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It's not difficult to imagine. Just look at the last 3 or 4 transfer windows if you want to see what signing mediocre players looks like.

The frustrating thing is many of us could see this coming for a long time, even last season when we somehow won the league with an ageing and injury prone starting 11 playing rather stale football but just about managing to grind out narrow insipid unconvincing wins.

As I've said in the match thread, it's all very well talking about a complete rebuild in the coming transfer windows but can we really trust the current managerial regime given how utterly abysmal their transfer dealings have been (with both incoming and outgoing players) in the last couple of...

To think (if the paper talk was accurate) we could have got £100m for KdB before the start of this season. Doubt anyone would give us £10m for him now.

I'm not sure we should even pin our hopes on a rebuild in the coming transfer windows. Can we really trust the current regime given their incredibly poor judgement with both incoming signings and the players we've allowed to leave in the last couple of years?

At least he'd bring down the average age of our line up.

Or perhaps you could provide a salient and valid counterpoint rather than just a sneering glib throwaway remark?

I don't need to think about the points you're making regarding the tories and their record on mass immigration and their reasons for being in favour of it because I'm in full agreement with you, as I'd already stated in my original comment. I also agree that necessary immigration (such as we...

Well unfortunately your leftie ideals and aspirations are entirely contradictory and self defeating. It's quite simple really, if you're in favour of mass immigration then you're also in favour of suppressed wages, eroded workers rights, appalling working T&C's, increased pressure on public...

Well we wouldn't need mass immigration in the first place if there wasn't the greedy exploitative employers and slumlords paying illegally low wages and providing illegally poor housing...

Yes you've confirmed exactly what I'm saying... those who benefit from mass immigration and those who are most in favour of it are indeed the employers.. and the most avaricious and exploitative employers are those most in favour of it, hence the liberal lefties are nothing more than the useful...

All those liberal left simpletons in favour of mass immigration can't seem to grasp that the vast majority of ALL immigrants (not just trafficked undocumented people) are encouraged to come here only to end up being little more than slave labourers, often working for abysmal, illegally low pay...

But we're not even "going at it" are we? We're just playing shit pedestrian sideways/backwards football yet somehow also managing to be defensively shit and highly vulnerable to counter attacks.

I don't see the point really, they'll all just say "you got away with it"

Yes, a very good example of what I'm talking about. He was capable of getting injured eating his cornflakes for breakfast.

It's basically the way united have always played, even under the pisscan. Park the bus, stifle the opposition, then hit them on the break by hoofing it up to the fast lads upfront. It's a complete myth that united played attractive, expansive, attacking football under Ferguson.

Fully agree. As fantastic players as they have previously been all three have clearly been on a downward trajectory for 2 seasons now. 2 years ago we could have easily got at least £150m for the 3 of them, especially if any Saudi clubs were interested, now we'd be lucky to £50m for all three...

Admittedly only paper talk but I'd heard he was open to a move but the club weren't keen on it happening, and the figure being mentioned (£100m) certainly wasn't a "token amount" Bernie has also quite clearly wanted to move for a couple of seasons now but the club have effectively prevented it...

As I said my post wasn't being in any way critical of De Bruyne and if he wants to stay at City until retirement I'm quite happy with that, as you say he's been a fantastic and loyal servant to the club. But, if there was a potential deal to have been done last season and IF De Bruyne was open...