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BIB - Exactly this, except maybe a once a season "payday loan" is a more appropriate comparison than a mortgage as the funds borrowed are used for day to day running costs i.e player wages. player purchase etc and repaid from the club's "salary" - i.e. the already agreed and known amount of money to be received in installments rom the PL No way would an arrangement like that have been used to secure a £220m loan to buy the club. Now if we saw similar charges over stadium, training ground and everything else made at the time of the take-over we would have cause for concern.

Club before country. In a year when Player of the Season looks like it will be won by default more than earned, he deserves that prize for this decision alone.

Initial reaction was depends how many points we've earned before we play them in the league, but didn't realise there is only two games before that fixture and even two wins in the next too aren't enough. So definitely the league game. Think they're stuck in 5th so maybe they'd prefer the chance of a cup win, maybe a deal could be done

Strange retail you must be involved in, totally different to the one I've been in for near on 30 years. I can assure you the standard retail jargon for we are selling up are, in order Closing Down Sale Everything Must Go Last Week/Day Repossession Notice pinned to the door. Strangely the Standard retail jargon for closed for refurbishment is:- Closed for refurbishment

I remember when Nathaniel Clyne seemed to be sharing the RB slot with - ****, forgotten who it was now, Callum Chambers?? - we had a far superior points per game and number of clean sheets whenever Clyne was the one playing so I'll go for him

Is he the first to have an OBE?

Only Bertrand included in the England squad announced today. Thought JWP had an outside chance and McCarthy could count himself unlucky. But I'd prefer it if as few of our players as possible have nothing to concentrate on except staying up (and winning the FA Cup) for the next couple of months. Who in our squad is likely to be going to Russia for countries other than England?

1) I think he WILL keep us up. The main objective. 2) Don't think any of the other currently available candidates were are any more likely to keep us up than him. 3) Short term appointment with option to extend. Assuming he does keep us up I think he would have the current squad comfortably top 10 again next season, if he's allowed to make his own additions (wondering if title of Manager not coach indicates he may have more say than the last few on transfers - then he could get us back challenging top 8. 4) He''s been there, done that career wise, he's not going to be treating us as a stepping stone to better things. If any of the big boys were interested in him be at one of them by now. 5) He's been managing a while - is it 6th most games managed in the PL? - hopefully he still has a desire to win a trophy or two. 6) Whilst Pochetino and Koeman done well for us, for me he is more the sort of manager I associate with Saints. More of a Nicoll, Ball, Souness , Strachan type appointment. 7) All in all happy with his past record, happy with him, and if I'm wrong and it all goes tits up we can start afresh next season.

As a person he seems a pleasant enough guy. As manager of our club? All I can say is he should use his time off to write a book based on "How To Bluff Your Way Through Interviews To Get That Job You Want" because - and I stress, with hindsight - I have no idea how he managed to talk himself into that position in the first place.

That was the "old days" Journalists can't be arsed to seek out fans for opinion nowadays, the just scour social media for posts to read/print/link to.

Playing devil's advocate here but maybe he's not been sacked because he's not doing that much wrong. Despite all that boring sideways and backwards passing we are 8th in the shots on goal table, 11th in shots on target and 12th in goals scored. And we are 12th in goals conceded. So it could be argued his tactics are not the problem. We are doing enough to be comfortably were we would have expected to be when the season started. Except convert enough of our chances. Can he really blamed for the fact that whatever combination of forward(s)and attacking midfielders he selects, between them they don't seem to have the ability to hit a cows arse with a banjo.

Not seen him do anything that would class as a major error yet, and he has certainly made saves I would have been surprised to see FF make (or even attempt in some cases). He's earned it, until his form drops he should keep it.

Not quite how it sounds. All sudden deaths in Italy are investigated with a "culpable homicide" enquiry, a sort of "assume someone may be responsible" approach until tests prove otherwise.

Plus 2

I was watching our Cup win at WBA via stream. Around about the 70th and 80th minutes the camera focused on MP (from behind). Couldn't hear what he was saying but he was out in his technical area clearly agitated and pointing back into our own half, to me he was indicating we should be dropping back and sit on our lead. Both times Cedric was the nearest player to him. Within a minute or so of each, Cedric first when on an attacking run to the corner flag and the second time a diagonal run that left him in the centre forward position before the move broke down. Can't say for sure he was defying orders but it sure looked that way to me.

Never actually witnessed anything myself but remember an air of "menace" in the coach park both before and after the game. A few months later at the Charity Shield game weren't we responsible for Wembley introducing a roof over the tunnel for all future games after some rather "unsportsmanlike" behaviour as the Liverpool players left the pitch with their trophy?

My stream has just gone down.....thank heavens for small mercies.

I get the impression MP is telling players to sit back and they - Cedric in particular - are pointedly ignoring him.

1) Our kits are nice this season. 2) ummmm.....

Agree with above 2 posts, at a time when we are desperate for some on pitch leadership we seem to have a squad full of introverts playing (personality, not tactically) in their own little bubble. I agree, Yoshida is probably the only one who springs to mind that cares enough to instill some fight in those around him. He should be first choice for the rest of the season - who he replaces, you may as well toss a coin.

Plenty of managers have "lost the dressing room" but has there ever been a case of a team getting together and collectively ignoring a manager's instructions once out on the pitch? I am coming to the conclusion that that approach by the players is our only hope,of survival.

And a thank you from me as well. 100% improvement on both the standard web version and Tapatalk. We can't be the only 3 unaware of that setting, someone make this info a sticky.

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Should be a simple HT talk. "Right lads, all I want you to do is go out there for 45 minutes and forget everything I've ever told you so far this season."

The one thing you are forgetting to take into account is that transfers - in and out - are usually spread over 3 to 5 years. So your £47m profit over 2 seasons probably relates to something like £9-12m per year. And most of that would have been wiped out if the Promes signing had gone through. Then again we would probably still be receiving - and making - payments from the previous 2 or 3 seasons as well in that period. Impossible to say for sure without seeing the full accounts but one thing IS for sure - no-one, not even an owner, can simply "pocket" £1 , let alone £50m , from a limited company without it appearing in the audited accounts somewhere.