RevidgeBlue

Ok. I thought the Arsenal sell on was widely reported as £4m. Point still stands though, as with Wharton we gave him away ridiculously cheap initially, in that instance primarily because Mowbray didnt really rate him.

Lol. Famous last words! Kane again.

Wharton off for Chaddy's hero Anderson. I know he's just scored a scruffy goal but I can't see the point in playing Kane every minute of every game. We know he's a shoe in for selection and we're very over reliant on him if he were to pick up an injury. Others should be getting some minutes and experience. Rashford just cleared the penalty area with a cross. Im not a fan of his at all.

We didnt get anywhere near £10m for Raya did we? I thought it was £7m in total. £3m sale plus £4m add on.

No, because there's nothing to suggest that we have anything other than the standard sort of 15% sell on clause so we should have had a lot more to start with plus that. Same with Raya.

Roy Keane and Ian Wright praising him at HT though.

Knowing us, the add on clause probably reads "Has to start and has to play the entire 90 mins plus added on time".

People were rightly extremely annoyed we virtually gave him away to keep the lights on.

Nice Christmas bonus for Gestede and Pasha. Won't benefit us any but pleased for Wharton. How on earth are we going to cope without the Forest lad? Lol.

The Forum's an utter sham these days in general but FWIW members should if nothing else try and get a straight answer next time about Lynsey Talbot's ambivalent comment that work on a drainage sleeve was due to start "that week". We've heard nothing whatsoever about it elsewhere so presumably this isn't taking/never took place.

The link doesn't work for me, the white tab appears to have disappeared on the Fans Forum Section.

Great work everyone.

Best of luck to him if he gets it. He'll be like a breath of fresh air for them in their current predicament breezing in with his schoolboy like grin and cheeky chappy persona. All good unless something happens he doesn't like, he gets the hump, and they start conceding 3 or 4 goals a game.

Do they get any benefit from playing at that sort of level? Genuine question as I've no idea.

How did he manage to score 27 in all comps for City season before last then? Im sure they weren't all 30 yard screamers. It's a matter of personal preference really. Myself, I can't get my head round any manager picking a team without Foden in it. However I'm getting a very 1966 vibe off Tuchel. Sir Alf chose a system and picked the 11 players who best suited playing to that system rather than necessarily picking the best 11 players in their individual positions and then choosing a style of play to suit them.

I thought he was being serious for a long time but he's on a wind up surely.

We're not the Judean People's Front, we're the People's Front of Judea. They're different types of player so its fairly pointless comparing them like for like. All players have slightly different attributes. If you ran a poll I reckon 90% of neutral fans would say Wharton was the better player and arguably Anderson only got into the side in the first place because Wharton was injured. On the other hand - you can't blame Tuchel for not changing something which is currently working. I do have full confidence in him where the opposite was true under Southgate. Anderson might get injured at some point though and/or Tuchel might change things round slightly and/or there may come a time in the Tournament against better opposition where Wharton's unique talents are required. We'll have to wait and see.

That's always assuming Jackson got it right. So as I alluded to last night, shocking negotiation by Rovers if true. So hypothetically, he could come on as sub throughout the WC and be a difference maker off the bench in many of the games, and score the winner in the Final, and it wouldn't count!

Im not particularly interested in us developing players for other Clubs, however old, I only want to see players doing well in the blue and white halves and us winning football matches as a result. Selling someone for a huge fee gives me as a fan no benefit or enjoyment whatsoever. Quite the reverse. Then there's the added factor to be taken into account that unlike at any other normally run Clubs it doesn't appear to make any significant difference to our transfer budget anyway. Obviously, I want Adam Wharton to do as well as possible as he genuinely loves the Club and it wasnt his fault he left, he was pushed out of the door way before his natural time to pay the bills. In the case of say Phillips Id be completely neutral. I dont wish him any harm, but at the same time Id get no enjoyment out of him playing for England whatsoever. It'd only be a brutal reminder of how badly we were shafted on him.

So if he came on during the World Cup final and scored the winner it wouldnt count? That's ridiculous. The add on should be triggered by an appearance in a competitive match, not a start.

Is that a minor add on activated?

Not seen this site before, is it strictly for charitable purposes? Poor form from the donors of the shirts otherwise.

"Sorry Sir, this is a private facility not for use by members of the general public."

Interesting. Cheers.

The miserable defeat to them at Ewood in the pissing rain under JDT shortly after the heavy Derby Day defeat at the Turd still sticks in my craw. Players like Tyler bloody Morton looked like they'd rather be anywhere else.