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If enzo is staying then all our signings have to be able to play enzoball. That’s a decent shout for de Roon. And finances won’t allow us to spend big on fees. As ric says, we need to play clever in the free transfer market. It’s a growing market - we aren’t the only club losing decent players for nowt.

Only if he has a gender reassignment …….

I think it may have been one other game Ashley. That sort of says it all. The system is paramount. Trust the process. They were down to ten men - hence we could play an extra attacker.

Next leader of the free world is either a lunatic or demented I suppose the dementia is less scary (although we have had four years of the lunatic and we’re still here )

I heard it definitely was a city fan (18 y o kid) sounded very dumb though and his mate who also spoke sounded like he’d just sniffed something I suppose if you’re high as a kite then you probably wouldn’t enjoy a controlled tactical performance

We’ve conceded goals like this before this season I remember at Burnley, home to yanited - there are others. it’s the new way of playing kids are coached to play this way if they are of a decent standard if you’re of a mindset that it frustrates the life out of you because you would prefer us to have a 50/50 on the half way line from a kick out then the next decade is going to be a problem for you

I’m watching scream - that’s surprising me ! but it’s less scary than watching macateer 😄

Kasey forcing a young kid to take his shirt 😄

assuming that guillem and enzo are close (which they are), it sounds like enzo maybe doesn’t rate rudders as a D of F I fear ric is right about the future

Unintended consequences….. bit like var 😀

Egypt Tbf, they are very close to each other …

Agree it does show that there is a lack of decent options

We don’t know for sure and we also don’t know if it’s just starts, or whether sub appearances have a min time applied to count

Try doing a chip like that on the run and you’ll work it out …..

On the basis that means we’re promoted or you fancy him t do a job in the prem ??

I wonder what we’d have to pay gala not to sign him ??

Afaik, it’s the same but I reckon we may well be playing him sparingly to avoid having to buy

I mean how can you know what is the agreed contractual salary and how much is the s/o fee ?? Surely you can manipulate either way if the player is ok about it I assume there must be accounting rules and regs around agents fees

There are various angles on this and the two you mention are also relevant. but Egypt can justify based on the ones I posted about because it will play better in their public opinion I see the much mooted new ceasefire/pause has had a response from Hamas. Unlikely to be accepted by Israel

I havent read it but they’ve taken many injured patients into Egypt for treatment I assume they’re saying that they won’t accept any resettled Gazan residents in Egypt. Whilst some will view that as cruel, from a Palestinian standpoint, once they’ve been moved out of Gaza they won’t know if they would be allowed to return. There’s history here. so it could be seen more as anti netenyahu govt and drawing a line in the sand

I won’t make the obvious post about us trying to pay extra ……

In cases such as Kante, mahrez and ndidi - yes he does. for all the other signings where we had our oants pulled down - nothing to do with big John ….

The point is we have to invest big time in the squad and if we were to assume that we are are £20m short on ffp then a sale of kdh for £35m means we cover that £20m and the £15m left over covers purchases of £75m in year 1. Adjust the numbers up and down accordingly. of course it’s all guesses re ffp pre end June.

I think we got fair value for Barnes given we’d been relegated. desperation ? We will know more come June. I’m sure we’re scrambling around to get some commercial deals done within this financial year - we possibly could justify if we got promotion sealed v early. Selling kdh in jan as a championship club v selling him in June as a PL club - you’d expect to get more in June but clubs will definitely call our bluff if they think we need a sale. wait and see I suppose

This January is tougher re ffp by June, PL clubs will know their position better re how much they’re getting for the season from finishing position and sky money. I assume we’ve tried to bat away any cheap offers for kdh in jan to make it look like we’re not desperate. But we may end up in a similar situation that forest did with Johnson last summer. this assumes we have to sell someone of big value by end June