Because you've watched his games?

Seems strange to sub a keeper 58 minutes into a friendly. Not like keepers can't handle 90 minutes.

He's a bit old for that...

No, their starting keeper Dibusz stayed on. Sweden won 2-0.

Dunno if it's been mentioned, but De Neve appears to auto qualify for a work permit, with 18 points (15 needed). So he won't take up an ESC slot.

We'll Neve sign him

That increased wage that no fee brings just gets swallowed up by the player wanting a bigger wage because they know you're not paying a fee.

And then tells us to judge after 10 games, and then that any players who haven't been totally atrocious are good enough. Then says the next window will fix it and cycles through the exact same pattern in January.

Essential costs vs transfer costs has utterly no relevance to an anti fraud or money laundering unit. Their remit is to deal with fraud, and money laundering. As far as has been heard, there is no official allegation by them of impropriety over transfers, and even if they suspect it (which we almost all do), the judge isn't on the anti fraud or money laundering team. In theory at least, he should follow the letter of the law. Government pressure notwithstanding, he would still have to be able to justify, legally, not permitting transfer funds but allowing electricity bills. There's also a very solid argument that transfer funds are an essential cost of running a football club.

Does it not? They're doing that because of impropriety in the accounts for when they sent money here to buy Neville's house. They've no particular reason to stop us doing transfer business.

Mostly agree, but it isn't unheard of at all. However it's pretty close to it for players of his age, who were on a longer deal at their existing club. It was a very odd deal. I can only think we weren't willing to pay a wage he wanted unless he proved himself, and he took the gamble for a chance to put himself in the Championship shop window. But I also suspect we must have bought out his existing contract, in which case why not just give him a longer deal here with that money and gain security. Very strange.

Is this a rumour or confirmed?

Where has this figure come from?

That's an incredibly generous interpretation.

Talking about online.

I've never once seen Dolan brag about his ability. Actually he seems quite a grounded and humble lad. A higher pay deal and getting out of this circus, as well as escaping certain sections of the fans who give him an undue amount of stick, is bound to appeal. That doesn't make him arrogant.

That deposit has to be carrying a lot of the weight there, surely. Lease costs might have come down too, I dunno, but that's a huge difference in vehicle value for you to be paying a smaller monthly. Either way I expect you'll really like your new car. One thing Polestar and Volvo will do together is help Volvo avoid the fines for not producing enough EVs as a percent of their sales in the UK. Any petrol/diesel car sold above the allowance means a hefty fine, and companies who sell more than enough EVs can sell their credits to other companies to avoid those fines. Or in the case of Volvo and Polestar, probably just give them to Volvo. If Volvo are already selling enough EVs as a proportion (I've no idea if they are), then the credits can just be sold to other companies like Ford who probably aren't meeting the requirements. Other countries have similar schemes.

Good, he's better than that and needs rest if he's not playing at a higher level than u21.

You might not, but he very obviously does. The quote is clear.

Exactly, he wants to go back to the model of over 2000 minutes. It's very clear. Not sure how you're reading this and not seeing that he's saying that's the target.

What I'm saying is, we aren't really benefiting from this system. Yes we took Eze and Tyjon for peanuts and now they're probably both leaving for peanuts not long later. The ones benefiting are the ones at the top table, who already have all the money, and hoover up superb prospects for sod all, especially relative to their wealth. Then they loan them out, to the likes of us, not cheaply either, and once they've proven themselves at Championship or above they end up selling for millions. The system doesn't work. IMO, it would at least discourage them a bit if wage contributions and loan fees weren't allowed for players of 21 or under. But ideally, the compensation system should be thoroughly overhauled. Including to the benefit of your Rochdales and Accy Stanleys.

They are the ones being linked to big clubs.

You mean the ones we are likely to subsequently lose for peanuts? Not sure we are actually gaining much from it. Last one I can remember benefiting us was Raya, and that was from abroad.

Right well I don't believe that's a persistent problem for him, and half the post I was replying to was essentially claiming he doesn't win headers.

Disagree, and there's a big difference between competing with the good headers from the past like RSC and Gestede, and being amongst the poorest headers. If I were to guess I'd probably say he scored 3 headers, and wasn't always given much aerial supply. Seems a fairly normal amount. There were games where he was winning everything in the air. He appears to be in the top 1 percent of players in the league for winning aerial duels, with 6.31 per game.