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Does Southgates nose get bigger everything he's photographed? Starting to look like Jack Jeebs

Shhh....you're not allowed to criticise Burn on here

There's only ever one winner when litigation starts, and that's only ever the lawyers. Look at this Man City stuff. How long has it been going on, and how long is it likely to? Either they've broke the rules or they haven't, no matter how blurry they might have made things (although blurring thing does suggest something they don't want easily found or proved, but that's beside the point) Their case will keep a law firm in business for years, but can guarantee no-one will be happy with the outcome if there ever is one

Essentially we've fallen into a barrel of tits and come up sucking our own thumb

What's Shefki Kuqi doing these days?

It was like the euphoria of getting married a supermodel, just to find out after going to bed the first time she had every STD on the planet, a prosthetic leg, and chronic acne covered by make-up just to be told she didn't fancy you that much in the first place, but since you're married she's entitled to half of everything you have

Not really the point... we couldn't play the 19/20m we got in midfield. Keeping him would have been more valuable to us than selling even though we would have got less later

Well it looks like having him is more valuable for Palace now than having 65m even if they get less later. As we've seen (Cabaye)...a pile of money is good, but it's not going to score goals, control the midfield or martial a defence

Well somethings not right somewhere. Could it be possible that as part of releasing Ashworth we agreed not to pursue any targets identified while he was in place?

No idea but would love to be exploiting some of the tricks they're using to get away with it

Well we now have 5 keepers. 3 who have been signed knowing full well they will never play. Adding yet another now reeks of incompetence or some financial chicanery we are not privy too. If we needed Ruddy as an influence, then what's the point in Gillespie who was brought in for that? And who knows about Odysseus with his ever increasing fee

Pleased you are. Yes we've a decent start, but the performances have been shocking. Howe is great and has built a lot of goodwill, but it will be this season that shows whether he can truly hack being a manager of a team that has ambitions to be in Europe every season. He's retained a lot of support (mine included), but can see it running out quickly if we're not comfortably top 7 by Jan

Isn't it exactly Paul Mitchels job to approve other options?

Would certainly hope so. Kind of pointless having any sort of scouting department if it's top target or none

Has the final fee been agreed for the odyssey? Last I heard it was 35m euros

Careful...you're not allowed to criticise Burn when he's playing in central defence

Can't be true...I was reliably informed he was a solid defender who doesn't let us down, and we should be confident with him in there

It does look like a smile. Forgive the thickness, but I read that as they didn't make a single pass in to the box? Don't think Bruce even managed that one

I remember a simpsons episode... Lisa to Nelson. "Nuke the whales? You don't really believe that do you?" Nelson. "I dunno...gotta nuke something". Works here perfectly.. NUFC fans "skint, sold our soul, in turmoil? You don't really believe that?" Journalists "dunno...gotta write something"

When did this happen? New stadium is surely worthy of a thread of its own?

I know RTG is a total caricature of the average makem whenever it comes to anything non-football related, but I'm so pleased I'll not have to be surrounded I an office by them very soon. I genuinely thought their valuation of Clarke was just a piss take, but they are seriously and totally raging that they didn't get more than 40m for him. They really thought they would get more than we paid for Bruno as apparently Clarke is 10 times the player he is. I had to go in to a toilet cubicle to laugh at that

This Minteh stuff is starting to sound like not winning the lottery when having numbers off by one for each ball. He never played for us so we haven't really lost anything. His trade helped us out of a hole and probably stopped us falling foul of the rules put in place specifically to stop us. In a perfect world it would have been good to keep him, but when we're competing against accountants who can sell something that's already theirs to themselves it was a pretty good deal. Accountancy specifics aside we sold a player we bought for 6-8m for 30m without ever having to take the risk of him playing. Hopefully we can make use of it going forward

From wiki...."in a 2024 interview with BBC Sport, Textor criticized Paris Saint-Germain for having ownership by the Qatar Investment Authority, and said that it was illegal under European law for a foreign nation to invest in a company" Another dodgy American businessman...already owns Lyon

Leeeegss ours to lose marra

This is where we want a 0-0 draw with several major injuries and possibly a suspension or two. Generally the best result when you want both teams to lose