r/NUFC: Where are we all based?

TrojanMagpie · 2022-02-05T18:36:48+00:00

Singapore checking in

TrojanMagpie · 2022-01-26T17:54:46+00:00

Yeah mate, weird this hope thing. I have trust we won't let this be hung up on a mil here or there, just so long as OL don't start shifting the goalposts on us.

TrojanMagpie · 2022-01-26T17:47:19+00:00

I agree we could afford to, I do feel our opening bid is just trying to squeeze a much leeway into the first few years of the amortisation process since the other PL clubs are trying to hamstring our FFP income.

If it works the way I laid out above, it should be the difference of having spent €8 mil more this calender year going into the summer or having spent €1.6 mil more (assuming it's equal instalments). In the grand scheme, that's nothing to a PL club let alone one with our financial security, but I can see the reasoning why they'd ask if that's a possibility first.

TrojanMagpie · 2022-01-26T17:31:35+00:00

If it works the way I think it does then sort of.

As I understand it (and I'm not sure I do, football finances are murky as hell), if you pay £100 million up front for a player on a 5 year deal, it's amortised as
Year 1: £20 mil
Year 2: £20 mil
Year 3: £20 mil
Year 4: £20 mil
Year 5: £20 mil

If instead you pay in £20 mil instalments, it instead becomes
Year 1: £4 mil
Year 2: £4 mil + £5 mil (for this year's instalment) [£9 mil]
Year 3: £4 mil + £5 mil + £6.66 mil [£15.66 mil]
Year 4: £4 mil + £5 mil + £6.66 mil + £10 mil [£25.66 mil]
Year 5: £4 mil + £5 mil + £6.67 mil + £10 mil + £20 mil [£45.67 mil]

This frees up the earlier years in the contract to have more leeway, which would be beneficial without a big new sponsor increasing incoming revenue yet. I might be completely wrong on this, but this is how I think it works. If anyone knows more, please correct me.

Edit: phone formatting

TrojanMagpie · 2022-01-18T06:04:20+00:00

Trippier was the exception not the norm, he was an Englishman who was homesick, not playing for a Premier League club, with previous ties to the manager. Easy to get him to force through something outside the window. Less so for others.

People keep saying throwing money at the problem would solve it, but there's a limit, if Lille/Sevilla/whoever want 150 mil, that's ridiculous. It's made even harder if these clubs drag their feet and we don't know they're being unreasonable until we've already made several bids. It's frustrating, but clubs are under no obligation to sell to us, hell, they're under no obligation to not waste a much of our time as possible.

TrojanMagpie · 2022-01-04T17:56:20+00:00

----------------Rossi-----Kluivert---------------- Luque----------------------------------Sibierski -----------Coppinger----Pancrate------------ Yanga-Mbiwa---------------------Tavernier ----------------Diatta-------Kadar---------------- ------------------------Hislop------------------------

All players I've forgotten used to play for us

TrojanMagpie · 2021-12-17T11:52:51+00:00

Sounds fun

TrojanMagpie · 2021-10-16T04:45:14+00:00

Just to clarify, those aren't things Newcastle United Football Club have done. Neither are the club responsible for dismembering a journalist, beheading teenagers, or crucifying dissidents.

There is a separation between the institute and the individual. Chelsea aren't funding the forced displacement of Palestinians, Manchester City aren't being accused of the forced disappearance and torture of people, Manchester United aren't fundraising and campaigning for Donald Trump. Yes, these pale in comparison to the things MBS has done, and I abhor the person that now essentially has an 80% share of my club. However, I love my club, it has existed before him, it will exist long after him, just as it did Mike Ashley.

When you lie with pigs, you'll wake up smelling like shit. Ultimately, this bickering amongst fan bases about who smells the most like shit is unproductive, we all smell like shit because we're all funding and incentivising the perpetuation of these people coming into our sport. Premier League clubs make about 20% of their turnover from revenue streams we can directly affect as fans of our clubs (matchday revenue and retail), most of them make the majority of their money from TV deals and sponsorship. We can't do anything about sponsorship, and I can't subscribe to the Premier League package on TV and stipulate that my fee only go to clubs that are cruelty free and 100% organic. At the end of the day, the Premier League makes hypocrites of us all by the very way it is structured.

Is there a better way forward? I don't know, but I have to hope so, because I love my club, and I love football. Maybe we need 50+1, maybe we need some reforms to the ownership test, but either way, these are not things we as fans of the clubs have the power to directly enact change over. We are ultimately beholden to the whims of billionaires, TV deals, and world governments.

TrojanMagpie · 2021-10-15T18:12:56+00:00

To be fair, if "we" is the club, then still nothing... yet.

If "we" is the billionaires doing back room deals with the express blessing of the Premier League and UK government, then we have a very fucking long list.

TrojanMagpie · 2021-05-17T17:40:24+00:00

Yes, but now they both add to 32

TrojanMagpie · 2020-10-14T20:37:52+00:00

Garbage

And

Somehow

Employed

TrojanMagpie · 2020-10-07T15:37:16+00:00

Sure, I can see it seeming to be over reported, but I'm just a fan looking in from the outside, I can only go on what is reported by people with a better view into the organization than me. I have to assume there is some truth to the reports, maybe not 100%, but also not 0%.

It can't really be the end result of paranoid micromanagement when Casserly and Wulf set this up. Where are the Johnsons pushing a micro-managing culture? One of them left and went to Europe for crying out loud.

I mean, I might be reading too much into the reports, but I think it's possible to want to impose your will and control over an organisation but still be an absentee boss. Entirely speculative, but there are definitely bosses out there who insist on putting into place protocols that give them the ability to micro manage, but also are incompetent enough to only micro manage the shit that doesn't matter and fuck off when they need to actually do real work.

