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It wasn’t the last minute but Kanchelskis would fit the bill.

I think Hughes will be sacked anyway when we appoint our new DoF (or whatever job title we're going with). Losing to Fulham for this purpose would be pointless as we're not going to sack Hughes without a DoF in place to appoint a new manager and having a caretaker would probably be a disaster. This is a 6 pointer and anyone hoping for anything other than a win is bonkers IMO. It's a 'must not lose' if nothing else.

None of Clasie's failings have any bearing on Reed's ability as a footballer. Poch didn't 'trust' him, he put him on as an 89th minute sub against a lackluster City team. That's it. Neither Gallagher nor Reed are Premier League quality; a succession of managers and their respective coaching staff seem to be agreed on that.

I remember when the likes of Marlet and Rebrov were considered massive flops because they cost £10m and scored 'only' 15 goals in 2 seasons, or something like that. I think Jo might just edge Carrillo for terrible signings, plus anyone who has ever signed Andy Carroll. Honourable mentions to the slightly cheaper but equally hilarious Altidore and N'Zogbia.

This is the football equivalent of a shop doubling the price of goods and then selling them as, "Massive 50% off! Wow! Amazing deals, offer ends soon!" but in reverse. Liverpool wouldn't have paid us £50m extra for VvD for example. It would have been £25m, with the £50m on top. This arrangement is basically meaningless.

There will be ways around that, season long loans with permanent deals in summer 2020 etc. Once agents get chatting to clubs, things won’t quite be so straight forward.

What an obscure thing to commemorate at a football club. Why this and not people killed by shark attacks, agent orange and rabies?

In what way and to what purpose? All the Promes and Walcott stories did was make us look even more incompetent in that we failed to achieve our transfer targets. Occam's razor; the explanation which makes sense is that we did actually try and sign those players and failed, so made a desperate bid for Carrillo as a last resort.

I'd say the point was almost certainly to strengthen their negotiating position with their targets, rather than appease the fans. The idea that it's intended to keep the fan base sweet just doesn't make sense; why would reaction to poor performance on the pitch be placated by the idea that we are failing to achieve our player and management recruitment targets.

The clue is the bit in bold. Fonte was past his best when he left us and I have no problem with us actually selling him, provided we had a decent replacement signed up... which we didn't.

I'm not sure that one was ever a link, just some bloke on a wind up, which was believed by pretty much nobody.

Actually, almost all of them aren't. Nobody has said either of the two quotes you refer to either.

Because I don’t have such a raging trouser shaft for Alex Scott that I ignore her failings as a pundit? She’s not all that.

Can’t stand Alex Scott, just a female Phil Neville, sat there cheerfully stating the flippin’ obvious with an inane smile on her face. There are some good female pundits in various sports. Gabby Logan, Natalie Pinkham, Clare Balding and some of the SSN presenters are decent. I do hate when they get a Man City or England women’s player on for a men’s Manchester Derby or England WC game and say, "so, tell us what the pressure is like, playing a game at this level."

ROI would get relegated if they were a Premier League team, it’s no real boast running the show against them. Armstrong seems to be his long term replacement and even he doesn’t get into the team, most of the time.

A few lower emission cars and blocking an extra runway is of little consequence until countries like India, Pakistan, Nigeria, Bangladesh and Indonesia get their population under control. When you think about the amount of crap an extra billion people on the Indian sub-continent are going to dump into the ocean (and the number of species they are going to kill off through pollution and over-fishing) it's quite saddening.

The only thing wrong with the Caceres deal was the Fonte clusterf**k that preceded it. He was experienced back up, whilst we gave Stephens game time under relatively little pressure. Nothing wrong with that.

No, it's just what happens at Saints. Leicester didn't have to sell Mahrez. Everton didn't have to sell Lukaku Liverpool didn't have to sell Coutinho Palace didn't have to sell Zaha West Ham didn't have to sell Payet Stoke didn't have to sell Arnautovic Tottenham didn't have to sell Modric Arsenal didn't have to sell Van Persie Chelsea didn't have to sell Courtois Watford didn't have to sell Richarlison. Bournemouth didn't have to sell Richie Newcastle didn't have to sell Sissoko Man Utd didn't have to sell Ronaldo Yep. Just Saints.

Getting better? Their only win came in August and they’ve lost their last 6. They may play it around a bit but their defence is like a rusty colander.

I don't support this proposal but killing him is a bit harsh.

It's not exactly a hard sell, when half of Asia is mad for one of the big six. Plus most of the money just ends up being chucked around agents, transfer fees and wages. For all the money we get paid, we still apparently need to sell to buy players.

So he can not get into our squad either?

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If he's been even half sensible with his money, he'll have enough to buy a 12 acre estate in Surrey, a chalet in Verbier and a Villa in the Maldives, with enough change left over to fly his family between them (first class) for the next 50 years. Why a man who has been CEO of the Premier League for 20 years needs a 'retirement gift' I have no idea. All that being said, I'm not in the slightest bit surprised.

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