HanoiVillan

Southampton aren't playing Norwich? Or at least not yet anyway. I'm just talking about the semi-final.

I'm genuinely going to support Leeds I think, can't quite believe it but I can't want these guys rewarded or to see them in the PL next season.

Well that's beautiful. Are the sponsors going be happy with that??

FACT CHECK: Nottingham Forest literally did exactly that.

Plymouth should do it now, surely

Literally might as well have played their second XI. Garbage.

I can't believe you've said that.

Lol commentator just called them Birmingham Shitty by mistake.

Norwich are absolutely abysmal, and so is David Wagner.

How long is left there?

Let's try again. Thus is really bad, because Norwich don't look like scoring.

Or for this to just stay as it is. For all their huffing and puffing Blues don't actually look like scoring.

What comes to mind when I think about Birmingham City fans suffering: Bring on the 'ashen-faced performances' at 2:30 tomorrow please.

Something quite funny about a woman in a short skirt wearing a shirt that says 'Riyadh Season' on it.

1st plays 2nd this week (with 3 gameweeks after) so if I win it's over but if I lose it's right back on. Tense!

I tend to agree, but the argument against is basically: pundits have different purposes depending on the venue. The purpose of a halftime analyst between the ad breaks is to be a famous face smoothly giving a quick summary so that they can quickly move on to selling you beer and takeaway pizza. People who go into detail are literally bad for this role. The purpose of a MOTD analyst is likewise to be a famous face condensing one main talking point from a match into digestible analysis, so that a] people get the main idea of what happened, and b] people can talk about the game at work on Monday and say something that sounds sensible. The purpose of a journalist on a podcast or long-form radio like 'Premier League Sundays' is to go into detail and really drill down. For that, people need to be knowledgeable and able to talk in depth. It's difficult to get both on to the same type of show, because Jonathan Wilson is going to struggle to condense his comments into a charismatic twenty-second soundbite and Steven Gerrard is going to struggle to give interesting analysis for an hour.

Yes, that's the optimistic view. But there are some pretty clear ways those things might not happen (maybe we don't get any bidding wars, maybe European clubs don't think they could match the wage demands of the players we'd be looking to sell, etc), so I think the claim 'we won't get a points deduction' is too strong. *Hopefully* we won't.

I agree we have a lot of assets other clubs would want to buy if available. My question would be whether they will want to buy those players before June 30th, if they believe that buying them after that date would still get them the players and also get us a points deduction.

Apparently an article in the Times today - I don't have an account - claiming that we're pushing for a £30m increase to the PSR allowance for next season, according to Stefan Borson: I've seen quite a lot of takes on here suggesting we aren't at much risk from PSR, but I think people should be asking themselves why we would be pushing this if we weren't. Don't think it's implausible we get a points deduction next season.

Nothing is 'the end of the world', it's just football. But I'd like to have won this trophy, because I haven't seen us win a European trophy, and this could easily be the best chance we get in my lifetime. I don't really care if you don't rate the competition.

Yeah, really enjoyed the trophy we won when I was -5 years old, guess it's greedy to hope we ever win another one.

TBF, I think we can already rule that out

The second sentence is an opinion (I don't agree, but it's a valid opinion), but the first is an incorrect factual claim. Clearly there *is* a place for Dyche, that's why he's employed.

Firstly think there's no chance we'd be interested in him or that he'd be interested in us, but also thought he was pretty much definitely going to Celtic?

Both Villa and Newcastle are within PSR for 22/23 (we know this because neither club was charged) but that doesn't mean that either or both clubs will be within PSR without selling a player before June 30th. Nothing about the club's statement contradicts that reporting. And to be clear, the reason I mention Tanswell is because he specifically mentioned both Ramsey and Luiz as possible sales after the accounts were released as well; that was speculation, not a promise, but it wasn't just in January that interest from other clubs was rumoured.