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I guess the point is that if we hadn’t said “75 mill for VVD, no way” we wouldn’t be facing an 80-90 mill fee for a lesser player or even an absurd 30-40 mill for Ake now. Hopefully OTTY stays and we can keep our hands in our pockets. But next year the cost of players will have gone up another...

Because we don’t know that. They don’t want him at 80 mill plus maybe but we didn’t want VVD at his price at the time and now it’s a bargain in the insane market. If the club doesn’t want to pay that price it’s fine by me but we’re fans on a forum. Arguing is in our blood. :)

The way he tore down the left against us suggests he’s not that shabby on the ball. He’s always looked pretty comfortable in England games as well. He’s certainly a huge upgrade on Smalling and Stan Laurel. The prices being thrown around are insane but that’s how the game is. The 75mill paid...

Damn you autocorrect. I meant, Stan Laurel.

I hear he’s the new Duncan Edwards.

I guess the bargain price factors in his current wages which otherwise they couldn’t afford. Good luck to him.

I’ll go with the fallible humans who don’t take minutes to make the wring call or pull back play to retrospectively award penalties after play has moved to the other end of the the pitch.

Well judging by its use in the WWC it’s going to be a joke and a disaster. Used to be in favour but seeing it used to give retrospective penalties, marginal judgement call offsides and decisions that are blatantly wrong while taking minutes to do it, I am not. I’d rather we took our chances...

We have three other top class international wide players and who knows how many other Sancho’s and Diaz’s looking at the long line between them and a first team place. If he goes we won’t even need to sign a replacement. With hindsight I really wish we’d swerved Mahrez.

Maybe but he’s going to have to earn that chance by showing Pep what he wants to see in terms of attitude and determination. Not to mention elbow Sterling or one of the Silva’s out of the way. I really hope he does because we’ve seen that when he really wants to, he can be a great player. I get...

It’s just not possible to develop a resilient winners mentality in a league where most every match is won by the simple act of showing up.

The worth of any product, including a footballer, is what someone will pay for it. If someone pays ninety mill for The Leicester Quasimodo, then that’s what he’s worth to the buyer. Hopefully not us but I wish we’d been on the ball enough to grab VVD from Celtic.

Hands up who’s surprised. Anyone? Anyone at all? Bueller?

We did win the Lottery and speaking as an old City fan - by God we deserved it. But success brings envy. We’re no longer a joke club and we’re no longer underdogs. We are going to be as hated as Liverpool were in the eighties and MU were for most of the Premiership. That’s the price of...

As I’ve said many times - I want him to sign a new contract. He’s going to be a great player. However if he wanted to go, he’d go with my best wishes and thanks for all he’s done. There’s plenty more great young players we can sign. Not to mention the great young players we have. Speaking as a...

And how many of those were starters? Twenty One against 27 the season before. And if memory serves he was injured the season before. Anyway my points were that I want him to stay but if he wants to go then I think the club will let him go. I’m hoping he signs a new contract and all this mood...

Hope you’re right but if Sane really wants away a deal will be done. Pep doesn’t seem to be the kind of manager who wants an unhappy player sulking around the place. He didn’t seem that keen on him last season anyway for reasons we aren’t privy to. Regretfully, because I really rate Sane, I...

I hope you’re right!

Sadly, if he wants to go back to Germany then he’s gone. With Ribery and Robben gone he’s a guaranteed starter for Bayern. I hope he doesn’t go though. I hope that whatever was going on last season gets put to bed because he’s going to keep on getting better and better.

Statue? Pfft. Make it a Colossus.