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There is but a straight forward save is a straight forward save. I disagree that a good player is a good player. It's not always true. A technically good player is a technically good player, but football is a lot about systems where in a certain system a player can look world class, but then...

Because he routinely let in soft goals, made mistakes which lead to goals and didn't offer enough positives to come anywhere close to overcome the negatives. A good confederations cup performance doesn't change that. It means nothing. He was a good keeper at Barcelona.. again that means nothing...

Derision from opposition fans was deserved though. If the boot was on the other foot and United did the same thing and ended up with a keeper who was incapable of saving shots that were directly at him, we'd piss ourselves. We laughed like fuck at them when Bosnich and Taibi were inbetween the...

Well we are planning on off loading because players are unhappy about not playing (Nolito and Kelechi...although publicly he hasn't complained). We probably need a player to come in and be squad player in the eventuality of him Kun, Sterling, Sane or Jesus getting injured. The work being put in...

Think people base some of it on athletic ability. Mbappe is of bigger build, is more explosive and has the ability to burst past his marker and stay ahead of him. Jesus has the acceleration to burst past but then doesn't possess the pace Mbappe possesses. On the flip side, Jesus possesses the...

Me when I typed that post. Sanchez or bust for now. If we don't sign him we will probably look at a squad player later on in the window depending on what happens with out goings. We don't have a serious interest in any more young forwards. Only passing on what I've been told.

We asked about him last year. Every big club is watching him but we aren't "in" for him. It's Alexis and just Alexis. If we fail with Alexis (very confident we won't) we may still look but it won't be a player with the same profile as Alexis or Mbappe. More likely to be a squad replacement to...

Also we aren't in for Mbappe. It's this seasons Pogba.

I think Kun is easily in that second tier.

I really enjoy the podcast but I'd rather listen to a few adds than fork out 4 quid. Shame the money can't be made differently. I know it's only 4 quid but I listen to a tonne of NBA pods and if I had to pay 4 quid for every one, I'd run up a small debt. I'll stick to the Friday ones though.

It borderline kills Sterling. Let alone Roberts.

The buy back agreement would be with the club and not the player. The club would have to accept our buy back offer but the player could still refuse our contract. But if we were exercising the buy back, surely the reason would be because we think he's good enough to feature. So that might not be...

And the American model still doesn't guarantee any sort of competitive balance. Look at the NBA this season. Won, at a total canter by a super team. Meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, teams start trying to intentionally throw games towards the end of the season to try and increase their...

I see what he is saying though. If we invest to the tune of 40m, we are almost obliged to play them. Truth be told, nobody knows how good Roberts would be for us because we haven't seen it yet. If we sell for less than what we paid, it will be a real head scratcher to add to the list.

He played less than 45 minutes in 4 of the last 9 games and only completed the 90 twice. That's the very definition of 'in and out'

Do think Fabinho makes a lot of sense. Wish we'd have followed up our interest in him last year.

Martial still does have tremendous potential. He actually shares a lot of similarities with Mbappe but is playing under a manager who doesn't trust youth and won't allow for any technical freedom so he's just not developing....not in the areas where Mourinho wants him to develop anyway.

He was very good tonight. He's still erratic in front of goal and quite raw. Athletically he is excellent. I think people are carried away by his age though. He is very young, but his age doesn't mean that he will continue to improve at the rate he appears to have burst on to the scene at...

That crossing malarkey will be coached out of him the minute he gets to Manchester. Jokes aside, I can't make my mind up. I'm worried about us spending 40m on a player who couldn't fend off competition from a player we let go of for absolute peanuts. I'm not sure he's intelligent enough or...

So if they won't, he will get his own way. So he's not wrong.