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  1. HanoiVillan
    Knighthead are, as you say, a hedge fund. They don't have any particular need to own a patch of land outside the city centre for any reason other than owning a football club. They're businesspeople who want to make money, so they're looking at other ways to monetise the site (this is sensible). But they're not going to walk away from the club (or not in the near future anyway) just so they can own a newly-built mixed-use site of businesses, it's too small beer.
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    Those transfers occurred nearly a decade after the allegedly falsified documents and inflated sponsorship deals. At the start of that decade, they were not really much better than the other 'big 6' clubs. The boring truth is that the most important element in their domination of English football *now* is their decision to hire Guardiola as manager.
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    It comes from a] the clubs appealing any deduction, no matter what it is or whether they've already pleaded guilty, and b] the clubs (and independent commissions) insisting on taking various mitigations into account, which is what leads to the differing point deductions. If you read the reports from the Premier League and from the independent panels, their arguments are reasonable and make sense, even if their conclusions differ sometimes. But the problem is no one is reading these long documents - even journalists who are paid to report on this stuff seem ignorant of their contents - so the impression created for the average fan is 'they' are just plucking random numbers out of the air. Unsurprisingly, that has created a crisis of legitimacy. In hindsight, there should have been a standard punishment of say 8 points that occurred no matter what the situation, and absolutely no consideration of mitigating circumstances, even big ones like 'the war in Ukraine'.
  4. HanoiVillan
    It's IMO quite likely that City engaged in genuine, real corruption, but that other sides have received their punishments already for massively smaller and more straightforward cases while City haven't is inevitable, not corrupt.
  5. HanoiVillan
    Tosin is being heavily linked with West Ham in the Guardian today, and I have to say I think he fits the Moyes mould better than ours.
  6. HanoiVillan
    Their attacking line-ups now are not as good as peak Salah-Firmino-Mane I agree. But what they have now is much better strength in depth. These are good players. If they were all rubbish, they wouldn't be second in the league having only lost twice in the league this season.
  7. HanoiVillan
    So Diaz, Nunez and Gakpo are all shite? Mad how Liverpool are second in the league and have scored 72 goals so far this season, considering that.
  8. HanoiVillan
    Agree, with the caveat that I do think we'll lose the two to Arsenal and Liverpool. We can certainly get points from all the others though.
  9. HanoiVillan
    They're not just going to lose all 5 of these matches.
  10. HanoiVillan
    TBF, if posters are mad enough to think both that United will win nearly every game and that we will lose nearly every game, then overturning the goal difference differential isn't the strangest belief.
  11. HanoiVillan
    He's responding to the previous post that said 'That was the last time we finished sixth'.
  12. HanoiVillan
    This is true, and worth remembering.
  13. HanoiVillan
    We only have three home games remaining, only one of them against a side that isn't in the 'big 6' who have already beaten us this season. Can't afford not to win the winnable games.
  14. HanoiVillan
    I think psychologically the ten-minute collapse is going to weigh far heavier than the equaliser.
  15. HanoiVillan
    We lost one at Old Trafford on Boxing Day.
  16. HanoiVillan
    'All things considered, it couldn't have gone much worse. I mean it could have gone one point worse, but draws are pretty much useless at this stage, especially at home.'
  17. HanoiVillan
    All things considered, it couldn't have gone much worse. I mean it could have gone one point worse, but draws are pretty much useless at this stage, especially at home. The Luiz suspension leaves us once again with essentially nothing in reserve in central midfield for the next two matches.
  18. HanoiVillan
    Maybe not. But I think it's worth saying anyway, since so many people on the forum seem to think Cash is surplus to requirements.
  19. HanoiVillan
    We're seeing the limits of Konsa as a right back in a game where we're attacking. He can't cross, doesn't overlap, and can't take a man on. It's pretty limiting.
  20. HanoiVillan
    . . . said Michael Salisbury.
  21. HanoiVillan
    They have the easier run-in, which contains a difficult run. It doesn't matter what order the points come in, what matters are the points at the end, and they will be favoured to get more of them than we will if we fail to win this match.
  22. HanoiVillan
    TBF it's pretty unlikely we'll get top 4 if we don't win this, I don't think that's crazy to say. Spurs' fixtures are both significantly easier and they'll be within reach from their game in hand.
  23. HanoiVillan
    **** sake
  24. HanoiVillan
    Mad that the ref blew up then, I'd be fuming. Feels like his laid-back approach isn't quite right for this game, did he not watch the reverse fixture?
  25. HanoiVillan
    Regardless of that stupid refereeing, we need to try to work out at least one way to create an overload in this half.
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