Tiny minority of dickheads, please don’t spread lies. Can’t remember the last time I saw any local wearing a tea towel at a match. I don’t know how the attendances were for the Saudi matches but from what I’ve read it was mostly attended by families and students who struggle to get tickets for NUFC games and wanted a day out.
They always were
Being linked with De Gea already.
We thought he'd go Saudi, I guess he really might
Same was with Manchester United, when we had the height of our injury crisis this fall - every game I watched it was said like 10x that we have like 10+ players out and nobody to bring on from the bench - although we are doing woefully on the pitch. Ok I get it say it like once or twice, but don't like throw it out every 10 mins.
They must be shitting themselves over FFP or something. Makes absolutely no sense to lose Trippier and Almiron in January.
Yep, just edited...think the charges to us and Forest and pending City trial have made them rethink.
It sort of makes sense in that Trippier and Wilson are 33 and 32, so this is probably the last chance to cash in on them.
I don't think it can be understated though how valuable those type of players are to the dressing room and squad though. Almiron less so but Trippier and Wilson are big characters for them.
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I wonder if they'll be the same outrage as to when we were apparently finessing the system by letting one of the clubs take one of our best ever players for free and a recently world class keeper for £20m
Chelsea were trying to renew his contract. He's the one that wanted to leave and he knew we could never match Saudi's contract offer.
I am sure that’s the official line to a club legend, but he couldn’t string two games together anymore and hadn’t been able to for a long time. 9 appearances in the season before he was sold.
It's a nice theory but I don't think it holds up when you consider that he was a free agent. He was an out of contract player who chose to move to Saudi instead of extending with Chelsea.
It still saved a hefty wage for a player that wasn’t playing and was long past his best. Just one name on quite a large list that was attempted.
You do realise as an out of contract free transfer the club didn't benefit from Kante going there whatsoever?
Saved them from a costly renewal, which they might well have felt needed to be offered after a season of injury to a legend. Small potatoes I know, but there was a laundry list of names attempted outside of Kante.
Why would we be under any obligation to renew? Infact the way Clearlake have moved suggests the only way it would have happened is if he agreed to a significant wage cut.
Clubs can be quite loyal to legends. I mean, it’s only a suggestion, but it’s far easier to cut ties with such a loveable character in the squad and with the fans if he takes an offer he can’t refuse.
Which ones?
Will be quite convenient to have a large chunk of that FFP worry go away quickly. If only they knew someone to help them tap into the Saudi money market..
