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That makes sense! You can imagine them up in the background just long enough that we miss their financial deadlines. This whole thing just stinks to high heaven

I got absolute pelters when the Tonali rumours around his gambling were announced, for suggesting that our player vetting/research process wasn't robust enough - the usual simpletons on here suggesting I was saying we should get the CIA involved etc. But it's all too easy to brush off the financial side of things when it's the PL because it feels like Monopoly money - it was 50 million pounds!! 50 fucking million pounds! Anywhere else, where that amount of money is being spent, every minute detail is poured over to minimise risk. If we didn't have a leave-no-stone-unturned process before, I really hope we've learnt our lesson and do now. And yeah, if that means getting private investigators involved at a cost of £20k or asking Piers Morgan if we can borrow his phone-tapping equipment, just fucking do it.

Sports Direct going back up?

So it sounds like the whole of the PL was aware of our financial predicament and Man Utd tried to use it to their advantage in low-balling us. Since we raised the money needed they coughed up a reasonable sum? I mean I know it's business and all that, but that's a shady-as-fuck way of operating. No surprise at all but well done the board for not backing down. Plastic manc cunts!

Can you imagine watching him turn out for those scumbags. It would've been sickening!

It seems very unlike 'us' under our new owners to leave ourselves so vulnerable to PSR punishment. Were they expecting an influx of revenue from somewhere that failed to materialise? Could the new restrictions on sponsorship deals have left us with a big financial hole to fill? Either way, to leave it until the very last minute to sort it out is incredibly risky. It's the kind of thing you'd expect under Ashley, not Amanda and co.

And Murphy...

For Ciaran Clarke no less!

😂

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.