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Who said it does? 😂 I'm fine with the best players being picked whatever their race/nationality is. I'm just saying that with players still taking a knee before every game for black lives matter if this does happen it will really be big news. (i.e. something that will feature as a main item on the BBC/ITV news, etc. It will bring the club a lot of positive publicity.

Be very shocked then, it hasn't. I think the most is 9 for Arsenal but that was twenty years ago. https://theathletic.com/2918488/2021/10/28/one-team-one-colour-arsenal-fielded-nine-black-players/ I assume the main thing that has stopped this happening is that there aren't many black keepers.

I think we're going to be getting a lot of positive press attention this season for being the first PL side to field a starting lineup made up of 11 black players. I think it could well happen, the only positions the strongest players aren't black in would seem to be LB and CM.

Is there any other PL club who, with the squad as it stands today, will 100% be relegated? With the start of the season looming it's a hell of a risk to be placing your chances of staying up in the hands of players we haven't even signed yet...

Are we the only PL club that hasn't managed to obtain a sleeve sponsor? #insemmenswetrust

Bit of a Poortvliet/Woote feel to the upcoming season.

Computer says no...

What does this mean? Clubs always wear their away strips for away games unless these clash, so the colour of the home kit for away games is irrelevant. Our striped home kit would have clashed with Spurs and Fulham anyway as it has a lot of white in...

Well lucky that's not our actual kit then. What do you want the kit to say about Saints? I'm assuming it's "I'm a deckchair fetishist"?

Exactly. I've never got why we can't insist our kits are launched in May as they used to be. It makes perfect sense to play the last home game of the season in the new kit to act as an advert for anyone who wants one for holiday.

Weaker than we started? That seems to be the usual summary of our Summer transfer windows.

What does more flexibility even mean? We have the same finances. Not a single penny from the new owners the same as with Gao. The only reason we have more money to spend this window is that most of the Gao liabilities like Hoedt, Lemina, etc have now finally been shifted from the books but if the new cohort signed by SR can't be flogged on for a profit and we are trying to hawk them around Europe in a couple of years time while paying all of their wages then our future windows will be as frugal as Gao's last. Why are experienced players out of our reach? Forest have signed Awoniyi who is 25 next month and Henderson from Man U. I wouldn't have minded those 2 with us. Why don't we sign players to improve the team on the pitch rather than ones that will improve the bank balance in a couple of years time as history has shown us the opposite is true and instead of assets we can sell to Liverpool we are left with worthless players we can't actually get rid of until their contracts expire. @ErwinK1961 based on companies house, etc. No money from the owner has been put into the club. They have pretty much admitted that no owner money ever will and the club has to be self-sufficient. Do you have anything to say that the owners have put even 1p of their personal money into the club other than the purchase price?

They are no different to Gao. Zero funds from owner, club can only spend what the club generates. Wholly reliant on a spreadsheet to sign 'highly rated' 'prospects' in the hope that they can be sold on at huge profits even though with Hoedt, Ely, Carillo, Lemina, etc, etc this prospect has only failed foro us in the past. And we seem to be using club money to buy players for other clubs now.

With the news that both Lis and Lyanco could be off to the 2nd division Turkish club our owners are in the process of buying you have to think if this is a good thing for our club or is PL money being used to improve the net worth of the owner's other assets?There is no way a Turkish lower league club could afford the wages either player are on and players of their age/experience will not be gaining anything from playing at this low level. However, if both contribute to the club getting promoted to the Turkish PL then the owners will be left with an asset worth far more than their purchase price.The Lis deal seemed off from the start. Why sign an out of contract 25 year old player when we already have 3 senior keepers and our number 1 keeper is a lot younger than 25. Lis can't exactly be said to be one for the future. It's very likely he'll never even play for us and was signed specifically to play for the owners's other club.Given we are the poorest PL club should we be spending what little funds we have in this way?

No, we'd just buy 7 'promising' and 'highly rated' teenagers with 'potential'.

Donkey in horse riding shocker.

Is that like saying any game where we win 1-0 but score in the 1st 10 mins is a comfortable win as we had enough goals to win the game with 80mins+ still to play?

You've missed the point. Rasmus is not saying we ARE well run, he is saying part of the attraction for the purchase is that we WERE well run. It's fair to argue this point as post Koeman the club has been on decline, companies house reports show large losses and our transfers seem to have been far more fails than successes. (as evidenced by the number of players that we signed for 13m+ who we ended up sending out on loan while paying most, if not all, of their wages. I thought you had an eye for detail too...

Character off the pitch? He'll fall out with Ralph on the 1st day then.

Would have made a good CB pairing with Mayo Yoshida.

Are we trying to be a pound shop chelsea where we buy and sell players who don't ever play for the 1st team as a revenue stream?

Is it fairly certain that this season's kit won't be ones which look like deck chairs?

One for the kids, yes?

Have we signed Nick Pope yet?