James

We wouldn’t be where we are now without him. Great club servant and hope his future endeavours work out for him!

Fair play to him for not bowing to pressure and speaking out about it. 10 million times the man Guardiola is.

Awful RIP

Yes I am.

I fear we may just have too many cooks in the transfer committee. its been a while since I’ve seen the Amazon documentary but I seem to recall Staveley having to really work on Solis / PIF to get them to authorise the Gordon signing.

End of the day Pope has had the chance to play Champions League, two cup finals and win a trophy as a starting player. Almost no goalkeepers will get to that career height, so if he is accepting of his own physical decline he may not particularly be motivated to up sticks even if he is second choice.

I’d rather Alan Pardew slept with my wife than we sign Garnacho

In talks with Wrexham according to dumb Twitter shit

I’m surprised at this stage a player hasn’t taken the PL to court over FFP. Their career and future earnings are being directly impacted. Probably countless examples in the PL but I can just cite various at NUFC: Isak - he is one of the worlds best strikers and his club would be willing to and can afford a new contract, but FFP says no, forcing him to lose earnings or uproot his life to move elsewhere. Bruno - Clubs have not been able to activate his £100m clause due to FFP. Targett - Lost his place at NUFC due to injury. Would move to further his career and future earnings but due to FFP no club will take on his salary. Miley - Unable to secure a loan move to aid his development as club can’t source alternative player due to FFP. Add to that there are probably Championship players that PL clubs are no longer taking a punt on due to FFP. I don’t think anyone would have signed Jacob Murphy if FFP was a thing back then.

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