The Fish

Yeah it's not real.

When the fun stops, stop. In all honesty, Betfair offers a free £1 acca every so often and one of those ridiculous 7 game accas came in at about 10/1, so I had a little cash in the account. Then there's a £5 free bet builder if you bet £5 on a bet builder. I put Joelinton to commit 2+ fouls, Bruno to be fouled 2+ times and Gordon to get a shot on target, which usually come in at around 1.8/1. So won around £15, plus the £5 free bet builder. I've been doing that same bet for the past few months. and it keeps coming off. So I get about £10 profit, plus £5 free bet builder.

Put £5 on Barcelona who were down 3-1 at half time. Only got 9/2, but still, knowing how fucking bent the officials are when it comes to Barcelona I knew it was easy money.

All seems to come from a report in Fichajes which, after a quick google, seems to be an entirely unreliable source. I'm sure @Diego21 could tell us.

I can't wrap my head around the value of this TBA rule they've brought in? Essentially wages can be 5x the revenue of the poorest club in the PL, right? So, without even looking, this year Ipswich's revenue will be £100m as a bare fucking minimum. So, that means Man City et al are allowed to spend £500m on wages this season. I think they spend around £300m a year. And their spend has to abide by UEFA's FFP rules anyway. So what exactly is this new level of bureaucracy for?

Isn't that Alfie Allen?

Claudia Winkelman ✅

Krafth is fit, no?

That looks right up my gate. Fucked if I'm watch 1 through 23 to catch up though.

No it wouldn't. Not really.

Well, that's both impressive and not believable.

Have a I missed the whole "shitting our pants" and/or overreacting period?

Aye but it's not like going to the shops and picking up what you need, it's having the PSR room to spend when the right player becomes available. It'd be great to sell who we want, when we want so we could buy who we want, when we want. But it doesn't work like that. We need to have the cash here and now. Someone wants to give us money for our reserve centreback.

What if, we get £15m now, but couldn't reinvest it until the summer? Or, we get £15m and that plus Almiron's fee (and whatever we've got down the back of the PSR sofa) is spent on a RW who's better than what we've got?

Honestly think we're at a bit of a cross roads. Gone are the days when you could just wheel out any old ex-pro to state "Well he's got the ball there, and he's crossed it and bang, he's scored." and there's not the appetite for some bespectacled Austrian journalist explaining the treble pivot that's all the rage in the blossoming Cambodian 3rd division. The way you've got cameras on Neville and Carragher elevating their reactions to the same level as the manager or fans, or how the BANTZ with Big Meeks and Keane is done 'for the socials'... it's trying to be matey matey with the audience. Replicating the feel of sitting in the pub and watching it with your mates. I don't mind pundits being partisan, but we could do with more clubs being represented. I don't mind pundits being journalists, or ex-pros, as long as they've something interesting to add. But Paul Merson is a cunt.

Priority is RW and RCB, I agree. Kelly doesn't solve either of those problems. Nor does he solve "who do we play if Hall is unavailable?", or "who do we play if Botman is out?". In terms of depth, he's not providing anything that other players aren't. For less wages. And unfortunately less resale value. Look, if we had two equal bids, one Targett and one for Kelly, I'd take the Targett money. But Kelly is the only one who appears to be attracting interest.

You're right, in that there are two CB positions that require depth. But Kelly isn't 2nd choice for either of them, he also isn't second choice at left back. That would be Big Dan Burn. And then it's a conversation about whether Lloyd Kelly is chosen ahead of Matt Targett or not. So he's possibly 3rd to 4th choice there as well. You're arguing to retain the services of someone that, in all likelihood, won't get a game. We 100% should be replacing him, but not with a middling, 26yr old, free transfer. We should replace him with a young and promising centreback (Hujsen at Bournemouth is a good example), or we should sign someone that pushes Schar down the pecking order by being as good as or better than Botman.

Didn't we also sign Bigirimana in the same window?

If Schar is playing LCB, it's because both Burn and Botman are unavailable. Botman and Burn are both ahead of Kelly at LCB, so in his favoured fucking position he's at best 3rd choice. At CB he's definitely behind Schar as well, so that puts him 1...2...3....ohhh right, 4th fucking choice. Put it this way, if Schar plus one of Botman and Burn were unavailable, Howe is as likely to select Krafth to play RCB as he is Kelly.

Well thank fuck for Onana, I say. If it wasn't for him, school drop off this morning would have been a fucking nightmare. Also, the Man City fans knew better than to try and gloat off the back of pasting Ipswich. Only one who's got anything to say is the Everton fan.