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Yep, if they want to make a quick buck then they have to sell the club in a better state than how they find it. It’s very simple really isn’t it? If there are other buyers waiting then I don’t see how with all the negativity around 777 they haven’t just popped up with a simple statement to make us aware there is an alternative. It would put pressure on the premier league to fail 777 and end the exclusivity agreement. Or are these other potential buyers waiting for us to go into administration and get us on the cheap?

Yesterday we missed two good chances in my opinion. The penalty and the McNeil chance. Other than that we created a bunch of half chances. I don’t need to see Xg to think we should have won the game, but I don’t need stats to know that we create fuck all. If we don’t have Tarkys cross field pass, we don’t have anything.

It was a brilliant save, but I’d much rather he fucking leather the thing into the back of the net. I thought the penalty was weak.

Pienaar. What a player!

We don’t trust the premier league to look after PSR and our points deduction, we think they are against us. But we think the delay in approving our new owners is because they are doing a thorough job of looking into them? The FA and the FSA were both satisfied they had all of the correct information immediately. 777 claimed all parties had everything up front. But the one party who’s been fucking us over all year are doing this one properly? Ive no issue with 777, if they get the club I’ll judge them after that. Lots of speculation about them, but our current owner is a shadow investor for a man who has been sanctioned by the western world for ties to an illegal war. The one before him was an egomaniac who borrowed money from his dodgy mates to keep hold of the club for as long as he could, so he could call himself “Mr Chairman”. We aren’t getting a John Moores type of owner ever again. The same reason we got Dyche, because the club was fucked, is why we’re getting some opportunists like 777. They admit they are opportunists too, only buying clubs who are in crisis to try to fix them. If we weren’t in the shit they wouldn’t be looking at us in the first place. If we don’t get 777 we won’t see the back of Moshiri for another 12 months, if we’re lucky. We are a rudderless ship, we need a captain. ASAP!

There is much work to do for him and the staff. While we can’t spend any money, and we don’t really have an owner or a board, I’m not sure what should be our expectations. It’s not fun watching Everton though.

Has to score to make it 2-0, if he does I think it’s game over.

Go and see the stats? No! Go and watch us play! You don’t need a spreadsheet to understand football, just a pair of eyes.

Have you seen us play? We were close to the top of the chances created table, because a ball into the box counts as a chance. A free kick, a corner, a cross. All chances. Quality chances? Doubt it. Can anyone who has watched us play football this season say we are a team that creates a lot of chances? Not because the stats say so but because your eyes have seen them? During this poor run of form Dom is having he’s probably missed about half a dozen good chances, in 20 games! Yes he should have scored, but our service is shite regardless. If he scored half of his good chances his figures would still be poor. I like the general style of play we have, but the lack of quality in the team is a joke.

As a back up, Beto is absolutely fine. Everyone knows DCL is first choice when fit. We cant afford to buy a striker better than DCL, and any striker of similar quality wont be coming here to sit on the bench. We've got to be a bit realistic with our expactations. If you want to see some goals from our strikers, then take a good look at the quality of the players around them, or the lack of. We dont create a lot, they feed on scraps. Look at when we have Lukaku scoring for fun. He had Mirallas, Deulofeu, Barkley, Coleman, Baines. Put him in this team, he would struggle for goals too. When DCL was scoring goals he had Richarlison, Sigurdsson, James, Digne, Coleman. Over the last five years we have sold so much attacking talent and replaced them with lesser quality players. Thats our problem in front of goal. We can all say about the chance DCL had against Villa, but that probably the only real chance and we've seen good players miss one on one before. We need to be more creative.

Dont believe the £40m headlines Rob. For us to end up paying anywhere near that, firstly, Everton would have to be successful, and second, Dele would have to be playing. That money is safe.

I hate and admire Daniel Levy in equal measure.

I don’t see Luton staying up. Surely conceding 19 goals in their last five games will take its toll. Especially when Sheffield United scored three of them. Let’s go bold. We play them on 4th May, we relegate them that day.

If he can get fit I’d have no issue seeing him take a 12 month deal, once the Spurs contract is over. Apparently if he plays seven more games we have to pay Spurs. We’ve only got 13 games left, I doubt he would be fit in time to play seven games anyway. He’s not even training with the team yet. I don’t see any scenario where we pay Spurs now.

Yeah, the exact figure was £fuckingloads. Happy to help. I’ve seen nothing from the club, but various sources saying from £20m to £40m per season. It’s going to depend on how well we can maximise the opportunity. The club are working with event companies and promoters to get BMD making money every day of the year. My views on it have always been that we need to absolutely milk the thing. Any sporting events we can get in there we need to get, concerts and festivals too.

The reason we have two charges this season is because when the first charge came last season we pushed it back to this season. It looks like part of the ruling today explains that goodwill should be given for showing improvement year on year. Hopefully that helps with precedent for the second charge.

Yeah, locked in with Laing. There was no way the whole lot would be. Does my head in when the £500m figure gets thrown around to sound like we’re massively over budget. We spent £100m before anything was even above ground. Even Moshiri was talking about £760m last year. Peel probably wanted a bit of money to get the lease of the land sorted, Dan Meis didn’t do it for free either.

I heard the end of a conversation on the radio the other day saying that the premier league could be delaying the takeover so that, in a similar way to Chelsea, the new owners can’t push back on the PSR charges. Like you can’t penalise me for something the previous owner has done. So if that’s out of the way before any new ownership then it saves the premier league from another fight. I don’t know who was saying it, I just caught the end of it when I got in the car. Wouldn’t surprise me though.

Can’t be a coincidence that we keep picking up draws. Playing very solid to make sure we don’t concede, but too scared to try to win the game. I pray for a bit of normality.

It’s not you that Dunc is suggesting tied Dyche’s hands.