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14 minutes ago, lifetime fan said:

If only it wasn’t foresight and it wasn’t

completely predictable in the summer that going in to the season with 3 crocks, a pensioner, an injury prone captain and two kids in midfield wouldn’t come to bite us on the arse. 

If being three points off the top and virtually through to the knockout stages of the Champions League is being bitten on the arse, then I may have developed a new kink.

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You all need to give up with the hope of winning anything this year.

The midfield crisis + AFCON will see us fall away in the league significantly by January / February. We'll get top four comfortably though.

 

Champions league will depend on luck of the draw - if we can avoid City and Chelsea until the final then we have a chance. 

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19 minutes ago, Daisy said:


The midfield crisis + AFCON will see us fall away in the league significantly by January / February. We'll get top four comfortably though.

 

AFCON will affect us for 3 (at a stretch, 4) league games, plus the 3rd round of the FA Cup (which, depending on the draw, our African players might have been rested for anyway).

 

I'm still sort of hopeful that the midfield crisis that has stopped us winning for the last *checks notes* one game, won't drag on for three months.

 

In the Champions League knockout stages, we are Liverpool; we're the team that the likes of City and Chelsea want to avoid.

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7 minutes ago, AngryOfTuebrook said:

AFCON will affect us for 3 (at a stretch, 4) league games, plus the 3rd round of the FA Cup (which, depending on the draw, our African players might have been rested for anyway).

 

I'm still sort of hopeful that the midfield crisis that has stopped us winning for the last *checks notes* one game, won't drag on for three months.

 

In the Champions League knockout stages, we are Liverpool; we're the team that the likes of City and Chelsea want to avoid.

3 - 4 games is potentially a massive amount of points when seeing how Chelsea just seem to be like a winning machine so far. 

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20 minutes ago, Mark M said:

3 - 4 games is potentially a massive amount of points when seeing how Chelsea just seem to be like a winning machine so far. 

Indeed. If we lose all of those 3-4 games and Chelsea win all of theirs, then they'll open up a gap. If that happens, that's the time to start pissing our knickers; not a quarter of the way into the season.

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This is all a bit green and gold. We had 4 midfielders available on Saturday, by next Saturday that number will probably be 5  it will be 6 or 7 by the time we play our game after that. That's excluding Bobby and Minamino who can play there and Morton as well.

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1 hour ago, No2 said:

This is all a bit green and gold. We had 4 midfielders available on Saturday, by next Saturday that number will probably be 5  it will be 6 or 7 by the time we play our game after that. That's excluding Bobby and Minamino who can play there and Morton as well.

It's Daisy and Creator; they love nothing better than a good wallow in their own negativity. When they watch Ghostbusters 2, they see the sewer full of ooze as a nice refreshing bubble bath.

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5 hours ago, Daisy said:

You all need to give up with the hope of winning anything this year.

The midfield crisis + AFCON will see us fall away in the league significantly by January / February. We'll get top four comfortably though.

 

Champions league will depend on luck of the draw - if we can avoid City and Chelsea until the final then we have a chance. 

Not sure why you actually bother getting up in the morning to be honest. 

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Looks like they might be buying the Pittsburgh Penguins.  Will need to upgrade the yacht with some icebreaking equipment.

 

Fenway Sports Group is in advanced talks to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins, a source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.

Ron Burkle and Mario Lemieux have been the Penguins' majority owners since 1999. The Wall Street Journal and Sportico were the first to report on the potential sale.

The agreement needs to be approved by the Fenway Sports Group board, and then would be subject to NHL approval. The NHL's Board of Governors must approve any potential sale.

Billionaire John Henry is the principal owner of Fenway Sports Group, whose portfolio includes the Boston Red Sox of MLB, Liverpool of the EPL, and Roush Fenway Racing of NASCAR. Fenway Sports Group also owns real estate, including Fenway Park. NBA star LeBron James has stake in the company.

 

The Penguins were on the verge of bankruptcy in 1999 when Lemieux, a franchise legend, and Burkle, an investor, led a group that bought the team for a reported $107 million. Lemieux and Burkle were instrumental in securing a new arena in Pittsburgh, which fended off potential relocation. Since then, the Penguins have rediscovered success on the ice -- thanks, in large part, to the arrival of Evgeni Malkin (No. 2 pick in 2004) and Sidney Crosby (No. 1 pick in 2005).

 

While Lemieux helped the Penguins to their first two Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992, Crosby and Malkin led the franchise to three more in 2009, 2016 and 2017.

According to sources, Lemieux is expected to retain a minority stake in the team if a sale goes through.

According to recent valuations by Sportico, the Penguins are the NHL's 15th most valuable team, with a value of $845 million. According to the data compiled by Sportico, the average NHL team is valued at $934 million, and the combined market value of the 32 teams is $30 billion.

Burkle and Lemieux have explored selling the Penguins previously, including in 2015, when they hired Morgan Stanley to help them look at options.

 

Fenway Sports Group, meanwhile, has been public about growing its sports portfolio in North America.

"We're a huge admirer of the National Basketball Association and obviously the National Hockey League," partner Sam Kennedy, who is also the president and CEO of the Red Sox, said at a Sportico webinar in April. "It represents a natural place for Fenway Sports Group to look."

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7 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Looks like they might be buying the Pittsburgh Penguins.  Will need to upgrade the yacht with some icebreaking equipment.

 

Fenway Sports Group is in advanced talks to purchase the Pittsburgh Penguins, a source confirmed to ESPN on Tuesday.

Ron Burkle and Mario Lemieux have been the Penguins' majority owners since 1999. The Wall Street Journal and Sportico were the first to report on the potential sale.

The agreement needs to be approved by the Fenway Sports Group board, and then would be subject to NHL approval. The NHL's Board of Governors must approve any potential sale.

Billionaire John Henry is the principal owner of Fenway Sports Group, whose portfolio includes the Boston Red Sox of MLB, Liverpool of the EPL, and Roush Fenway Racing of NASCAR. Fenway Sports Group also owns real estate, including Fenway Park. NBA star LeBron James has stake in the company.

 

The Penguins were on the verge of bankruptcy in 1999 when Lemieux, a franchise legend, and Burkle, an investor, led a group that bought the team for a reported $107 million. Lemieux and Burkle were instrumental in securing a new arena in Pittsburgh, which fended off potential relocation. Since then, the Penguins have rediscovered success on the ice -- thanks, in large part, to the arrival of Evgeni Malkin (No. 2 pick in 2004) and Sidney Crosby (No. 1 pick in 2005).

 

While Lemieux helped the Penguins to their first two Stanley Cups in 1991 and 1992, Crosby and Malkin led the franchise to three more in 2009, 2016 and 2017.

According to sources, Lemieux is expected to retain a minority stake in the team if a sale goes through.

According to recent valuations by Sportico, the Penguins are the NHL's 15th most valuable team, with a value of $845 million. According to the data compiled by Sportico, the average NHL team is valued at $934 million, and the combined market value of the 32 teams is $30 billion.

Burkle and Lemieux have explored selling the Penguins previously, including in 2015, when they hired Morgan Stanley to help them look at options.

 

Fenway Sports Group, meanwhile, has been public about growing its sports portfolio in North America.

"We're a huge admirer of the National Basketball Association and obviously the National Hockey League," partner Sam Kennedy, who is also the president and CEO of the Red Sox, said at a Sportico webinar in April. "It represents a natural place for Fenway Sports Group to look."

Could we be up for sale?

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