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Not entirely true. He left Dortmund to join us in order to play regularly. He was playing really well here, got an injury that ruled him out for a long time, didn't get games when he returned so he left to get regular game time somewhere else. Don't think he would have left (at that point at least) if he was playing. Turns out he 100% made the right decision.

Hope Switzerland finally flushes the last turd of the tournament. Criminal that England has gotten this far already.

I'm a sucker for obnoxiously confident people with below average self reflection like Mourinho, Bendtner and Zlatan. He's gone up in my estimation after this statement.

He's shown real growth as a person, not only player, since that time. Ref. how he handled the backlash after getting subbed at the end of 22/23 season, and how he's conducted himself since then on and off the pitch. He's a very ambitious and driven person, so if he thinks he has a better chance of achieving his goals at his boyhood club I think we'd be naive to think he wouldn't press for a transfer. That being said, I don't think he'd behave the same way he did at Everton. He'll handle it more professionally, and if a potential transfer is blocked I fully expect him to respect the clubs decision and continue to progress together with us.

I used an average annual wage of 50k as an estimate which would basically cover a player on 240k a week which is ca. 1 more Martial in the squad.

It just irks me real bad when big wealthy companies want to make people redundant. If it's done through not hiring new people and letting the work force naturally reduce itself due to people retiring, quitting for other opportunities or offering lucrative voluntary severance packages then fine, but sacking people who may not want to quit because they enjoy it there and/or have to make massive changes to their way of life as a result...nah. Fuck him to hell.

I was actually thinking the exact opposite that it's a cunts move for very little gain

Sacking 250 staff would what...cover the annual wage of 1 decent player?

That 3-1 victory over Liverpool right after Pardew arrived was probably the best performance of his life.

He hasn't signed up for this then? Fairly clear he's a class player, even if Man Utd are interested in him. https://www.change.org/p/keep-de-ligt-wir-wollen-de-ligt

Worth it to get an end to the awful gardening jokes on here alone. If we got compensation on top of it then great.

Don't think many players would want to join us if they knew we'd hire a fucking PI to dig into their lives either

If you decide to believe we got the upper reported price for him while simultaneously decide to believe we paid the lowest reported price for Odyssey I guess you could argue it was a good deal. Was fuming over this on Saturday and yesterday, but if the club was seriously expecting a 10 point deduction if they breached PSR I have more understanding for how desperate the situation was. I was thinking we'd be risking at most 4 points based on Forests deduction.

I'd prefer we acted ethically and didn't violate peoples privacy regardless of how much money we're talking about.

Someone has to be available on short notice for the hilarious training pitch segments our social media group will be posting on youtube throughout the season. One year deal. Sorted.

25m was also mentioned, so who tf knows. Only clear thing is that he is part of an agreement for Anderson, who was sold for reportedly anything between 10 & 35m.

If this guy ends up scoring the goal(s) to give Brighton 3 points against us this season, effectively nullifying the points deduction we were facing, I'm going to unleash kaka levels of pettiness upon everyone who is cheering this sale on as free money, a great deal because he hasn't played for us etc. Thought I'd wake up a bit less annoyed over this, but nah, still think this is a catastrophic decision by the club.

Such a dumb way to look at it. Why does it matter whether he played for us or not? He was still our player and is one of the most highly rated players in his position in the world (backed up by his performance metrics in a league grossly underrated on here). We've sacrificed someone with a great potential for short term gain. Poor management. Can't really coat it any other way. Lets just hope this is the exception rather than the start of a new trend.

I'm probably different from most on here in that I don't give a shit about psr and whether we get a few points deducted. I think we're going to have a great season regardless.

By all means sell youth players. I'd just like to keep the few ones that have proven to be good enough to play for us.

I'm less dissapointed about this one than Minteh too, but Anderson, to me at least, is still our 3rd highest rated talent behind Minteh and Miley and we are now selling two of them.

How is it not?

Feeding talents to Brighton & Nottingham Forest Small time as fuck.

Massively dissapointed. Think his contributions to the team would exceed the fairly minor points deduction we would have gotten. Would much more prefer we kept him and gave him an opportunity rather than buying someone ready made like f.ex Olise (although there is always a risk that established players also fail to perform in a new environment & under different expectations).