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pas5898

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  1. Fair point. But Man United are an organically big club. Man City are a manufactured club who are now outrunning organically big clubs. They snuck in the door just before the whole ecosystem was closed by Uefa. I believe the superleague was in part to stop these state clubs, as there was wage caps and restrictions on buying each others players. I'll ignore the Grealish comment for the sake of this thread .
  2. Haaland is a spectacular player but he and his agent have all the signs of being an absolute nightmare to work with. Sign him on 500k per week (some reports were 900k), pay the agent 40 millions, Absolutely guarantee after year 2 his agent will be touting him to PSG, City for 1 million per week and a 50 million agents fee. Bayern will correctly steer well clear and he will end up at Madrid, City or PSG. When he goes that will weaken Dortmund sufficiently for Bayern to walk the league for another 2 seasons.
  3. Need to remember the point of Man City and PSG. They are effectively brought by investment funds to promote their region, businesses and despite corruption, deaths, human rights etc paint their place in a positive yet powerful light. It's no coincidence after a bit of bad press around the Super League they've gone for Jack Grealish (new media sensation) and Harry Kane who was the super squeaky clean England pin up boy.
  4. JLR's shift pattern include Saturdays. Sometimes get arrested for beating up Villa fans daring to drink in town. 15k fans missing just there. Mate.
  5. The fact they can bang 100million on the table for a player: -They didn't really need -Who was everything to the selling club, poster boy, captain, boyhood fan, best player. -To the casual fans probably overpay by around 30million. Pre engineer the move with agents, contracts resulting in the player basically forced himself out of the club he "loves and supports", despite Villa not needing the money. This is further proof that "super clubs", brand, oil money, FFP, media and CL finances are destroying any chance of another team joining the elite, or your club holding onto an elite player. Fans are irrelevant, "size of club" is irrelevant. Its all pushed from a new circular economy. If Grealish can force a move from us; then Rice will leave West Ham, ASM will leave a newcastle, Maddison will leave Leicester, DCL Everton, Philips will leave Leeds when a Man City really go in. Its just a matter of time and every fan now knows that.
  6. Literally no point bringing a player who he's not going to bring on anyway. Everton fans were moaning on Talksport he never brought on this young striker they have who was banging in goals for Blackpool last season. If he'd rather play Andre Gomes up front then play an academy player, there's no point in them wasting the journey.
  7. Bielsa will walk. Bruce will be the first to get sacked to appease the fans. They'll get some sort of saviour in (Andy Carol? Lol) and get relegated anyway.
  8. It's worse than that. If Chelsea don't qualify for the CL, they will still earn through a 10 year coefficient share. The share pot amount is the same as the fixed rewards. In short, the chances are Chelsea would earn similar than West Ham, villa etc if they qualified (and went out in the group stage) and Chelsea didn't even qualify at all! Uefa pdf
  9. When attendances are anticipated low, they literally give tickets away to students, local groups etc. A colleagues son and friends who are fresher students at Manc, were given tickets to go to the Leipzig game. Which explains the extraordinary quiet atmosphere. Also agree, selling a season in advance and cheap means fans might not turn up. Seen it before with arsenal declaring sellouts when the stadium is clearly 10k down.
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    Chelsea

