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That’s not strictly true, it depends how much his replacement costs. £20m would give us a loss of £6m but keeping Maguire for another year will lose us £13m in amortisation anyway. Therefore you could sign someone for £35m on a 5 year deal, £7m amortisation so the total cost in amortisation...

His and our problem is that he is paid like he should start every game and be in the top 10 in the world in his position when he frankly isn’t, similar to Maguire. He’s not a bad player at all but he costs us a lot every year in amortisation and salary and doesn’t do anywhere near enough to...

Hard to believe he has just turned 18. Incredible technical ability but very unusual to have that coupled with such great game intelligence at that age.

Yeh, not sure why some people are even debating this. We were easily beaten by teams that eventually finished 6th and 9th in the first two games of last season too, the squad was a mess. De Gea will struggle to find a club, Henderson and Elanga are wanted by the team that finished 16th, Heaton...

We have the 3rd most points away from home in the league. The teams chasing are even worse than us. We aren’t being chased by City and Arsenal. Most of them also have to play Arsenal and City . Only Spurs have played them both twice along with us (I think Newcastle only have one left against...

This second half is the best half of football I have seen from us in years

Can they even afford to sack him? A 5 year deal on £10m a year, which is what he is reported to be on, would cost them £50m to pay off in full including wages already earned this year. Whack on the £20m compensation they paid Brighton for him and you’re looking at £70m burnt for 6 months

Maguire’s main problem is he is paid like a guaranteed starter and one of the best players when he is now neither of these. We will sell him if we get a remotely acceptable offer, regardless of how well (or not) he plays whenever Varane doesn’t. He played fine at the weekend, about as well as a...

Yes clear red, stupid from Casemiro

Still yet to beat a team in the top half of the table in 10 games, with only 5 goals scored. Woeful.

Your 2nd pro is also a con, it’s just moving the amortisation from one period to another. It gives you a lot less flexibility in 5 years on FFP given you already have a load of amortisation due. Similarly selling the player will bank you less accounting profit than it would on a more normal...

By the eye test I would’ve said they’ve been quite comfortably the best team in the league so far. It’s interesting though when you look at their underlying numbers, they’re actually behind City on everything (not by much) - less xg, more xga and less xpts (using understat). We usually see City...

He’s not offside the way the rules are written, it’s as simple as that. However, I personally think he should be given offside if I could rewrite the rules. We had one against Everton in the cup which I also think should be offside, Varane plays the ball because the attacker is behind him miles...

They had by far the easiest run of games in the first quarter of the season, didn’t take advantage of it, dropped far too many points. Now they have lots of injuries but they’re also just playing better sides, and I don’t think they’re actually playing that different to when they had less...

Felix is a good player and will improve them quite a bit over the next 4 months. However, financially and sportingly it's a crazy signing. Chelsea are keen to let it be known this is a long term project, Potter is their man etc so it's a very strange signing in that sense. They're not really...