That’s not what he says at all, he says that AH was put in charge of incoming whilst Nickson dealt with outgoings. The article I read says they’re still expecting the bloke from Forest to come in as SD
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That’s not what he says at all, he says that AH was put in charge of incoming whilst Nickson dealt with outgoings. The article I read says they’re still expecting the bloke from Forest to come in as SD
The sponsorship thing feels like they’re holding fire until there’s a final ruling in the Man City APT case, but that’s no reason to not invest in the training ground and academy
Who knows. They do seem to be glacially slow when it comes to making major decisions, that’s for sure
If they ever bother
Nope, been shite for as long as I can remember. Probably the thing I’ve been most disappointed to see a lack of progress in since the takeover, and it’s not even a PSR risk - the exact opposite in fact, if done properly. Can only assume it’ll be tied into training complex improvements
Or that might be for club-trained quotas actually. There’s some crossover between the two categories, it can be a bit confusing haha
Nationality is irrelevant, it’s purely down to how long they’ve spent in a clubs youth system
Played a fair bit in preseason. Could be needed to fill CL homegrown quotas (if he’s been with us long enough to qualify)
J7 or Burn are going straight through him first chance they get.
They’ve been like Chelsea on an Aldi budget
Haha yes, I would second this purely because one of my lads got his name on his shirt! Don’t expect owt will be offered though, but we can hope lol
The xlause was just that if Burnley accepted a bid, City could choose to match it if they wished. The player wasn’t obligated to re-sign for them, that was his own choice.
Where’s Adam Crafton?
We signed the lad over a week ago! So now clubs can’t buy players off each other? Honestly, I don’t know who’s making up these financial rules but some of them are mental
I’m not sure a media officer would’ve stopped Isak behaving like a petulant cunt, in all honesty.
The young Korean lad has been in the bench a few times as well. Also Salia, the Georgian kid, is supposed to be a striker/forward. Guess Howe feels we have adequate cover for the 3rd choice spot with the youngsters
Makes you wonder if the Korean and Georgian lads might be getting a lot of subs bench action this season. Salia is supposedly a striker, isn’t he?
Lad, we’re getting 30m for Will Osula. It’s feeling like at current market rates, I’d be worth 15m and I’m 43 with absolutely fucked knees
Was either Saturday or Sunday I think the report I saw mentioned
No idea. I was just postulating based on the fact that we’ve signed two strikers who will be ahead of him in the pecking order, if nowt else
So did I until last week when I asked if anyone had heard about him and then almost immediately a story came out about him saying his goodbyes at Tblisi before completing the move haha
He can’t be rotated in the league if he’s not named in the 25 man squad though - and since we’re struggling with HG/club trained numbers, we’ll be naming a smaller than 25 man squad as it is. So it could just be cup games until January. Like I say, need to have a look at the squad as it stands
There’s the Georgian kid we’ve signed from Tblisi this month as well after he turned 18 - Salia?
Cabaye attempted it with us, but didn’t follow through and Coutinho had a full strop before backing down, then getting his way the following summer iirc
He might not even make that now we’ve made two striker signings that will affect our homegrown/club trained quotas
I think it’s already been mentioned that the Bournemouth game will be moved to Sunday 2pm
Yeah but my point was that he may not make the cut for the CL squad anyway due to the restrictions and criteria we have to meet
It is, but it really feels like Osula needs minutes under his belt this season or it’s never going to happen for him at NUFC.
Osula back from loan? Nowt says you have to loan for a whole season
Haha the only saving grace for me is that I don’t see him doing the same thing to us in a couple of years, partly because of his age, but mainly cos I think he sees us as his ‘last big move’ Whereas Isak has plenty of years in him to fuck over Liverpool in future
Could be a late bloomer, it happens. He’s found his feet the last two seasons and you’d think he should get a fair few chances in our side.
