CB Fry

And we've had our first "they got lucky" dismissal of two seasons of record breaking points totals and league finishes. Two entire seasons of progress. Take a fu cking bow.

"Kat's summer plans". Jesus wept.

WE'RE GOING TO WIN THE WORLD CUP!!!!!!

How hasn't he been backed?

Indeed. He could get the Barca job, hr has Barca pedigree in spades. However it might be too late - it should have been his first or second job, as a fresh untarnished boss.

Probably will need a decent season on the Europa League plus a good league finish to be in with a shout. Still more likely to be Barcelona manager than Arsenal manager IMO. Dutch boss most likely.

Well, yeah.

But who here would give a f**k if in 2017 the Everton manager leaves Everton to go to Arsenal?

Like Alan Ball?

Because we're not run by mentalists.

You won't believe what these 90s footballers are doing now!

What?

Looks a bit click-baity to me. If it is happening the more connected and visible journos will be on it.

Well yes. It's possible they might offer to triple his money and he doesn't want to go.

Ultimately it won't be about "summoning resolve" if Everton genuinely are offering to triple his money and he wants to go. I know if he goes the forum will be a tsunami of div comments about how we didn't try, how Les can't close deals etc etc but we would have tried, we want him to stay. If he doesn't want to stay ultimately we can't make him. Personally it feels like an odd and pointless career choice putting him two years further back from a really big job bit if he goes for the money then he goes. Still think it won't happen.

The only reason the TV money stops coming in is if the interest in the sport in England collapses, and if that happens attendance will also go down as you'll be on a vicious circle no investment, best players going somewhere else etc etc, game retreating to its traditional hardcore fanbase. There won't be a scenario where there is a huge cut in TV revenue while at the same time 50,000 people are going to regular league matches. If interest in the sport falls away that much, then any newly expanded stadiums will start to look like white elephants, not insurance policies for the future. There was no Sky money in the eighties and even the big clubs were scraping 20-30k through the door.

There are loads and loads and loads of people in the media 'on our side'. Guessing you've missed the countless fawning articles in the press, on TV and radio over the last four or five years about how wonderful we are and how we do things is the way forward.

We'll definitely get a really quick trade deal with South Korea. The CEO of Kia will be banging on the door of the Korean President the minute the result is called.

Interesting it is just a comment piece, was expecting it to be built round a Les or Ralph interview. Seems fine, kind of chimed with my view on Mane - I am not convinced any CL level club (or Liverpool) will think he is worth what we'd want at this stage. I can't see anyone paying £40m for him. That said if he goes "on strike"/ kicks off etc etc then we could still sell this summer, but would still have to be about £35m.

This is just the ramblings of someone with no understanding of football or finance. Even basic maths show the gaping flaws in your plan you can drive a bus through and funnily enough the primary reason no other clubs have tried this plan - funny how it's them, not you, who don't understand football or finance isn't it? Basics: 40k at £20 a seat vs 30k at £40 a seat leaves you at least seven million quid down, the equivalent of five league places prize money on 2016 totals. Or a player we now can't afford to sign. Plus you've got the debt accrued on the seats you've built to lose money on. On decade old assumptions that's £30m worth of stadium. Or four year contracts for two or three first team players we now can't afford. So all you've got left is the "new fans" we will supposedly attract and all that merchandise they'll buy. Except that 10k won't be new fans, they'll be existing occasional fans attending more regularly because you've decided to lose money on seats the club don't really need. The proportion of that 10k that genuinely are new fans - never bought merch before, never seen the team play live before - will be miniscule. Any genuinely incremental merchandise sales are not going to cover the the fact you have massacred match day revenue by a third. And (obviously you being an expert I don't need to explain this) I've only talked about revenue not margin on your new exciting pricing plan versus the boring old way the club do it now. But your plan (unencumbered with the "short term attitude" that the club currently has) is seeing us saddled with debt potentially impacting our ability to compete on wages and making less money in every single match we play in our bigger stadium potentially impacting transfer fees we can pay out. And finishing sixth is no longer the sign of a healthy club progressing but a desperate financial imperative to try and match up revenues to pay for the expansion and hugely subsidised tickets. So no pressure there then players and manager. It's a brilliant plan and you really know your stuff.

That's the kind of financial management this club needs. Christ.

Two things. I'd like to think the German car manufacturers have been listening to those awfully clever Brexiteers like Daniel Hannan and David Davis, who amongst other talk an awful lot about how Western Europe is a declining continent and the sensible thing to do is expand horizons beyond them to the rest of the world. That's where the growth is. Listen to Hannan saying it on the video Batman posted up a day or two ago. So Germany and its car manufacturers should stop worrying about dead, old Europe and start making the serious cash elsewhere like India and Africa just like Brexit Britain. After all, if German car industry can't make an effing mint on the world stage, god help the go-it-alone UK. So when the mythical banging on the door starts Merkel would be sensible to play them Hannan's speech, get the CEOs of VW and Mercedes on the first plane to Cape Town and start selling them some more freaking cars. There's and whole world out there and they can take a short term hit from the UK by filling their factories from elsewhere right? Call it the Hannan model. I think they can cope. Secondly - "what Germany wants it gets". Well if Brexit wins then they didn't want that and it'll get it, so there's an easy one. Also, come Brexit the thing that "Germany" will want is not to show the rest of the EU that a departing nation gets a better deal than the remaining members of the club get, despite these German car manufacturers a-banging and a-clanging on the door. And, you know, I hate to break it you, but a fair old slice of that £8.5bn will come from, well, big old us. We'll be making so much money trading with the rest of the world that's not sh itty old Europe it'll be chicken feed by then anyway.

Leicester haven't become a "top club".

I'd like to make it clear how disgusted I am by this type of thing.

And weve arrived at "Dictated to" and "sovereignty". Didn't take long. Bless you.