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This will be the singular thread for all discussion relating to Canada / Jesse Marsch.

We’ve already had several posts from the game and it’s not the right sub for it - but feel free to drop your Jesse Marsch takes in here since there is clearly appetite to discuss.

Thanks.

I promised my lad his first shirt. His brother got a Liverpool one weeks ago. Any word on when the new shirt is to be launched?

Doesn't even have to be the most famous one, sometimes it's a smaller one that just hits different depending on the mood of the ground that day. There's one that gets me no matter how many times I've heard it. Which one does it for you.

I'm thinking of those games that never make the highlight reels but left you walking away thinking, That was one of the best performances I've seen.

Confirmed Struijk had to be sold in June to plug the 25/26 PSR-gap.

It will be an £18mill PSR-profit in 25/26, and then under the new rules starting today it will probably be a £6mill SCR contribution in 26/27 and 27/28, allowing us to spend £5mill extra in each of those seasons. Which, if correct, means we lose one year of SCR-benefit compared to if we’d sold Struijk today.

Meslier, Struijk, Gelhardt and Joseph were the only remaning acadamy-products on our books who've actually ever played. Two are now gone and it's not looking like massive money for the other two.

Between Struijk, Gray and Summerville we made £80mill profit on academy-players in our final PSR-period, and before that £45mill on Kalvin Phillips. The flaw in our current model is we’re not developing young players and if that doesn’t change we will be in trouble down the line.

And it’s not just that we’re not playing teenagers, but we haven’t any 21-to-25-year-olds. Apart from Will Gnonto (2003) we didn’t give a single minute in any competition to any player born later than 2000, which is crazy. Worse than any other PL-club surely? We also don’t have any old players, which is obviously good, but let’s not pretend there's no downside to only signing player's on contracts running past their 30th.

If we're not able to bring another acadamy-player through, we have to be looking at paying for talent soon.

Gave the ball away to Rayan for the winning goal and was clearly devastated at the end. Gutted for him. Hope he puts it behind him quickly and comes back stronger, he's a top player!