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They don’t. Chances are someone has leaked that number in the hope of pushing up the selling price but nobody will actually be expecting anything like £16m.

Ali G Inda House was supposed to be a parody film. 25 years later, here we are.

McCarthy has consistently made very poor mistakes throughout his career, regardless of who the manager has been. He had two clangers against Liverpool, the first was not 'Russball' it was him making a very poor, panicked decision and if he keeps playing he'll do it again. When you say Bazunu is at the bottom of the save percentages, you mean something like 64% when the average is something like 70%. It's not the horrendous failure that some people like to pretend. Weirdly, Bazunu's errors all seem to get blamed on him, whereas everyone elses are because we're playing 'Russball'. I've no idea how this was decided but I don't subscribe to it.

You've just made that up. Bazunu is a better keeper than McCarthy and whoever is in charge next season in the Championship will most likely agree with me (and Ralph, Jones and Martin).

Trump was busy telling his supporters to inject bleach, which TBH is one of the few things he's said which I agree with.

He has just tw*tted a seagull.

I’ll take him over what McCarthy did against Liverpool and Newcastle any day.

Good luck to him, hope we can get him back in the match day squad soon. I’ll feel much better with him on the bench than McCarthy or Lumley.

That was implied by the number 91.

He has been massively flattered for years by having Pickford in goal and having some awful teams vying for relegation. Without JP, they’d have probably gone down level on points with us two years ago. Hopefully Everton get the appointment spectacularly wrong and manage to find their very own Nathan Jones.

It’s not so much the alcohol that’s the problem as the vast amounts of liquid being chucked into the air when 91 of the teams in the football league score a goal. It’s bad enough being sat next to a fat gobsh*te at the best of times, without him chucking Carling all over you when it’s -3 Celsius.

If you reach a critical mass of non-binary they/thems, they tend to combust.

I believe Cornet may have been as well. I certainly wouldn’t be surprised to see the French horn him into their team.

I would think that is a decent keeper, average RB and three other substandard defenders, personally. Certainly not a defence I’d expect to produce much above relegation standard performances.

Idiots. Don’t they realise that could buy three mediocre championship players.

So what? If a statement can be equally applied to Cole Palmer and Angus Gunn, all that proves is that it’s basically meaningless, which is my point. Saying he came through Man City’s academy is a pointless statement, like saying Keith Harris and Eva Perón both like Jaffa Bars.

No but they are very, very, very obviously less match fit than they were the day Martin got sacked. They’re not fat but they haven’t trained properly for a solid month at least.

Good grief, this is just silly. If footballers get injured, they get fit again. If they are out of shape, they get in shape with strict adherence to a specifically tailored diet and fitness programme. It’s not rocket science, Jan Bednarek was out injured - couldn’t play or train properly at all - for a solid month after the autumn internationals and yet here he is, magically fit again without having to do another preseason. You can all sit here and pretend that Martin’s training sessions were worse than a month long injury if you like, I won’t be joining you. Paul Onuachu is unfit because Paul Onuachu is unfit. Same as Jordy Clasie and a few others always were.

Sure you can, why not? Send TP away to Dubai, Qatar or wherever with a fitness coach, get him doing whatever special fitness thing (I don’t actually know what it is, perhaps you can explain) he should have done in summer but is impossible to do mid-season.

You can’t think of a reason why I’m wrong, can you? Look, I get it, you’re upset because you’ve been beating the ‘Lego is the worst manager ever and it’s all his fault’ drum and now he’s gone everything is still sh*t. If preseasons are so important, why didn’t Juric put him on a special ‘preseason plan’, whatever that entails, when he was first appointed? He’d be fully fit by the time we play United.

That’s not being objective, that’s being deliberately vague to try and make him seem a superficially better player. None of that proves anything; He plays for NI, just like Corry Evans, and came through Man City’s academy, just like Angus Gunn. Would you want to sign either of those two, based on that criteria?

Pre-season is massive because generally speaking footballers go away in May and drink copious amounts of alcohol in Marbella, with Only Fans girls for a month. They come back at the start of July and have roughly five weeks to get match fit for the start of the season. If every other footballer in the country can go from zero to match fit in five weeks, then it’s clearly enough time for Onuachu to recover from whatever you think Martin has done to him. Players recover from injuries mid-season and get fit all the time. If TP can’t that’s on him.

Come the next league (Man Utd) game Martin will have been gone five weeks. You’re going to need to think of a new excuse for why he doesn’t look fit.

Looking at Charles objectively, he’s a mid table Championship player. If he wasn’t already on our books and we signed him now to help keep us up, people on here would rightly blow a fuse at how pathetically low our recruitment department was aiming.

He could be, quite easily, and there’s no reason to think he’d be any better.