jonny1403

100%. Will teach me not to spout off about things I’m not sure I haven’t got the wrong end of the stick about. Apologies to the poster I quoted for being so confident I wasn’t talking out of my arse

Completely wrong. Any instalments not paid this year will only count towards FFP in the season they are ultimately paid, so it obviously makes sense to push back as much of the transfer fee as possible so that we only have to worry about that in future windows.

Fred always plays very well for Brazil, and has a good season at Man U to be fair to him. Joelinton's had a very good six months at CM in his entire career.

Where has this come from? Wiki says he's scored 1 goal in his entire career

The transfer window hasn't even officially opened yet ffs.

Can a 26 yo really be described as a great prospect?

Alvarez. He only played on the right as City preferred not to operate with a striker and rotate their AMs regularly (which is also damning that Jesus couldn't even hold down a CF position ahead of De Bruyne and Foden). Pep won;t be playing him next season and I think Jesus himself has said he might need to move on.

Of course Jesus is for sale, he's gone from their only striker to City's third choice. I'd be surprised if he doesn't leave.

There's a very real chance we finish two points off 8th place assuming Wolves lose to Liverpool. Insane.

I'm not talking about any of the other games (in which I thought Wood has played an important role). I'm talking specifically about Wilson's performance last night.

I don't mind Wood but we would have lost that yesterday if he had started in Wilson's place.

But Hendrick comes back from loan. Obviously we'll almost definitely sell him as well.

It's crazy that all of these leaving would still only allow us to sign 3 new players in the summer

The couple of tackles/fouls he made on people twice his size while running back at full pelt were immense

He was massively, massively exposed because of ASM. I don't understand it as ASM was tracking back quite a bit in the first half for Manquillo. We shouldn't offer him a new deal. Ability alone I would keep him as a squad player but he's never fit for more than 10 games a season and he just takes up a squad place and wages. I'd buy Targett and keep Manquillo as back up and focus on other positions for the rest of the summer. Obviously if we can also bring in a top class LB as well then great.

Exactly this. Van de Beek and Alli haven't started either ffs.

Makes sense to wait until the summer in any event as if we go down you'd imagine we would want to keep him.

I think who's that team we call United became really popular during Rafa's time as a bit of a symbol of resistance against Ashley, so I still like it. Old players do get a run out still tbh, Coloccini and O'Brien pretty much every game. I agree there's not much about the Keegan era players though.

Agreed. Would love to be wrong but I think people are reading something into the SkyBet thing when it's just a coincidence. Looking here: Sven Botman Club After January Transfer Window Betting Odds | Football | Oddschecker The majority of bookies have already removed that bet not because betting has been suspended but because it isn't relevant anymore, like they do with all transfers. He's 1/50 on to stay at Lille in one bookie that offers it. The only interesting point is that he's 9-1 to go to Newcastle at one, but 4-6 on at two others. There could be something explaining that difference...

Literally finished in the top 10 last season

Seeing a lot of pictures of him in training, so assume he's relatively ok?

SSN reporting it now.

According to the Athletic his injury isn't a minor one, and he's been carrying a groin injury for a while.