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I checked some of the figures after my post and Saudi Aramco (the Saudi state owned oil Producer) generated $161B of profit in 2022. That is just one single year. They cannot spend money quicker than it comes in. Every year that money gets pumped into developing the country & used to buy up more...

There’s no such thing as a public purse in KSA. Nobody pays tax here. Saudi is an extremely rich country because it sits on trillions of dollars worth of oil reserves. Even today Aramco is the largest company that exists today by market cap, and is essentially a funding stream for the state. The...

It’ll come with other longer term obligations. They aren’t daft.

This could spell the end of FFP - it’ll be slow and painful but eventually… UEFA and the PL may need to release the shackles to allow external investment into some clubs to compete with some of these outrageous investments.

Surely by now we realise that to stay at the top you have to spend your money wisely? Bringing in a couple of work class players asap is not a strategy that exists. There isn’t a club on the planet bar perhaps Real Madrid who seem to be able to execute that.

I can’t find the original source anywhere so take it with a pinch of salt…

I keep reminding myself that Foden was out for large spells last season as was Phillips. I still haven’t written him off yet to be a useful player in the squad!

Keeping Bernardo & Walker and replacing Mahrez on the wing would actually make this a fantastic summer. I don’t think the Mahrez replacement needs to be a knockout signing for us to compete on all fronts next year, but it definitely needs to be someone with a more direct style than Grealish to...

The only player I think Pep would get frustrated about in the list of leavers is Bernardo. And I think the fanbase would quickly echo the sentiment. If he does leave then absolutely we need to move quick. He is not a player we can afford to lose without top class replacement IMO.

Agreed. It’s one thing to beat it & another to smash it completely while still competing in the PL for another top team. We’ll soon find out!

While Kane has won nothing at Spurs you have to feel that the personal accolade of surpassing Shearer will be quite important to him. He’ll forever be talked about as potentially one of the best ever. It would be very strange for him to give that up for a Bundesliga title. Even as a City fan I’d...

Saved a good chunk of his wages in the delay to be fair. Always a decent tactic.

Barnado central, Foden right. Perfect:

I don’t think it was too strange. They’d know anyway… it gets published in an annual report for all to see. We topped the money league last year & won a treble on top since then.

Feel like todays the day for movement - the law of averages says so.

Hardly Txiki fault that the £50m left back we bought got locked up in prison. I think it’s a combination of being a difficult position to fill in Peps system and a lack of talent on the market. Who would you want Txiki to go and buy at LB right now for example? Realistically?

I know for some people that’ll be a dealbreaker. I’ve come to enjoy it because now having drinks on holiday or back home has become a massive treat after time off it here.

You can yes. Also separate entrances for males and females are a thing of the past. The only place I really see that now are that they still have separate gyms. Unless somebody has been to KSA in the last year or two their perception of the country will be significantly different than the...