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Apparently Wilson is 6'11". Two different measurements.

There are mitigating circumstances but given City's current dominance to argue that loosening the purse strings wouldn't see City become even more dominant (at least until we caught up) doesn't ring true for me. As much as I'd like it to be otherwise and despite how much fun it would be and is normally, please trust me when I say that this pains me to admit, I think I agree with Dave.

New purchase today. First new electric guitar I've bought in a long time and my first tele. I'm in love already. ❤️

If he can stay fit until Botman is fit to play again and provide cover at CB and LB when needed, then I think the transfer can be viewed as halfway decent already at that point. Based on his injury record that seems fairly unlikely, but as a free transfer coming into the squad to provide cover and more competition for places behind Burn at left-sided CB and Hall at LB, then I think it's worth a punt. Perhaps the biggest worry is the length of contract. Hopefully his wages are unders or heavily weighted toward play-time so he can either be moved on more easily or doesn't cost us too much if he turns out to be a permacrock. There is potential here that we end up in a player we can't shift if things go badly. Otherwise, it doesn't seem like there's much downside to this signing. Bit of a risk. But the stakes are pretty low so it's one we can hopefully eat if it goes titsup.

Now that all bets are off for teams playing together in the CL despite group ownership conflicts why not bring the blue dippers in as a feeder club for us despite being in the same league. That's how this works, right? In any case, the blue mackems already got some practice in at selling us their best talent at cut prices. So should be a smooth transition.

Definitely seems like one for the future / cover for injury / and playing in cup games to give Pope a rest. Since the site has been on the blink in the past week, I've been on Twitter looking through the #NUFC tag on a few occasions (not recommended) and there seems to be a real level of stupidity there, with one particular highlight being an idiot calling for Howe to be fired because of our transfer dealings so far this window. For me, this seems like a good signing. What is he? 21 or 22? And already in and around the international squad with a full season of PL experience under his belt already. If things go well, he could conceivably be our keeper for the next 15 years. He appears to be comfortable with the ball at his feet, coming from the City system & playing under Kompany. So that seems crucial in that he is style of keeper we need. We could possibly have England's future GK, LB & RB in the squad now in the three youngsters we've signed. That's amazing business to get done so early in our development and it certainly continues to show a level of patience and future planning that holds us in good stead. I'm excited by what this signing represents and promises long-term and not so much by what it offers in the immediate or short term. And we're after medium- to long-term plans in the goalkeeping department as far as I'm concerned because Pope is a great keeper. Replacing him with better immediately would be prohibitively expensive in my opinion so much so that it simply isn't worth it to try and upgrade Pope when there are other way more important positions in the starting XI to address -- obviously RW being the most important. This transfer ticks all the boxes for me. On other transfers, I'm really hoping that Minteh doesn't get sold. And selling him to a rival PL club should be completely out of the question. He seems to have real potential. Of course, he may have been purchased with an eye for a future sale in mind, but if he's outperformed expectations, which you'd have to suggest he has done, then there's no reason to sell him in order to facilitate the purchase of a 100m player if he's barely a season or two off maybe being one himself (which appears at least possible at this stage). By the way, thank god, the site is fixed. I don't think I could take much more of the idiocy over on twitter.

I think this ruling proves the point of the rule. Or more to the point, who it applies to.

This guy needs to read the Art of the Deal and learn something, narcissistic moron to narcisstic moron.

Honestly anyone who goes to Chelsea must be going for non-footballing reasons because it's clearly a club run by a complete basketcase who doesn't have a clue let alone a plan. Which, for me, means that having Chelsea after the same players as us is a blessing as it's a kind of inadvertent filtering process to identify the types of personalities we don't want in the dressing room. If Tosin chooses Chelsea then fair play to him. He gets a pay day. And we avoid signing a character who lacks the requisite level of ambition that we're after. All that said, it's possibly the case that Chelsea are simply trying to drive up Tosin's wages and agent fee by feigning interest. But, then again, that would be a demonstration of a plan and some level of common sense, so I guess it's unlikely.

