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Fully pathetic the way that we wait until Cabaye is out the door before such a massive outlay on a loan signing. Not sure if it's because we were waiting for money, or because we wanted to time it so the fans can be placated after the inevitable Cabaye news, but either way, it's standard Ashley. Now the only question is whether this is an actual loan signing, or a fantastic NZog smokescreen couldn't get it over the liner.

I'm gan to paris in a couple of weeks, I'll make sure to deck him for the lads.

Fellaini £27.5m > Cabaye £19m We've been mugged Shit on from a height whilst being mugged, raped and beaten.

Nah. That was nailed on no matter what happened with YoCabs.

We aren't in a CL spot or fighting for one. So we should be rightly be worried, we can't offer Cabaye that. What is so bad about that? I'd be wondering why we're not fighting for one?

You know what I mean He's a spineless little man who is performing admirably in his role of 'spineless little man'. Are fans supposed to be thankful for that? He has no power. So either fight to get some power, or get fired trying. That's the only chance he has of being liked by me. You work? you have powr at work ? no go on then quit your job Didn't say quit. Also, I wouldn't take on a role that meant I would be a figurehead spineless cunt, unless I was willing to accept that people/fans/customers are going to call me a cunt.

You know what I mean He's a spineless little man who is performing admirably in his role of 'spineless little man'. Are fans supposed to be thankful for that? He has no power. So either fight to get some power, or get fired trying. That's the only chance he has of being liked by me.

there should be a way of burning a thread

Though I'd take Cavani if my hand is forced.

Swap him for Ibra

Ah right, well we're just arguing about the amount then. Personally I would definitely hold out for over £20m, that's not bad for a player who arrived for around £5m. I don't give a shit what we paid for him personally. He's an asset that has appreciated in value. Nowadays £20m is absolutely ordinary, and we're talking about selling to a team with more money than sense. I'm going to be displeased if we sell for anything less than £30m. Might as well add this caveat to all my posts: even if we get a fee that I'd be "happy" with, I'm still going to be paying very close attention to what actually becomes of that income.

Well, partly, and partly because of length of time since we've been a regular CL club. I don't want it to happen either, but it's not like we're offloading our best players constantly. I don't believe the goal is to sell constantly, I believe they value stability and their ultimate goal with sales is to sell someone when they're at their peak value to one of the wealthier clubs, looking to make big profits on fewer sales. But I don't buy that Yohan Cabaye would be desperate to go play in France again, if he felt he was at a club that actually had ambitions of getting into the CL, or winning a competition. I think it'd be a different story if it was an English/Spanish CL contender (see Arsenal), but I think his desire to goto PSG isn't out of any great love for PSG, it's just his only feasible option of achieving something. Ronaldo, Bale, RvP, Falcao to name 4 were at big clubs challenging for titles/wanting to get into the CL, but clubs with bigger money in terms of wages & likelihood of achieving those goals still bid big money to get them. Are you saying Man Utd, Spurs, Arsenal & Ath. Madrid have no ambition? World record bid, world record bid, 1 year left on contract, ridiculous 3rd party transfer with all manner of complexity. And even if your examples weren't total shite, your question would still have been irrelevant, as I have at no point said that we should never sell a player. The point isn't total shite at all, the point is that more successful and richer teams always buy the best players of other clubs. How is that irrelevant, it's exactly what's happening here. For astronomical fees. If someone bids £40m for Yohan Cabaye, I'd drive him there myself*, but they haven't, and won't. They'll bid ~£18m and he'll be straight on the helicopter. *wouldn't actually drive him myself, as i'm very far away + the money wouldn't be invested back in the team anyway.

Well, partly, and partly because of length of time since we've been a regular CL club. I don't want it to happen either, but it's not like we're offloading our best players constantly. I don't believe the goal is to sell constantly, I believe they value stability and their ultimate goal with sales is to sell someone when they're at their peak value to one of the wealthier clubs, looking to make big profits on fewer sales. But I don't buy that Yohan Cabaye would be desperate to go play in France again, if he felt he was at a club that actually had ambitions of getting into the CL, or winning a competition. I think it'd be a different story if it was an English/Spanish CL contender (see Arsenal), but I think his desire to goto PSG isn't out of any great love for PSG, it's just his only feasible option of achieving something. Ronaldo, Bale, RvP, Falcao to name 4 were at big clubs challenging for titles/wanting to get into the CL, but clubs with bigger money in terms of wages & likelihood of achieving those goals still bid big money to get them. Are you saying Man Utd, Spurs, Arsenal & Ath. Madrid have no ambition? World record bid, world record bid, 1 year left on contract, ridiculous 3rd party transfer with all manner of complexity. And even if your examples weren't total shite, your question would still have been irrelevant, as I have at no point said that we should never sell a player.

Well, partly, and partly because of length of time since we've been a regular CL club. I don't want it to happen either, but it's not like we're offloading our best players constantly. I don't believe the goal is to sell constantly, I believe they value stability and their ultimate goal with sales is to sell someone when they're at their peak value to one of the wealthier clubs, looking to make big profits on fewer sales. But I don't buy that Yohan Cabaye would be desperate to go play in France again, if he felt he was at a club that actually had ambitions of getting into the CL, or winning a competition. I think it'd be a different story if it was an English/Spanish CL contender (see Arsenal), but I think his desire to goto PSG isn't out of any great love for PSG, it's just his only feasible option of achieving something.

That's "how it is" because that's the mentality that they've chosen to take. We're designed to sit in mid table and make profit from selling Frenchmen.

There's no excuse to sell him, never mind no excuse to not replace him. I severely doubt we will replace him with anyone worthy of note. We'll fall back on the lack of time excuse and say we will do major work in the summer.

Why do these obscenely rich teams try and take the piss with their bids? Lost on why they'd bother with anything below 20m.

He's just done his acl ffs, no need for that.

Wait. Gash?

HAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHHAHAHA WERE SO SHIT WE HAVE TO SIGN JUAN MATA HAHAHAHA BUT PENS HA

maybe it'd be a blessing in disguise, need more heat on the owner's hip

So has everyone just decided that Josh McEachran is shit now? http://i.imgur.com/8YwCaQt.jpg

Not arsed about them being relegated at all. The other two would be more than adequate. Derby above all else.

Well, why wouldn't we have given up? We're out of both cups, we're not going to get relegated and we don't want to be in European competition. What are we aiming to achieve?

I believe NUFC make a great deal of fantastic verbal offers.