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Can the pair of you take this shit to pm's please?

And I thought I was overly harsh on him... Man alive

Yep, for all concerned tbh

I get the impression Southgate is a bloke who wanders into a forest with a penknife and comes out 6 days later boasting about how he's managed to cut 2 small trees down. "LOOK!! It works - told you I'd do it!"

Let's offer £100k for each of them

Apologies

Exactly. Highly likely they're jetting in for a couple of hours at Mr Mulligan's space golf and an intimate gig at the Cluny. Keeping their options open for the Sunday

To be fair when Nunez go the winner for Liverpool last season I (repeatedly) kicked the setee about 4 ft across the front room and was hobbling until February. Accidents happen

It's becoming increasingly obvious that in order to catch up to the numbers game that's going on that we need/must to do a few things in order to bridge the gap. 3 big moves imo: Sponsor everything - the training kit, the training ground, as much as possible. Get as much into the club as possible. Don't care how daft we go - sponsor the fucking frying pans if necessary, max that shit out. New stadium - this one is the major kick in the bollocks. Most fans are attached to SJP but it's just not going to be possible to catch up AND stay at SJP. I love the bones of the place but it's an old-school football ground built to host football matches. The other 340 days of the year where there isn't a football game on it's just sitting there hosting the odd tour or the odd function or whatever. Selling big players - We've got some absolute gems in the squad. Isak, Bruno, Gordon followed closely by Botman, Barnes, Tonali, Joelinton, Willock, Tino & Hall but after that there's little else of real value. We will need to sell a few of that lot in the very near future in order to be able to spend more and add to that list. It's a gradual process but we'll need to bite the bullet eventually. Invest well, buy young, pack out the academy and develop them and add to that pool is going to take a decade tbh

"Getting good money for minimal end product is TIGHT!!"

Forest overpaid by at least 10m for Anderson. The first 10m of his fee is already covered tbh. He costs 12? That's basically 2 and it's got us out of a PSR hole. My guess is that he ends up play no more than 4 games (Pope staying fit allowing) and we move him on next year to some other schmucks for whatever. It's absolutely not a big deal either way

Ridiculous goalkeeping, saving the first 3/3 is probably unheard of at this level, fair play

Couldn't wish for a better keeper in a shootout than Oblak. Fancy them to boot these fuckers out

It's definitely possible like I just hat if we've caved it's for a really low sum, and if we only needed a really low sum then we could have got a little extra from Forest and/or Brighton. We may never find the actual facts out tbh

Occam's razor for me. Most likely events, pure speculation obviously: We ask for 20m knowing there's a bit of a financial PSR black hole and hope Man U cave Man U also in a bit of a PSR hole We dig our heels in and it's a stalemate. Man U dig their heels in and whinge publically We raise the money we need on Sunday Happy new PSR year Man U can start to negotiate We can start to negotiate as we're not desperate for the money Both sides compromise and agree on something about 10-12 Both sides agree to keep schtum as neither side want to lose face

Whatever the amount was we went from steadfastly 'pay the lot or he can wait until Jan 26' to 'he can start tomorrow' overnight. If we desperate for another £2m then I'm sure we could have squeezed it out of Forest or Brighton the previous day. The fact it's going to be confidential suggests both sides gave in a little and met roughly halfway

Minteh

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Why does every single French player automatically the smash their shots as hard as they can possibly kick a football? Must be at least 7 shots that have been fucking leathered and have gone high and/or wide. Ridiculous people

Not going to pretend I'm not happy for him to leave, he's frustrated me probably more than any other player since Shola. I want him to move this summer for his sake and the club's. He's clearly grafted his bollocks off and I appreciate the effort he's put into things but he's been shit far more often than he's been good. After the effort and running there's not a lot else to him as a player. I know that sounds harsh but I'm just being honest and not going to say how class he's been when that's blatantly not true. I wish him the best, he deserves one last big payday and this is the perfect chance by the sounds of it.

John Ruddy AND a different font? Be still my beating heart

Mbappe shot on target evens on PP

I can see it now - Pope needs to have his right arm amputated. On 2nd September.