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I'd be delighted with either Bakayoko or Drinkwater.

You're ****ing tedious pal.

Don't ask stupid questions. It's an opinion. Do you have an opinion on his season ahead, or potential generally?

No offence was intended. To me as a layman, the notion that a major sports clothing company cannot supply a shirt with a label that stays on makes no sense. Like you say thoug we don't know what the issue is, but my suspicion remains that it's not that UA can't put a label on properly.

He'll play a huge part this season. Pre season involvement doesn't dictate the season ahead.

Gotcha. We are where we are sadly, which ain't a great place!

That's his natural position but it looked at times last year that we were trying to convert him. The move makes more sense if he was going there to get game time in a different role, otherwise it looks like an acceptance that this is his level and he's putting himself in the shop window. From what I've seen he's a bit above the conference.

I didn't say anything about LD sports not permitting their logo to be attached to our shirts. The LD sports logo would not be sanctioned (by the club) to be applied to our kit if there was, for example, a sponsorship contractual issue. The suggestion that under armour cannot supply a kit with a badge that stays on is utterly stupid.

It's lower than he'll end up but it'll do him good playing at that level for 6 months. I'd be interested to see where they play him - perhaps he's gone to get game time at full back or wing back.

Do you really think that a clothing manufacturer cannot make a football shirt? Of course they can, the issue is elsewhere.

I blame Reed and Krueger rather than Koeman because this kamikaze transfer and contract fiasco happened on their watch not Koeman. Whilst he may have wanted a big squad, he didn't make us sign the ****e that we have, and give the ludicrous contracts that we did, after his departure. Blaming Koeman for our current mess is nearly as stupid as giving Forster the contract that he was given.

Agreed. I do not accept that UA cannot make shirts or apply / print a sponsor logo. It's a ridiculous suggestion. What I can believe is that the sponsorship situation has caused an issue with UA being instructed to apply / print a sponsor logo and deliver the shirts.

Is that right? There'll be ways around that - a loan fee in year 1 for an amount equivalent to 25% of the intended transfer fee, same in year 2, then a transfer fee for half of the true transfer fee spread over years 3 and 4.

I interpreted it differently and thanks for clarifying. The last part is encouraging.

How is it that yesterday you were saying that we're too skint to afford an assistant manager, but today you predict Upemecano to be our player of the year? Are we skint or do we have the dollar to sign that standard of player?

1. 14th 2. Quarters 3. 5th round 4. Adams 5. Redmond 6. One of the academy will come good...Vokins to stand out. 7. I have zero interest in what they do. I think it'll be a tough ish season but without any real danger of the drop. We'll play some great stuff and lots of academy players will come in and hold their own. Lack of involvement will persuade some of the remaining dead wood to move on in January allowing us to build a bit next summer.

Not sure that's the only plausible reason for him going, but I agree that in the context of the clubs budget, the salary of the assistant manager has to be miniscule. I don't buy the money reason for this.

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Exactly. Being supportive of anti Israeli factions is a mile away from being anti Jewish. I don't like the conduct of the Chinese government but I'm not anti-Chinese, ditto Venezuela, throw in Trump/America too.

Explain how being anti Israeli is the same as being anti Jewish (ie anti-Semitic). There's a fundamental difference. Link me to anything that he has said or done that is anti Jewish - not anti Israeli. Left/Right/Middle political allegiances is completely irrelevant. For what it's worth, I think Corbyn is an idiot, but he's not an anti-Semitic idiot.

I'd get help mate.

Nonsense. He was third when we had absolutely top drawer CB's. Since then he's improved immeasurably and whilst he'll never be a VVD or Alderweireld, he is a decent premier league CB. He deserves a place on merit. The issue is who plays alongside him - Bednarek is decent but has his limitations, Vestergaard is painfully slow, Stephens is painful and Hoedt is Hoedt.

Nice summary Del!

Two different points there. I despise the attitude and actions of the Israeli government, but I have Jewish friends. I'm not anti semitic and would be disappointed to be labelled as such. Corbyn, I believe, is similar and I've seen nothing to suggest that he is anti semitic. Whether he has racist friends I'm unsure, but his friends beliefs and values are exactly that, they're not his.

The club did not set out its transfer policy as such at the fans forum, rather that new players were wanted and that we needed to get players moved on. To me it's obvious that the 2 are linked (ie the message has been let's trim the squad) and as a result that the club won't make significant moves in the market without players going first - we have a ridiculously large squad that has to be trimmed and adding players without reducing numbers first does not achieve that objective.