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I like Mary and she's a great keeper but it gives us a year to find a decent replacement. I would rather keep her long term but there are a few good keepers out there, so I'm not too worried. The WC showed how keepers have improved massively since the last one when we brought Earps in.

It's a shame how poor our reputation is in the women's game. It seems to keep being an issue. We have no pedigree/reputation because the Glazers scrapped the women's team for so long until they were forced to bring it back. Poor facilities for the women while the mens and boys teams have better...

I doubt we will let her leave. I wonder what the terms of her plus one on her deal are. If we are looking for a replacement she must have the option to extend rather than us.

I'm expecting Earps to go too. Feels the same as Russo with Arsenal offering a record fee with a year left on her deal.

A US journo was on the All for United WFC YouTube channel here, chatting about this. Apparently Courage want a NSWL record fee for Kerolin if we want her now, around $300-350k. She will be free in December at the end of season. I think we will wait, like we have done for Cooney-Cross. We may...

A really interesting signing in Geyse as she's such a different striker to Russo. I'm really looking forward to seeing her and what she can do. Hopefully we can get another CF in as Geyse, Thomas & Williams isn't enough for the CL and WSL. Daly would be very obvious upgrade to Thomas along with...

A great debut season. She looked good at Brighton but stepped up a level last year. Outstanding passer. Sadly the question will be how can we keep her when her contract is up for renewal in her last year. We are developing a bad habit with James, Russo and Batlle not renewing contracts and are...

It isn't a disaster, it's just not as good as it could have been. Levy was never going to sell us Kane, Maguire clearly doesn't want to go to West Ham, Henderson & Martial won't pass a medical this window and for some reason we decided we didn't want to sell McTominay for £30m. We won't sell VDB...

Brandon is on £65k per week according to Capology and Spotrac!!!

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I haven't seen that but it's a new rule so it's possible but I can't see why it would be. Amortisation is a standard format. As far as I've seen it applies to the first 5 years of the 8 year Chelsea contract. After that (years 6-8) the player is free of any minus FFP so can be treated like an...

The players fee divided by contract length, up to 5 years. It's recalculated if they sign an extension. There's an article here https://soccernoise.com/football-ffp-what-is-amortization/

Treatment room hierarchy established straight away. when new young threatning striker arrives injured

Alex Crook used to be reliable when he was a reporter mainly for Southampton / South coast stuff, finding his own information. Now he is a presenter on Talksport he tends to just read out what he's told (Talksport sources) and has become a lot more an aggregator, collecting information from...

Two possibles, under 25 not at impossible clubs: Hinata Miyazawa (23) was excellent as a 10/F, with a lovely left foot creating and scoring 5 goals. I haven't seen any links to a top club yet as she still plays in Japan but someone will snap her up, if they haven't already. A realistic option...