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Wasn't that what people said when Clarke left them? All clubs that aren't Real Madrid and their ilk are selling clubs, it's how you reinvest.

Of course not, but they can't say no to the release clause, either. It'd be like asking how much a Snickers bar cost, being told £1, and then saying, 'cool, cheers, here's £1.50'. Apart from there's only one Snickers, and lots of people are trying to persuade it why they are the best person to...

Exactly. If it's a release clause, they have to accept, so offering more would be lunacy. It would be personal terms there would be a bidding war on.

Collar's wired. It looks like it's trying to be two things at once. Otherwise, top effort (though a design synonymous with another club).

BTA wasn't a terrible signing at all. Decent option as a rotation striker, and for a forward with the experience that he has, relatively cheap. I don't think there should be any clamour to get rid, although he probably wants to move for more playing time himself.

Too many games, apparently.

I agree, but at this stage in his career, is he going to settle for that? He could be a regular for a decent Championship team.

Way before then in fairness. World Cups in Italy in 1938 and Argentina in 1978 are just the immediately obvious ones. Football administrators generally never had much of a social conscience. It's just so blatant now, though. Infantino will crawl up the arse of every autocrat he meets.

Yeah, sorry, edited post; realised after posting you weren't passing comment on your own thoughts, rather speaking more generally.

Fwiw, I don't judge fans for not boycotting; football support is ingrained over decades, you can't switch off love for a club any more than you can for a person. Football supporters also can't be blamed for who owns their clubs. What stuck in the craw with Newcastle was just how much they...

He's not. He might be right that the majority wouldn't care (there's no 'might' about that, unfortunately), but not that no-one would, or that of those voicing disapproval, that it would be insincere. Speaking for myself only, I could not with good conscience put money into a club with links...

The whole quote. I've highlighted the relevant bit for you. "The reality is if the club succeeded no one would care - some will pretend to - but they will just still go anyway." hth.

Some might, some will care, and act accordingly. You do not speak for all.

Agreed, but often I felt this was down to the gaps we leave for teams to run into, and that's down to system, not individual defenders. Having a bloke off the street in goal for us for a spell also accentuates defensive frailties.

Does he have to be a traditional winger to prosper in this system? The issue, as I see it, isn't that it's hard to accommodate him, but that when he's off form, you carry him.

I agree with a lot of that, but not with your ratios. He's on it way more than one in ten, and it's not the majority of the time, it's phases. Start of last season, end of this. He's crap as the number 9, though. He's an old-school inside left, where he prospers.

He doesn't. When he's on it he looks as good as his stats suggest he is. He can be a thoroughly entertaining player to watch. I've said this before, and it might be wrong, because obviously I don't know the man, but he seems to have the personality type that that he goes within himself when...

He was one of those that looked ok if he had Fadz telling him what to do through the game, but on his own, he was lost. It was that Wrexham game when he was the central one of the three. I've never seen a player so confused by such rudamentary tactics. "Good God, they're pumping it high into...

BTA clearly more effective than Bassette overall. Kitching was out of the side for (presumably) non-football reasons, but finished strongly. Harsh on him. Wright had a poor end to the season, but possibly the play-off performances clouding opinion? He was very good before injury. Dovin also...

Pantzo.