Investment

[Ragatino]

Aye, I know we are approaching the crest of the hill of struggle but that pot of gold containing the financial deals to give us the freedom to spend always seems elusive and out of reach.

Its like that frustrating challenge you see on TV where you have to remove the bar of gold from the glass case through the hole with one hand.

On TV? They that in Mall of Qatar & Mall of Dubai. I sometimes forget that we're in totally different world. How far the UK has fallen.

Every time I return home for Christmas etc, I'm so disappointed at the state of things. The garbage on the streets, the homeless people, the junkies and general ghettoization of the city centres. I'm always pleased to get the hell away from Manchester or London as soon as I have got off the plane.

[Sclox]

On TV? They that in Mall of Qatar & Mall of Dubai. I sometimes forget that we're in totally different world. How far the UK has fallen.

Every time I return home for Christmas etc, I'm so disappointed at the state of things. The garbage on the streets, the homeless people, the junkies and general ghettoization of the city centres. I'm always pleased to get the hell away from Manchester or London as soon as I have got off the plane.

I don't blame you mate, I reckon the world in general is going to hell on a handcart. A race to the bottom is definately underway in the UK with absolutely nothing better than it was 30 years ago. Successive governments managing expections Ashley style running everything down and taking more and more taxes from the people instead of doing better with the taxes they get - and expecting them to feel grateful for it. I feel Labour will do no better and that balllbag Starmer is annoying me already.

[Ragatino]

I don't blame you mate, I reckon the world in general is going to hell on a handcart. A race to the bottom is definately underway in the UK with absolutely nothing better than it was 30 years ago. Successive governments managing expections Ashley style running everything down and taking more and more taxes from the people instead of doing better with the taxes they get - and expecting them to feel grateful for it. I feel Labour will do no better and that balllbag Starmer is annoying me already.

I hate to be political. It makes my blood boil. Which is why I left. I voted with my wallet, refusing to give those clowns blue/red or whatever a single pound of my hard earned money in tax.

The perverts like Stammer don't even hide it anymore, he's promoting getting an AIDS test for all? Why Only perverts and junkies have exposure to that dirty infection.

It's a Uni-Party of snobs and toffs, certainly nothing 'elite' about them, that run everything. The backroom deals with Senior civil servants who can not be removed by elected officials... How is that democratic?

People of Britain have sleepwalked their way into this mess. If they don't stand up soon, it's all over.

[toptoon]

Unfortunately I have to agree. The frog in a pan of water analogy works well for me. People living in the UK are like frogs in a pan of warm water that is slowly being heated. The downward trajectory of the country is often not perceived. Living away and visiting occasionally is like a frog bring dropped into a pan of hot water - on arrival you notice big changes and it shocks you.
I feel very sorry and ashamed for our previous generations who put their lives work into making the UK such a great country, only for this generation to throw it all away. Sad times indeed.
Putin can smell blood. Would the people of the UK fight to defend it? The way it is now, even someone as patriotic as me would have doubts.

[Ragatino]

Putin can smell blood. Would the people of the UK fight to defend it? The way it is now, even someone as patriotic as me would have doubts.

The enemy is not Putin. The enemy is within as usual. The people who run things have made the generations of kids, though media and the toxic education system hate Being English/British.

They teach them that we are evil and should be ashamed of our history. When, if fact our nation has benefited the world in so many amazing ways. Yet they don't get taught that. Just, Evil Empire, Slavery and that if you're white you're to blame for everything.

The enemy is within.

There are groups of people like the 'Together declaration' https://togetherdeclaration.org/ group who are spearheading the return to some form of democracy.

It's good to see that people are finally taking responsibility for things and not letting things get any further out of hand.

Time will tell how affective they'll be .

[Sclox]

Just reading The Mag. Club accounts in better shape this year. Revenue per season:

?140.2m (2020/21 season)
?179.7m (2021/22 season)
?250.3m (2022/23 season)
?320.3m (2023/24 season)

Gotta be a few shekels available this summer to add some quality. Fat Mike's skimming and commercial revenue neglect and stagnation is plain to see.

