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It's a good move for us because we get £50m for a player who cost us very little, and we cash out before he gets an injury, loss of form, confidence crisis, big-time attitude. The offer was simply too good for us to turn down. He gets to move to a club who will pay him much more and where he...

The idea that Arsenal have got a bargain is partly based on the notion that he will continue to improve at The Emirates at the same rate as over the past few years. But will he? What is there about Arsenal's defending under Arteta or in any recent seasons that suggests that there are any...

From what I've heard it's more likely he knew that Ornstein was wrong to say the deal was almost done but didn't think it would be professionally wise to contradict another Athleticist.

When did I say he hasn't? It's his job, after all.

I've always wondered how agents get to be 'Super agents'. I assume it's when their home planets are destroyed in massive explosions and they are sent off in rockets to worlds with lower gravity where they develop unique powers. Either that or they're really just agents like any other.

I think you've replied to the wrong post.

Probably hasn't even talked to the agent, just repeats whatever was in the morning's tabloids and tries to sound vaguely and plausibly ITK. Nobody can definitively knock the story down, so what has he got to lose? Not as much as if he went on and said 'You know what? I have no idea what Ben...

I think that's a quite an overstatement. His betting consultancy is a relatively small part of his business. The property and investments sides won't have suffered much damage.

I happen to think that White can do better than Arsenal. They're not in Europe, and there's no guarantee that they will get there next season. The manager is unproven and unpopular with a section of the support, and could be out before Christmas. The atmosphere at the Emirates can be leaden...

You'd think so, wouldn't you? But in my experience people are so desperate to get their own big story out there that they don't want to hear any voices that might knock it down. Some are also too self-important to believe that anyone might know more than they think they do. I go back to the...

As I've said before, Naylor must know the truth but isn't going to contradict his employers' chief maker-up of transfer rumours. Being chief sportswriter at the Argus and a small fish in a bigger pond involve different compromises.

What's easier to believe, him or Edu thinking it, him or Edu telling anyone if he did, or a clickbait-obsessed intern on a website making it up? My money is very firmly on the last one.

I know Duncan and while he's by no means a moron, he was at one point a conduit for the Jose Mourinho camp, so has lost his USP to the UK media. If he wants to stay relevant he has to find another source of information, but I happen to think he has chosen poorly.

Most of it is BS in the sense that the writers (I hesitate to use the term 'journalists') are simply repeating stories from other websites unchecked. As far as anyone can tell, the only people at the Albion who would know the truth are TB, PB, Ashworth, Winstanley and his team, and the senior...

This time of the football year is usually a prime one for made-up nonsense in the papers and on the websites, but this summer has been especially ridiculous. 99 percent of it is complete rubbish. Example - the Dunk to Leicester story in 2019. Leicester had just sold Maguire so the ignorant...

Since most of these stories are either extrapolated from the flimsiest of evidence, copied from other clickbait websites, or completely made up, I wouldn't be surprised if White stays where he is. But if we assume any truth in any of them, I'd rather he went to Man City as the least...

Correct, according to a dullard: https://www.football365.com/news/tottenham-arsenal-net-transfer-fees-owed-list Bournemouth went down owing around £77m, but sold a few players (Ake, Ramsdale, Wilson) so are probably off the hook depending on how the sales were structured.

A few observations: 1. Gareth Southgate has said there's to be no transfer business for England players while we are still in the Euros. Is Ben White going to want to mess up his chances with the England ,manager so soon after making the squad by 'agreeing personal terms' with Arsenal from St...

Correct, of course. But what we don't know, despite the made-up stories on some websites, is what the player himself wants to do. If White's head has been turned by what he has been told while on England duty (as has happened many times before: Steve Foster put in a transfer request after...

You only talk about the positives, and how professionally he has handled the situation. Managers who criticise players publicly seldom keep the support of the dressing room.