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Pogba doing his incredibly mysterious and deep instagramming clues about a return to Man Utd. Surely. SURELY they won't touch him for a third time?

A general rule of thumb. If someone in a leadership position implements a change that didn't obviously need making and INSISTS upon it then the benefit of that change is to leverage control.

I believe following Leicester veers into gallows humor

This is so wildly optimistic I would say it's verging on hysteria.

New full back not good enough to improve the team then. If the answer to the question is BDCR and Ayew then I'm not really positive that the question is 'How do we get something from this match?'. We're not overburdened with an embarrassment of riches but I think that there's a better starting line up to be had. Coady is a better bet than Vesty. I'd make a solid argument that Okoli should be preferred to Faes. Bouanotte - despite recent performances - should probably be starting. Ditto Daka; Vardy has been run into the ground and we might find more value with him coming on against legs that are tired from chasing around Daka. Pace is his only attribute and he's not reliable enough to come on and impact a game, may as well use him to tire out a defense rather than hope he can salvage something.

I take your point about profits. But whichever way I slice it - it doesn't forgive or lessen the neglect. It's clearly been timed to try and save a bit of face. I'm just not buying it anymore.

Either or, though, isn't it? It's not some massive act of generosity that it's being presented as. He won't be losing that money; it's just displaced. It will be BB recouped through future earnings, sale, or asset ownership.

Even our reporters are suffering heavy losses. Is there anything this club won't destroy?

It's not lost money in the sense his asset gains that value...he owns the club and is effectively in debt to himself.

Some spurious debt to equity conversion announced. Presumably a bit of PR to try and ease tensions.

This has been raised before but surely the contract for the woeful caterers must be up? They've been a horror show from day one. I don't eat or drink with them but on the occasion I have it's been a Shakespearen tragedy of ineptitude. I'm fairly the certain the staff have some kind of medical brain chip that makes them run on 15% capacity for energy saving purposes.

The price tag is the issue. If we'd have got him closer to his actual value then he'd not be being discussed. We've payed way over the odds for a player we don't need. It's rankling.

An element of fiddling whilst Rome burns. Nothing will impact his life significantly anymore, short of total and irredeemable civilisation collapse globally. That won't happen in a way that he will feel. So why not entertain yourself by agitating and unsettling the proles. For the lulz.

There's a lot to dislike about football in the modern era. I'm starting to resent going to watch us and the city have been my absolute life love. I can't stand the 'football culture' that has sprung up on the Internet and in the media. Thousands of morons in comments sections arguing about 'farmers leagues' and 'goats' and 'limbs'. It's always people who don't attend matches, too. But they've got opinions that need airing. The players, both ours and wider, are just willy pullers, by and large. All the performative signs and symbols and silly little actions, the endless ego. Oh my gosh did Lamina stitch flags onto his boots? Did Mbappe do a cryptic post. THEY'RE SO IMPORTANT AND MYSTERIOUS. And central to this is watching Leicester chuck everything down the drain and treat people like me and my father as criminals for doing something that we've always done. I can't prove it but we all know - life long season ticket holders aren't wanted at our club. And we're supposed to actually OWN the essence of the club; Top is just it's custodian. Yet they work against us. Anyone employed by Leicester is a stooge to this, Jim included. He should be ashamed. He's a good guy but he dances to their fiddle. Some fan. I'm starting to think that I'm finished with it all. It's just tedious. Give the game up to the international fans who have never been inside a ground. Let them salivate over which player cuts holes in their socks or who does the best elbow dance. Clearly it's no longer for people like me who want to watch their local team with their mates and families.

The club have no control over this message board, surely.

He was decent, I thought. I'd have him back today.

I think the luxury of the training ground doesn't help the mentality. I've been in there. It's incredible. You can see how professional footballers - who are already FULL of their own self importance, belief, and ego - would go there every day and assume that they're elite. No siege mentality if you're in a palace and not a barricade, to labour a metaphor.

They won't be worrying about that. They've been appealing to a 'new demographic of fan' per their recent communication about the Matchday Experience. They'll be happily buying up the tickets, I presume.

You kidding me? I'd finish my shite sandwich and ask for seconds. You think you're too good for a delicious shite sandwich? Entitled.

We WERE lucky. Past tense. It's ran out now.

That pitch invader.

He's re-learning how to walk after illness. Which makes him a prime candidate for our back line, actually.

Pointless. Wrong appointment made in the 'aura' (an actual quote) he had at Man U away. Presumably the competent managers don't have vibes.

Unforgivable subs. Like he's drawing names from a hat. He hasn't got much to choose from on the bench but don't weaken the team on the pitch just to make a choice. This is no fun to sit in the cold watching.

Got the reception it deserved there. Honking choice. Ayew for Bouanotte instead