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Am I mistaken or did the OP request no financial discussion on this thread? That applies to Vydra’s contract and insurance I would think. Hard to trawl through quickly due to all the other chat but it seems we have Cullen close (excellent), a stalemate on the City keeper and no news of an attacker (...

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Cullen must be off regardless hence Kompany can sign him without a guilty conscience.

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I think people forget we have about 8 games before the window closes. On that basis we aren't in any hurry to sell to the first bidder, we can hang on and see if we get better offers elsewhere. It also gives those players an idea of which way our club is going. IF we can get off to a good start, sh...

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I’m a bit uncomfortable reading these threads and seeing several abusive descriptions of the Chairman, often in hypothetical scenarios like if we sell McNeil for ‘x’ it means he is deluded. We know so little of what goes on, what promises have been made. Online abuse is wrong even if we do know the ...

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Good points and it wouldn't surprise me if McNeil and Twine were among the top assists charts in the Championship next year, and in such a scenario their values would definitely increase, and put both in the shop window for interested PL clubs. That would be the fall back. The plan of course is tha...

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Very pleased so far - the departures seemed obvious, none have gone yet I didn’t expect, just a tad disappointed in the Pope fee. The manager was signed in the window of course - very pleased with that. The incoming players - that City won’t let THB go is very promising, the other lad looks like a s...

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Dwights value has suffered for last season. There's obviously a good player in there, which is why he's wanted. On his day he is worth 50million, but he doesn't have those days often enough. There's no denying our style stifled lots of players, not just Dwight. I can only see him getting better and...

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Finished scanning today’s transfer news on here now after diving off for half an hour. Gosh there is some panic going on. You don’t win anything with cheap kids being the main theme. I do think we forget we have a side full of Premier League players plus a few promising youngsters. For example, Jay,...

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joey13 wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 7:14 pm
Did you see him against Ukraine ?

Saw him against Leeds. Draw that match we stay up. Wasn’t impressed.

Looks a good lad and solid keeper but not to Kompany’s taste I’m guessing. That’s fine. I trust his judgement. There is a profit / resale angle too.

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ClaretMov wrote: ↑
Fri Jul 01, 2022 9:26 am
Low wages, is he on minimum wage

To be fair, if I had to downsize from a Lambo to a Ferrari I’d be distraught

But, yes, maybe I should have written “relatively” before “low wages”

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The issue with Cornet is his fitness but Premier sides who like to pack their squad with players will happily stick him on the bench. He obviously has a top six career plan and it may come down to what suits that plan. Sign for a (say) Everton and they aren’t guaranteed to let him go for a few years...

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Wasn’t the “complaint” from our perspective both that Richarlison should have been banned for the flare and missed games, and also Everton’s spending LAST season should have led to an embargo this season? A potential third thing could be arguably that series of Covid postponement injustices but that...

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Agree with ClaretSpice but “proven quality” isn’t more important than “quality”, it is just a bigger unknown. Some of the younger lads may deliver immediately, I agree that is a big risk, but if they do we could thrive. It is experience and nous that we need, luckily we still have plenty and most pl...

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At this level, £30m goes a long, long way. Allowing for wages, about 5 Twines.

On that basis it may be good to sell, though I like Collins a lot, end of season errors notwithstanding.

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NHS spending and defence spending have never both peaked at once, one eased as the other rose. That may now change because having a country at all is more important than having this many people in it. Add to that the increase in benefits, increase in debt interest and the ageing population and it is...

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Selling players in January remains an option if we aren’t top two with a great chance (if finances dictate and we can’t wait out the season). Have a go, if we are in pole position by Jan the risk may feel worth taking, if not, sell the likes of Collins then, teams pay silly money in Jan at times.

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regarding Cornet, scored (and missed) a decent amount last season in one of the least creative sides in Premier League history. I for one hope he stays because I feel he's our 20 goal striker at this level in a team that uses the ball correctly A 20 goal striker at Premier League level I suggest. 9...

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No doubts from the above stats he is not a striker, he sets up the striker with cunning passes and shoots himself from range. Very few touches in the box for example. That’s totally fine, but we may need a mobile striker too if Cornet is off.

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One unacknowledged advantage of getting deals done early for cracking young players is that it may persuade some of our best players not to push for a move, Collins for example. If they feel confident we will go back up they may at least leave it until January. Currently I feel we are one holding mi...

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We will never know but deep down if VK was being honest I wonder if he prefers taking over after relegation rather than in the Prem? He may thrive now but it may have been too much for a very young manager at that level. He seems very content with what he has inherited. This is about rebuilding the ...

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You do wonder how much City as a club feel like they owe VK? The captain who delivered the noisy neighbours title that catapulted them to the top level. We do seem to be rumoured to be getting some incredible deals and, let’s be honest, they worry about money about as much as NUFC do. Add that to Ko...

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A good time to remind ourself of the first rule of Twitter - follow selected trusted sources and never, never click to see comments underneath or use the search function. That’s when the slime rises to the top of the pond.

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Muleka got a hatful in Turkey almost a goal a game but that level even Weghorst could score at. Didn’t do as well in Belgium before going to Turkey.

Looks promising though as a player.

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Nixon hinting in other tweets that Wallace hasn’t turned his back on Burnley yet, trying to get the best deal possible. We’ll see.

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Very easy to imagine Wallace looking at McNeil and Cornet and thinking he may not get a game. We may see those players both departing but from the outside that may not be the impression and transfers don’t always happen when expected, not least for the money it would take to do a deal. Personally ca...

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Having two years left with the added option I hope this means a big fee. An extra £10m would make a lot of difference to what the club has to spend. A shame Nick made a crucial error in his final game, that misjudged corner he flicked on that if Collins hadn’t punched would have been headed back acr...

