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A change of ownership likely triggers all the debt being due, and would make more sense for the Qataris to pay it off than to borrow again and pay interest when they have cash But if the takeover and debt clearing lets them spray cash everywhere is yet another pisstake of the ‘fair’ in FFP

Yeah - can’t see why else he’d post that A shame Also don’t think it helps the club in the transfer market as he will need replacing

But then you have to replace ASM as well, probably at the same cost, so it doesn’t really create any extra funds If there are other reasons fair enough, but I don’t see the club being willing sellers of anyone who would actually attract a fee as they would just need replacing

The joy of selling to Real Madrid is they love overpaying I think they like overpaying so the President can go to the fans with how much they’ve spent

It will be the last chance given Kanes only got a year left on his contract, and even he won’t be daft enough to sign a new one

Yes, would have liked him. with Poch there’s a risk they may actually know what they are doing this time round

The treble bit is quite a domestic thing, and particularly big for Man Utd fans For City’s owners, Pep and the players they won’t give a stuff about 99 and Man Utd. The CL for them is the big one, dwarfing everything else as the whole project was about European dominance and they have never won a CL. The owners want that medal, the players do, and Pep wants to show he can win without Messi, Xavi, Iniesta et al Clearly City want to win the cup, like they’d want to win every cup, but I think the treble is more of a deal for the City (local) fan base and for Man Utd

Suspect LB is not the priority, midfield is, so the approach will be to get the midfielder deal(s) done and then have a look at what budget is left before making any LB moves Might be wrong, but at LB there’s no rush

Links that are based on scouts watching games are so tenuous- especially now the club has started to build a big scouting network. Newcastle scouts will probably be watching tens of games a week and hundreds of players. You could link whole leagues of players based on scouts watching their games Not like when it was just Graham Carr shopping in France…

Schar would be genuinely terrible in midfield, he is a CB and has nowhere near the mobility CM requires.

Ten Hag is worried about getting a pasting from Man City tomorrow and getting the excuses in early He knows Man Utd’s fan base lap up anything critical of the Glazers so he’s sticking any defeat at their door. He’s also trying to set expectations with any new owners that he wants another £200m+ to spend

I like Jose more and more now I never watch his teams, and only see his press clips. If he ever turns to international football he’ll win the World Cup with the worst team ever to win it.

Talk of Benzema to Saudi. Would Real go for Kane in that circumstance? Or would they look elsewhere? Spurs will be keen for Kane not to end up at Man Utd so I imagine they’d be happy sellers.

If people want 4+ players then that means bringing in players at different ability levels. Gallagher is a good player, comfortable in the PL. £40m is too much but for the right price (£25m) he would be a great addition. Also people need to move past thinking about 11 players what a starting line up is and think in terms of the 16-18 player squad who rotate through the season. If you look at City and Liverpool in previous seasons the team is never static, that doesn’t work with PL plus Europe. Arsenal tried it this season and burnt out by the end

It looked more like a boy band concert than a football match, with all the phones and lighters in the air - glad it didn’t happen at SJP, embarrassing!

£53m for Ugarte - worth a rival bid at that price?

Need a few players in quickly so I don’t waste the summer on Twitter reading dodgy ITK accounts. or worse, the evening chronicle website

He’s enjoying his time back in the press, mouthing off about everything

Everton I guess will now go fully Dyche and hope to stay up for a couple of years with limited spend until the new stadium opens and the finances settle It might work, it’s maybe the only approach that could work for them

People are getting confused between cashflow and income/expenditure When you buy a pair of trainers on klarna or PayPal instalments the money leaves your account in 3 monthly instalments but it doesn’t change what you pay overall or how much the shoes cost, it only changes when the money leaves your account. Same with transfer fees - the exception being any performance related payments. For FFP afaik the payments schedule has zero impact, so the outstanding balance on any transfers probably won’t impact the transfer budget at all

It’s never better to go down, it would mean administration and points deduction for them at a minimum Some of our fans thought it would be better to go down under Ashley/Bruce and that was bonkers too. In the championship you have all the same problems and no money

The Times claiming Barca will come in for Bruno. £87m/€100m Be a big headache if true, Barca, Real and City are the only clubs I’d be concerned about an approach from

Agree, and any funds raised would go straight out the door on a replacement, with a big risk the replacement isn’t a success

Can see it, the players have done their jobs and might be on Holiday - however on the Chelsea side they’ll have a load of players just desperate for the season to end, some of them will be planning to leave in the summer too - Chelsea might also fall to bits

It won’t be 5-6. FFP won’t allow that level of spend on the first team at CL quality and it would totally disrupt the group. 3 plus a couple into the development squad who can cover off the bench is pretty realistic. That would be easier for Howe to integrate into the group and probably cost £150m. Likely CM, RF + 1, with RCB being a development squad purchase.