Best ever PL team in its full pomp fail to turn up completely and get beaten by the worst and lowest league finishing ManU team in living memory. Sums up our luck for the season.

Truly horrible keeping.

VAR simply won't give a penalty against ManU.

Stones is crap.

De Bruyne hooked. Justified. He's been dogshit.

Horrible defending.

Typical.

Kuol seems very raw. He looks like he doesn't know where he's meant to be half the time. He's clearly lacking confidence from two pretty bad loan spells. But there are signs of talent from what he's shown in the past (mostly prior to signing with us). Definitely seems like a lower league footballer at best though on current evidence. The next 12 months for him are make or break, I guess.

Am I missing something? Why is Vincent Kompany considered hot property? He's proven capable of getting a Championship yo-yo club promoted and proven incapable of achieving anything close to keeping them in the PL. I get the point that he has some credit as a disciple of Pep but really (on the basis of current results) has he done much to separate himself from other high-profile former players turned managers? Plenty of bang average managers have been promoted out of the Championship on less resources than Burnley have at their disposal.

This explains the timing of the release of yesterday's story about Ashworth's cockup with his email. Presumably secretly conversing with a rival employer behind your current employer's back, prior to informing your current employer, then expressing a desire to take a job with said rival, prior to availing your current employer of the opportunity to protect their own interests and sensitive information is grounds to be placed on gardening leave. Well perhaps. I mean, really, its a maybe because, of course, I'm no expert on how contracts work, like Ashworth. The release of yesterday's story spells out the timeline perfectly (with some added dishonesty and rule breaking/avoidance thrown in for good measure). It is 100% timed to torpedo this completely ridiculous defence by Ashworth/ManU. And it's a wonderful lesson in how to use the media to your advantage. We've established the club acted in its best interests to protect sensitive information by placing Ashworth on gardening leave. Clearly his "secret" emails have shown that we had an almost prescient level of awareness, almost like we could somehow see the future (or one idiot's email account). On the other hand, I'm guessing Ashworth only learned that the club knew about his secret dealings with ManU yesterday*, unfortunately, for him & ManU, that would be after he'd already submitted his argument laying the groundwork for his arbitration case. So now he's married to an argument that is demonstrably false. And, moreover and best of all, its false in the best sense that the club only has need to utilise Ashworth's own words to demonstrate the argument for placing him on gardening leave. Your move, Ratcliffe. Edit: *Just saw the next story from Hope. So Ashworth did know that the club knew about his secret email? Or did he actually think he'd successfully deleted it and covered his tracks? Oh my. This just keeps getting better.

Looks like the Glazers PR stunt of employing some British blowhard and his friends is working perfectly. The stadium and facilities continue to crumble, they have a fraud of a manager, a team of overrated, overpaid and past-it shit, a group of young "talents" that'll be clogging up mid-to-lower level PL teams in a few years, and meanwhile the supporters are happy to indulge in the media crafted distraction of getting riled up about not being allowed to just take someone else's contracted employee for free. They're a supporter base that deserves every last bit of suffering brought upon them by shit ownership. Do any of them stop to think that maybe Ashworth isn't worth the coin and perhaps they've been had given current circumstances? The cunt can't manage his emails. How's he going being the central hub of a wheel in his own life or whatever shit he likes to peddle out like a teenage boy who hasn't read the book for his homework? But Ratcliffe wants him so they're up and about. The more we learn about this dickhead the more it becomes clear that he's much better suited to a job at ManU. He's left a legitimate project for a mirage. He's as much a fool as their supporters. ManU's transformation into a bunch of small timers is remarkable for its pace. It's like having the best PL team ever right next door to them has done something to their collective psyche.

This story just keeps getting better.

What's the story? Is this guy a big upgrade on Pope? It's a lot of money for a GK. You'd hope he's a big upgrade for that kind of coin.

To be fair to Klopp he's nailed the Liverpudlian/English taste for historical revisionism and a messiah complex.