A slow grind but we are going in the right direction with safe ownership and decision makers who are probably watching APT legal proceedings around the league before making new deals. We just have to hold the line and not wet the bed if we have to lose a star or two over the next few seasons, the business suits are all over this I reckon and the competition needs to watch out.

The truth is that our best ever team probably hasn't been assembled yet.

[Zippity]

Wxcellent points, man.

The best is yet to come.

[Ragatino]

Wxcellent points, man.

The best is yet to come.

Absolutely gents. Wxcellent point indeed hahaha. Wxcellent Zip's making up his own language now.

With City's 2nd APT case absolutely gonna be go the same way as the first verdict "unenforceable, unlawful & totally void."

That verdict will be in before the end of the season. I would expect a raft of commercial deals to be announced before the June 30th cut off and see the board melt the club credit card with signatures. Like JT's missus when she found out he'd been pumping Bridges wife for years.

Regardless of new sponsorships we're slashed the expenses, player sales and a bunch of other players contracts ending this summer there is money to spend.

I'm not entertaining any 'news' that Isak is leaving. The latest guff is that we're gonna take 3 PSG cast offs in a swap deal.

It was "Nailed on, Arsenal". Then "Isak is off to Liverpool, no doubt, done deal!" Now, apparently he's off to ruin his career in the joke of a league that is the Bankrupt Ligue Ugggggh!

First of all Isak wouldn't want to take a step down to PSG, that would be career suicide

Second, 99.99% of all 'press generated player swaps are nonsense', more over 'Swap deals 99.99% of the time never happen as they're too complicated to pull off.' You see club A buy a player from club B for X amount. Then Club B do a deal with Club A in a separate deal as it's far more straight forward.

Thirdly, the 3 players mentioned are not likely to want to leave Paris for Tyneside, more fool them, but they're all big headed, big time Charlies that don't fit the Eddie Howe 'No-Di*k-head policy'. Then there is the salaries of each of the 3 players being astronomical because PSG pay stupid money to get any player with talent to waste their time in that garbage league.

Back to the subject.

There will be signing, we'll be quite happy with who comes in, there will be surprises and I've no doubt that next season we'll be a much more competitive and better balanced squad with quality in each position beyond the first 11.

[toptoon]

This is it - onwards and upwards. We?re due another unbeaten run soon - we usually have two good runs per season. We?re well placed if we do.

[Ragatino]

This is it - onwards and upwards. We?re due another unbeaten run soon - we usually have two good runs per season. We?re well placed if we do.

4 points off Faltering Forest in 3rd.

Chelsea are not doing any better than us right now.

The MSM muppets are all of a sudden blow smoke up Villa's back passage because of 2 professional performances they were expected to win and have them finishing 4th.

With 5 UCL places up for grabs it's absolutely in our hands.

EH's teams and in each of the seasons he's been our manager we've had our best sequence of performances at the back end oof the season.

I don't doubt this season will be the same.

With potentially 8 clubs playing in Europe next season, what does everyone think the top 8 will be at the end of the season?

UCL
1 - LiVARpool
2 - Arzenhole
3 - City
4 - NUFC
5 - Villa

Europa
6 - Forest
7 - Bournemouth

Euro Conference
8 - Chelsea

Anyone 7th - 10th including Fulham, Brighton could disrupt that as Villa are on 42 points, 2 points behind us, 6 points behind Forest in 3rd.

This is what genuine competition looks like and the Premier League provides once again why it's the greatest Elite professional sports competition on earth.

The Muppets in the media might not agree as they can't gush over the Fraudie Cartel members dominating proceedings. Making their clown show commentary completely inaccurate pap.

So long as we end up in the top 5 we'll have had another exceptional season and Eddie will have reconfirmed he's a frigging magician.

HOWAY THE BOARD, time to back the man and bring in the quality we need to take the next big step up in terms of development