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😂 almost spilt my coffee after a groggy afternoon nap. This is why blogging by arseblog still remains the most beautiful thing on the internet.

I’m waiting for the inevitable ‘restructuring of the business’ statement that they use to justify the cuts. American corporatism at its finest. Not the best look given the obscene money we’ve given our manager and about to give one of our players (not saying they don’t deserve that)

Well said, and I won't be surprised if that faceless consultation group would've have charged about £3-£5 million for this consultation. 😔

Well said Andrew. Even if these jobs are truly ‘redundant’, sacking 60 staff the same week as giving the manager an obscene pay rise is very poor judgement.

Football has become obscenely bloated and corrupt to the point where it’s forgotten who it is, where it is and what it represents.

Maybe scrap the whole thing and do a complete reset. No live football on TV apart from cup finals . Back to being a game that people only get to see if they go to watch it. The money would plummet out of the game obviously but at least it would be 1986 again .

I'll say it. They don't 'deserve' that level of pay. It is obscene. If we allow ourselves to believe a salary of 20m pa is deserved and affordable while others who work hard on more average wages are laid off then we've lost our way.

Well yeah, I just mean in terms of 'industry standard' or however you want to frame it.

Yep. Understood. Not digging at anyone in particular - probably as much at myself for going along with it all. When I step back from it I'm horrified. Best not step back.

Great article and agree with all said, however I do think the following: Firstly, majority of the fanbase would fume if we penny pinched over a transfer. Secondly, maybe we have done this already and why we didn't get anyone else on the LW?

Thirdly, what if we didn't up the wages of Rice, Saliba and they head off to Madrid etc? Finally, at the time when city are in shambles, flouted the rules, and the regulator has highlighted that basically most clubs in UK are insolvent....

I like the running man reference…. Both teams…. In the bin if you ask me.

Football is an entertainment business. Look at all the names that scroll up at the end of a blockbuster film. They will all be earning fractions of what the big stars on screen will be earning. Their jobs will come and go, football is no different.

Of course, but that doesn't change how I feel about it

Indeed, there aren’t passionate fans of Universal Studios or Warner Brothers angry about cost cutting. Out passion for the game is how they draw us in. The club, the fans, the players all feel like a big family I thought Andrew Allen’s piece on it yesterday was v balanced.