Recent content by Number4.

Sell Henderson to Chelsea for 40 odd million, offer that plus DDG to Athletico for Oblak

over the last 5 years or the versatility has become a more and more important part of the game & players are effectively playing two positions at once, overwhelming players all over the pitch. The clearest example of this at the moment is Liverpool unfortunately. The full backs act as both...

I brought this up towards the start of the season..... Cast your mind back to the 17th of August, Man City were at home to Spurs in the game that finished 2-2; on the 26th minute Raheem Sterling get's booked for a tactical foul & they collectively lose the plot. In isolation this doesn't seem...

I think it is highly unlikely obviously, but the Nike deal might provide the chance to get a mega deal over the line. Liverpool will definitely not match the 500k give or take in wages he will generate, but you can imagine a case where he is incentivised by a % share of the new revenue...

I appear to stand corrected - apologies; bizarrely, the "Van Dijk agrees new contract" article was published on their club website on the 8th of Sept

I look forward to the "We are Man United, we wont be bullied or held to ransom" press conference at the weekend. Liverpool went through very similar problems for years from about 2003 - 2008 where they simply had no one capable of signing players and actually getting the deals over the line -...

No - he signed a new Six year contract in Sept 19, so at the end of the season will have 5 years left on his new one.

This is a massive assumption; there is nothing to show that they can. Suppose they decided to invest in 3 more last summer - you are probably talking about somewhere around the 200m (amortised over 5 years) plus wages of around 30m per year for the three. There is no indication that the...

& gave an average keeper (Based on form over a 20 month period) a £117m contrant - it's insane

This is all correct & United have a rely less than others on TV revenue as a % of earnings. The big challange when you compare the €521 v €711m is the respective wage bill. United a paying approx €165m PA more than Spurs to players and it is difficult to see how they can get out of this mess...

I think it's quite simple.... Like all major business' Woodward will have some form of Personal Objectives, on which impacts on his performance is judged and probably bonus is calculated. At the very top of this list is going to be 1) Maintain & grow the share price 2) Grow commercial...

The other point on this is that VAR doesn't (Based on it's own rules) have the jurisdiction to review the incident. The ball fell to Lindelof & thus recycled into a different phase of play. I know it's going down rabbit holes in one sense, but again it's VAR being selectively used.

Don't patronise - "Clear and Obvious" is directly referenced in the rules for applied to Goal decision: "For subjective decisions such as a foul or a handball, VAR can be used to overturn if a “clear and obvious error” has been identified. " The point is, this decision is grey, Pawson...

the very fact that there is debate over it means it is not Clear and Obvious. A foul in my opinion, but as soon as Pawson played on VAR has broken it's own rules by reversing it. It's nonsense & inconsistent. While it didn't change the outcome yesterday, the biggest issue is games would have...

This isn't a "the medical dept is a mess" problem, this is about a manager who is completely out of his depth and doesn't have the knowledge or nous to manage an elite football squad, we now have an injury crisis and 5 games in 20 or so days with an entire squad in the redzone. By the start of...