    Lukaku will win Chelsea games they don't deserve to win. They don't concede goals, he will score them. Man City will draw games they deserve to win by not having a striker. Chelsea the team to beat for me.
  11. 100%. He knows exactly what he's doing, to almost save face (by blaming the club and players), but keep the media/reporters sweet. He knows they'll go down this season, so he will stoke discontent (player fallouts), make weird on pitch decisions (4 right backs), rile the fans and make his job untenable (blame the fans so they throw cabbages) so the club have to sack him (and he gets millions in payoffs).
  12. Hate Liverpool more than ever. The complete incessant "anfield atmosphere", special nights and all the rubbish from Sky Sports, BT Sport and now Talksport is unbearable. Souness, Caragher, Redknapp, mcmanamon, Owen, and now Durham almost eroticising themselves talking about special atmospheres, when the reality its almost as quiet as the Etihad with 50 year old stockbrokers from the Cotswolds wearing their YNWA scarfs wondering why Suarez isn't playing. Admittedly there's been some special atmospheres, but coming from 3:0 down to win 4:3 against Barcelona would cause a spontenous eruption at any other ground. For me Old Trafford has always been louder, more authentic and more intimidating.
  13. So did we. We got out of jail with NSWE. Oh could have so easily been us. Same as Forest. Same as Sheffield Weds (Bruce).
  14. Problem with city, unlike Man U, Liverpool etc they don't get the tourist fans who go to just 2,3 games per season. Chelsea, Arsenal and spurs have the London benefit of 9,000,000 people a tube journey away. Therefore the brunt of the tickets is on the local original man City fans. So yes there will be unfancied games with empty seats. They have 40k season ticket holders so it will affect ticketed games mainly. I'm telling you right now, with my season ticket and £150 every other weekend for away games, I'd struggle to afford stumping up £65 x2 twice a month for the champions league. I'd go, but once the novelty wears off I'd wait for the big games, not because I'm a rubbish fan, but because I literally couldn't afford it.
  15. 2 years and 1 month. I have a 3 months notice period as well, so I presume that means I get at least 3 months salary as a "going away present".
  16. Advice please. Appears the company I work for (quite a large £1bn+ business), with thousands of employees are systematically moving as many admin, finance, IT and marketing functions abroad to the Middle East. I know that where I work (e-commerce and digital) is on the list. How does this work from a redundancy perspective? As we NEED e-commerce and digital functions they can't say the role is redundant, they are purely just trying to find people to do the job cheaper. Do they need to mutually agree with me a payoff? Or can they just give me notice and off I pop to the job centre?
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    Louie Barry

    If he can't get into the Ipswich team then very clearly there's no point keeping him around sitting on the bench here as he's obviously a million miles away in his development. If he's still in a dead end situation come Jan, then I'm sure the club will recall and move him into a better environment where his attributes are appreciated. With injuries etc, there will be a fair few League 1 teams looking for a striker. Or even league 2.
  18. He will definitely be at Chelsea, City or United in the next 12 months. What surprises me is how he can play either of the 3 midfield roles (holding, box to box and attacking). Also love the fact he was shushing the Besiktas fans, showing he has a bit of cockiness and nastiness about him. As long as he stays grounded, he will be a superstar. As purchases are now amortised, at that age, even 120-140 million is worth it as you could potentially get 12 years out of him (just 10 million a season or sell in his prime)!. Just balanced against the risk that some younger British players fall into.
  19. Noticeable that the average age of the squad has reduced. They have a front 3 of Rashford, Sancho and Greenwood who could easily go for 10 years (and will improve). Shaw, AWB both take care of fullback for 6,7 years. Pogba, Fernandez got 4/5 good years in them. CB's going into their peak years. Ronaldo will pay for himself. If they spend another 100million+ on a McFred upgrade, then for me they have built a scary team with 3/4 years of improvement. As we found out, it's very hard to bring the average age of the squad down and remain competitive. Since Mourinho they've moved on Young, Blind, Carrick, Herrara, Rooney, Valencia, Rojo, Fellaini (all starters under Mourinho), For me this season and next season, that squad rebuild is 9/10 done and now he needs something to show for it.
  20. Adel Tarrabt. For a season or 2 at QPR he was absolutely unplayable. Actually made me tune in for QPR championship games. At Benfica now.
  21. I guess it will only ever be 3 from 4. Maybe even 2 from 4 in the 5-3-2 formation. It's the players jobs to earn their place, not for us to fit a system around them. Personally speaking I don't think Buendía has the athleticism to play in the centre, and looks best our wide drifting in. So Smith has 2 options Cash Konsa Mings. Targett Luiz Mcginn. Ramsey Bailey Buendía Watkins OR Ings Or the Chelsea away formation: Konsa. Tuanzebe. Mings Cash Targett Luiz. Mcginn Ramsey Watkins Ings If 5-3-2 is the best formation then Bailey just isn't going to play (although his pace could make him a good second striker). If 4-3-3 is the formation then its up to Ings or Watkins to earn that start. Either way going back to the topic. Jacob Ramsey and Mcginn are both certain starters however we play.
  22. Mcginn starting to look a lot better shows the balance is just right with the improving Jacob Ramsey. Mcginn can now drive forward with growing confidence in Jacobs ability and athleticism to drop back. It's kind of slightly unleashed him. He's not having to sit deep because Barkley couldn't / didn't get back. Luiz sitting, JJ and Mcginn both causing carnage both pressing the opposing number 6's, driving forward with the ball and both fit enough to get back and sit in. Quite exciting if all 3 stay fit.
  23. Agreed. We have a full strength squad, at home, against a team we need to finish above or on par with if we want to "improve". No excuses, let's see what happens and where we are.
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