Chris_R

But they'd not have wanted him gone if City won? That makes no sense, as if getting "Europe" is the success barometer, and what we actually do in the season is otherwise irrelevant? Pillocks.

My confidence in him has not diminished by even 1% after this season. Obviously I'd have loved Europe, but at the start of the season I thought last year was an over-achievement given what he had at his disposal, and if we made 6th this year then considering that and the extra games, we'd have had just as good a campaign as last year. Sure nobody is perfect - I was as infuriated as anyone seeing Burn at DL week after week, and persisting with Dubravka after Pope returned has likely been costly. We all have our flaws. However we came within a whisker of the 6th place I'd have said was as good as last year's 4th and also finished above Man U for the first time in my life, got the 2 cup quarter finals, smashed PSG to give me one of the best nights I can remember, put the mackems back in their box on their own ground, scored more goals than we ever have before and did all that whilst coping with the worst injury crisis any club has had since Man U in 1958. There is nobody I'd rather have manage this club next season than Eddie Howe.

Struggling to see it as a wasted season when there's all those positives. By that metric, 99% of clubs waste 99% of their seasons. Dunno why anybody even turns up to watch football anymore.

If you've been sorting us for any length of time, then you're an actual, genuine idiot. If you've only just started supporting us, please don't.

I'd love him to stay, he's the best midfielder I've seen play for us and it's not even close. I suspect he's away though, just from all the rumoured incomings. We're apparently up against it FFP-wise, so if we're going on a spending spree then that's because there's someone going the other way.

That's amazing news, means he's here for life!

We can take Mainoo for free, since they think contracts don't mean anything.

£45m to Al Nassr?

To be fair, Ashley took no shit from anyone either. I don't think he was a pushover. Massive cunt? Yes. Skinflint? Of course. Idiot? Undeniably. Easy to deal with and take advantage of? Different story.

Ashworth has been here 5 minutes and is looking to jump ship already after presumably not doing the job he was recruited to do, to put long-term plans and processes in place. If us playing hard-ball over his departure puts off someone from coming to us who's already wondering what would happen if they tried to do similar, then that's a good thing. Nobody coming to us for the right reasons, with the intention of staying with us, would be put off by this.

If Ashworth reckons he hasn't put in his notice yet, then surely his notice period hasn't started yet? Doesn't seem like the best defence, IMO.

I'm not one to put anyone on a pedestal or anything like that, but fair play to the lad, he went above and beyond going to that hospital. And fair play to his lass for driving him there too. Neither of them had to do that, but they did. Lovely to see.

Branthwaite for "at least" £80m seems beyond absurd considering: - Everton are almost bankrupt and are absolutely desperate to get money in - We were led to believe (yeah, I know) we'd accept a lot less for Bruno than his £100m release clause Nobody should try to buy any of Everton's players until they get desperate enough to hawk them round publicly for peanuts. Fuck them. Leave it long enough and they'll come crawling to anyone with a quid in their pocket.

No, because Kane's resale value is going to plummet year on year, to virtually nothing soon enough due to his age. Add in his wages and sign-on fee, and most if not all of the money we'd get for Isak would just evaporate. It would be crazy. Buy young players whose value will increase. Not only are we not in a position to buy older players, we absolutely should NOT buy older players anyway who are at or past their peak. It rarely works well and is a very expensive thing to do.

Not sure anyone has ever questioned his athleticism, only his speed? Personally I've always thought he's plenty fast enough, but the impression I get from others' comments is that there's a perception he's not quick enough. Not that he doesn't have a good engine.

When Dummett came on with seconds to go yesterday, I was pretty sure he was being given his swansong.

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Absolute baller. When some players get through on goal you know it's a chance of a goal. When this lad is in, you expect a goal.

Needs dropping. Too short.

How the actual fuck has he missed that?!

Pope's shit. Sell.

I hope it's a very long time before Keegan gets a statue. Statues are for dead people, once their legacy is finalised.

What, bigger than the £120m Mbappe just got? Nah. Wouldn't even command that as a transfer fee. He's well into his 30s now.

If we need to sell Bruno to make our FFP commitments, I'd rather we just take the 4 point penalty. He's worth well more than that to us.

Again, giving a team £30+m when they want to buy Bruno but are short of the cash to trigger his release clause seems suicidal. Just no, for me.