Chris_R

Think I just remembered the €4.5m coefficient but and completely blanked the rest.

I will always appreciate what Rafa did for us, every match we went into I always thought we had a chance in, even against the really big sides. You just knew he'd have a plan and that whilst we might not win, he'd at least get most things right in our approach. I don't care what he has or hasn't done since leaving us, that cannot and will not ever have any effect on how I feel about his tenure here. It's utterly irrelevant. Here he was great, and that's all I care about.

Didn't I read somewhere that we got like £4.5m for the CL this season? Granted we didn't win, and much was down to coefficients, but it seems mad that we'd very likely get way more for a lower-value competition.

The "Top 6" concept is a joke. We're 6th now. And we were 4th last year. And we're all pretty confident that next year we can do better than this year, if and when we've got an actual squad available again. At least one of those clubs is deluded if they think they're in any kind of Top 6 conversation.

I mean fair enough if you're saying that now, but you literally labelled them 'PL' and 'Europe'

Just on that note, it seems an odd and contradictory idea to say we want Europe to help keep our best players, then rest all those players in Europe.

TBH I can't really remember what I do when they win.

With most players, when they get space to take a clear shot at goal you get excited to see what happens next. With Isak, you know what happens next, it's just a question of which part of the goal he chooses to put it into.

Ok so we'll sell for 1.5m and buy it back for 1.4m. both could be 'fair', then just repeat that 500 times a day. Employ a team of people just to repeatedly process this for as long as we can, day and night.

I think most (myself included) are way more annoyed by your club's attitude than Ashworth going.

I heard he earns more per hour than Jeff Bezos.

Are we really going down that road? We're not much better, especially not for almost the entirety of the last seven decades, which is the functioning memory of almost our entire active fan base. "Bald men" and "comb" spring to mind.

I'm going to Dhahran in a couple of weeks, I'll let you know.

Haha looks like we're taking the PL to the cleaners behind the scenes over this, with him at the helm. Nice

If nothing else, just to stop people talking about bloody crisps.