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Man U sign Youri for 5yrs but but but he’s 29

@Dr Marco As it's been quiet on the rugby front in here, a bit of Tigers woman news who have been busy in the off season. The head coach Ross Bundy has moved on after 1 season going to Exeter as assistant coach, only announced last week so not replaced as yet but would like to think there is someone in pole position. In the meantime Fraser Goatcher who moved up to Director of W Rugby at the start of last season has been busy with new signings & with another announced this morning takes the tally to 9 so far. Obviously reinforcements were needed & the good thing is that this 9 have Premier league experience already or played in the Southern hemisphere, so all 9 will contribute from the start thankfully. Still a long way to go to hold our own but hopefully these 9 add the know how to stop the spankings we got last season, we also need an experienced coach to come in & shape an identity but things are happening which should benefit the team & development squad.

The mercs player rating for Ben on yesterdays match “Unlike his centre-back partnership (Okoli) Nelson was comfortable on the ball and progressed possession well. Did give the ball away but that is going to happen in this system.” Would imagine Martin will work with Ben in a similar way as he did with Harwood-Bellis but as H-B had at Southampton Ben will need an experienced steady CB along side him for now & we don’t have that except Souttar, it certainly can’t be Okoli. edit: Meant to add in Martins system we have to accept that last part of the rating, we even see it with international players at the WC but what we can’t do, which this place does at the drop of a hat, is to write him off and get on his back the moment he makes a mistake.

Giving Motsi, or an equivalent in any of the ‘let’s say 86 out of 92 clubs’ a blank cheque will not keep them at their home club academy once there is interest from those remaining 6 clubs, you only have to read Monga’s interview on Man C platform to see this. His words weren’t put in his mouth to massage Man C fans ego’s, he truly believes in what he’s said and why wouldn’t he, what has he known since he’s been following football from let’s say the age of 6/7. Man C have won the title 6 out of the last 9 seasons along with other cups and the ‘star’ players they bring in and despite a player in his home town academy having a soft spot for that home town at school he’s trading cards and supporting players/clubs from those other 5 or 6 clubs, it’s what school kids do. We could be in the premier league right now and the result would be the same for any of our academy players if those clubs came calling regardless of cheques or minutes.

He has been used a fair amount in our media reels for preseason, quite a lot of pics compared to others and in the ‘getting ready for today’s game’ video featuring Braybrooke, Page & Nelson which was posted yesterday so would assume shot this week he doesn’t sound like a player that’s looking to go & if he was why use him instead of 1 of the other young lads 🤷‍♂️

Not all schools have finished for the summer yet, it is only then when it is allowed to rain & it will do for 40 days & 40 nights or until they are all back

Where’s the big ‘if’ coming from with regards to staying injury free? I think people’s minds are set for when he was at Liverpool and suffered the back-back knee issues but this was in 2015 & on his return from that in 2016. In the past 5yrs for instance he has missed only 11 games due to injury 🤷‍♂️

Bruno Guimaraes wants out now, says he wants to go to Arsenal. Will Newcastle despite pulling in some wedge actually do anything this season or be this seasons Spurs? Isak, Tonali, Gordon, gone for €320m then with Guirmaraes rumour to Arsenal Hall rumour to Man U that'll be another €180-200m €500m but all their best players gone, except Barnes, who must now be thinking of putting his hand up also.

3rd largest fee for a 16yr old ever & with a sell on to bump that fee up in the future but we’ve had our pants down 🤷‍♂️ 🤨

After the project was scrapped it went on to have a short acting career in Dr Who playing a dog

Is it just our academy this is aimed at or ALL academies? I ask because haven’t Man C, Arsenal, Liverpool, Chelsea, Man U all spent in the region of £1bn on transfers in the past 2 windows alone, could throw Villa, Spurs in also as they have/are spending huge sums, so also not filling squads full of 17yrs old straight out their factories. Then look at the other 13 teams in the premier how many of them regularly bring a young lad through and how many, 1, 2, 3 a season, 1 or 2 every other season 🤷‍♂️ They have loads out on loan but how many actually make it at the parent club & at the ages we seem to want to fast track them in?

£12.5m + sell on thank you very much Man C

He done Chessum there

Yep they showed great character to go again after the George try ruled out because at that point it was game over.