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Fucking wretched that, bordering on unforgivable. Bring the kids back in for that last 4 games.

To not make any subs at half time is unforgivable here

If both City/Arsenal drop points before we do, then I’ll really start to believe. That would give us a 4/5 point lead going into the final straight meaning we could afford the odd draw. 90 pts (7 wins /2 draws) has to be the target and I think that will be enough!

Looking at the fixtures, it feels that the next 6 games are pivotal for us to take control of this title race. Liverpool played 24 54 pts City played 23 52 pts Arsenal played 24 52 pts Us 17/2 @ 12:30 Brentford (A) Arsenal 17/2 @ 15:00 Burnley (A) City 17/2 @ 17:00 Chelsea (H) City 20/2@ 19:30 Brentford (H) Us 21/2 @ 19:30 Luton (H City 24/2 @ 17:30 Bournemouth (A) Arsenal 24/2 @ 20:00 Newcastle (H) Us 2/3 @ 15:00 Forest (A) City 3/3 @ 15:30 Utd (H) Arsenal 4/3 @ 20:00 Sheff U (A) Arsenal 9/3 @ 17:30 Brentford (H) Us 10/3 @ 15:45 City (H) City 10/3 @ 15:45 Us (A) Arsenal 16/3 @ 12:30 Chelsea (H) Us 17/3 @ 14:00 Everton (A) City 17/3 @ 16:30 Brighton (A) Us 31/3 @ 14:00 Brighton (H) City 31/3 @ 16:30 Arsenal (H) Arsenal 31/3 @ 16:30 City (A) At this point all 3 sides will have played 30 games. In this period we also have 2x Europa games / 1x FA cup game + League cup final City play the same number of games ( 2x champions league /1x fa cup + their league game in hand. Arsenal play 2 less games in the period than the other 2sides. In this period City never play before us so if we win our games the pressure is always on them to ‘catch up’. Still feel if we finish above City we’ll win the league and this period is arguably their toughest run of games where they’re most likely to drop points. If we can beat City and take near to maximum points in the other 5 we should be in the pole position heading into the final straight. If they were ahead of us at this point, I’d start to worry that history will repeat itself.

It’s not hospitality behind the red boards it’s another couple of rows of seats plus a disability podium. https://map.3ddigitalvenue.com/liverpool The upper tier overhangs the disability section which is situated at both ends of the lower and in the middle is another 3 rows of seats 32-35. To current back row is 31 and behind the is a gap which will be row 32 directly where the red boards are now situated.

I believe there’s still a few rows to go in the back of the lower which I’d currently boarded off and behind this rows will be a disabled podium. This coupled with the corner of the away end should take us over 61k.

According to the commission’s report the stadium is being funded by Moshiri. One of the mitigating factors pushed by Everton, was that they believed they were allowed to offset interest from non stadium loans they have against their stadium cost and lower their PSR calculations. Their argument was that had they borrowed the money Instead of Moshiri putting the money up, then they’d have been allowed to do so. Moshiri has invested £400m over the past 3 yrs which appears to have funded the stadium so far along with £140m loan from MSP. Apparently they still need to find circa £200m to complete the project. What doesn’t make sense is, what’s in this for Moshiri? His total investment in Everton is circa £900m, including his purchase of shares and of this amount he’s owed around £500m in shareholder loans. They have around £365m in external debts owed to MSP/R&M/Santander & 777 are pumping cash in to keep them afloat. if 777 pay £500m to buy them out, Moshiri stands to get very little /nothing back which begs the question, is he stupid or does he have other plans for this stadium?

They should count themselves lucky that the premier league allowed them to get away with the blag covid losses and the dodgy first dibs on the stadium naming rights. Without these allowances they’d have been £170m over the allowable loss amount and could have been deducted 40 pts if the reported 1pts for each 5mil loss + 6pts on top is correct.

In both 94 & 97 they were in the bottom 3 and it was out of their hands but they won and the teams above them fucked up. Let’s hope that this time as it’s in their hands they fuck it up like Sheff Utd/Bolton did.

On the outgoings side of things, almost certain- Adrian Keita Ox Melo Milner firmino Who else likely to leave? Kelleher ( wants game time ) Matip ( 1yr left on contract ) Phillips ( wants game time) Thiago ( 1 yr left on contract) Carvalho ( Loan maybe ) Probably unlikely we let 11 players leave in one window but I’d say 8-9 will go, Thiago/Matip will probably see out their contracts. We’d then need to buy on top of the midfield rebuild of 2/3 players a back up keeper, a centre half unless matip stays. Would we entertain an offer for Nunez ? If so we’d probably need an attacker ( ideally right side to back up Mo).

Only way they go down now is if Leeds better there result this weekend which would put them back in the bottom 3 and take it out of their hands going into the final day.

Likely to get 3/4 pts from final games meaning they end up on 35/36. Forest would need 3/4pts (worse goal difference). One of Leeds /Leicester are gonna need 6/7 pts from their last 3. Not looking good as it stands.

Leicester were so bad there, could barely string 2 passes together and were lucky to get a draw. Barnes, tielemens, Maddison fucking dreadful. Need 2 of Forest/Leeds/Leicester to win one of their next 2 games or sadly I can see them staying up.

If a take over doesn’t happen and we don’t get top 4 ( highly unlikely) then we’ll have a limited budget so would it be worth cashing in on Salah to fund the rebuild ? How much could we expect to receive for him?

This season is dead now, we’re not getting top 4 or past Madrid so we need to start preparing for next season now. Hopefully we avoid Europa/ conference league and then we can trim the squad and concentrate on the league next season. Any player not in the plans needs to be bombed out right now, even if that means playing youngsters like Doak/Bajcetic etc. Use rest of this season to try Trent in midfield to see if that works or not as it will be cheaper to replace a RB rather then a midfielder. In the summer sell/release Kelleher Adrian Matip Phillips fabinho Keita melo ox milner Bobby Loan out jones Bring in 3 Midfielders or 2 and a RB if Trent experiment works 1 Centre half 1 back up GK I’d even sell Salah if a decent offer came in for him. Alisson Gomez Matip Konate Robbo Bajcetic Trent Thiago Salah. Nunez. Gakpo