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That is utter bollocks 1 year into a 5 year contract at Galatasaray and cost 18M EUR 🤣

Bit of a chequered past but great stats all across the board.

Ha yes, exactly! You sort of have to expect this even though it's unpleasant. Every 1M off the sale price increases the size of the contract for Viktor & his agent, and lowers the total cost for the buying club. It's just negotiation. It's a shame it has to happen like this in public because...

Slightly poorly translated comment from the President of Sporting CP, Frederico Varandas: Further quotes: Basically, they're saying the agent / media is talking bollocks about them reneging about the release clause. Seems pretty reasonable - they're saying they won't insist on the release...

It's a combination of age, the quality of the league he's playing in and perhaps the limited systems he would fit into at that level. Even at a price below the release clause, in a top tier league it's quite a risk, when for a bit more money you can get someone younger with sell-on potential and...

Maybe? Demographics have massively changed in ~25 years since Clive started and particularly in the last 5 as the club has become more successful, got a wider audience and boosted attendances. Media landscape has totally changed too. I can see the argument for things being radically...

The hour with Clive was a lovely listen and quite emotional particularly the little compilation of some of the commentary on goals over the years. He will be so sorely missed, Rob Gurney in his lukewarm tribute made mention of the fact they won't try to replace him but do something different...

Maybe I'm wrong on this but I have a feeling no top 5 Premiership club is realistically going to sign him, so that rules out Arsenal & Chelsea who are rumoured but I don't really believe it. These rumours have been swirling for a few years and it has never materialised. I could see a move to...

Plenty of people at the time thought we'd ripped Sporting at that price, including many Sporting fans. Of course in retrospect it looks quite different. He's clearly a player who wants to play every minute of every game and I think he wanted a realistic prospect of Champions League. Sporting...

https://www.ccfc.co.uk/news/2025/may/28/coventry-city-retained-list-2024-25/ And: I thought I'd read we had options on Sheaf - perhaps that isn't true - I'd expect us to exercise that either way.

Nope it's real. I'm sure all clubs do this, but sloppy of them to put it online beforehand and not take it down once it was clear we weren't progressing. Good news is you can find all sorts of new products and promotions this way...

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I don't think staying at Sporting is out of the question - I am not sure Arsenal have ever been seriously into him as an option. This has been talked about for a good year or more now and nothing has materialised - makes me think it is mainly agents talking this up to attract bids. United &...

I think the advantage we have and that Frank and Robins both need is a club that will give them time. So for Frank to move within a year of coming here it'd have to be a club that was committing him over a long term. We all know how rare that is at all levels of the game but particularly the...

This is baseless of course, but I think Lampard needs to stick to a project for a while - any job he's offered is unlikely to give him the time, space & backing that we are. It would have to be a huge job for him to chance it - and remember he's done that before and I don't think his career...

I don't agree with people completely tearing him down and questioning his commitment etc - but I wouldn't say he was "not quite at the races" - the perfomances were really poor. I'm sure he'd admit the same to himself - he looked extremely frustrated with how it was going every time he failed to...

Agree. It's all history now but in hindsight if you're expecting Wright to be taking a pen if it gets to pens (which of course you do!) you probably don't want to start him in a lone striker system. In any other game / scenario, you'd have subbed him around 60-70 minutes I think. We could have...

Wright has been poor the last few games, no doubt. He almost looks like he is carrying an injury - which doesn't make a great deal of sense given how much he's been played and that we have BTA and Simms available. That makes me think it's just a really bad run of form and possibly psychological...

He's a hard player to justify in the sense that his goals and assist stats have never been good. But I always felt for us where he shone was basically being a huge nuisance - he helped us win the ball high up the pitch and would often be the cause of a counter. Would win a lot of fouls (referee...

Despite teasing him a lot about getting players names wrong constantly, I'm gutted Clive is leaving. That feeling is heightened particularly since Rob returned with a very negative mindset. Each time he contributes during or after a match it's swayed heavily by the result regardless of the...