I mean I know Wissa has behaved similarly, and I’m sure Brentford fans will have similar feelings toward him as to ours for Isak, but how anyone can call him professional after the last 6 weeks is beyond me
FWIW I would not be at all surprised to see Osula leave on loan now - if for no other reason than we must be getting close to the limits on our 25 man squad (and UEFA rules are even more restrictive) so some player will surely be close to missing out? Cba to sit down and try and work it out myself
Dunno, I only saw it whilst scrolling, didn’t catch who posted it but I think it was one of the journos (could be wrong)
I mean it hasn’t really, has it? Other players have done what Isak did and it was the same result. This sort of thing will always be an outlier and not the template. Liverpool haven’t had their best player downing tools for a move to Real/Barca every summer since the Coutinho saga, for example
At least he’s available for the other 7 months of the season, unlike the fella he’s replaced
Yup, even Blackburn did it by having a relatively rich owner who ploughed money into the team
All the players who have played their socks off since the season started whilst indirectly criticising Isak’s behaviour? K
I mean Wissa is an upgrade on Wilson, whichever way you look at it. Time will tell with Woltemade, but if we end up with two players who can bag 15 goals a season it’s an improvement on one who scores 25 and another with no legs, just in pure numbers
Have seen elsewhere that supposedly Liverpool were covering the sell on too? Not sure how legit that info was, mind
Not saying I’m right on the money, but it must be that sort of ballpark from how we’ve been led to believe clubs do their accounts
I cobbled a few figures together earlier off the top of my head and guesstimating how amortisation would look: bsky.app/profile/geor...
Even with that outlay on Wissa, we would still probably be banking an ‘on the books’ profit of around £50m this summer because football accounting is stupid
And to think Michael Owen was shocked by the reception he got when he came back to SJP to play for the opposition. Just you wait, Bonny lad.
Storm Fionnuala will be here and gone before anyone’s figured out how to pronounce its name
Which is pretty much what those 55 year old blokes would’ve been into in their 20s ;)
Yeah I left ramsdale off as don’t really know what, if any, loan fee there is for him this season and any obligation/option to buy fee would go on next season most likely
No way we’re signing two strikers today. I can see maybe one and that will be it
Yeah but I think they confirmed the deal had gone through in June though, which would put it on last seasons books? Just guessing, like
Yup
Need to win then to get the most money though and not sure we’ll be topping the table with 24pts haha The 4 home games will bring in a fair bit though, before any results bonuses
That’s what the fee was reported as, isn’t it?
Yeah the 125m will go on, but the ‘on the books’ profit for the deal will be that fee minus whatever his remaining value in the accounts is. As he’s halfway through the contract he signed when joining, I’m just guessing that his ‘book value’ is still around the 30m mark
As others have pointed out to me after I said similar, it would appear the loyalty bonus is the difference between the 125mquotes as LFC paying and the 130m the deal being reported as being ‘worth to NUFC’
Not sure Kelly’s fee will be on this seasons books, more likely last seasons, But this should give the club spending power a massive boost moving forward considering we had already started showing a profit in previous years of this ‘3 year’ PSR period
Thiaw 35m Elanga 52m Ramsey 40m Woltemade 69m So 196m outlay on permanent deals, roughly 40m of that will go on the books for this season with ‘amortisation’. Isak 125m, probably goes on the books as around 90/95m ‘profit’ Longstaff 12m So in PSR terms ‘this season’ should show 60/65m profit?
Just seen that, guess it must be. Not a massive saving them. Oh well. Guess they just wanted the selfish prick gone
Since our ‘profit’ on paper will be lower than if we had banked 140/150m
If, and it’s a big if, the rumours that we’ve negotiated to not pay Isak any ‘loyalty’ payments are true, that could explain the lower sale figure as it will probably leave us with around the same amount of money coming into the club, plus mean the sell on fee to Sociedad is lower
Doesn’t matter if it’s all up front or not, it’ll all go on this season accounts for PSR
The problem with that quote is that, unfortunately, too many took it as a blueprint rather than a warning.
Anything south of 140 would be disappointing tbh. Always felt that 150 figure would get negotiated down a bit, but 120m or around that would be shocking after the shit they’ve pulled this summer
Villa look woeful at the minute
If he doesn’t go he’ll be back in the team in a few weeks with his tail tucked between his legs. He won’t strike for 4 months, not a chance
Unai Emery is just a bit weird
They’re not looking for a 150m first choice striker though
Mares a is a fucking joke as well. You can say it was a shit decision mate, they won’t take the goal off you now ya baldy cunt
Then the penalty they get is crap too. Chelsea player handballs in the buildup, gains advantage as they keep the ball. Not even hiding the bias for the superleague six so far this season
That Fulham goal being disallowed was a joke too, as I said earlier. He’s spinning and has to out his foot down somewhere - he can’t be responsible for Chalobah running into the back of him and accidentally getting stood on. If that’s a foul, every contact is a foul. ‘Careless’ my ring.
