The Fish

Thing is, they can have loads of boxes, matchday experiences, expensive "premium" tickets and so on, without pricing out the local fans. Honestly, fill the majority of a new stadium with varied but affordable season tickets say 70%, have a portion of tickets that go on sale to members (15%), the rest can be sold at a huge premium to tourists (15%). Have the new stadium able to host concerts, NFL, and all that shite.

I love the romantic view of the world and wish it were true, but Isak, Bruno and the others would push our League Cup chances into the bin if Real Madrid came along with a £500k per week contract.

This shows how far we are behind when it comes to matchday revenue and commercial. The latter we can improve with sound negotiations, the former we can only really improve by building a new stadium.

And where he could also become a club legend.

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.