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Hazard is class but £130m for a guy with 12 months left on his contract? Fucking hell.

A great day for taking things to the tip.

Remember the stage where we assumed it was all bullshit and an Ashley stunt? We're past that

Keith Downer, more like

Companies House + Caulkin + Dubai ITK = too many nicely-aligned dots

Can't wait til it gets dismissed by local journos

To paraphrase Lee Ryder from the other day: "If this transfer is going to happen, then Real Madrid have to pay. They can't just walk in and take Eriksen without paying the money"

"If Eid Mubarak is going to happen, then the Bin Zayed Group have to obey it. They can't just walk in and do ramadan without ending the fast."

A fresh scoop from Ryder there. Award-winning stuff.

FACT FACT FACT, just like Rafa did

Being so adamant fills us with hope but he IS a writer for The Sun.

There's some things to be hopeful of and some things to fear. The lack of denials make me sure that something is happening, as does the certainty of so many from their end. The problem is we don't know how advanced it is and whether this will get done before Rafa leaves. Or at all, considering the history of either time wasters or Ashley waking up one day and just walking away. Feeling less confident by the day, though.

Well he's still under contract. Not saying he doesn't want to stay but he sounds doubtful and I can't see Ashley being in a rush to tie him down amongst all this. Suddenly it'll be 30th June.

Today's stories have me nervous about Rafa for the first time. I've always thought he'd stay but now..... starting to worry a bit.

Fucking hell, imagine doing that :lol:

The last thing this thread needs is contributions, not while we're waiting

Well yeah, obviously, but it cheapens the competition when poorer teams win it.

Be mad if Spurs - 4th in the league, 26pts behind Liverpool, 13 defeats - become champions of Europe after scraping through the QFs and SFs on away goals. They're not even that good.

A mix of established players like Mata & Rondon, plus promising ones like Reece James.

FM19's best wonderkid too. I know people love hearing that

So this was all agreed in April and, for an undefined period of time, their 'fit and proper' test has been going on with the Premier League? No comment from the club or PL but that's not a bad thing - denial would be bad. And this magical Friday coincides with several Dubai planes coming in and Ashley's return to the UK? Starting to accidentally get excited, knowing full well that Ashley has a history of randomly walking away from deals for no reason.

I love Football Manager but I'm sick of seeing articles on FM simulations - "what would happen if...." shite. They're everywhere and yet completely pointless

Carroll in, Joselu out. Ashley wins again.

Hmmm not sure what to think now. I'd given up all hope but these guys are so adamant and the 'no comment' stance kind of says a lot, in a way. Too much is being said online though, it's painful trying to find the truffles amongst the shit. Everything is being contradicted by someone else.

We're fucked if it isn't done by 30th June. Rafa will go, the deal may fall through and Sherwood will have 5 weeks to buy players. :(