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No it’s not at all. You shouldn’t get treated differently because of the fact you are a STH. It doesn’t give anyone a right to have less common decency towards the club and/or any of its employees. There are many outlets to receive information. The website, other social media accounts and on here a...

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I’d think we could outmuscle financially sides like Hull and West Brom. We know sales may be needed to pay down the debt or to fund transfers but there remain parachutes and wages offered should be strong at this level. Then we have the working environment, geographic location vs Hull, top facilitie...

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Fulham only went with about 7 of the main 11 who were relegated. Bournemouth, in taking a year longer, had fewer than that. So some turnover in players is to be expected. We were far better than Fulham, the table proves it, and thus we have more players attractive to other clubs. It’s the nature of ...

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Blocking for falling foul of a stated code of conduct is fine, but if it is random, knee jerk and undeserved, and IF that person is also a substantial paying customer such as a STH who uses that account to stay abreast, that is entering into dangerous territory. Don’t know the facts of this case so ...

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Local lad, grew up yards from where I am now, cut his teeth at Hallamshire Golf Club where wind isn’t expected, it is guaranteed, which helped this week.

Really nice lad, nice family, really chuffed for him. This week he’s even hitting it further than his brother Alex does, and he’s huge.

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I liked when he said he knows nothing about the Championship - “but ask me again in 3 months”.

Looks like good self awareness and a desire to talk honestly and openly.

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There are so many pointless “sliding doors” elements that could have seen us stay up, that is always the case when a goal or two in the last few minutes of a season swings it. My personal favourites are: The choice to start 5-3-2 against Newcastle with that weird shifting up of the right back when w...

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£12m Pope and £12m left over from Wood and we are already making financial inroads. Cornet seems certain to go too. I can see how we will spend cash the other way. Not quite as bad as some think.

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Great interview but actions speak louder than words and the action to appoint Kompany and persuade him of the long term vision, with Kompany having a major input into the club going forward - that’s impressive. There are nuggets in what Pace said and what Kompany said that when aligned together pres...

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The worrying thing about Ben abandoning ship, the guy who would literally put his head on the ground to block a shot, is that it shows we can expect no loyalty from any others - Cornet, Collins, McNeil, Taylor could all be engineering moves for all we know. What we need is a good persuasive manager ...

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out of the few managers that have been given jobs this summer in the Championship he is the most experienced. Dyche had less. Brian Laws had loads The sooner you realise that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts the happier you will be Agree there is more experience than we may initially ...

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I just like the positive attitude and persuasive, risk taking approach. If we ignore the nature of the takeover, the issue of which I have with the seller not the buyer, Alan has pulled rabbits out of the hat with Cornet, Weghorst (didn’t work but we needed something urgently), nearly Orsic and now ...

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I’m still surprised he didn’t declare himself fit for the last game. Maybe he was still injured, but I hate to think he may have protected himself for his big move even if it meant we got relegated. Not saying he did, but it seemed like one of those hairline fractures that took forever to heal so it...

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Players like Saka, Rashford, Phillips, Mings, Codey and Ramsdale are not good enough. Saka may be one day. But the weakness in GS is how often he chooses the wrong players or wrong decisions. We have a golden era, wasted. Bringing Rashford on with seconds to go to take a penalty that he missed, that...

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I didn’t rate Southgate in the World Cup, the Euros, then again now. He’s been lucky, but has regularly come unstuck against decent opposition. It isn’t to do with time of year, this is us. Panicky defence and goalie, the occasional world class save papering over the cracks. Not enough flair, talent...

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All of this needs paying back, that hasn’t changed, what the old owners receive for selling the club remains what they receive, but the advantage of delay is twofold, one giving us a bigger chance of promotion and two giving a chance for inflation to erode the debt. On the face of it we have two lot...

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Probably just saving it all up for a set of huge announcements - Kompany in, Premier League agree to pay us £100m compensation, new investors and 10 new players including Lewandowski who is said to like the challenge of the Championship. Or…… they could all have been on holiday. What will be, will be.

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So in essence a super defensive tackle out of play would result in the same attacking advantage as a corner? Makes it totally pointless saving a corner by putting it out for a throw, would reduce drama, and would favour the big clubs who are more adept at passing it out from trouble. Smaller clubs w...

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I’d be interested in knowing which of the sides who didn’t bounce back (Stoke, Derby, Bolton etc) didn’t gamble in year 1. We seem to be going for it within the parameters having a very delicate financial situation to address, i.e. paying VK what we are etc. We seem to be doing it “progressively” wi...

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Feels very appropriate to use the old Babe Ruth quote that was hijacked by our good friends from Aberdeen.

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

For participating in five survival seasons, Mee and Tarky are the latter.

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Pope Trippier——Keane——Tarkowski——Taylor Arfield—-Barton—-Defour——Cornet Ings—————Gray Subs: Jenson—-Cork—-Wood—-Rodriguez——Mee Think it is right but without edit and not being able to check while writing it is tricky. Feels important not to have too many players from a relegation season in there, fo...

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Mee not being offered a deal and Dyche leaving with more or less ALL the backroom team implies to me that Kompany had been in discussions for quite some time. May be wrong, but I can’t see some of those decisions made unless a new guy was lined up who had made his feelings clear. I think we all know...

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Talk today that Eintracht Frankfurt want him, the media story translated from German was implying it is a clause in his contract that allows him to go on loan, which if true is far from ideal and implies we were so desperate to sign him we’d agree to all kinds of clauses that in hindsight we may wis...

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Many younger people have no idea how devastating inflation can be. Interest rate risk people are probably aware of, though most will be on a fix. But the pressure on wages will start in the public sector then will trickle into the private sector and affect prices, compounding the impact of energy an...

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