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What's your opinion on Ritchie based on? Genuine question btw, you seen a lot of him? What I've seen and read about him, not geet loads but then again I don't support Bournemouth - probably similar to anyelse who watches the Premiership fairly regularly. Am I not allowed to think that, were we still in the Prem, we wouldn't be buying him for £10-12m or something because I'm not a scout, and I haven't been monitoring him since he was at Pompy Yoof? As I said I hope he turns out to be the best winger ever, I'm just saying there's no chance we'd be paying that for him if we'd stayed up. We really only have 1 chance to come up though (if we're to keep Rafa) we cannot afford to gamble with bairns or forrins, we need players who've proven themselves in English football - you're always going to pay a premium on that. Dont be so touchy man, was genuinely interested to know. I know nowt about him, other than what I've read on here. Agree with the rest of the post. Let's just hope he's as good as they fee suggests, let's agree on that.

What's your opinion on Ritchie based on? Genuine question btw, you seen a lot of him?

Nothing over the top about him being worth the fee we paid, tbh, which is all I'm saying. Agreed on Ritchie, but let's not go overboard, let's just hope he's worth the fee we pay. That'll do.

I've just seen his goal against the mackems btw. Nice, very nice.

I don't disagree on the penny pinching has cost us point, it's bang on, it absolutely has. My point on Ritchie stands though, townsend proved us all clueless. I'll reserve judgement on Ritchie until I've seen him. (how many times you seen him play by the way?) What I probably should have said at the start is, I agree on the penny pinching costing us point, but I hope you're as wrong about Ritchie as you were about townsend. That's probably a better way of putting it.

I don't disagree on the penny pinching has cost us point, it's bang on, it absolutely has. My point on Ritchie stands though, townsend proved us all clueless. I'll reserve judgement on Ritchie until I've seen him. (how many times you seen him play by the way?)

I need to check this guy out, I have no idea about him, whatsoever.

I'd also say £10-£12m is worth it if he does exactly as you say.

We'd be just as gutted if we stayed up, I'm sure. He was very good for us and surprised everyone, well worth the fee we paid in the end, imo. Can't comment on Ritchie, never seen much of him at all,I'll reserve judgement/comment on the fee until I have.

We all laughed at the townsend fee, tbf, now we're all gutted he's leaving.

dwight gayle sounds ideal for us (ive not seen much of him), he's quick and aggressive, something we lack up front.

same.

Remember how good routledge was for us? Townsend could absolutely piss it down there.

man utds record in the transfer market post fergie is pretty atrocious tbf. think mourinho will fix that though. He's a short term fix, but a fix none the less.

He'll be working and living in a superb city, he's probably doubled his salary and apparently has a shed load of cash to spend. I can see why he's gone like.

In. For 5 if possible

Unlikely. He's shown utter incompetence at every turn. In truth, he deserves no credit for Rafa staying - it was the fans that did all the work. Disagree with this mind, I'm far from his biggest fan but he deserves credit for firstly getting rafa here in the first place and secondly for the part he played in getting the new deal done. It was the fans that convinced rafa he'd like to stay, no doubt, but the rest of the work in making that a reality was done by Charnley and Ashley, that much can't be denied.

never been a 1 in 2 striker in his career. for the money banded about you'd expect that. He's scored better than 1 in 2 a couple of times tbf. Don't think that makes him worth £10m plus mind.

touche.

giggs gone as well apparently.

All sounding very positive indeed.

Mirror saying similar, announced any time from Tuesday according to them.

to us? No sorry, Rangers from what I saw, just asking could he be an option? think you need the 'rangers transfer rumours' thread mate.

to us?

Giggs and Carrick in another rag. Mental