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That’s another 27 pages on RTG

If the people calling the shots there had anything about them, they’d look at how ‘fucking us around’ worked out in relation to Lingard, and realise that taking a sensible approach would be a far better course of action. I won’t hold my breath though….

Surely some clever bastard can work out what our FFP allowance is and we can put all this to bed?

Not particularly unfortunately

Where is that definitively reported? Not trying argue against it here, just having really seen anything that states with any clarity how the deal came about?

I’m not sure he did? Admittedly the reporting around this seems a bit all over the place, so not entirely clear. Or perhaps any clause, and the subsequent fee, related to him only having one year left?

Well obviously, like any transfer (unless there’s a release clause) someone else can always come along and pay over the odds. But in those situations, you’ve just got to walk away and let them get on with it. It only makes things increasingly hard going forward, and you end up consistently overpaying for players. Man Utd being a prime example.

It all comes down to contract length. £45m for a 21yo on a long term contract is reasonable enough (whether he has the talent/ability to justify it is an entirely separate argument). No one is paying £50m for a 26yo with one year left on his contract unless that player is a bona-fide elite level player.

Brighton just got £35m (alright seems there might be various add ons on top) for Mac Allister with one year left. Leicester obviously aren’t getting £50m for Maddison in the same situation

Doesn’t sound like ‘fair market value’ to me…

The sentence/paragraph structure is incredibly similar. Probably uses it to interact with people that have blocked his main account. Or just to argue with himself occasionally.

Burnsie’s got some borderline personality disorder like.

Safe(ish) Standing

Not disagreeing with that at all. Just referring to those players (well alright I’m only talking about one) who say they wanted to be anonymous then later place themselves in one of the least anonymous roles imaginable.

Looks like some kind of ‘tipster’ putting something out to get a few interactions to help highlight his ‘service’

Yes, it means they can stay out of the limelight until they decide to become a TV presenter on prime time BBC1.

Rice would be an unbelievable signing, and one which definitely has the potential to elevate us to the next level. Sadly I suspect the fee and, more importantly, wages, would be out of our scope for the moment.

Surprising. Although tbf I hadn’t seen what you’d said about what they’d said initially. Like others have said, I’d contact the Trust.

Have they definitely told you there’s no alternative?

That’s a fair point. I’m not convinced we have a need for anything over 70k in the long term, given the population size of the area, but that’s something that can be argued either way.

Of course, but ultimately it’s a far easier (for want of a better word) sell in terms of what would undoubtedly be a controversial move, if you can say, ‘it will allow loads more fans to attend matches’, than saying ‘we’ll make more money’.

And we’ll still sell the full 8k eventually

Took me ages to get my head around this. Rangers and Braga are seeded, but have to enter a round earlier than Marseille and PSV, who are not seeded ? edit - actually they don’t enter a round earlier, I’m talking rubbish. Good job we don’t have to go through all this

Tbf, you’d assume with any expansion we wouldn’t be a kick in the arse off 65k. If we get SJP to ~60k, any new stadium would have to be a fair bit bigger than 65k to justify everything that involves.