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£4m loan fee and 100% salary picked up, apparently

Kind of, but it speaks to a point someone made on here too where you can almost get your money back on young talent if you sign them and they don't work out, because somebody else will take a punt on realising the potential. I think we paid £10m in 2022, so we're three years down the line, he's not what the manager wants and we're getting somewhere around £7.5m back for him, with another two years left on the contract In terms of book value, amortisation and PSR (which there will be someone else on here who can explain far better than my pretty basic understanding) that isn't damaging. So when you mix these sales with the likes of Lavia, Livramento, Dibling (soon, presumably) then it does work out financially Won't catch me disagreeing with this bit!

Good return, I think

Little to no loss, he just isn't good enough. Glad to see us clearing a forward/wide player out, hopefully we can get a new pair of wingers in

They want Trafford, not Ramsdale. Now they can get Ramsdale, trial him for a year and see if they want to spend on him next summer or spend on somebody else who might be on the GK market in a year's time, but isn't right now Also they're going to be reshaping their attack if Isak/Gordon move

Nick Pope also turns 34 this season. So injury-prone goalkeeper coming off a broken collarbone vs 27yo Ramsdale

Going to Newcastle must have double appeal for Ramsdale Big club, good move etc... but also has the chance to take Pope out of the England reckoning at the same time. Pickford, Henderson and one other. And if Trafford is sat on the bench at City behind Ederson while Ramsdale is playing for Newcastle... he should make the cut for the World Cup

A direct rival losing maybe their best player (and getting some much-needed funds) and a club who have been linked to Fernandes going for a different midfielder? I'd say so, yes

Something close to this

O Jogo now reporting that Saints and Porto close to an agreement at €7.5m for Bednarek to move to Portugal

Yeah, I wasn't criticising it!