Recent content by Rawls

To be fair, the debt would have some impact as I think one of the four FSR pillars relates to current expenditure not exceeding current revenue and interest payments would come under the expenditure tab. But financially, I think most fans over-rate how much the debt has damaged Utd, finance...

I think last season we were a 65 point team masquerading as a 75 point team and my fear this season is that we will be a 75 point team masquerading as a 65 point team. We were lucky to get so many points last season and maybe this season is when we get hit with all the bad luck

At times, I think people expect too much. It's inconsistent to say that we are quite far away from the level of City/Arsenal and then to say at the same time that EtH needs to get results now. I'm looking back at last season and I'm wondering how on earth did EtH manage to get 75 points with...

Can never understand how every Utd loss is the end of the world even though we picked up 7 out of 15 points in the corresponding fixtures last season, the three teams we have played are currently 2nd (Spurs away), 4th (Arsenal away), and 5th (Brighton at home) in the PL, we were missing 11 squad...

Some of the discourse across social media has been crazy in the last few weeks. On paper, the defeat on Sunday was worse than the defeat in January but in reality, the January defeat was about as much of an annihalation as a 3-2 defeat to a last-minute winner can be. On Sunday, we were able to...

Somewhat outlandish but if we sold both Casemiro and Varane to Saudi Arabian clubs next summer, then that would give us more amm to spend big. And might be kicking the hornet's nest here a little but if a Saudi club offered us £100M+ for Bruno, would it not be wise for us in the long-term to...

De Zerbi has said that he's asking Ferguson to develop his #10 skills (Should like deep areas) and Hojlund seems like a channel-runner (Should like wide areas) so in theory, they could co-exist

Benzema was signed by Real for big money in Summer 2009 and he pretty much rotated with Higuain for four years. There are too many games on these days for players plus Utd are probably aiming to be playing 60+ games per season going forwards (On top of international fixtures), they would both...

In terms of cost, I think people should be careful when using Caicedo's transfer fee as the base for Ferguson's hypothetical transfer fee. Caicedo went for £115M because Rice went for £105M; Brighton saw West Ham selling for that much and thought that Caicedo was worth as much if not slightly...

For what it's worth, I wouldn't have signed Hojlund as I think Ferguson is the superior talent; I would have gone for Taremi this summer for £20M (A stop-gap, yes, but a good stop-gap unlike most of our recent stop-gaps) and then gone for Ferguson in 2024. That said, I think there are ways...

For those who suggest that debt is "crippling" this club, why are billions traded in bond markets every day? Why do these supposedly financially sophisticated corporations keep on issuing debt? Are they "crippled" by such debt?

Five games left, three of which are homes games. So far this season, we have played 16 PL home games, winning 12, drawing 3, and losing 1 (Our very first game). The three teams we have left to play at home are currently 10th, 11th, and 13th in the table. All are relatively mediocre teams, all...

My understanding is that EtH has always preferred a certain type of striker (He only played Tadic as a False 9 in the CL and big Eredivisie games IIRC). My sense is that Ramos is closer to being ten Hag's preferred type of striker than Osimhen is; I'm not really sure if any of EtH's strikers...

PSG haven't exactly been well-run this last decade, a policy of signing Galacticós rather than smartly building a squad so whilst the Qataris might spend, there's no real evidence to suggest they will spend well. Sure, it takes funding to build new infrastructure and that increases someone's...

Think Bloomberg posted an article last week about how Qatar were interested in investing in an NBA franchise and how Qatar's Emir was a big basketball fan. I suppose what I find most startling is how so many Utd fans seem to take the Qataris for their word yet don't take anyone else for their...