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It’ll hardly be a lot. £1m out of the £30m from Perez for an average yes man who’d be delighted to accept a job like Newcastle. Job done for Ashley yes but this is Ashley why go for Bruce when Hughes and Moyes for example are available for free

I find it difficult to believe Ashley would pay compensation for any manager let alone Steve Bruce, I'm actually fairly indifferent on him but the idea of ashley agreeing to pay Sheffield Wednesday money for him is baffling

small mercies

I disagree. He's a young talented English player who looked extremely comfortable in the Premier League last season even scoring a goal in the short amount of games he played. He has all the makings of a future England international. Now I don't agree that he's worth £50m on a pure player quality level as he is so raw right now, but in this market clubs just simply aren't going to sell a player like this for less than that, so if Man Utd want him that's what they have to pay. Its a gamble for them but if he stays here he either won't work out or he will improve and be worth much more than £50m and might potentially leave to a rival. Also, we have to remember that £50m is fuck all to Man Utd in the grand scheme of things. even to man utd £50m is a fair chunk of money and to pay that for someone with less than 10 premier league appearances would be utterly insane

you know I do find the belief that Ashley or Bishop is able to puppeteer multiple media organisations anywhere in the world rather amusing when all evidence presented by his time here indicates he's nowhere near competent or interested enough in PR to do that.

the main issue for the chronicle is whatever sources they have at NUFC (I'm betting on not many tbh) are useless on this since I'm certain no one at the club has a bloody clue whats going on or where any potential takeover is at only Ashley and whatever legal team he has handling it know where things stand and he isn't going to tell anybody.

on the one hand yeah its pretty damn early but on the other considering the transfer ban it should be as good as a free shot for this season at least, I wouldn't have appointed him myself but I doubt many top level managers were banging down the door at chelsea for this year at least.

partly but arsenal seemed to build themselves financially as ready to dominate once the tv money bubble burst with big gate revenues and long term sponsorship deals but instead the bubbles gone more insane. And thats not even taking into account some of the stupid transfer decisions and big contracts handed out

it really should have been obvious to them that would happen

Such a myth He’d rather put the club in a coffin than sell for cheap. If we fall down the leagues he will stay till he has killed the club. You really think that when we're no longer profitable he'll stick around because he wants to be the guy who killed the club? Ok then and do you really think he'll just give up and sell it for a low price? no his pride alone won't allow that he'll want to "win" by selling it a profit

you know I get and understand that point, but on the other hand Harry Maguire for £90m. He's a solid to good defender but nothing exceptional

No Rafa to save Mike this time which sadly won't help get rid of him because who'd want to buy it off him at a fee he'd want and if you think he'd drastically lower his price the last 10 decade tell a very different story

Like he'll give a single fuck, man Generic 'enjoyed my time' social post. End. yep nobody will say anything bad, hell for most of them moving on to better clubs in the prem is the main reason they came in the first place.

good for him to find a club with something resembling ambition. while the fee is basically meaningless it would have looked completely mad this time last year

He’s done fuck all since. He’s shite He took Everton to the brink of the Champions League. He also likes playing from the back. Schar & Lejeune would enjoy playing under him you’d think. he can't coach a defence to save his life we'll be conceding goals for fun

I fucking despise Martinez

I really hate that celebration, great ball out wide though.

jesus christ isn't that what Ronaldo went for? Honestly football needs a crash quickly because these kind of fees for a good but hardly great player is beyond a joke

considering where and who he's currently working for he's in no position to comment.

I remember at the time there was something about wanting Henry in to get more media attention for Monaco, mission accomplished in a manner of speaking I suppose

7. The Ashley disagreement You can put that in 5. Sales Purchase Agreement - the part where you can move the goalpost. you can put it after every step and three more times at the end

so he is going to China? I'm not going to critise him (well much) since lord knows I'd probably do the exact same thing in his position but still I never thought he'd go there and I'm a little bit disappointed he isn't going to wait for a job worthy of his ability somewhere in europe.

I'd prefer a forum wide ban on anything said or tweeted by Keys since he's not going to say anything worth a damn on any topic

Why? We never get to see the money anyway. Sell him for a pittance and it will stop Mike snapping up another failed retail outlet. because fuck man utd more than anything really

they literally just paid 45m for a guy with only 40 odd appearances not only would it be horrible to sell him for the obvious reasons, it would also be fucking incompetence for such a low price (in todays market) they're man utd take them to the fucking cleaners