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And Murphy...

For Ciaran Clarke no less!

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It must be so difficult as a player, when you’re being managed and ignored by a fucking imbecile, to keep your shit together and be professional. I genuinely wouldn’t wish Southgate on any team. I hope he is ignored by all of top level football and is never seen again

I started doubting Southgate after he bottled that game against Croatia in 2018, I couldn’t stand him after he bottled the final against Italy and now his mere presence on that touchline fills me with so much fucking rage I can barely stand to watch it. He’s a loser with a loser’s mentality. An absolute coward! I’d genuinely rather have Steve Bruce managing the team right now. it doesn’t matter if we win this game because we’ll lose the next one. Just get us out of the tournament so we can rid ourselves of this hopeless prick!

Southgate’s already done that

The only figure I’ve seen mentioned so far is £37m, which is most likely (and hopefully) bollocks. But I’d say anywhere up to £20m for him as a Wilson replacement would be satisfactory. Any more and I’d rather we shopped elsewhere for someone younger and more dynamic

If DCL was available for £10m and we were bringing him in as a second striker option I’d have no problem with it giving our non-European football status. But paying a hefty chunk of our transfer budget for him seems unwise, especially as we only have one winger capable of providing any service for him.

Still baffles me how that fat fuck even made a tenner, let alone billions.

Two more years!!? What the fuck were we thinking with some of these contracts?

Saka tailed off towards the end of the season whereas Palmer got stronger. It's the right move IMO.

Could be the best name of all time. Definitely top 3

That's a fucking scandal if that's what their points were deducted for! Sell him early in the window and get £10-15m less for him just so you comply with a fucking farce. Jesus Christ, what a mess!

Why the hell would they be open to selling him?!

Welcoming?! This place is welcoming in the same way your first day on a new cell block is welcoming.

I'm in two minds about Trippier. On the one hand he's one of the best in his league on his day but on his off days he's catastrophic. Tino has proven himself to be first-team ready, and better defensively than Trippier. With no European football, he'll spend most of another season on the bench, and I can see him getting rightly pissed off. If we've got a last chance to cash in on Tripps, I wouldn't be that gutted if he left. Something I thought i'd never say at the start of last season.

This is the worse I’ve seen City play for years. WTF?!

Cheers City you fucking dicks!

It depends really. He could be the number 6 we don't have or a superior replacement for Longstaff. I think he's one of the players we'd warm to very quickly if he played for us.

Seems like a really likeable lad. Hopefully he gets a chance here

Pleasant surprise to open a link like that and not be met with AIDS for the eyes. The Chronicle could learn a thing or two Get those two in early and then you would hope our focus is spend heavily on 2 right wingers, one top drawer and one quality understudy (unless we're planning on utilising Minteh for the latter). Then wait to see who snaps up our cast-offs and play the market as it comes.

If either of them sign, they're showing no ambition or desire to play football and surely that's not what we want - players happy to just sit on their arses doing fuck all. Not to mention then fact they're both far too shit to be part of our squad

We are so easy to play through ffs!

There was an interesting point made about this on Talkshite yesterday - just someone throwing out a speculative question, which was 'could the amount of time players are standing around waiting for VAR decisions be one of the contributing factors to the huge increase in muscular injuries throughout the PL this season?' It seems far fetched that it could be responsible for so many injuries (and i'm not sure it has any bearing on ours really) but at times players are going from running at full tilt to standing around for 3-4 minutes, to running at full tilt again, so it would interesting if someone looked at how many injuries throughout the league occurred shortly after a 4-5 minute VAR stoppage. Might be a nail in the coffin for the absolute dogshite debacle.

Yes, not by much but yes. There was a run of games where we were so defensively woeful, we dropped points we shouldn't have. That period where we were conceding 3-4 goals per game and Eddie wouldn't change anything was probably the difference between 5th-6th to 7th-8th. So, not a huge drop but potentially significant to which European competition we're in next season (if any).