Dave

Maybe they would trade Kimmich for Phillips.

https://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/sport/football/peterborough-united/palace-bids-for-ronnie-rejected-and-league-two-club-chasing-jch-is-revealed-4464411 Supposedly we are nowhere near there valuation which is hardly surprising given how well Peterborough have routinely done at driving up valuation for young talent and our penny pinching philosophy whenever Roy is in charge. The fact that it's in the public domain is presumably an attempt to flush out other interest. West Ham have been interested previously. If they do want the loan back they're going to have to compromise on the fee. He has 18 months left on his contract, 12 in the summer, and if they don't get promoted they'll be forced to sell because they are in financial problems. I'd imagine the reality is they would quite like the money for the deal with 18 months left rather than 12, but still want him because they could get promoted. If we can't offload one of Tomkins or Ferguson I would be happy with a loan back. It sounds like Ronnie Edwards is a future England International and would be a great long term addition, but we've got too many defenders registered at present because we decided to keep the deadwood last summer and add to it with Rob Holding.

Stoke have a knack of signing players that I'm impressed with and then they seemingly go on to do nothing.

Reading more in to this, whilst i think you have been harshly treated, im not sure you can link the two together. It's not a crime to be Russian but it is sanctionable to have links to Putin.

If this is true we have to assume he has the best agent in the world.

With Sheffield United. God knows what happened to him in Spain to take this offer.

Good addition that.

Varane and Martial. https://metro.co.uk/2024/01/04/erik-ten-hag-confirms-man-utd-contract-talks-raphael-varane-anthony-martial-20065589/

If you want to sell them in the next 28 days, why are the club in contract negotiations?

I dont think its fair to point out the Newcastle example as Saudi money has been an FFP lifeline for all clubs that have been able to offload players to that part of the world.

@Lucas Any particular reason you binned off Djed?

https://twittter.com/SkySportsPL/status/1743000101763657960?s=20 Wow. This is exactly what the Abramovich administration did at Chelsea. Kept extending contracts of your Batshuayis and your Barkleys thinking somehow their value would increase & Chelsea could sell them for decent money. Triggering a one year extension on players like AWB and Lindelof is one thing. But they literally cannot give Martial away given the evidence of the last few years. He has no value to from a transfer sense. I’m surprised that this kind of thing is happening in this interim period until ineos complete. Unless they’ve sanctioned it in which case United are totally screwed.

Yeah, the changes to selling a player may take a little more time but it feels far more effective.

My bad I meant the 1900's .

As anticipated a boring game. We struggled with there midfield, they struggled with our midfield, we struggled with Calvert-Lewin, they struggled with Mateta, and the substitutes weren't good enough to impact the game. Whoever decided to put this game on TV is an idiot. There was so many better games to chose from. As for the sending off, by the letter of the law I get why its interpretated as a red because his studs are up and he has endangered an opponent. But it's very soft and I would have been livid if one of our players got suspended for that. Palace fans are the absolute worst on Twitter. I've never seen such a disconnect between the keyboard warriors and the matchday going fans. The narrative they have around Roy Hodgson being a dinosaur that needs to go is completely ignorant of the lack of options in our squad. The latest is 'Olise wouldn't be injured if he got subbed sooner', and the hindsight police are ignoring the only change we could have made would have been Olise for Ahamada, which they would have moaned about anyway.

Yeah I agree with all that. If you have the energy to be annoyed at Aeriel being black then you should exert the same energy with Jasmine changing and Ken being blonde. Funnily enough I spoke to one of my friends a year ago about this who is black and I used the 'I wouldn't care if Idris Elba was James Bond' example. He immediately cut me off and told me that to him James Bond represents every privileged British stereotype from the 90's so he would find James Bond played by a black person weird. Which I found interesting.

I don't think wanting characters to resemble a similar appearance to what you remember from your childhood makes you a racist. I'm not bothered by Haile Bailey playing The Little Mermaid for example but I thought the decision to not have short people play the seven dwarfs in the upcoming Snow White film is wrong and I do feel sorry for short people who aspired to play one of those roles. As for the new Star Wars director, I think Nudge has eloquently explained why she's been entrusted with that role and she's been given an opportunity on merit as opposed to any other reason.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/03/nottingham-forest-face-questions-over-jonjo-shelveys-confused-exit-from-club

Fantastic.

FFS.

I can't decide whether that's my favourite part or him calling John Ruddy fat.

Oops.