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Nothing to do with playing styles, if we want to be taken seriously as a Championship outfit then we can’t have two 4th choice strikers.

One of Biamou and Gyokeres, no space for both. If they are after comparable wages, then it’s Gyokeres for me.

Stuff like this annoys me. There isn’t a fat lot you can do to get at the owners without the club or fans being affected at all.

Was thinking yesterday about this and trying to come up with ideas. One of the biggest arguments against the salary cap as a %age of income is that it starts to lock in the current status quo of clubs, with clubs like us lower down the leagues suffering a reduced chance to get to the top of the...

Fulham away, without a doubt. If I can’t get a ticket in the away end, I’ll settle for the swimming pool that’s going on top of their new main stand.

Is it a Cov fan thing or just a football fan thing to be so stubborn about first impressions? Everyone seems to make their mind up before a player has played a game nowadays.

Having seen the Spurs statement, it very much reads as “we think it’s a good idea still and don’t know what the fuss is about”.

It’d be an interesting turn of events if players who were out of contract started lining up moves to Everton, West Ham and Southampton instead of Man Utd, Liverpool and Arsenal. Will almost certainly never happen but would be brilliant.

What could you deduct points for though? Strictly speaking, they haven’t actually done anything.

My thoughts as well.

Christian Walton is a good shout for keeper and will be on a free. He’s replaced Nyland as my first choice. Left footed centre back, I’ve banged on about Jake Clarke-Salter but he would command a fee. Whether that would be too much for us, who knows? Also revisit Jonathan Panzo who is going to...

They want changes to benefit them. Again. For how much longer does football as a whole allow a cartel of the super-wealthy continue to load the deck in their favour, without so much as a whimper?

I very much see this as the death throes of the professional game as we know it, and the outpouring from all parties about the disgrace of capitalism having essentially infiltrated football. It’s been in plain sight and because of the tribalist nature, everyone who benefited was happy to welcome...

I almost made a comment yesterday that it wouldn’t be long until football matches were an hour long and were divided into quarters - seems that wouldn’t have been too far off the mark!

I don’t particularly understand how the additional 5 are decided. Real lack of information around that, maybe deliberately.

Absolutely. Would it be possible to look at rule amendments meaning clubs had to be Community Interest Companies and at least protecting the remainder from this uber-capitalist desire? Doubt it’d happen, why would the current incumbents bother, but could it theoretically happen?

Exactly what I thought when I saw that rule in place. If it was in their hands, that’s amended almost immediately. We now see the true motivation for it.

It’s an interesting idea, but to use Man Utd as an example, how does the plc benefit from another club being formed to take part in the new competition?

This. Rivalry aside, what Leicester did is what football fans in general can aspire to. Ok, they have a billionaire owner and I get that that shouldn’t exactly be a prerequisite of a football club, but they built up slowly, didn’t fuck a load of money at it, and we’re rewarded as a result of...

Ah, interesting. Didn’t realise that. Makes it all the more funny to be honest. Get in the bin.