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Him signing for United now stretches the record which says United have had a player managed by Alex Ferguson in their squad since 1974 - which was Arthur Albiston.

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Every chance he’s been signed to be an over age player for the U23’s.

It’s a thing now. Tom Huddlestone was at United last season. Jay Spearing is back at Liverpool.

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Just watched a video of that Swiss kid.

Reminds me of Morgan Gibbs-White.

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whiffa wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 18, 2023 2:02 pm
Aguero is only 173cm and he scored a bloody lot of them. Height isn't everything, I think is the point.

Sure it was. It was an irrelevant example to prove it though.

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claret5 wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 18, 2023 1:43 pm
Andy Payton was 175cm, just saying

How many Premier League goals did he score?

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Also strange that Chelsea sold Ruben Loftus-Cheek for £15m to Milan and apparently only want £15m for Callum Hudson-Odoi. Not sure where they get £20-25m for Maatsen. Zero logic when compared to the above two players. Suspect RLC and CHO are on 5/6/7 times a week more than Maatsen. That would be th...

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It would interesting to know how much we earn from worldwide sales of replica shirts, especially so in America with JJ Watt doing his bit to plug them across the pond. An absolute pittance. It’s not about shirt sales. It’s about subscribers, followers, eyeballs on the club. If the Premier League be...

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I’m amazed that it’s 2023, that we’ve been in the Premier League for most of the last ten years and somebody is shocked that a signing costing north of £10 million will be on £40k a week.

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By your logic you might as well be countered by the somewhat silly “ Dave only earns £500 a week in a factory not 100k a week like Deli Ali so doesn’t have money to ease his childhood problems “ Sure if your out of form as a prem player you get bloody awful stick , but that goes with territory . If...

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two sides to that though, it shows money doesn't mean anything in the grand scheme of things BUT it also allowed him to pay (a lot) for the therapy he received which others less fortunate couldn't afford. Double edged sword in many ways and everyone's situation is unique to them, it doesn't really ...

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Not to belittle his trauma but just on this forum alone there will be many early awful childhoods and such. Right. And how many of them are doing a job where tens of thousands of people watch you, do a job which is televised and their performance is scrutinised and pored over, a job which gets them...

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Will white shorts or light blue shorts have much difference to the reasons women want change? I can't say it will. Let them choose there own coloured shorts and let the club carry on with a proper Burnley kit How many periods have you had whilst in football shorts? Unless the answer is anything oth...

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94/95 season ……. we beat them 5-1 at Turf with John Gayle scoring an implausible overhead kick.

I went down there for the return fixture where I think Kurt Nogan scored his first goal for us. I seem to remember us being 2-0 down very early on.

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RVclaret wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 11, 2023 7:55 pm
LongsideClaret further up suggested we had a chance of getting Manning and had met with him / his agent last week.

No he didn’t

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Russell Martin on Ryan Manning: “We've beaten competition from two clubs in the Premier League for him, which I'm really pleased about, because I thought the lure of that would make it difficult for us, but he's come here because he knows the work and he believes in it.” Sounds like we could have b...

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Cooclaret wrote: ↑
Mon Jul 10, 2023 1:42 pm
My opinion; Roberts isn’t good enough, he’s too slow in transition. He also doesn’t have the raw pace of a Walker to cover himself.

Because Roberts isn’t as fast as the fastest player in the league he isn’t good enough?

That’s quite a take.

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No definitely not only glue-and you know what Socrates there will be a fair number of clarets thinking the same as me. Everyone to their opinions. Read some of the comments of Forest fans when he played for them in the Championship. I bet you are the only Burnley fan who thinks no Championship team...

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warksclaret wrote: ↑
Sun Jul 09, 2023 9:49 am
I dont even think a Championship side would want him

Are you on glue?

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Nori1958 wrote: ↑
Tue Jul 04, 2023 8:56 pm
Not someone you'd want in the trenches with you
Always said he'd need replacing if we got promoted, looks like Kompany agrees

I tell you who you wouldn’t want in the trenches with you (an utterly idiotic turn of phrase by the way).

Somebody who turned instantly on team mates.

Snide.

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They never change the Australian cricket team.

Snide. Horrible lot.

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This guy has been on a few pre-season pictures but I’m not sure who it is. Any assistance would be appreciated.

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ClaretTony wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 11, 2023 8:29 am
Not with all of them - we've picked up fees for players such as Josh Benson & Jimmy Dunne who came from Arsenal and Manchester United respectively.

Adam Phillips too.

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Dressinggown wrote: ↑
Sun Jun 04, 2023 8:39 pm
We keep hoping that the Pro will come good with the bat.

