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Your points about more money being made for European spots is obviously correct, but the argument being made in January wasn't 'Don't sell him as we won't reach Europe without him.' Few of us had that level of hubris. The argument being made was 'We'll slip down the league and this will cost...

Yes, I hadn't twigged that either. Top conjugating sir!

True, but I said this just to refute the argument being made at the time that we'd lose more in prize money than we'd get in transfer fee. Having finished where we did, for this to be true, we would have had to finish third had we kept him. I'd hazard to suggest that, given that Chelsea already...

I should have used 'rending'. I've looked it up and it seems that, although the adjective is rent (torn), the verb is to rend (tear). Therefore if we were renting our garments and then rending them, they would end up rent and we wouldn't get back the deposit on the rent when we rendered them...

Having reached the top ten without him, can we now stop the renting of clothes over the price we sold BDB for? We got £13m+ for a now thirty year old centre half when we were 9th in January. As we have now finished 9th, it hasn't cost us any money in loss of earnings from potential finishing...

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/apr/21/eddie-howe-manager-of-the-season-newcastle-dan-burn Yes Dan, I'm sure it was the genius of Smug Eddie. Who could possibly think of 91 million other reasons for the turnaround at Newcastle? 6 points from 8 league games (0.75ppg) and an...

Tony Bloom has always said that he won't stand in a player's way if a bidding club meets his valuation. BDB's valuation may seem low, but we have to presume that it is impacted by his age, the time left on his contract and what the club think it would cost to replace him in the squad. Left...

Sad to see Dan go, especially to an outfit I have no respect for. I understand the pull of home for him and personally wish him the best and am grateful for the memories: being applauded by Aguero for his control, marking Lukaku out of the game in what has turned out to be his last game for us...

Exactly.

That's right. Nobody has to take any personal responsibility for their decisions and jobs in sport are completely separate from human rights issues. This was all settled back in 1990 when Mike Gatting was just a cricket captain who had been offered a job, whilst out of work to lead a touring...

After meeting the owners, he's quoted in the Guardian as saying: “It was a great experience to hear his thoughts on the club and his vision and what the future looks like. It was a motivational and inspirational talk based on collective aims and collective team spirit. We were all very...

Of course! I can't believe that I forgot that second half at home against Newcastle. We were absolute bobbins.

Don't like Howe because of his reaction to the ridiculous luck he generally has against the Albion: penalties given for the attacker handling, penalties given for non fouls outside of the box, us having two players sent off in the first twenty minutes. In every one of these cases, he has faced...

After Cook and Elphick took him from League One to the Premier League Smug Eddie obviously thinks that centre halves being kept out of our first team by Lewes Dunk are still the way to go. Glad to see that he won't be getting this one for such a bargain price. I see that Newcastle are also...

True, but with Roberts, Offiah, Clarke, Van Hecke etc. all wanting an opportunity and a potential offer on the table now, these things are generally about timing. Strangely, given that BDB's been brilliant playing at centre half in Dunk's absence, and got a lot of stick when playing out wide...