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  1. If you don't mind me asking, when considering the investment did you factor in the equivalent savings of having that season ticket and the potential that it would only increase in value due to inflation each season which could potentially pay for near half the investment over 20-30 years? That's the only way I can make logical sense to you feeling that a refund was due to you, as it effectively puts you a year back on the justification for this investment to start with(?). Or am I way off the mark here? I'm trying not to add to the witch hunt that we're bordering on as it makes me a little uncomfortable, but reading the IFO report and having a bit more background into your grievances does have me intrigued and it's less of a riddle to understand your perspective when posting on other subjects.
  2. We lost Gunn Oct/Nov too, was a torrid period.
  3. Football is very strange like that, it's like this concept that the prem league is a private company 'owned' by the 20 member clubs in the league via shareholdings. So effectively the prem league is punishing it's own shareholders. You'd think they'd be more in sync with one another, really, and be more pro-active in achieving solvency across x number of years.
  4. Go easy on yourself Sonya, it's not your fault my sweetness. You've just flamed the fire more!! *Rolls eyes*
  5. Knapper sat in the office, or was it more the effect of the loss and subsequent return of Barnes (Game 17): https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/ashley-barnes/leistungsdaten/spieler/63200 And Sarge: https://www.transfermarkt.co.uk/josh-sargent/leistungsdaten/spieler/393325 We were at a higher average of 2.5 pts/game even when the bogey man (Webber) was here and Sarge first got injured, and at the point of losing both Barnes and Sarge were at the same 1.85 pts/game as we are now. Not sure why this concept of losing your top players having a negative effect on results, and a positive effect when they return is so hard to grasp. Clearly, we didn't have the same players during that period to now.
  6. It's possible you're the first person on the internet to ever use the words 'choleric' and 'disputatious' within the same sentence as 'Calm down, bro'. I will just check the record books, but pretty confident on this one......
  7. It's the exit fee to leave, I think.
  8. LYB dropping LSD mid-reply to LDC. LFG!!!! 🙂
  9. I think the change will come when the clubs successfully move into becoming global franchises as part of a super league which they have their own worldwide broadcasting rights for. Then we'll have to endure the tears of Sky and the Prem League, and then it'll be the tears of fans of those clubs protesting because their club no longer plays the big fixtures at home, and instead are part of Riyadh season and such showpiece events. I don't even seen this as being about individual clubs, but rather it's a strategic global takeover of the sport and billionaires grabbing a horse while it's available. The prem league have no control to stop it as each year the clubs are allowed to fall further into debt to their owners, which means they fall further at their mercy. It's ridiculous to have been allowed to happen to start with, entirely fuelled through the desire to sell the 'best' product at the highest price. Not a religious man myself but i've often argued with friends who are, as I could never get my head around how pride could be considered as the deadliest of all the sins, but I guess this is an example that makes sense to me. It's worth noting that Man City owners on their own have more combined wealth than the FA, Prem League and UEFA combined too, this is why I believe the Prem League kills itself if it was to issue severe punishments their way. They're out of control, basically, and need the clubs more than the clubs need them.
  10. I definitely agree on this, but i've said it multiple times in the past that we don't know what brief he was working under Webber. If I had to guess I think his job was to come into this club, stable the ship, unlock value in players like Rowe and AO and define a system, and I think this generally continued to the point that Knapper came in. Since then we've had players return so it's hard to know therefore if the brief changed to prioritise results over system, or if it was a combination of the two. There's a buoyancy and confidence to us now, and that's something that a stable system and level of expectancy provides, even when it's all going to **** around you, it's paying dividends today as we look fluid in playing the ball and clinical on the attack, everyone is very well drilled when you watch movement off the ball too.
  11. It's ridiculous really as they've knowingly overspent floundering rules top buy themselves survival, and even then it was tight. The fact that any business actively supports a model of going into debt should ring alarm bells, but it's just an accepted norm now. Joke of a system, with the money coming in to the game there's no excuse to not be self sufficient, The threshold across the total of multiple seasons therefore should be zero loss, otherwise it's forcing all other clubs to extend beyond their limits to compete and setting a bad example. Who an earth thinks that losing £60m is acceptable to start with? Whether you're paying 100m or 1m for a player, they're still the same player - it's nonsense as it's been allowed to be nonsensical. I'd like to know outside of these points penalties what kind of money is kicked back to the prem league in fines and fees, there's nothing about that. Sorry, but it just winds me up.
  12. And back the f*k off? Keep Rollin'.. Rollin'..Rollin'..
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