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Yeah but they take an immediate hit. He was signed 2.5 years ago for £62m which was to be amortised over his eight year contract (before the five year maximum came in). So his book value is currently £43m. If they are to rip up his contract then that £43m is immediately recorded as a loss in their accounts which is a big hit to them. What they may do is delay that loss by stating that they're going to sue him for the remaining value of his transfer fee as they did with Mutu and Chelsea being Chelsea will probably get away with it.

can't help thinking ratcliffe's missed a trick here mind. there'll me 70,000 man utd supporters desperate to line warwick road in a guard of honour for the mackem's return. tickets will be priceless.

But it will stop them paying him £200k+ a week for 4 years whilst he sits at home wanking

Yeah. Bad taste + lots of money is not a good sartorial combination

State of that pitch

Aye, Fabrizio gets his info almost exclusively from agents. Joaos will be briefing interest from all over the shop to get them paid more.

They finished about 30 points behind burnley last season. Top after those five fixtures would be a reasonable shout for us, they'll be lucky to have 3 points.

Rich people wear some weird shit.

I’ve seen people on ket look more coherent than he did on a football pitch

Maybe, but won't help in recouping any transfer fee..?

Talking of mental gymnastics, well, just mental really.....

I'm sure they'll have a clause. It will no doubt come under gross misconduct

If he gets found guilty can they not just tear up his contract? Didn't they get rid of Mutu in similar circumstances? Can't remember the details.

There used to be a shop on Tynemouth front street called “ R. Strain Antiques”. Always got me

They will probably just sell him to their hotel for 75m to do some work there tbh.

They cant have been performance enhancing drugs as he was shit so we can only assume it was fentanyl.

I’m not so sure it’s good news for Chelsea. I’d have thought they’d take a big hit to their P&L were he to be unavailable for a couple of years. If they sack him then they’d take a massive hit.

The man from Boldon, he say:

Even without considering Villa who'll hammer them, the way they think they're going to get points off West Ham, Palace and Brentford suggests a rude awakening