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Think only chance we would have is if we offered Mo as part of the deal to bring down the overall cost to us!

No mention of signing a contract extn though. I’d be surprised if we let him go run down the contract and go for free. We couldn’t afford to let him go for nothing and have to buy a replacement

Third kits are just becoming standard with clubs now, just another way to make more money from fans. If clubs thought about kit clashes there would never be a need for 3rd kits however that’s not the main consideration anymore.

They don’t seem to be shy promoting Hummel though, their “wallpaper Wednesday” graphics had some nice Hummel stripes in the background today.

The CEO of Spotify tweeted to buy out KSE. If only we had wealthy fans who would offer to do the same!

Currently 7-1 down 😬

It was more the sale and lease back of stadium and the high value they put on the stadium. A tactic clubs are using to try and get in line with FFP

Mel Moris - hmm, a bit shady when it comes to trying to bend the rules though: https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/business/finance-strategy/derby-charged-under-financial-fair-play-rules

Seems confident on asking price. £180M for the 80% share Gao paid £210M for. Or £200M for 100% ownership

Anyone back for weekend? If we can get KWP in at RB and Diallo in centre mid that’ll be a big lift. Armstrong can go back to his strongest position then. Ings isn’t even getting scraps to feed on. When’s Theo back??

Will need to raise more than that if they wanted a PL side though

It wasn’t taken out to buy players, it was to ease cash flow during the Covid period

Most of that is the loan money though

Romero is wasted as 3rd keeper, can’t believe nobody picked him up

City could get any forward they want (pretty much) I doubt they will be looking at a 28yr old too seriously- probably an option yes but they will just go and get the best they can from Europe. Jesus isn’t good enough to be their main forward so it’s not as though they need a back up

Wonder why he hasn’t been given any game time with the B team though 🤷🏻‍♂️

Costa is a free agent 😂

It’s only 11am and already we are getting: AMN, King, Gilmour and Lookman with only Long leaving!

Bournemouth keen on the deal but apparently King happy to see out the remainder of his contract and see what options the summer brings when he’s a free agent.

I thought you could only have 1 domestic PL loan at once. Or is it two?

Maybe it’s deemed he would benefit more from playing L1 than B team games - have the B team games been affected by Covid or are they playing a full fixture list still?

Interesting that Ralph made comments about Diallo could also play as a number ten or full back. I wonder if he’ll try either of those one Romeu is back?

My take on it is: he is happy at saints and would sign a new deal, however wants to know if a champions league team showed and interest, and the release fee is that way. He isn’t saying he wants to leave now for champions league but if there was interest in the future he would least like to have the option

Why would he want a release fee in the new contract when he could leave currently for lower than that release fee would be. He could just run down the contract and make much more than signing one with a release fee in.