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Not that I don’t rate Pep, but his trophies to career ratio will be significantly helped by taking on clubs dominant in their respective countries.

All because he’s absolutely terrified of using his left foot.

That’s the key difference to the business model. We take players in (either through direct recruitment or through the academy system), carry out a value-adding exercise and then hope to sell for a profit. The supplier is unreliable and can sometimes send you complete toffee, but for the most...

10k effort yesterday morning saw a further improved time at 55:47 (down from 58:28). Plan is to do one 10k each month and see what happens.

That interception difference is quite big really, shows how effective Kelly’s positioning is. You’d much rather a player intercepting than tackling.

May be reading this wrong but does it suggest that generally our finishing as a collective is about average for the division? The proportion of goals scored vs the proportion of xG is where I’m getting this from. Does that suggest that ultimately the issue is that we don’t create enough good...

Basic EBITDA shows that their operational loss was somewhere in the region of £900k - you’ve got almost £2.4m of amortisation of players’ contracts which are notoriously difficult to accurately represent in accounting terms. Still not great to be losing money but I’d hardly call that throwing...

Look at their squad ffs. They were horrendously underperforming prior to Houghton coming in. Same with Derby, for that matter.

It’s a fair point, when we’re going through half a million people a day then it’s no great shakes is it.

Seems I’m a bit younger than most here. First console was the Nintendo 64. Goldeneye on there was the dogs bollocks.

God, don’t remind me of the days of Yukubo.

Again, just thinking strategically, but I wonder if this, along with the PPE contracts, will form part of a concerted campaign in a couple of years about how the country/the taxpayer has been swindled by the Tories.

Interesting point made about the pink ball and the additional lacquer on the exterior making it skid on. Needs looking at.

In fairness, I only have it on in the background and having watched a bit more of it, you are absolutely right. It is a shit pitch.

This is rather ridiculous. To be fair, I don’t even think the pitch is bad, the batting is all over the shop.

Brighton have a 1-year option. Wasn’t reported anywhere prior but he said so in his interview with The Athletic.

Other half works for a solicitors and made the salient point that if they extend it by 3 months or more it’ll bring more separate case buyers into the market and start new chains, and then we’ll be in the same situation in June.

Talk today of the stamp duty holiday being extended for 3 months. Right decision? Not sure.

Being realistic, we’re unlikely to progress with either as #1. Given Wilson has had a reasonable season to date, and is likely on a much lower wage than Marosi, I’d be tempted to keep him as the backup option. He was happy to come here as second choice in the first place.

Agree with this. My point, I suppose, was that he’s flexible enough that if either Walker or this mystical new striker were to get injured, he could cover both roles and there’s less risk of the goals drying up. If we signed a new target man and then had him and Max up top we’d likely struggle...