It's Quiet 18 - Wanna ring the bell?

[lol yank]

The McAtee news is really exciting. To reject up to £30m means the club were hugely impressed with him last season and they think he has what it takes to succeed here. Like they have absolutely no doubt about it.

Mcatee and Oscar bobb will both hopefully get some good run next year. Two exciting players. Personally can’t wait to see more of Oscar. Another Norwegian in the side can’t be bad for big erl either

 

[nmc]

Looks like Real are using long term debt products to fix short term issues - immediate profitability. This won’t end well…. In time they’ll collapse in a mountain of debt. You can’t keep selling assets and borrowing money to fund shortfalls in the annual accounts… sooner or later they’ll run out of road unless of course they have another training ground to sell!

 

[Newman Noggs]

This little gem in that article “Nation-state owned clubs such as Manchester City…”

Followed by the media's ongoing historical revisionism of the ESL move as some sort of noble rebelllion against the unfairness of having to compete against those so-called "nation state owned clubs"

" The club’s president Florentino Perez has been a longstanding critic of the power of nation state-owned clubs and remains the driving force behind the European Super League rebellion"

Not greedy bastards you, understand, no way, simply guardians of football's competitiveness.

 

[The Stockport Iniesta]

Looks like Real are using long term debt products to fix short term issues - immediate profitability. This won’t end well…. In time they’ll collapse in a mountain of debt. You can’t keep selling assets and borrowing money to fund shortfalls in the annual accounts… sooner or later they’ll run out of road unless of course they have another training ground to sell!

It all adds up why they, Barca and Juve won't let go of the ESL bone.

 

[Chi-town blues]

Pfft, exaggerate much? Alvarez is nowhere near the first eleven. It's Haaland all the way. Second choice striker? Sure. But he shouldn't really be second choice AM, and he shouldn't be second choice RW. He's a jack of all trades for us, but as the kid is stupidly saleable, and it might make a very, very good set of deals possible, it's worth thinking about.

Cmon. We sold Aguero when we had no striker. When we first tried to sell Sterling, no one believed it. When we sold Torres, he had a massive fan club. Alvarez has had an incredible year, but IMHO, he's been a utility player for us, and no more. The argument might be that he's wasted here.

 

[Keeper!]

That makes Mbsppe and Haaland unlikely for a while.

They could always sell their training ground....again....

 

[John Wayne]

Looks like Real are using long term debt products to fix short term issues - immediate profitability. This won’t end well…. In time they’ll collapse in a mountain of debt. You can’t keep selling assets and borrowing money to fund shortfalls in the annual accounts… sooner or later they’ll run out of road unless of course they have another training ground to sell!

You've also got an era of higher interest rates to compound the problem. I can imagine that a good number of clubs are hamstrung by this.

 

[DeBlueLou]

I think McAtee may be earmarked for Mahrez's place.

Long term, sure. But direct replacement isn't viable.

 

[FantasyIreland]

Long term, sure. But direct replacement isn't viable.

We rarely do direct replacement.

No reason James cant be something of a right sided Grealish.

 

[blueparrot]

Long term, sure. But direct replacement isn't viable.

Which is why we could really do with Mahrez seeing out his contrct.