James

They sent him on holiday when he got injured

I got this as that they accept that our bid is fair given the recent injuries and unlikely to get more for him from anyone else this summer. BUT they think his real value to them is higher so long as he maintains fitness. therefore he isn’t a player that they can sell

So how did we get away with donating money to Wimbledon this season?

They let us have Hall

And Burnley

Our behaviour last August suggested that we had capacity for 1 signing - at the right price. we since sold Almiron and Kelly so might have a little more to stretch, but we will have a more flexible budget on 1st July. meanwhile Burnley have to sell this month. They will be holding out to sell someone else other than Trafford, or that someone else comes in to start a bidding war. the closer it gets to July the more likely they are going to have to drop their price for Trafford. We are potentially going to have a great deal here.

Here is one to fill the post-season void that I saw elsewhere. The challenge is to build the best quality NUFC squad using past and present players, allocated to squad numbers 1-25. Rules: - the players allocated to each squad number must have worn that squad number for NUFC - the players allocated is only as good as they were when they played with that squad number - you can leave one squad number blank to pick a wildcard squad number e.g 30 instead of 22. - you can also mark any player as U21 if they played for us aged 21 or younger, in return you get another wildcard 26+ number - an under 21 player must have had that number at that age and is graded accordingly at that age - you can have as many U21 wildcards as you want but be careful of being down scored for over saturation of the squad. - I will score you efforts and pick a winner. good luck!

It doesn’t fall off the books in a few weeks, but it falls off a year ahead of anyone signed after the deadline.

Palace away to start Boxing Day will be Burnley at home Final game will be Liverpool away

The trouble with player exchanges is that the player in question might not want to

Tuchel just told Talksport that he would have been preferred to Walker at RB - but they wanted him to have tournament experience with the U21s

since takeover the PL players generate the noise with the media, but Bruno, Isak, Tonali, Minteh were pretty much BOOM!

Tuchel turning out to be a bad fit. we should cut him loose and hire Ange

Probably cos Wilson signed the contract

Not a big fan of the decision to have this fixture. our Champions League results against the bigger clubs relies on a bit of underestimation followed by shock and awe. But if we draw Atletico they will have a bit of a clue about us