TRon

I'm probably like 80% of posters on here, I would be happy to see him go if we could get some sort of a competent replacement, and Liverpool paid a fair price. At the moment neither looks like happening so Liverpool need to get fucked.

100% agree. While there's an argument to be made for signing players and selling them on, they should at least show some enthusiasm for joining in the first place.

There's a debate because we have a CL campaign coming up and we don't want to go into it with Osula up front. It's not our fault Liverpool want him. We aren't here to look after their interests and sell him at a price which they will be happy with. When they signed Ekitike from under our noses they put the blocks on this moves themselves, they have only themselves to blame.

Sesko sounds like the kind of twat who would be happy to do that if it meant getting a glamour club in 12 months.

This is the thing, no one is defending Mitchell, the bloke was evidently unlikeable, but he was given a remit and tried to work within that. He was probably the wrong man, and tbh, Eales who brought him in was probably the wrong choice as well. But they were made in good faith, and the process was the right way to go. My point was that you can't keep blaming lack of support for Howe when he's pretty much been backed above everyone. He's a great coach but it's not really his job to be picking the CEO or DOF. If he's doing it, that's because he HAS been backed, not the opposite.

I think they've made that mistake once, and it's cost them a lot of money. It would be madness to think that a similar stitch up wouldn't be challenged in the high courts if they went that route again. But this is a cartel, it is a sophisticated protection racket, so it's not out of the question by any means.

Could see him looking very smart in a 3rd Reich uniform from the 1940s.

Sounds like the Chronicle.... from about 1995.

Not sure how that would work, once the rules have been found not fit for purpose, any new rules which were brought in on a similar basis would be equally open to high court scrutiny.

Think that's understandable as a fan, but as a club we'll be more hard headed and he'll play another season, do his job and then we'll sell him next summer.

People hate to admit this, but it's where we are. We can throw all our toys out of the pram, but even if we implement the hacks like selling women's team or sponsoring training grounds, it will barely make a dent. There's no short cuts, all we can really do is hope City win their case and then do what they did.

I doubt we've ever really been in for him tbh.

The pull of CL is there if you are going up against Villa or Brighton. But the pull of a superclub is more if you are going up against Chelsea, Liverpool or Man U.

Not even sure there is anyone there to say anything. The only one speaking publicly is Howe.

Dunno what it is about Muniz, he's just got one of those faces, looks like he should be working as a care home nurse rather than a footballer.

Hojlund strikes me as a stroppy brat, could easily see him turning down Leipzig just because he wants to go to Real Madrid.

On the flip side, we could still end up with a really good window, it hasn't closed yet, so can't really judge it properly as it stands. But I do keep seeing this view expressed that the club hasn't supported him, and he's been left high and dry. Not really sure what else could have been done with the targets we've gone for though. We can't blame the clubs for not being able to outgun the cartel clubs. They've got canons, we've got water pistols.

Think he lacks a bit of bite personally. Bruno isn't the quickest either but he does get in there snap some tackles in, I think that's missing from Miley's game at the moment.

Don't know who wrote the article but the one about Liverpool only moving forward once they moved beyond a manager deciding everything on signings was a good one. Brendan Rogers kept vetoing all the players lined up by Liverpool's recruitment team, and they only really progressed once they bombed him out and let the specialists do their job. Now I get Howe is a class above, and we do need to back him, but we also need a system which isn't reliant on one person. Hopefully the next appointments won't be too tied in to the manager where they can't make their own decisions. That was the problem with Eales and Mitchell as well, both came as a package.

I'd like to think we'll have a replacement for Wilson in by then, probably Wissa.

In a year's time there might be other superclubs needing a striker. We'll probably have more clubs bidding against each other.

This is my view as well. I know Howe is a great manager, but I don't think a manager should be heading transfer policy. He should have input, but let the club decide the overall strategy.

The plan was always to sell him next season anyway unless he signed a new contract. We would just be holding fast to our plans.

Is that even though that Vinelli bloke drove his Maserati all the way there to take matters into hand personally?