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lol no it wasn't. Edwards literally ran up behind him and pushed him squarely in the back with both hands. It was a brainless thing to do and the most clear penalty you will ever see.

He seems fairly keen himself to be fair

How many games have our new coaching team watched if they think Armstrong can play CF? And why are we compounding that by hitting high balls to hi, when he's up against 3 centre halves who are about a foot taller than him. Absolute madness tactically. Schoolboy level. Until we change that and introduce some sort of physical presence at CF who can hold the ball up or win a header, we're losing this game.

I thought exactly the same. It was definitely close. But not a single mention of it or a single replay to have a look.

Love that badge. The top looks like an angry Dogtanian wearing a pork pie hat and the bottom looks like ‘Fuck Andrew But’. It’s a fresh new reimagining and I’m all for it.

It seems pretty obvious to me. We’re obviously open to selling him, but only for our specified price, which no-one has offered yet. If he gets injured, we can’t sell him to anyone, so we’re keeping him wrapped in cotton wool until the end of the window. If during that time someone offers what we’re asking, then he will be sold. If no-one does, he stays, and from what everyone who knows him has said he will almost certainly not throw his toys out if that happens and will buckle down and get on with it. So he won’t play until the window closes, but would reintegrate and be available for selection again if no-one’s ponied up the £50m by 1st Sep. Until January, when the whole circus would start again.

Time to bring out the big guns

You really are special aren't you x

Port Vale's kit is absolutely magnificent. Best in the league by a mile.

That looks like a genuine Sergio Georgini

I’m a club plant. Do I win something?

Haven't Newcastle just paid £55m for Elanga? And Spurs just paid £55m for Kudus? It would seem a bit odd if either of them followed up paying loads of money for a right winger by paying loads more money for another right winger. Unless of course TEAMTalk is just a load of old steaming fucking shite. But that can't be true.

'TEAMtalk understands that Everton are keen on a summer deal for Dibling' 'Sources have told TEAMtalk that Everton have already had two offers for the England Under-21 international turned down by the Saints' 'TEAMtalk understands that Southampton are demanding £50million for Dibling' 'Sources have told TEAMtalk’s transfer correspondent, Fraser Fletcher, that Dibling is training alone' Best keep an eye on TEAMtalk lads - high-quality ITK stuff like this that they've got from their sources is pretty hard to find. Apparently their sources have also heard a whisper that all may not be well at Sheffield Wednesday, but they've not shared that yet, so mum's the word yeah?

Yeah, it's a waste of a talent as it stands. But if City aren't going to compromise, there are only a handful of clubs who can realistically pay that sort of wage, and none of them want him. Saudi's probably his best bet at this stage. So unless Al-Nassr or someone comes in for him, or he's prepared to take a wage cut, he's screwed. Although he could drop his wages by a third and still be on £200k per week, which still isn't too shabby really is it.

Well, City have just told Everton that they’ll only let Grealish go there if 100% of his wages are covered. He’s on £300k a week 🤣 So if it’s one or the other, maybe just maybe the Dibling deal is starting to look more attractive again, even on our outrageous terms. Hold your nerve Spors, this lot have left it too late, they’ve fucked it, and they’ll end up paying what we want just to save face.

It is, so it's almost certainly bollocks - just someone on that clickbait site seeing that we're up for selling Dibling and pushing another RW name for clicks as it's obvious that we'll need a replacement if he goes. However, a lot of the Everton fans are getting in a right tizz about how we're playing them on the ever-increasing price for Dibling, think they should walk away (because apparently that would teach us a right lesson), and seem to think that Fellows is their next target if that happens. So what would be amusing would be if we fleece them for £50m + 25% sell-on for Dibling, replace him with Fellows for a quarter of that, and then Dibling flops and Fellows tears it up. Then accounting for inflation we can sell them Fellows for £150m next summer.

It’ll end up being Elyonoussi or Hoedt, really give the fans a boost

Gets a second. Rangers playing very well here, fair play.

Gassama scores again for Rangers. 3 in 3 since they signed him. He’s instantly become easily their best player, brilliant bit of business at £2.2m.

The chance to play alongside Michael Keane and Dwight McNeil, for a club whose fans abuse their own players in the street? I mean it’s once in a lifetime stuff isn’t it? And that’s before you even get to see the finest dugouts in Europe. Should be hearing confirmation in the press any minute now that Dibling’s transfer request has been handed in, surely. Once your head’s been turned by a giant like them, that’s it.

Nice. Going public with the price seems like a pretty transparent move to push whoever’s waiting in the wings to make their move. We’re basically saying first person to offer this gets him, knowing one of them will. Just a question of who now.

Was talking about Schneiderlin at Everton mate, in the context of how much we are looking to fleece them for Dibling

Or Morgan Schneiderlin They still haven’t forgiven us for how shit he was for them

I think you underestimate just how desperate the dugout pioneers are and how much we can fleece them for. They're coming back with £45m. Whether we take that or are just using them to flush out an even better offer (which is what the Guardian guy was hinting at) remains to be seen.

I suspect the club think that selling him gives us a better chance of getting both. Get £45m - £50m guaranteed into the coffers now for a player who doesn't want to stay, then reinvest some of that back into the squad for a couple of players to keep it strong overall for a good tilt at promotion, and keep a bit of profit in between (or pay off some of whatever our debts are). Guaranteed circa 50 mill now vs. possible £100m if we go up (which is far from guaranteed, with or without him), and the bird in the hand is probably more attractive than the much higher risk attached to going the other way.