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This is great. All of it

It's always possible the club asks him not to do that...

What sort of replies?

The ricochet on the footer is laugh out loud funny Is it one of those 'intended to be so shit it goes viral' things? Overall, the new website gives me bad vibes. Not so much a comment on the design of the site itself as the content they've chosen to foreground.

So funny, in retrospect.

I've half wondered if that might be a solution to this whole situation for various clubs. To open room for a Norwich or whoever to be more than target practice.

I believe you can drag future funding around as you see fit in terms of FFP, can't you? i.e. front load a chunk of it into this year that's just finishing. Like a reversal of writing off a player's outstanding value as a loss even though they've got two years left on their contract.

I'd be disappointed with him personally if he went to Arsenal. Would be like the missus running off with a pizza deliveryman

Nice little advert...

I think we're firmly in bolted horse territory with football. FFP's only having a negative impact. The most popular showbusiness in the world should be sloshing with money. If we were trying to take it back to the 1950s - which I think would be great - you'd need to look at a system along the lines of capping club budgets at £25 per matchday ticket bought. That would give you that relatively attractive balance of well supported teams doing well, but with any club attracting 30k+ having a solid chance of glory.

Realistically we'd want whatever amount is still his outstanding value in FFP. We wouldn't want to book him as a loss and reduce our flexibility.

I had the same reaction - let's hope he doesn't trade problems But it's really positive that he's mixing in with the natives.

This is a very markish CEO.

That's unexpectedly brilliant.

I'm inclined to agree with you, but I think it depends on individual circumstances, somewhat. I'd take into account things like how much of a gamble a club took in signing the player originally, how much they've added to their career, how important them receiving a fee is to the well-being of the club etc. The football ecosystem is based on clubs getting a piece of transfers, so it's a bit of a hostile act to strongly aim your career towards one if, for example, your old club was making reasonable contract offers and not blocking an earlier transfer away.

Hope he comes out on fire for the new season. Fairly optimistic he will. As others have said, I don't think there's a guarantee him, Bruno and Joelinton is the perfect setup right from the start. Hopefully they've worked out whatever was wrong last time around. Re: the investigation, judging by his betting history he didn't know about it until basically everyone did. In terms of it not affecting his performances last season.

The scary thing about Targett's fitness is the sheer variety of injuries he picks up. It seems like his body's been in full system meltdown for the past two years. Unlike Willock, I haven't got any optimism about him recovering, as much as I like him as a player.

All bad ideas except self-pass. I've never really known why it isn't allowed. If you were dribbling before you were fouled, how is it a free kick if you're not free to carry on dribbling? Same goes for 'taking it too soon' - again, if it's free, I'd rather do it before the guilty party have time to make their defence better than it was before they fouled. Open to being told it's somehow better for the game as it is, but I don't currently see how.

A substantial foreskin.

Not even sure we'd get £20m this summer. Like you say, outside of the worst case scenario, the only way is up.

This is ridiculous...

You're not wrong. We'd certainly lose something with him going. It's basically a risk-reward judgement.

£15m? Ding ding ding. All things considered, it can't be sniffed at. With no European football, him or Livramento would be privately upset at the lack of game time next season.

City definitely would. As you indicate, it would've changed the behaviours of the established clubs too so you can't say what would've happened with too much certainty. It's very likely it would've helped force bad owners out of football more quickly who were otherwise benefiting from doing nothing, including Ashley. I'm sure the overall situation would've been much healthier.

Go on NDM. It makes you wonder what football would've been like over the past 10-15 years if FFP had never existed. Maybe it would've been a golden age for Leicester, Everton and Wolves. Of course, it would've meant the likes of the Glazers would've had to have pulled their finger out too.