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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.

That just leaves Spurs and Villa fighting over the EC slot as the last remaining bit of interest in the top half I’d like Spurs to nick it as they look screwed either way. Villa missing out on the EC would slow their progress down

Not sure I see why Man City would want Rice? Rice is a top player but Man City have they covered For Man City their big signings will be replacements for Gundogan or Bernardo Silva if they leave and Rice isn’t going to replace either.

Few players carrying knocks should be sent of on holiday regardless, including Joelinton, Bruno and perhaps Longstaff Play 5 at the back if there aren’t enough midfielders for the 3. No need to risk longer term harm to players when the job is done.

I think there’ll be a priority order for the signings, probably CM first, and budget might run out before it gets to 5 or even 6 players Even a £150m budget ain’t what it used to be - that might cover only 3 players of the right quality Some parts of the squad will have to wait another year

Squires has been relentless on City, on Abramovich, on the super league etc etc If anything it would be hypocritical of him not to have a dig at PIF/Saudi

Squires has been relentless on City, on Abramovich, on the super league etc etc If anything it would be hypocritical of him not to have a dig at PIF/Saudi

So this transfer i’d like a couple of players in early and quick, followed by a two month long saga transfer with a non update every day in the Ronny Gill and Athletic, plus a random surprise at the end

Now the Europa League list goes in the bin and the club can start to make bids off the CL list

Souness was a *terrible* manager but seems a really decent bloke. Might be old age He’s even a vegan on animal welfare grounds!