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No, I'd have been happy with us keeping Turner and signing 2-4 players in the summer-as we had the budget to do so according to the board! Instead, I expect us to get relegated. My above analogy is easy to distort, but if you take aside the context of club size I think Turner was as important...

How did Ranson even get to mismanage it so badly if he kept getting outvoted on the board? It seems to be scapegoating of the lowest order to me. They tried the "it's a new board, give Paul Ken and Lenny a chance, they're great blokes" PR fandango in the Spring and look where we are now. The...

I think the germ of truth may have been that we made him a preliminary offer, and he's still laughing at it.

Parkin to Cardiff is kinda what Kyle was to us: stuck on big money with time on his contract and nowhere near the team. That's without the similarity in "playing style", as Aidy would probably call it.

Well if that was the case then the board should disclose that information. But they didn't, so I'll stick with the "facts" as they claim them. At no point did Clouting or Dulieu say the summer transfer budget-or indeed the Westwood/Aron/King contract money-were no longer available. Indeed they...

Silly question IMO-spend the transfer budget Ken claimed we had all summer on McDonald (indeed, why wait so long?!). If you're a bit short, use the Aron/Dann money. Keep Turner. If Ken was telling the truth, it should have been as simple as that! :blue::blue::blue:

His comments to the Boro fans on Twitter make it sound like he's keeping his options open! And as I really annoyingly said before, we were 30 mins away from flogging another vital player on deadline day. This one didn't make the media but was incredibly close-the team will be back in for him in...

So if it was Vidic or Ferdinand, and he'd been out for a year, and we got a bid at just under market value..would it make sense to sell ASAP, or allow him to return to fitness and increase in value again? Man U fans would be saying "yeah, flog him, he aint been fit for ages"? Nah. they wouldn't...

Still don't buy why we needed to sell Turner to get McDonald if we already had a transfer budget in place as Ken claimed. That's before the Dann/Aron money to top it off.

If it's this year I'll eat my hat.

Bid WAS NOT withdrawn due to Sam Allardyce being a director-that's a complete red herring, he'd have resigned if the bid had progressed. Bid fell through due to Dulieu naming investors and "someone" leaking a letter naming investors to the press. Seeing as the letter was to SISU, draw your...

Christie has done one or two things good but doesn't fill me with confidence. He's been skinned for a couple of goals, and is often guilty of either switching off or simply not knowing what to do/where to stand/when to "go" from full-back to winger. I appreciate that he's young and has time to...

Gonna be out for ages yet, sadly. I think we're really missing him.

Yes! I heard him crucify a manager during the World Cup for bringing everyone back for corners! He went into a detailed argument about how by leaving a man up front, that makes the opposition keep men back to deal with any potential counter-attack..I almost choked when I heard it. Maybe he...

If you knew how they were trying to sell absolutely crucial players on Weds night, you would never ever ever back them. We were so close to being stripped bare, and only a lack of time prevented that from being the case. They didn't mention another player who was 30mins from being gone. We must...

Erm..really? What about Middlesbrough? Was there for years building a team mostly from kids and they dropped like a stone when he left. Did well at Derby and great for Man U as A.M. Won the Dutch Eredivisie with FC Twente-the only time in the clubs history that they have won the Dutch top...

Was it Aidy? Or Coleman? Both like a bit of media work. Supplements their tidy income from their City pay-offs nicely. Dion's on 606 tonight, not that we're likely to get a mention!

Unattached players, they have more to prove. Especially if you can get them on a heavily incentive-based deal. Plus you can pick up players that with a bit of rehab could have significant resale value. Seeing as house analogies are all the rage around here, think about it as a choice between...

Exactly-and of course, you don't have to read them! I'd rather lay out a considered argument than dispense throwaway one-liners. As far as "they have no money"-as far as I'm concerned the Dann & Aron money should have covered McDonald's fee without having to sell Turner. And indeed the board...

Because we had a team and they haven't replaced it. If they want to be competitive and not get the club relegated, they had to strengthen, ie replace the players they offloaded or who left us in the summer. If SISU see doing what they have this summer as a way of making money, it is a plan of...