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Percy said about £5m, Tanner said £6m, Danish press reckoned there was an extra 500k or so paid when we got promoted and also a sell-on clause of about 10-15%

Didn't it turn out he'd basically been playing through that same injury? Hard enough playing behind those dossers without also carrying a groin injury

Bring back the good old days when Glastonbury was about truly apolitical acts like Rage Against the Machine, Joan Baez and Sinead O'Connor

I've been enjoying it. Wet Leg and Franz Ferdinand back to back yesterday was pretty good stuff and caught bits of some acts I wasn't at all familiar with like CMAT who put on a great show by the looks of it. The headliners aren't necessarily my cup of tea but never mind, there's plenty else on. This occurred to me as well. As someone not overly familiar with them I thought they were pretty good but not in a way that made me think "yes, these are obviously one of the biggest bands going" and I don't know anyone who would cite them as one of their favourite acts. We must not be travelling in the right circles.

Was about as good the first time as well. The sooner there's some sort of forum rule against unfunny AI shit the better IMO

They did not. As far as I can see the players likely to be there are El Khannouss, Daka, Ndidi and Coulibaly, none of whom I would be at all surprised to see leave before then anyway. Okoli I believe is eligible for Nigeria and though he was called up by Italy he hasn't made his senior debut, so I guess theoretically he could switch allegiance in time?

No problem mate, just make sure it never, ever happens again

Are you thinking of Eddie Howe? Dyche has been sacked from all three of his jobs

He is as inflexible as those managers he's criticising. If his Burnley team went on a bad run I can't remember there ever being any suggestion that he should or would change his style of play, because - to use the football fan's new favourite word - rigidly sticking to a philosophy is "pragmatic" as long as that philosophy involves playing defensively and hoofing it.

Reading an article about the UEFA Pro License course and among this year's group, alongside the likes of Nuri Sahin, Gael Clichy and Dante, is our very own Andy King. Includes set-piece sessions with Tony Pulis and a guest appearance from everyone's favourite manager Russell Martin.

I voted anti because I think he's a cock but all things considered I think I'm probably right in the middle. You have to take into account the people making the decisions so it's not like it's a choice between Dyche and some really exciting, progressive, upwardly-mobile manager because there likely won't be any of those on the shortlist. It's more like a choice between Dyche and keeping Ruud or getting some other dosser off the free agent pile, in which case he becomes a more attractive proposition. In short, there's no doubt we could do worse. My concern about his style of play is less about entertainment and more about to what extent it's going to be the best way of getting promoted from a league in which more or less every team is going to be parking the bus against us. We are probably going to be heavy favourites for the majority of our games in a way that I'm not sure even his promotion-winning Burnley sides would have been (maybe people with better memories can correct me on that). His achievements at this level a decade ago with a very different group of players to ours and, I would suggest, a very different level of expectation don't necessarily fill me with confidence that we could expect similar results.

"Never went on to make it anywhere" is just quite an odd thing to say about players who are 20 and 21, that's all

I was only half paying attention but I think Joe Cole and/or Jermain Defoe made that comparison in the studio beforehand. Wout and Coads will pocket him no problem of course

Visions of one of those passing network graphs and it's just a solid, straight line drawn from Asmir Begovic to Andy Carroll

Probably in the same way as you need permission to talk to a player i.e. yes but seemingly there's nothing to stop you, or someone working on your behalf, getting in touch with their agent to gauge what the player's hypothetical response would be to this hypothetical offer

Trying to make this the year I start making a dent in my backlog so in that spirit, and with the sequel on its way and previewing well, I am currently (I believe) about halfway through Death Stranding. Very much an acquired taste but I'm having a lovely time with it. I reckon it's the sort of game you either immediately, irreversibly dislike or steadily grow to really love and I think I may well be in the latter camp.

I've never followed Final Fantasy very closely - what was the general reaction to the shift away from turn-based combat? I assume it was done because they thought it was limiting their audience but between Baldur's Gate, Persona and now Clair Obscur (are we meant to call it that or Expedition 33?) there seems ample evidence that games with turn-based combat can be enormously popular and successful

Unfortunately there's never been any indication he is going to do that. It's like saying I'm happy for us to give Danny Ward a new contract and the no.1 shirt as long as he stops being so shit

We could definitely appoint a worse manager than Wilder but we would really struggle to appoint a bigger bellend and it's a good few years now since he last did anything particularly impressive, so my feelings would be mixed

Sounds good, I wonder if he's done anything else more recently than that

I don't necessarily disagree but of the permanent appointments made under the current ownership only Ranieri didn't have recent coaching experience in the UK, so it seems reasonable to conclude that it's something they value whether we agree with that or not

Seems like he ticks too many of the boxes not to be under serious consideration - recent domestic experience, plays the sort of football KP prefer, big enough reputation for him to be on their radar and, perhaps most importantly, out of work

Keep unless we get a silly offer imo. Without knowing what sort of shape Fatawu is going to be in, it's difficult to argue he's not our best forward at the moment and we know he's more than capable at Championship level

I don't think he did, did he? They've got different surnames for one thing. For another, MON has done about five months of club management in the last decade so I don't think there's any way anyone could be confident of his ability to get us promoted

For the avoidance of doubt, that post was made-up bollocks in the ITK "passing on what I've heard" style that has become so popular