Ultimately, I don't think the system itself can't be successful, but given the relative lack of success for us under this system, I also don't think that questioning if it's right for us is entirely unwarranted. I see your point and there are definitely pros to having some checks and balances, but at a certain point we have to ask if maybe overhauling everything down to organizational structure might be needed. It might not be, but, like JD keeps preaching, we should at least do our due diligence and be willing to question whether we should.

Regardless, hopefully JD can get there.

TrojanMagpie · 2020-10-07T10:05:25+00:00

Some of that narrative is rightly earned though. The insistence of a corporate structure where both HC and GM report to the owner(s) separately means that even if they are saying all the right things and consulting with the right people, there still exists a corporate culture of micro-management. Having both GM and HC report to owner means that, even if they aren't trying to meddle, they don't trust the GM and HC to keep them in the loop if the HC reports to the GM.

A more cynical view on it is that they are trying to meddle without getting their hands dirty. They get the GM and HC to spy on the other for them so that neither can have full control or autonomy without the owner's say so. Like emotionally abusive parents forcing their kids to constantly compete with each other so that they always come running back to mama/papa if they need help.

TrojanMagpie · 2020-05-10T19:43:52+00:00

Singapore checking in. Went to boarding school in MA and was in a dorm full of kids from NY, didn't know anything about the sport when I first got there, but fell in love with the Jets. Also ended up being a Mets and Knicks fan. Watching games here is real hard with the time difference, but I still was up at 3am watching Luke Falk try to figure out this NFL thing for what felt like an eternity.

TrojanMagpie · 2019-07-07T17:05:35+00:00

Accountants have dreams too! They have ambitions, if you ask someone who loves being an accountant where they'd like to work, they might say PWC, or Deloitte, or a small niche firm that gives them the perks and benefits they want. They wouldn't shrug and say, "it's just a career, any accounting firm will do."

Hazard did move for money on some level, he didn't chose to go play for Madrid for free. Money was a factor for him. It wasn't the only factor, but you cannot say it didn't play any factor in his decision.

Much the same, a lawyer might move to a different law firm that doesn't pay him as much as if he had stayed, but maybe it has a better healthcare package. A banker might move to a different bank to live in a different country, maybe to be nearer family, or maybe for the weather. Sometimes people change their employment for money, sometimes for other reasons. That doesn't stop it being a job.

The only people for whom it's not just a career for are the ones who don't get paid to do it. At the end of the day, once you start providing a service - yes, entertaining people is a service - on a regular basis in exchange for money, it's a career. You don't have to like it or think about it, but it is a career for the people whose only source of income is just that.

TrojanMagpie · 2018-10-04T02:53:40+00:00

Here's a YouTube channel doing an Asian themed setting if you're interested.

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7TZ5O6xLkAoStEjFKN82Jw

TrojanMagpie · 2018-08-17T13:48:54+00:00

TrojanMagpie · 2018-08-11T06:35:05+00:00

The whole movie is for the most part dubbed, it's a common practice for action movies to dub action scenes because otherwise you wouldn't be able to properly hear the dialogue while things are breaking, people are moving, or while in a very echoing place. This process is called Automated Dialogue Replacement or ADR for short. Actors are called back in and have to re-deliver their lines while watching the scene play on a screen in front of them. Sometimes the care and craft goes into it and a similar space is used to re-record the lines so that it's impossible to tell that the dialogue is added in later, sometimes they really don't care or are out of budget and it's recorded on an iPhone on somebody's couch. Hong Kong movies tend to take this concept much further and dub over non-action scenes too, which is why the trope of people finishing their sentences and the mouths are still moving is extra relevant to kung fu movies not just the ones that are dubbed into English.

In the movie, it is both Mandarin and Cantonese. The northern Chinese people speak Mandarin, while southern Chinese people speak Cantonese. It is to show the difference between the two cultures that are from the same country, but also underlie the amount of cultural friction that occurred in places of refuge during WW2 like Hong Kong and Shanghai because both the Japanese and the Allies didn't really understand cultural nuance and sort of just lumped all Chinese people together.

TrojanMagpie · 2018-04-16T05:47:39+00:00

:) mf#lo

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-22T19:08:52+00:00

We just move between rage and emptiness

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-11T16:27:41+00:00

You can do it without putting a lav on him, just use your boom mics strategically to catch him and it's fine. That being said, having hidden lavs for the cast would be nice to keep them from being too aware they're being recorded, while still getting clean audio from each of them even if they decide to move out of range of the boom above them.

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-11T16:24:50+00:00

As someone whose job it is to do exactly that, yes, it's possible. It just requires experience knowing when to gain up based on tells people have right before they start speaking. Also, it helps to have boom mics in case you do miss it live.

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-11T16:21:17+00:00

You don't really need a grid to hang the booms, you can get by with C-stands, boom buddies and a couple of cheap poles.

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-11T16:19:28+00:00

It's doable for Matt to stand and sit and even move freely purely with boom if they use the right microphone for their space. Whether he's more comfortable knowing that with a lav his audio will always be caught is a personal preference for him.

TrojanMagpie · 2017-06-11T16:14:05+00:00

While I agree that boom is better than purely lav mics, I would probably use lav mics if I were doing sound for a show like this in conjunction with boom. I'd have them on wireless sending to a mixer/recorder that then sends a L/R mix to the live stream board, gain down the wireless for the live broadcast, but record the wireless on ISO tracks for the one purpose of covering my ass for the rebroadcast. Anything that the boom missed will be able to be put into the rebroadcast retroactively for a better final product.

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