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I don't know if it's still the case but United used to have a London-based news/content team of journalists pumping out content for their various channels etc, as well as a Manchester based one.
The list of demands QPR received, just on the media side, to accommodate MUTV and all those cnts for the pre-season friendly here ran to the length of a decent paperback.
Man City, of course, infamously employ more "journalists" on staff than the Manchester Evening News.
TBF to him at home this has brought some impressive performances - Norwich, Luton, Watford, Blackburn, Derby. But it's not working away and I broadly agree with you. We've seen what works and what doesn't. I know in an ideal world we'd have all the midget gems out there, but I'm afraid that's just the squad we've recruited.
It is, sadly, another problem caused by Madsen being such a donkey. A massive, 6ft 4ins, box-to-box central midfielder, picking the ball up and progressing it, physically dominant, good on both sides of the ball, transforms our team, which is why we paid so much money to get him here and why it's such a problem that he's crap.
We have asked and they won't say. For once I'm kind of with them on that, you don't really want buying or selling clubs knowing how close you are on that line. Nourry and Hoos have both said we underestimate what counts as a disallowable cost though, suggesting we were not as close to the line as we made out - although given our three year total is now well in breach one can only assume there are LOTS of disallowable costs.
Well I read it that the post balance sheet note says a NET outflow of £4.3m with another liability of £1.66m NET on top of that (like you say, presumably Dembele or Saito). So that's a NET spend of £5.96m, which if we did get £2m for Armstrong and £1m for Dykes equals around £9m, no? If I'm wrong I'll hold my hands up by I've spoken with people that know these things better than me and they read it the same.
It wouldn't be much of a message board if you were only allowed to post stuff you'd got on the record, with date time and place of who said it. It's football transfers lads, not nuclear codes. And as I've said before, sources don't tend to stick around too long if you out them publicly.
In Paal's case, though, Cifuentes himself said in a pre-season friendly interview "we can't have players like that hanging around in the last year of their contract" when asked about him leaving, so that's not a bad source for a kick off.
Known knowns – Report23rd Feb 2025 23:37 Portsmouth, who are excellent at home, beat QPR, who are ropey away, 2-1 at Fratton Park on Saturday, and if you’d gone there looking for surprises or learnings about either team you’d have left disappointed.6
You can drop Saito. He played yesterday, we lost, to a mediocre side. If it's for the good of the team, nobody is un-dropable. He's the form player right now so I'd pick him, but I'd pick the system that works for us over any individual.
Particularly away from home I agree. We got back into this season by stodging up that midield and adding Morgan's legs. Whenever we think we're the bee's knees and move away from it, with two in midfield and 3 'tens', we get picked apart through midfield.
You don't win games losing midfield. If it means one or two of Chair, Saito, Smyth, Yang have to sit on the bench that's tough. That's the squad we've put together.
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