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I don't know who you are playing on Tuesday, but we are playing Wednesday. Think our line up will be a mixture, a number of the kids will play. Won't be a weakened line up, but some first team players will get a rest.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/teams/chelsea/9295242/Chelseas-rebuilding-grows-with-78m-Eden-Hazard-signing.html Just repeating what the stories where at the time Here's one that says his agent John Bico demanded £6million. Google John Bico it seems he was the agent for all the Hazards and Edin replaced him after he joined Chelsea, it is said that Bico negotiated with United, City and Chelsea. He played all three teams against each other to get the best deal for Hazard and for himself. Now Bico dosent seem to be straightest character out there, but there are enough stories in all the papers that identify him as Hazard's agent when he made the move to Chelsea.

That was the story at the time of Hazard's transfer to Chelsea. That Chelsea paid 6 or 7 million to his agent and United wouldn't. I have no idea if it's true but United fans have always believed it. First I have heard he didn't have an agent , which in these times seems odd. As for Maguire, he fills a desperate need, sure it's massively over priced but what with the English premium, the United premium and Leicester having us over a barrel, it is what it is. Beside the money only would have gone into the owners pockets.

You may be right about Lukaku agent fee, I am not sure. United have missed out of players over the years because they wouldn't pay the agent fees, Hazard is said to be one. Maybe they grew tired of losing out and decided to pay ridiculously high agent fees. To me agent fees in general are a major problem in football. If a agent picks up millions of pounds each time he transfers a player somewhere, there will be a threat of players moving every two or three years and thats not good for the fans. Are you saying Chelsea should sell CHO if he signs a new contract? I thought he was one for your future.

I believe somebody else on here said the same thing. I know I have heard it said he will end up at Chelsea before because of his friendship with CHO, but it could have been on another forum. No offense intended, my orginial point was that City and United fans say the same thing about his friendship with their younger players. I suspect Liverpool fans are saying something similar. Either Sancho is one hell of a friendly guy or or he tells everyone he will join them in the Premier.

I don't know, it's just everytime his name is mentioned here, a Chelsea fan mentions he will end up at Chelsea.

CITY fans say he is best mates with Sterling and he's going back to City. United fans say hes close to Rashford and Lingard and is coming to United. Should be the big transfer deal next summer and cost over £100m, expect whoever offers him and Dortmund the most money will get him.

That's what I thought. £315,000 to a oil rich kingdom is ridiculous, should have added a couple of other zeroes at least.

All our CB's are made of glass, Jones, Rojo and to a lesser extent Smalling.

Always nice to beat Leeds, still a bitter rival.

So if Trippier, Rose and Alderweireld are sold as rumoured, who ends up starting in Spurs defence? Sanchez, Vertonghen, Aurier and Walker-Peters?

Pulisic is still at the Gold Cup, I know it ends tonight, but won't he want close to a month off? Will not give him much training time with Chelsea. While we are on the question of Pulisic, how much of the loss of the offense that Hazard created will he pick up? (Thinking of my fantasy team).

Stories now that the American owned clubs in the Premier have asked the Premier League to join Uefa's financial investigation into City. I read in the Mail that Palace was one of the teams pushing for the investigation. Their owners Josh Harris and David Blitzer – who own the New Jersey Devils in the NHL and Philadelphia 76ers in the NBA – invested in English football on the understanding that it would be as heavily regulated as the major sports in the US. Where would Palace owners get the idea that English football was going to be as heavily regulated as US sports?

Don't think anybody is surprised by the accusations, the opinion of other team's supportors has always been that City "cooked the books" when it came to its sponsorship deals. That much of their sponsorships were disguised to hide direct investment from Shiekh Mansour.

Everything is denied til it happens. There is something going on, even if it is only major sponsorship or buying a percentage of the club.

That's true, but they haven't spent it wisely and more important there are hundreds of millions that have gone to the Glazers instead of back into the club.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/8441062/saudi-prince-mohammad-bin-salman-manchester-united-takeover/ This story seems to be making the rounds again, was first rumoured back in the fall, but the death of Khashoggi seemed to kill it for awhile. Don't really want the Saudis owning the club, I have also felt Nations should not be allowed to own clubs. If this goes through than United will be no different than PSG or City. Have to admit though it would be nice to see United spending the money they make on improving the product on the field, rather than filling the pockets of their owners.

He's too expensive and wants too much money. Plus his lack of pace is a problem. Think we have more urgent needs at the moment.

Perhaps by default. You only have to beat out Arsenal.

Great second half comeback, but what does it prove. It shows the players can play great football when they want to. But who did they do it for, the club, Mourinho or themselves. Too little to late I think.

https://youtu.be/CtGxusvUT3k Back in the day On Monday Night Football (NFL), when the outcome was no longer in doubt Dandy Don Meredith used to sing this song. Appropo for Mourinho?

Not too many top managers hanging about , might have to poach somebody. Pochettino or Simeone maybe, but may have to go with a caretaker manager for a while if we are to belive the report in the Mirror that he will be sacked after tomorrow's game regardless of the result.

Mourinho always has an agenda in what he says and does. I have wondered a couple of times with his line up selections and the formations he has chosen if he was sendimg a message to Woodward. I dont think he wants to get fired because who else in football will hire him other than the Portuguese National team, but he can't deal with not getting his own way. Scholes has always been more independent that Neville or Giggs . Hard to tell if Neville and Giggs believe what they say or if they are just repeating what United officially say. Churchill could have been talking about Pogba when he said a riddle, wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma. I cant figure him out, if you could get him playing at his full potential on a consistent basis, you would really have something special. Not sure how this one turns out, if United get a new manager and Pogba is still not happy, then what?

Maybe? They certain play like a team whose manager has lost the dressing room. It also looks like the rifts between Mourinho and certain players and Mourinho and the Board is unrepairable.

Should he have been what Ali is now? I saw Morrison play a couple times and saw some extended highlights while he was a teenager, but not really enough to judge him. I can only say what people who watched him day in and day out thought. People who saw Morrison play as teenager on a regular basis, would say that he should be much better than what Ali is now. In terms of pure talent he was probably the best prospect United had since Best, better than Scholes and Giggs. He outshone everyone he played with and against when he was under 18, he glided by everyone, could score with either foot and was real game changer. Everyone knows his story, so there is no need to repeat it here, but the truth is if he was not so talented he would have been out football by the time he was 16. He lacked the maturity, the self discipline, and the common sense to realise that he could have the world at his feet if he made the necessary sacrifices.