CB Fry

Read MLG's post again and tell me what's "completely, fundamentally wrong" about it. Take your time.

“There’s no contract on the table,” said Fonte. “It is what it is, there’s nothing on the table that I didn’t sign. There was nothing there, to be honest. There was in the summer, they offered me a pay rise. They didn’t offer me a new contract. “They offered me a pay rise which I’m entitled to discuss with my agent and entitled to say no to as well. I’m entitled to have my own opinion, so apart from that that’s it.” Jose makes the distinction between pay rise and new contract.

Just been on. We'll done Matty. I'm sure the club historian will be on here shortly saying it's just "slinging old mud" and reminding us that good old uncle Bob was acquitted and everything.

He has been offered a pay rise though.

The point is, he's not 3rd best. Objectively, factually, whatever measure you want, he isn't.

Not really about your opinion. He plays with our first choice back four in Premier League games when we play our strongest eleven. Objectively he is one of the two best CBs at the club.

Why would any club pay more than the minimum?

There's not been a decent source I've seen yet.

If it sets "the maximum fee we can ask for him", how do we then "take a much higher fee by setting bidders against each other"?

Jose not kicking a single ball in the Europa is by far the single most baffling thing about this campaign.

There's drivel and then there's drivel.

Profile piece plus thoughtful photo in the Saturday Guardian sport section? I'm in.

Not bad.

Done.I've got an insurance bet on Norwich away as well. That was on Facebook.

It's already been leaked on Twitter and it's Leicester away.

Apparently the Bournemouth club historian gave the players a rousing pep talk before kick off today. He told them they might as well throw the game and they had no chance of winning.

For who?

Well my problem is I'm just a ditzy little teenage girl with no idea of how the real world works like what you do. Please can you teach me.

If three clubs meet the clause, the player decides. Why would any club pay us more? Not difficult. Pretty hilarious that you've decided after countless transfers with no release clause, we've definitely got one now and the club have been caught with their pants down and aren't they useless and rubbish and everything. Sack the board.

There might be a bidding war between clubs offering the player different terms, but FF is saying a bidding war could get the club "a lot more", which it won't.

How on earth can there be a bidding war if there's a release clause?

It's easy to deny release clauses when we haven't had one for a single player we've sold over the last three years, and that's a fu ck of a lot of sales. So, kinda acknowledge that we haven't had them, yeah? 2/10.

Er, we qualified automatically for the group stages because last season's team finished sixth.

Redmond has already scored as many as Mane did for the whole of the first half of the season last year.