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A few dates for the calendar

16th May (midnight): PL summer transfer window opens

1st June: Champions League final

13th June (9am): 19/20 PL fixtures announced

12th July: First real attempt at signing a player

21st-31st July: First team squad at Singapore, Shanghai and Munich (4 games)

2nd August: Second real attempt at signing a player

4th August: First-team friendly at NWHL vs. Inter Milan

8th August (9am): Break out the sirens, we've signed somebody!*
* Not a guarantee

8th August (5pm): PL summer transfer window closes

10th August: Premier League season begins

22nd August: Oh ****, the injury bug's bitten again...

 

Plus the Nations League, can’t wait for all our knackered players to put in a shift for that one. Thanks Gareth!

 

We'll be desperately trying to get our players fit for it, while everyone else pulls out their completely uninjured ones!

 

Of course, if one of our players misses out due to a legit injury, expect the pundits to say they're faking it on the club's orders

Again...

 

At the current rate, that could just amount to Harry of the 18/19 squad - if he's fit.....
Trippier, unlikely even if still here.
Dele? Not on current form
Dier? Ditto
Winks? Will probably take a full pre-season to get fit enough.

 

Fair calls. Don’t forget Danny Rose, though you’d expect him to not start ahead of Chilwell

 

They'll probably take a sudden interest in Josh Onomah and Oliver Skipp just to **** with us...

 

Had forgotten about Danny ... But wouldn't it be ironic if Chilwell was an early signing in the window

 

Errrr what?

Anyone seen whole presser for context?

 

I'd say that was a fitting name for the clickbaity headline...

 

Having watched the whole thing back it looked like he was joking, the clip gave me a start though. Weird joke!

 

I think Poch was having a laugh at the journo's expense.

 

Probably reading WAY too much into a comment that was likely tongue in cheek and misunderstood due to the language barrier, BUT....

Poch does say that winning the CL in our current circumstance would be 'a miracle', effectively impossible to repeat. Similar to Porto winning it, Greece winning the Euros or Leicester the PL.

I think what he's getting at is that this season is meant to be the final one of 'Chapter 1' of the 'project'. You know, the chapter that wasn't meant to result in any major trophies but whose purpose was to deliver regular CL football as we worked towards a new stadium.

Chapter 2 of the project, post-stadium, is very much meant to involve major trophies...but on a regular basis. But based on the current state of our squad, we could win the CL this year and not come close to it or the PL next season. So where is the regularity or consistency going to come from ahead of schedule, unless we have a major rethink and basically accelerate the developmental phases of Chapter 2; something that would probably involve a massive, ruthless clear out and sudden injection of £100's of millions. In Poch's mind that ain't going to happen if we've just moved into a new stadium. It can happen across 3 or 4 years, sure, but not overnight. And so our CL win would just be a blip, an anomaly, which would fabricate an illusory pressure on him and a threadbare squad to repeat the miracle next year and the year after that, ignoring the 'fact' that we are years ahead of schedule (again).

Anyway that's my psychoanalysis, pinch of salt is free.

 

We've been enshrined in the Wikipedia list of auto-antonyms
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auto-antonym
...for at least the next hour or so, when the moderators spoil our fun

 

Let's get ready to RAAAAAAAAAMBLE !!!

 

Ker-ching!!

Levy will be very pleased.

 

At 07:25 Poch is asked directly about leaving Spurs. He says yes. I might be a sucker but... He seems pretty serious?

 

Following on from here : https://www.not606.com/threads/bill-nicholson-arms.26897/page-835#post-12762903 ...

I have estimated that the match day revenue from Wembley for 2018-19,
based on the 2017-18 accounts and the average attendance figures there for
the 2017-18 and 2018-19 seasons (68/52K respectively) to be 2.17m per game.

Somebody claimed that Wembley have charged THFC a 2m "penalty fee" for
each game this season. I have taken that claim at "face value" , and therefore
the revenue is 0.17m per game.

Therefore for 20 games the entire revenue = 20 * 0.17 = 3.4m.

So that is a total of 3.4m this season vs 71m last season.

CL revenues from UEFA for this season are estimated at 88m minimum.
So via CL + matchday revenues the club has 88 + 3.4 = 91.4m.

Which is a revenue change on 2017-18 matchday revenue of 91.4 - 71 = 20.4m.

I speculated that even with the attendance restrictions + alleged penalty fees
imposed by Wembley, that the CL campaign would result in "zero sum" at least.

It appears I was correct (and then some) , despite the apparent best efforts of
Wembley to ensure otherwise ( to the squad for making this so) .