Chris_R

Yep, as someone who can work from home I'm massively more productive there. Even before the pandemic I'd ask to work from home if I had a pressing deadline coming so I could avoid distractions.

That point was so important it needed making twice.

Of course he's not working for them. They just want us to think he might be so that we reduce our compensation demands.

Of course he's not working for them. They just want us to think he might be so that we reduce our compensation demands.

I've got a conspiracy theory, if you'll indulge me... Man U are leaking they want Southgate, but they don't. Because nobody rational would. It's to make us think Ashworth is already working for them because of their time with England, so therefore we might as well just accept £2m or whatever lowball number it is today. This rumour is just to drive down the compo.

Yeah no club should touch him. Why would anyone think £40m for him is good value for a player with no legs and no resale value? Like when we had Butt, Geremi et al, we had to wallow in our own stupidity and suck it up. Similar with Hendrick etc now, nobody's touching them and rightly so.

Listen to that, then imagine the Steve Bruce version. How far we've come.

Same reason Bruno and Isak get linked with a new club every 2 minutes. We're not allowed nice things. It upsets 'them'.

You'd hope, especially given the Lingard / Ashworth situations, that someone "has a word" and that the Saudi clubs are told not to bail out one of our direct rivals like that.

You can't. Absolutely nobody is going to be stupid enough to go anywhere near him. You're stuck with him until the very day his contract expires.

He's desperate to try and become relevant. Him and the mackems are a match made in heaven.

If that's what their players are worth, how much are the squads worth of the fifteen teams that finished above them? Are there really that many squads packed full of £10m+ players, all just bobbing around in the lower-mid championship waiting to be snatched up by PL teams? Or are they chatting absolute soil again, and would be lucky to shift half that dross for any money at all? One of those options is correct, but I guess it's a complete mystery which one it is...

Are you still "just beating the rush" if everyone leaves early?

Longstaff is fine. Decent player. Whatever your thoughts though, he's too good to be sold. We need to name 4 academy players in the squad for Europe, and there aren't 4 better than him. You can argue Miley and Anderson are 2, but I can't see 2 more. Until that time comes, he's not for sale and rightly so. Anyone thinking he might be off to raise funds is deluding themselves and needs to be prepared for disappointment.

I mean we probably shouldn't, given the past and that this match is done, and we've got big games coming up, but we've got great bench options too.

Every time. At least you jinxed us when we were 3-0 up

Well it's pointless complaining about the past, it's already gone. Instead of complaining about it, maybe build yourself a time machine and go back 55 years and change stuff. Alternatively, live in the present and judge us on what we're doing now.

And that was a 42-game season then, so 4 more games to do it in. Makes this our best goals/games season? And still going.

I hope it's 4-4-fucking-2 because Isak needs to be played as a striker.

"This will transform the matchday experience for all attendees" Yeah, they'll be able to watch something else instead.

It's only great for the club if now there's less debt to repay, the Glazers now spend your extra income on players. However they'll probably just trouser it.

Hopefully we just refuse to go to arbitration. Don't think they can enforce it? Correct me if I'm wrong but my understanding is both parties need to agree to it, or it needs to be in the contract.

I'd hope that even if he got a 2 year contract, he'd still end up on 199 appearances. (Nothing against the bloke, he's been decent and a good servant. I just hope we're moving forwards and that probably doesn't include him)

Not sure anyone would notice.

Steven Taylor?