Ankles Bennett

Sissoko is worth whatever clubs are willing to pay If that's £35m then that's what he is worth regardless of how poorly he performed for us. What he did was perform well to a Europe wide audience in the euros. Juve had probably never heard of him before the euros but with £100m from the sale of Pogba, £35m is small change to them and we'll worth a punt on his euro displays.

We can buy Ross mcormack from Fulham now. Gayle and him should score enough goals to take us back up. We'll still have £12m left to sign an attacking midfielder as well.

Really like that we are telling Liverpool to pay £27m in cash up front rather than paying for him over 5 years.

If spurs really want him it's time Daniel Levy saw his chickens come home to roost. He played hardball when we bought Townsend so let's do the same to him. You want him the price is £30m period.

He needs to be told that he will not be sold unless an offer comes in before transfer deadline day unless of course we have already brought in his replacement. Same goes for Wijnaldum.

As usual the clubs interested in Sissoko and wijnaldum will wait until transfer deadline day thinking we will cave in and accept much lower offers for them. Most will think we will be desparate to get them off the wage bill. Be really great to see us refuse all offers and keep both of them.

Sissoko has three years left on his contract. His agent can argue all he likes about us agreeing to let him go after last season for e18m to e25m, but his performances for France have increased his value and we are perfectly entitled to increase his asking price as he is under contract to NUFC. We havent said he cant go, and I would imagine his agent would point out his performances for France warrant sky high wages if and when he is eventually sold. The truth is the lower the selling price the higher the wages the agent can demand which is why he is demanding we lower the asking price.

If Pogba is worth £100m Sissoko should be worth £45m as a starting price.

Somebody at Dortmund doesn't realize the fee is in sterling....not euros ?

They can approach all they like and offer him mega wages but unless they pay what we want Sissoko is going nowhere. .

If spurs want wijnaldum we should make damn sure we play hardball with Daniel Levy. He screwed £12m out of us for townsend who wasn't even in their first team squad so Wijnaldum has got to be £25m. Don't want to pay that Mr Levy? Fine, he is under contract for 4 more years so no need to sell.

Burnley went back up without spending a fortune. They sold inns and bought that gray guy from Brentford who scored the goals that fired them to promotion.

So townsend says the only reason he left was his desire to be in the EPL. What about the fans. Does he think we want to be in the f***ing Championship? We don't have the option of being in the EPL. If he truly thought so much of the fans and the club he would have stayed. He is just another money grabbing mercenary who never had the slightest intention of staying as was evidenced by the insertion of the relegation clause because he and his agent knew they could have a bumper payday due to the mega TV money on offer.

It's his agent who cares about the £££. That's the only reason players rarely show any loyalty these days. Agents are the absolute nemesis of football fans worldwide.

Annoyed that townsends agent has obviously engineered this move but Townsend will regret it when we are back in the EPL next season riding high with the rafa revolution and palace are in the bottom half. This is Pardew all over . He can't motivate players for more than one season hence he keeps buying new faces for positions he doesn't need. Be interesting to see howTownsend performs under Pardew after he credited rafa with his improvement in form. Townsends loss as far as I'm concerned.

Surely he will go for the England job again. He might even get it this time.

PSG might go for him for £20m.

Sissoko says he can't play in the Championship as he wont get into the France team and it will damage his reputation as a quality footballer. What is laughable is that he is one of the main reasons we are in the Championship in the first place because he went missing in so many games. Let him go, but as he rates himself Champions League standard he should command an £18 to £20m transfer fee. If no takers at that price and he goes on strike trying to force a move, stick him in the reserves. He certainly wont get to play for France if he cant get a game in the Championship thats for sure .

Only if he wants to play in the prem and agitates for a move.

We should send townsend out on loan to a prem team. He can come back when we are promoted. Loic Remy did just that.

I take your point but its on record that he relies upon football people to run the club for him. Ergo Carr, Charnley and Moncur are where the blame squarely rests not with Ashley. Put it this way if we had a modicum of success and Ashley kept interfering in the boards decisions we would be asking him not to be hands on. We can't have it both ways. However now we are relegated the outcome of where the club won't wrong rests with the boards failure to recognise the perilous position McLaren had put us in which was compounded by their reliance upon the reassurances they were given by McLaren

He will be loaned out to a prem team in the same way qpr loaned out loic remi. If we go back up we then have a quality addition to the squad. Same goes for the other players we want to keep. Perez might be loaned out also

The clause is there so we can terminate his contract because the club won't pay epl manager wages while we are in the championship. Make no mistake the press release will say a mutual parting because rafa doesnt want to be in the championship, but the reality will be us activating the release clause. In other words yet more lies to cover up the incompetence and lack of ambition of those wasters running our club. Charmless is at best a club secretary and Carr was a complete failure when he tried managing in the lower divisions of the football league and at best Moncur had a brief modicum of success as manager of Carlisle. The mantra from them will be why pay Rafa £5m a year when Nigel Pearson is available for £1m.

Wouldn't mind seeing Mark Warburton take over if Rafa goes but he will probably stick with Rangers I reckon. Mind you Ashley might go for him just to f*** over the Rangers board.

Well after the dross served up by mclaren I found this performance damn encouraging considering Rafa and his team only had 2 days with the players. At one point we had 84% possession. The goals and wins will come if we keep playing like that.