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The sooner we do it the sooner other clubs won’t be allowed to.

Admittedly Howe was talking before Mitchell was announced as leaving so things might be completely different now. It’s definitely out of character though which he has always been very careful about.

It would have been fascinating to see how a successful Guehi bid would have turned out since the club have (hopefully deliberately) put out mixed messages about our transfer activity in the last year. The club have unofficially said there’s no money but Howe has contradicted that on a few occasions in the last two windows. I don’t think it’s much of a stretch to think he’s basically issuing something of an ultimatum in the way he’s been speaking recently. He’s been very matter of fact in a way he never is over transfers. The money is there, we need players and we need them quickly. There’s no excuses at all from the higher ups this summer and he wants us all to know it.

“Speed is key for us and I have reiterated that many times internally. Speed is key because we have to be dynamic, we have to be ready to conclude things very quickly because good players don’t hang around for long. “That’s always been my thought and my message on recruitment, because you can have a period when you think you have time – but then you look around quickly and you see that time has elapsed and you missed opportunities you won’t get again. “That’s what we will be trying, but the reality of that is it’s not always in your hands – but we will do our best to do things early”

Disappointing but also a relief if he’s joining for non-footballing reasons. It’s inevitable but the longer we can avoid signing mercenaries the better.

He constantly shouts, points and pulls faces regardless of what’s actually happening. I’ve always thought had some kind of condition so never mocked him for it.

“Manchester United's team were met by around 35 super-keen local fans who'd waited for hours on end at the W Hotel, Kuala Lumpur, on the first stop of their tour. Waiting for the coach to return, post match after a 1-0 loss? Um, about 34 fewer fans”

Imagine someone like Shearer making a mistake then pretending to be injured so he can go off. In a European final at that.

Pretending he’s injured. Dreadful.

Anybody we sign now has to be a Howe choice so bring him home.

He’s also hit the post 13 times in the PL. A bit more luck and he’d have loads more goals.

Looks like he’s been crying in that picture. Wonder why?

If he’d been hired to work with Howe, Howe would have been involved in the hiring process. This sounds like a hostile takeover of sorts by Eales.

On the one great season point, Mbeumo got 9 in 25 the year before but had a bad injury. He’s at 29 goals in 63 PL games in the last 2 seasons in a very average, mid table team. He’s also showing he can work really well with a main striker based on Wissa doing so well.

If we were in the Europa/Conference we could have a year of young players like Dibling but we aren’t so we need Champions League players as soon as possible. Mbuemo in our team managed by Howe is that player.

This sort of thing was always on the cards since last summer so I’m pleased it’s sorted early as I was honestly expecting it to be worse than the 2024 window. Mitchell was saying then he’ll be in charge this summer after Howe led the way last summer (essentially blaming him) and Howe clearly isn’t the type to be in the passenger seat. Howe, like Keegan, is an old school manager not some wishy-washy “head coach” who will just make do with what’s he’s given. We need someone who will facilitate Howe’s ideas and plans if this is a job role we’re going to keep. He wants this to be a huge window so we need to make sure it is.

In the last month he’s really been laying the groundwork for being backed financially in a way I don’t think he has before, certainly not in a few years. He’s explicitly saying we don’t have PSR problems and we need to sign players. The ball is firmly, and publicly, in “their” court now. Howe has made himself beyond bulletproof so there’s no excuse for the club and the transfer team to not fully back him.

A visual indicator of just how injured he is. From this to almost nothing basically overnight. We'd have pissed 2nd if he was ok.

LOVE how much they’ll have hated helping us. Makes it all the sweeter.

They finished 14 points behind Sheffield United, a team who would almost certainly be relegated next season. For context we’d be 12th if we dropped 14 points.

He seems to encapsulate exactly why Man Utd losing is always the best option. I’m not looking but his response to the people laughing at him will no doubt be “How meneh trofehs you won?”.