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We've told him he can go.

The "we" seems to be people on here. The club needs to find a balance. They can't have their pants pulled down, but equally they can't ask for daft money and leave us with a bloated squad, with the wages to go with it.

Yep. The expectation people have is crazy. JWP will go for nothing like £40m. Lavia won't go for £50m (well he may with add ons). KWP won't go for £20m+. Nor will Tella. Nor will ABK.

Indeed. The suggestion that there must be something wrong because he's apparently giving someone financial support, and the other person apparently has a drug issue, is bizarre. The whole situation is a complete farce, yet Edwards is painted as jack the ripper.

We don't know whether he's actually still paying money, and if so, why. Regardless, what the man does with the money is down to him, not Edwards.

That's realistic imo. In reality it'll be less due to the City cut from the Lavia fee.

I think his point is that he's always improved teams, so if he's starting with something half decent, he should results. Personally, I'm not excited by this brand of football, but, it's the brand we've got and this is the manager we'll have for the foreseeable future. I'm going into this season more positive than I have for a while and hopefully the football will grow on me, and we'll have a good crack at promotion.

It isn't, but even if you were right, what's the issue? It's a decent shirt.

Sort of...if we want (or need) to sell, then just our price doesn't get us anywhere.

Didn't realise that, and that compounds their conduct imo. Sure, Edwards behaviour seems morally wrong, but it should never have been put into the public domain when there was no victim as such.

Is it? If he's done nothing legally wrong, the 'victim' says he ain't a victim, and Edwards has some kind of breakdown, is he not a victim of the sun's actions?

Victoria Derbyshire let slip on newsnight that it was. Male/female, what difference does it make though? The issue for me is the sun reporting 3rd party information as if it were fact, and without checking the facts with the apparent victim. All sorts of lives impacted by that rag of a paper.

Sorry to get technical, but amortisation.

Yep. We don't need them all, and I doubt Martin would want some of them. Personally I think Stephens and Bednarek would be a great pairing at this level, and I'd cash in on ABK and invest in someone less fragile. DCC is a frustrating one who could be brilliant for us, and has been in patches. I suspect he'll want top flight football somewhere there and we could probably get a reasonable fee if imagine.

I'm not sure who'd start him in the PL, and last season did him no favours. We have one RB too many and he'd be the obvious one to go, but if there's no takers for KWP, that's when I think we'd be more open to cashing in on Tino. Salisu. Whether we refused to play him as I'd understood, or he didn't fancy it as per the athletic piece, is unclear. Either way, something went on last year, he's in his last year, so it seems to be that we take the best we can get for him - if that's £6.5m, that's his price. All a bit of a shame the way it started and finished for him here, he looked to have the ability to go to the top but it hasn't quite happened.

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Done. All the best.

Girls aren't every married man's preferred cup of tea.

Nice. Love the capital R and M giving the game away! Cracking signing - we've got better full back options this year than last. Hopefully we can upgrade elsewhere on the pitch too, and shift some deadwood.

Ha! £120k a week gets you a lot more. If he's offered an extra £1m + per year over the next few years, and a chance to play in the PL, it's inevitable he'd jump at it.

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Legend status won't give him and his family a great life in the 50+ years after he hangs up his boots though. Cash will. Let's see what happens, but if he's only going to be a bit part player somewhere else, and/or other clubs are only willing to pay derisory money, he could well stay until the next window. It's going to be an interesting window.

The issue for him is finding a club who'll actually play him, and pay us a decent fee. There aren't many options, and if the only taker is West Ham, they'll undoubtedly low ball us knowing there are no other chasers. I think he'll go, but I don't think he he'll get a whole lot of football anywhere else, and we won't get the kind of fee many on here are expecting.

This could get messy for you.

Interesting development, and a crap statement from the sun. I hadn't appreciated that this was all based on a 3rd party complaint.