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Fortunately there isn't a Turkish Embassy down the Bigg Market.

Part of me is pleased to hear he looks good for you and will be a part of the first team instead of warming the bench, part of me wants to take the authors of the PSR regs out back and shoot them. He was supposed to be the answer to our RW problem, but instead we've had to sell him (and...

See the lad scored for you already, obviously I didn't watch the game so what's your opinion of him?

:LOL: You can't sell your young stars if you don't have any.

Makes a change from other clubs taking your promising players, I guess. It's rare for us. can't remember the last time we were forced to sell a young star. Maybe Carroll? Coincidence that it's roughly the same transfer fee. For what it's worth Minteh has more promise than Carroll did.

Yep, broken metatarsal, he'll miss much of the first half of the season. But hopefully we'll keep the others fit; Bruno, Joelinton, Longstaff, Tonali and Willock. From those 5 we've got variety and a little depth.

Well, if you want Krafth, he could solve both those problems for you. Yours for just a reasonable fee, say £10m?

I've no idea if this is the case, but my personal take is that because of who owns us we're going to great lengths to at least appear like we're doing everything above board. I mean even the shirts sponsor and sleeve sponsors are within 'fair market value' all be it at the upper reaches...

It'll be interesting to see if the number of injuries stays as high this coming season. Aside from the two young wingers, are you expecting to do big business this window? I know that even though we've signed 3 free transfers and officially signed Lewis Hall, we'll have about £100m to spend on...

Have to be honest, selling Minteh was always something I expected to happen this window or next. The plan was for the same to happen with Garang Kuol, but he didn't show anything in his loan spells to warrant any club coming in for him. I was shocked that we got £33m for him, even more...

I absolutely agree with this and worry that my position isn't clear. Again, there absolutely should be a cap on spend for fees or wages, or both? There should be rules about the number of players a team has on it's books, the number of 'homegrown' talent they have to name in their squad, the...

Man City didn't have the regulations to comply with. There was no PSR/FFP, there were no rules against commercial deals with associated parties, there were no rules against buying or selling between associated football clubs. We've been compliant and have made great strides in commercial deals...

Sorry, think there's been some misunderstanding. I'm all for a cap, some kind of limit to what a club can fritter away on expensive gambles like Mudryk or Antony. But that cap shouldn't be to the benefit of the established teams, or to the uber-wealthy, but more to the benefit of the chasing...

Astronomical? Over the past 5yrs, they've spent c€145m net, so a little under €30m a season. Now that they are in the Champions League, they have to sell their best player, trade players with other PL clubs to magically create accounting wriggle room and they'll still be way behind the...

Geordie here, Torn on this one. Minteh is a really exciting prospect, he's been very very good in the Dutch league, we're arguably weakest at RW and there are plenty of other players I'd have preferred to move on ahead of him. BUT, he's never kicked a ball in anger for us, we've no guarantee...

I've seen Man Utd fan accounts spin this as great for their side and Newcastle accounts spin it as great for us. From my point of view, the email to Berrada predates his gardening leave and he broke confidentiality. It's tapping up. So why would Newcastle acquiesce to their lowball demands?

It's not about the money, not really (aside from the boost it will give to our PSR envelope). It's more about showing that we're no longer a club that will roll over when a bigger club wants something from us. Not just Ashworth, but players too. All we've heard for the past few weeks is how...

Looks like there's proof of tapping up. Dan Ashworth has been emailing Berrada (at an INEOS email address) before the formal approach happened. Can't imagine it will stop Ashworth from joining Man Utd, but it gives us more leverage in terms of compensation.

Bit rich of us to be booing you for those tactics as it's something we're quite happy to do when it suits. Running joke that Schar magically gets a head injury when Howe needs to get messages to the team, or we need to kill some momentum. Thought you were good value for the draw and it's...

There are anti-Saudi demonstrations at every home game, though not well attended. Those protesting are largely left in peace by the rest of the fans, which is a scintilla of relief. You're absolutely right that resistance to the new owners would be stronger had they taken control from a...