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All of which is consistent with leaving the EU. That's what people voted for, isn't it?

Assuming it's a release clause, there is no reason for a bidding war or auction. Clubs will only compete with each other by offering the player more generous terms - that obviously benefits the player but not the selling club.

We're pretty average at Carrow Road. Won't be easy.

Stop the press. The stuff of biopics in years to come.

Trader has form, not only on this forum. Yours Shatlock

5.4/10 Promising opening but rushed. Too eager to go for the jugular.

8.3/10 Impressive inversion of others' logic.

Not sure Austin has improved. He was injured last season -and frankly I don't think he's a long-term solution to our striking needs.

To remain a member of the European Union with all the legal rights and obligations that entails. https://www.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/516501/Rights_and_obligations_of_European_Union_membership_web_version.pdf Even for you that shouldn't be too hard to comprehend. Now please do tell what rights and obligations and institutional arrangements follow from leaving the EU -and more importantly what precisely leavers were voting for.

Glad to see you're maintaining your form as a clueless simpleton. I thought you would have learned your lesson and known your limits by now, pal.

Baldrick - you're hopelessly confused. Motives or intentions are more or less irrelevant. As a factual matter, remainers knew exactly what they were voting for i.e. to retain current arrangements. However, it is not clear what arrangements brexiters were voting for. Leaving the EU does not have a precise institutional or practical equivalent. If it does, please tell

2.6/10 Too signposted. Heavy-handed final sentence. Kills the payoff.

Hahahahaha

Fair play to Bournemouth. Played well last week but were unfortunate against Arsenal; now level with the scousers. Enjoyable to watch side. Almost 4....

Of course, the goal is largely on Forster. But Benteke was closer to Forster than Fonte when the pass was made. Fonte should have taken responsibility as he was under less pressure -never mind he's an outfield player.

Why? Rationally if you're a player, you'd want a release clause. It avoids a bidding war which will drive teams out of the market. With a release clause, the player thus has greater choice -and can go to his preferred side rather than the highest bidder which aren't necessarily the same.

Wouldn't be consistent with the way we do business; but it's such a specific revelation, unlike the vague, impossible-to-verify horse**** that the papers generally put out that it might just be true.

No. Fonte should have taken responsibility, not gone inside. Fonte was under relatively little pressure (compared to the ball back to Forster) -and Benteke was close enough to Forster to make any backpass dicey. He was poor for the third goal too.

It was significantly closer to our first XI than theirs -and indeed some of those who featured on Wednesday are more first XI than we have put out recently in other games. Yes when I saw Arsenal's teamsheet, I thought we had a very good chance of beating them and progressing Les. Yours Shatlock

We beat the Arsenal C team Les. Yours Shatlock

Long is an average player. Playing him and Austin in Puel's formation is not a recipe for success, as proven earlier this season. Long struggles out on the wing with the ball played to feet just as he did to an extent under Koeman. He needs to be played centrally with the ball played early and more directly but that's difficult with Austin taking up a similar position and our possession-based philosophy.

Blood on my hands Another characteristically mindbending, thick-as-pigs**t non sequitur there, baldrick. I'm not making a big deal of it. I'm just telling Les that he can look at himself in the mirror and be proud that he voted according to his principles. For your information, I didn't vote in the 2001 GE and the decision to go to war had broad cross-party support. Don't let that get in the way of your lily-livered melodrama, though. Crack on pal.

No Les. Nobody's saying you abandoned your principles. Quite the opposite in fact. You voted for a party that is perfectly aligned with your principles. No shame in that whatsoever pal.

What's the plural of tuchus, Les?

Is it modelled on the famous Guly contract? #corteseout