.The hope remains.

100 last night and another today.

Delighted for him.

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Why is nobody else signing the magical mythical players where you put almost no money down and they all appreciate in value?

Sounds brilliant.

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clarets12 wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 3:28 pm
We'll spend near 100 mil this season.

Right?

You know there’s a massive difference between near £100 million and £130 million, don’t you?

This is real actual money. Not play stuff.

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gandhisflipflop wrote: ↑
Tue Jun 06, 2023 2:28 pm
Agree with that Jedi although I honestly think in addition to that, we will sign a CB and a new GK.

Verbuggen
The French cb who’s name I can’t remember
Maatsen
Lokonga
Tresor
Tella
Mikatuadze/Diallo

That’s about £130 million.

Minimum.

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He'd get tore apart week in week out in the premier league, he's not strong enough, the lad at Rotherham up front bullied him and so would 99% of the attack in the Premier league You’re chatting absolute wham. 1 game. That we won. That’s your example. And you extrapolate that across a whole Premier...

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Some absolute ******** spoken on here about Maatsen’s defensive qualities.

For his age his level is fantastic. The defensive stuff can be drilled in quite quickly if need be. Less so his attacking ability.

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I had sepsis four years ago and ended up spending seven weeks in intensive care. Took me about two years to fully recover from it.

Awful thing. Hope he’s ok.

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COBBLE wrote: ↑
Wed May 31, 2023 11:04 pm
I wish the guy all the best but fear (for him) that he has hit his level.

Champions League winner, European Super Cup winner, Club World Cup winner, England international, regular Champions League footballer ……. not a bad level.

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If we sign Fabian Ruiz my head will fall off.

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Didn’t Cornet have a release clause?

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Chelsea had Cech, Courtois and Mark Schwarzer all at the same time.

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I wrote House off a couple of times today. Unreal performance.

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Nathan Redmond

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I kept mine.

I was fortunate enough not to need the money, plus it was a gift to me. I also felt that it may be handy at some point in the future if things went wrong.

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A link up player that can score 12-15 goals will be 40m minimum. A player that you’ve heard of will be. If you wanted to sign Manuel Benson now you’d be talking £20 million plus but less than a year ago we got him for less than £3 million. Ditto Zaroury. Cullen was a snip but now you’d want north o...

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If it is a private individual who has lent the club the money could be a Burnley supporter who has just come into a large sum of money who is prepared to lend it at a beneficial rate?

Like Mike Garlick?

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We were paying a lot in wages to players who absolutely did not contribute last year.

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If Everton stay up this year they’ll be in the exact same situation next year, with the added possibility of a points deduction for their financial issues.

Poisonous Club.

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Pickles wrote: ↑
Thu May 04, 2023 11:46 am
Gyokeres is the best striker, perhaps best player I've seen against us this season.

Did you not watch the City game?

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taio wrote: ↑
Mon May 01, 2023 5:19 pm
Danny Murphy who can speak quite a lot of sense

Danny Murphy who can what?

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Just watched yesterday’s goal back again and the root cause of it is Harwood-Bellis coming miles for a header and not winning it.

That’s happened at least a couple of times this season for goals.

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They’re trying to recoup some money after printing a job lot of Sheff United ones in October after reading on here.

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Conroysleftfoot wrote: ↑
Mon Apr 17, 2023 9:37 pm
Funny, but i read he came here thinking he would have to wait for his chance, then when THB got his injury he got in the side. Can't see him wanting away so soon.

THB’s injury happened two weeks before Ekdal signed.

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Someone has clipped his performance from the other night: https://twitter.com/AREDlTS/status/1645743571415302144 The pass for JBG at 1.38 was a thing of beauty (and the pin point cross field ball to Benson after it not bad either). There’s four passes in that video that only one other full back in ...

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Just to add here.

Charlie Taylor is a really solid, Premier League level full back. He just isn’t suitable for a Vincent Kompany team.

Ian Maatsen is a very good player. I don’t think he would be nearly as good in a Sean Dyche team though.

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Some absolutely insane comments about Maatsen on this forum. A decent percentage of posters on here don’t know anything about modern football. Maatsen played a 40 yard ball last night through their midfield and defence into JBG’s path which dissected their team. He put a cross on and we got a corner...

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I always felt there was way too much hyperbole around Potter - and the press was cringeworthy. His win ratio at Brighton was not much better than Steve Kean’s. And the fact that de Zerbi has come in and instantly improved the team and individual players should really make people consider again the j...

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I don’t think there’s anything in it at all.

But laughable to think Kompany wouldn’t go if offered it.

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