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Get in Longy!

Arm in natural position there. No foul surely

He's an underrated player imo. Does a good job week in week out without fuss and has a great attitude by all accounts. Obviously this could just be a rumor especially if its the Mail ffs, but he's the type of player you could see Eddie wanting.

Well here's hoping Salah buggers off too and things fall apart for them. Also really hope City convincingly win the league so he doesn't get a heroes send off of any kind and the gap between them and the top is as obvious as last season. Good manager and all no doub but he's been an utter prick for the last 2 years or so at least.

Joe loves the club I think there's still a decent chance he'll end up extending, unless he knows Bayern/Barca or someone of that ilk is interested. He's an absolutely key player and deserves to be amongst the top earners but if he's asking for more than I can understand the club standing firm.

Can clearly only mean one thing. In a first, oil discovered under the old training ground. Club to earn royalty ~500M/year. Plans to move to the new facility will need to be expedited but the royalties should just about cover it.

Despite the progress made this shows you how far behind we still are to 'top clubs'. Less than half revenue than that of Spurs or Chelsea, just marginally above West Ham. We'll be climbing places with the CL money and new sponsorships this year. But after that it will stagnate a little as there won't be CL next season, unless the club manages to find some really innovative ways of securing new sponsorships.

Beckham and Zidane shouldn't be used in the same breadth either to be fair

Yeah I get it from Miggy's point of view because he is very very unlikely to end up at a club chasing CL or trophies. If 30M is on offer though I hope Ashworth has him tied up and in a taxi because that's definitely the best thing for the club for next season.

Considering what other players like Fabinho and Neves have gone for, the fee should be at least 30M hopefully.

Look on the bright side, already 2 new signings for next season.

I'm sure Ashworth has a list of candidates we could target for 50M rather than splunk it on Solanke who might go back to scoring 6 goals a season next year.

The currently 17th placed team could be deducted ANOTHER 10 points and still probably stay up

Have I mentioned that this season is a 'write-off'?

Well finally a rumour one can get behind. 30M fee would mean a nice little 100M+ injection into the transfer kitty. Al Shabab is not one of the PIF owned clubs so less scrutiny on the price too. Maybe we can squeeze out another 5-10M in added fees? Ship Wilson off for 20M off and that's a great window before we've managed to get anyone in

I don't know about that. I know Krafth and Dummett did well in the one or two games they've had to play this season but do you think we can compete on 4 fronts (assuming we sneak into Europe) and hope to get back into the CL when we're one injury away from having to play Dummett for an extended period of time. I think there's a few levels between Botman/Schar and Dummet/Krafth (even Burn) and Lascelles is in them. I think you need at least one good quality CB for rotation, someone who can reliably feature in 10-15 games depending on injuries. Yeah a promising academy graduate would be nice but we don't seem to be anywhere near that at the moment. So you're still looking at spending maybe 10-20M on an up and coming CB from Europe, for instance. Unless Howe has the kind of confidence in Dummett and Krafth that you do.

Well this has certainly set off the Pharoahmoans hasnt it

To be fair it can be difficult to wrap your head around

Burn's had some poor games at LB too this season mind. Lascelles came in and, against expectations including mine, did a job against CL and top Premier league opposition. Don't think we can expect that from Burn.

All depends on if they're offering a reasonable amount for him, and no I don't know what that would be. He's done a good job covering the first team this season, any decent replacements would cost a lot more money. We need to focus on DM, RW and a forward for now not freaking Lascelles' replacement. I think he's a much better 3rd choice option than Burn. I'd be snapping their hands off if we had any sort of FFP wriggle room mind.

Class work this. Many are rightly worried about Bruno getting injured or suspended but I'm equally concerned about Gordon and Isak. Gordon has racked up some right miles there and he's been instrumental in almost everything good we've done going forward.

Its the off field VAR. Absolute shambles but great for the established big boys.