Just seen that video of the rotten pair of auld racist cunts in Halifax. Absolutely disgusting. Bloke walks off doing what appears to be Nazi salutes as well. We need to go back to punching these fucks right in the teeth.
Just seen that Man U penalty VAR decision. What a joke, the foul is a good 2 foot outside the box but he jumps forward into it. Ludicrous
Some of the things this ref has given Leeds free kicks for are utterly perplexing.
Got studded on the ankle as he went to jump, not his knee
Case in point there. Absolutely no one for Osula to look for up the left, had to run with it himself with 3 Leeds players on him
Elanga, Barnes and Hall. Even as sloppy as Barnes was in the first couple of games he gave us balance and we have absolutely nothing going up the left
Nmecha after sven’s length there
Is Murphy still asleep on the coach?
Well this change of formation has worked wonders so far
That is laughable var decision. Never a foul in a million years
Dunno about Miley. We’ve literally signed Ramsey to be the J7 ‘alternative’ in that left sided midfield role so I’d be surprised if he doesn’t come in.
I’m not convinced we were ever really in the mix for him beyond keeping tabs in case nowt else came off. He’s a decent goalscorer, but he seems like an absolute head case
I’d like to think he’d start Osula today, I know I said last week that he doesn’t seem to trust him but the kid came on and scored last week so I’d say he deserves a chance. But my head says it’ll be Murphy for Gordon and Elanga or Barnes through the middle. Probably Ramsey for J7
Bloke has stole a living for years. I’m amazed he didn’t get the heave ho when Ashley sold up. Feels like he’s just kept around for the banter.
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Yeah we don’t need one main striker and an understudy. We need two quality strikers who can push each other and rotate without dropping a beat. Can’t play 50+ games a season with just one lad up top
I’m old enough to remember people saying Shearer and Ferdinand couldn’t play in the same team due to them being ‘too similar’ That was a ton of bullshit. The only bad thing about that partnership was that we only got one season of it.
I have never seen one rumour that emanates from “Fichajes” that hasn’t turned out to be complete and utter fantastical horseshit
Nominal fee, probably with a sell on. Think his contract would’ve been up at the end of this season and he’s hardly set the world alight anywhere so far
True, but if the kid had talent you’d have thought it would’ve shown through at some point, even if just in glimpses
Garang Kuol leaves the club then. Best of luck to the kid, but he clearly didn’t have what it took to impress the coaches at NUFC despite all the fanfare
Oh I’m not condoning his behaviour, never have done. Just think Isak’s intransigence is on another level.
Wissa, on the other hand seems to at least be training with his team mates and isn’t completely isolated from them, whilst giving his bosses ultimatums
Whereas Isak, with this carry on and attitude makes it seem like even if he goes to Liverpool for big money now, in a year or two he could very well be kicking off again over a move to Barca/real/bayern
Isak’s been on another level to Wissa though, he’s not just burnt his bridges, he’s absolutely obliterated them. Also feels like Wissa sees us as his ‘big move’ not just a step on the way to another club, so I wouldn’t expect he’d be doing the same to us in a years time
Does it on purpose, gets him some attention and clicks
Yeah that’s fair enough. He was a great manager in his day and you can’t argue with what’s he’s won. Could argue he’s not the same kind of manager, or man, that Sir Bobby was - but then very, very few are.
He was, but he isn’t any more and that’s pretty much the point being made, is it not? Some people were desperate for him to replace Howe last season when we had an iffy start to the league, it wouldn’t have been 2004-2008 Mourinho coming in would it?
To be fair, they seem to have expunged all mention of Mudryk from the internet since he got accused of being a drugs cheat, so they are one winger down. Only got the 23 of them left.
This very much screams “I’ll be back when you’ve sacked this manager” to me.
There’s a lot of 2+2=5 about this transfer leading to Isak leaving. We still need two strikers. Woltemade may be a big lad, but he’s not two smaller lads in a trench coat. Lot to ask for us to also agree a deal for, one would assume Brentford for Wissa, before the deadline