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Harrison Ashby too. Targett, Dummett, Trippier, Lascelles the ones I think will go or, in Lascelles case, come back mid to late in the season, barely play and leave next summer. That leaves 5 CBs, Dan Burn, Kelly and Lewis Hall who can play LB, Tino and Krafth on the right. Tripps looks gone, probably needs the change.

Of course not, let’s ignore the ex-Man City employee illegally working for Ineos/Man Utd on garden leave and another target DoF leaking sensitive information to try and reduce his compensation. Absolute non-story. Meanwhile here’s 10 minutes on what a groundsman does during the close season…

Eyes like the fucking Witcher.

Man Utd fluffing?

Some Cliff notes: - Ashworth was the idiot refusing to sign off on Bruno’s new contract so hardly an ideal relationship - Ashworth likely won’t be in place for the summer, definitely not within the release clause period - I don’t think Ineos are a lock to run the club better. Their performance on the last 3 months can best be described as tone deaf and amateurish - No CL puts them at a huge disadvantage - £35m budget unless they sell means they aren’t getting close to his release clause without cannibalising their own team

Tripper looking ecstatic to be there ?

Hoping Wise rips up his tulips and Sir Les leaves a steaming turd in his watering can.

Last years final was.

Got to love the hillbillies having a thread on our match h. Just for context, the £2.5m we’re being paid for the 2 insignificant friendlies in Oz is: - 25% of their gate receipts for their whole season; or - 25% of their tv revenue for the whole season; or - 95% of the revenue they made on their retail operations; or - 30% of their year-round conferencing, banqueting and hospitality revenues. It must genuinely eat them from the inside out.

Is it on YewTewb?

Has Dodgy Doper Dave Brailsford’s nefarious deeds draped all over this. He gets a kick from trying to defraud and denigrate rules.

Stumpy Dan’s stump and rusty sheriff’s badge? No ta.

Cewking on gas.

Anyone got the Athletic link? - useful to see whether they have any more snippets or whether it’s microwave reheat.

Mail, Telegraph and Times reporting it. Funnily enough the red tops, who have the most cosy relationships with Man Utd, aren’t going there.

Bet they wish it was a 12 hour flight, closer to 20.

Images no one wants to see

It’s Ashworth’s mistake that exposed all this so naturally the focus will be on him. Not a great look stitching your boss up before either of you “officially” on the payroll, dicey Ineos email accounts aside.

You mean none of the usual Man Utd client journalists @Froggylad. Probably trying to bury it as it’s a pie on face moment for stumpy Dan.

I’ll be pissed if we’ve dropped the ball on a procedural issue. If the case I hope we get him on gross misconduct, sharing confidential information with a competitor. Seek damages, City do the same with Berrada. This all goes away if Man Utd settle.

Fucks sake. Not even worth referencing if it’s come from that melt.

Also the Berrada thing is bad vibes. Fancy being on gardening leave and having an email address for the company owned by the minority owner of your future employer who is the person in charge of footballing ops. Ratcliffe will give it the “this happens all the time in business shit” but football isn’t like other businesses, certainly not a chemicals company. It’s just pure boneheaded and if I’m City I’m seeking extra compo for what Berrada has cost them in gardening leave pay and not paying the remainder. I’d also be taking legal action as NUFC for leaking commercially sensitive confidential information to a competitor.

And the leaking of confidential information by Ashworth to try and undermine NUFC’s case for compensation is also on the wrong side of the shady line. We know these things go on but if you’re loose enough to get caught you live with the consequences and pay up. It’s pure Phillipe Albertttttttttttt watching this play out.

The crest icon has gone on my bookmarks and it’s not loading. Flogged it to the club? Edit: just seems an outage: