton Stannington there as a warm up for the Olympics if anyone was wondering).

It's about 40m according to this: http://www.birminghammail.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/how-much-aston-villa-parachute-11161706 Which makes sense as it's meant to be somewhere around 55% of the amount PL sides get in the first year outside the league, I'd assume parachute payments only factor in the domestic tv deal and not the various foreign ones.

He's calling it the Great wall as well ffs, what a fucking wanker.

Aye the dressing up and standing on bridges is canny funny tbh. Agreed, she is spot on with her rebuttal to them when she said by wasting time backing utter arseholes like Simpson they take away from the people who are actually being fucked over that they try to help. Even if she hadn't said anything on the matter (and I'm drawn towards taking her word for all of that stuff) how could you wade in and back Simpson up? This is a bloke that was found straddling the woman choking her ffs, I absolutely wouldn't blame her one bit if she was making it as difficult as possible for him.

Really strong squad that Andrew, good balance in it. I just finished the summer 2019 window, ended up winning the CL and came 3rd. Coric and Horn dropped their transfer demands. I got tons of bids for my players over the summer but they were all shite, the only one of note was 35m for Mane from China but he turned them down. Since I didn't sell some of the players I was expecting too my squad is bloody massive so I've again done a Chelsea and have 20+ out on loan. My squad: GK: Timo Horn / Diogo Costa (got 3 highly rated regen keepers out on loan) RB: Clyne / Passlack CB: Joe Gomez / Niklas Sule / Jonathan Tah LB: Moreno / Ryan Sessegnon CM: Goretzka / Henderson / Grujic / Brannagan / Wijnaldum (about 5 regens between CM and AMC out on loan) AM and wings: Lozano / Bailey / Firminho / Mane / Evander / Kuki / Coric (Emre Mor and Gonzalo Maroni both out on loan) Striker: Origi / Maximiliano Romero (Dolberg, Ben Woodburn, Lautaro Martinez, and Facundo Colidio all out on loan, Colidio is brilliant and was only 8m if you can get him) Origi, Firminiho, Coric, Lozano, Sule, Horn, Dolberg, Kuki and Colidio were all subject to multiple piss taking bids throughout the window. I was almost hoping I'd get a proper bid for some of my players as their replacements I've had on the books for a while are ready to replace them . I've kept the defence pretty good depth wise but midfield and up front needs thinning out.

Aye it's completely unsustainable, especially when you consider they're only allowed 4 non Chinese players each. Surely it would have become a thing where these clubs would try to upgrade on the non-Chinese players they have, which would have probably meant releasing blokes who still had 3-4 years on their massively ridiculous contracts in order to bring new ones in.

He showed signs early on at West Ham but he seems like a right bellend, couldn't have played more than 15-20 games the last 2 seasons because of off the field issues. If HF's theory on Rafa being a disciplinarian is anywhere near correct Morrison wouldn't get near the pitch for us.

Good shout, funnily enough I'd completely forgotten about him. Probably the most similar type of player I can get for reasonable money, my new hope is to mug them right off and get 80m + Odegaard for Coric. Cheers.

Aye I'm going to try but as I've said before I don't want to be rejecting 100m+ bids, it may even be out my hands at that point if the chairman just accepts it. If they sulk enough it can get pretty crap mind, their form significantly dips and they stop turning up for training etc, it can even start to effect other squad members and have them start dropping in morale as well. Coric isn't one of the ones just demanding money, I asked what it would take to convince him to stay, he said a CL win so I chose the option that we'd win it next season which wasn't good enough apparently which is odd as we'd just knocked Real Madrid out of the QF with a 7-3 aggregate win . He was asking for an improved contract as well but he wouldn't negotiate after the CL discussion, the petulant little bitch. There's a chance we could win the CL this season though so maybe if I manage to win that he might chill out.

Aye I've got Kuki away out on loan until the end of the season and he's about ready to step up now, I also bought a Brazilian kid called Evander from Vasco Da Gama for about 15m in January who has been canny everytime I've played him. One of them will probably be the replacement. The issue is Coric's passing is ridiculous, he's always got the most key passes and has 29 assists in 40 games this season, so I don't imagine I'm going to get a like for like.

Yeah seems about the best tact. I'm just whinging because I'm quite liking how my side plays with Coric but know I'm going to have to sell him, I'll be forcing them to break the world record to sign him mind.

I hope they keep him but still get relegated and he does have that rumoured clause that he can walk for fuck all which he promptly exercises and goes to West Ham on a free. Just saw this on BBC: "Sunderland striker Jermain Defoe, 34, would "probably rather be back in London", says his former team-mate Jermaine Jenas after a £6m bid from West Ham is turned down." That'll go down like a wet fart on SMB. I know it's obvious but they'll no doubt be foaming over ex-maggie cunt Jenas saying it.

