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The reason United are struggling has nothing to do with you or us. It’s because the club is a mess from top to bottom. They’ve not recruited well in senior positions for some time. That’s it’s coincided with your rise is irrelevant, you could apply the same logic to us over the last few years or...

Thanks for the detailed reply on PSG, that’s a great insight. I think you’re right in that elite level players will naturally get better, but I was interested to hear how much influence the manager was perceived to have had. I’m not going to lie, I’d love to see what Klopp could do with Mbappé...

Well, the acid test will be in the return leg. But I’ll give you a preview now, you’ll do them everywhere in the return leg fair and square too. It’s on the same principle that we beat Barça in the CL semis. The fact is that we play far more high tempo, high intensity games in England than they...

Yes, I’d tend to agree. That said, if Leicester keep hold of their players and bring one or two in, they’ll be right up there. Spurs will only get better too, I’m not Mourinho’s biggest fan but if they bring in a gem or so, they’ve enough quality there already to make a big push. Mind you, it’s...

The gap between us two and the rest of the top six is stark though. You’ve got the best two managers in world football right on top of their game, it’s a big ask for those below to get much closer. United & Chelsea will both be better next year but a lot rests on the experience of the managers...

That’s exactly what happened. When the time came where they needed to play the game with UEFA, they did just that. With a CL in their back pocket and as you say, brand at its highest. As I said on another post, you don’t hear anything about them these days.

You say FFP wouldn’t have stopped it but if there’d been sanctions applied from the off, it certainly wouldn’t have deteriorated notably further. Transfer bans or points deducted, they’re the punishments the clubs fear the most. But it wasn’t applicable back then so it is what it is. It’s worth...

I think you’re way off with the Milan comparison, they’re a fucking massive club. Been in two finals and one win this century, only Madrid have more wins ever obviously. They’re not what they were at the moment but to suggest that they’ve fallen out of European favour is a little fanciful. They...

I’m not sure what you’re getting at here? If you’re suggesting that we won it off the back of spending massive amounts all over the squad, you’re way off. Plus we lived largely within our means. If Coutinho doesn’t get sold, there would have been no Van Dijk or Allison. That FSG sanctioned that...

The G14 clubs were founded by those who had been historically most successful in Europe. As of today, not much has changed. Nearly all of them have won a European trophy since its inception, some with multiples. That reinforces their membership credentials totally. I’m not sure where I’ve said...

So by your logic, this ‘cartel’ of top European clubs has only existed since FFP? What do you think the G14 are and they were in existence long before FFP. The fact remains they wanted fuck all to do with Chelsea but Chelsea booted their door off its hinges. There are a lot of parallels between...

There’s a lot to respond to there, but I’ll do my best. On the first section, it’s not about debt limitation, namely that the auditors would have looked at their outgoings and seen clearly that they were living beyond the money that came into the football club from elsewhere. That’s when the red...

I’m not sure what the reference to a bucket hat is? No idea about the latter, I live in Merseyside.

There’s also definitely a mentality of oneupmanship if you get me? It was the same when I was younger, your mate might have had Munchens but somebody else had the green ones that were the grail. Plus there used to be the thrill of getting labels that other people didn’t know of or they’d heard...

But if they’d had FFP in place then it wouldn’t have been allowed to get that far if you get me. The money they were spending was nowhere near commensurate with their turnovers. The safeguards in place now mean it’s unlikely to ever happen again. That’s surely a good thing? I’m not so sure that...

I’m not certain that’s 100% the case there. When you look at clubs like Portsmouth, Bolton and Sunderland for example, they’re just your average teams who had owners come in and spend money like it was going out of fashion but ultimately saw them nearly all going to the wall. Of course it...

No worries. Hope you can find some decent webs over there.

I agree that some of them are a bit much for me personally price wise. But then again I don’t determine the market. And as for condescending - ‘read back yourself, you lazy twat’, I could take lessons from you on that basis. I’d like to ask you a question though; is there any independent shop...

I’ve not heard of that Ginger Wig thing, is the merchandise any good? One of the successes of Transalpino is that not all their gear is footy related, as you know, lots of music based stuff too

Hahahaha...so because the deadstock is a bit pricey for you and one of the owners got a conviction that had absolutely nothing to do with the shop, they’re the world’s worst? Don’t worry, Mother Teresa, you don’t have to go in there if you don’t want to. Looking at some of the webs you listed...