All 3 are in the CL, they even played each other in it this season. I've always found the game demanded more money from your team and bid lower for your players than they do for each other. So it's probably just that mechanic continuing but I've been pretending it's because I sort of done them over in the deals for Passlack and Mor.

I rarely use that one as I worried it'd just lead down a bad road, I've had some success with the "let's wait until the end of the season" but that's just delaying it. It's pretty annoying that you sometimes get completely cut off at the knees in those chats with the responses and it leads you down a road of responses that you've no chance of it ending in anything but the player being transfer listed.

I like that, I'm now intentionally trying to fuck Dortmund over as they were the ones that unsettled Horn originally, refused to sell Pulisic to me for less than 72m but then let Spurs have him for 35m (they accepted the Spurs bid before rejecting my 40m bid) so that's my pettiness but I might add your bit in too.

I'm just having a whinge really it's not usually this bad, my 2nd season wasn't anything like this and I won the title but for some reason my 3rd season has been a nightmare (I've always found the season after a title win challenging so it could be the game just trying to make it a pain?). I'm refusing to give them the contracts they want and most are moaning but I can't give them the deals they want or the clubs finances will be a mess They've all got 3-4 years on their current deals anyway and they're performing well enough, I'll let you know if there's more issues with them though. I've had my captain talk to most of them and it has worked on occasion but then they usually come back again 2 month later. The best way to handle it is to just make sure you're scouting well so that you have replacements lined up (as Andrew was on about earlier), or have a young replacement already on your books out on loan, I'm in a position where I'm not at all concerned about anyone leaving but it does make building a cohesive team a pain in the arse.

Aye it's very frustrating tbh, I've got 2 players that are unhappy now starting for me as I refused to pay them 10m loyalty bonuses in their new contract (bearing in mind I had already agreed to increase their wages from around 60k to 150k and increased all their other clauses). I think what's doing my head in is just getting the fucking thing after every game, "Coric puts on show for Madrid" etc okay I get it put in a fucking bid then. I'm also a bit frustrated that they still haven't fixed the issue where the computer seems to accept far lesser bids from other computer sides than human controlled teams, they also consistently low ball the fuck out of human players, Arsenal have unsettled Timo Horn by bidding 22m for him with only 14m up front but the blokes valued at 35m and isn't transfer listed. I think it's over the top, I'm having blokes sign a contract and then ask for a new one less than 3 months later (Lozano signed for me in July and was asking for a new deal less than 8 games into the season). 22 out of my squad of 25 have asked for new deals this season, majority of which have asked for fucking ridiculous deals to the point that 6 of them have demanded to be transfer listed (asking for 260k a week when their prior deals were 65k-80k range), Goretzka demanding I improve the midfield despite having constant bids from Man City, PSG, Real Madrid, Barca and Bayern for my midfielders . I've always found contracts to get well out of hand with the quality regens (alot of them also get really good really quick) but this year the players seem to be like that from the start.

Yeah I figured it was, I've no idea what they're like as I'm not on twitter but I can assume some are saying some mental stuff.

Spot on, if Fish's comment is aimed at numpties on twitter etc then that's fine but I really don't see anyone panicking on here tbh. I'm fully confident we'll be going up and Rafa has my full support but he's not some perfect manager and people are going to have complaints here and there I don't think voicing them on a forum is bed wetting or pants pissing, it's simply discussion. I personally hate watching Vernon Anita play and would far rather watch Yedlin, would we get promoted if we played the full season with Anita starting over Yedlin? Aye I'd be fully confident that we would it's just I'd prefer Yedlin and I always get a bit disappointed when I see Anita start over him. The same way a lot of other people really want to see Mitro get more playing time, can we get promoted without playing him? Aye, but there's people that would still like to watch him play because they find him entertaining to watch which at the end of the day is what this is all about for fans. Edit: Also fully agree with DK's comment above mine.

The amount of times players ask for new contracts is fucking absurd, every single player in my first team asked for a new one this season and the majority had signed their current one less than a year ago. Real Madrid are currently fucking over Coric for me as well, after every single game I play I get something about how they watched him play, Marcelo, Ramos, and Ronaldo have all urged him to join them and then I had a convo with him that was pretty much impossible to get out of without him getting transfer listed. I'd be somewhat okay with it but this is the 4th player this has happened with this season and it's just getting a bit tiresome having them all be sulky and miserable. Coric just broke the PL record for assists so I don't fancy selling him at all as it'd be hard to replace him, I'm considering Alli but he doesn't get many assists.

It would be fucking hilarious if Moyes walked when they went down mind.