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Surely the most important point about nationalisation of infrastructure is that even if the public sector turns out to be no better than private, no-one's actively making a profit from that incompetence. By now it's pretty obvious the idea that the private sector is inherently better at...

I think with this much smoke, there's a little fire but I also believe he'll have been far from the only name on the list. Not sure how he could be our 'number one target' as so many are claiming. We might have liked his style but until we'd actually spoken to him, how would we know whether his...

Part of the deal to bring in Marti Cifuentes as our new boss? :wink:

Oi! Look at me.. I'm not!

On food matters, I’ve read it’s better to seek a registered dietician. They’re guaranteed to be qualified and regulated by law. Some nutritionists have studied too but anyone could claim to be one.

I'm pretty confident Bloom will spend what's required to keep the club in contention for top 10. We shouldn't be far off with the squad we've got, bearing in mind we've had half a team all season and only missed that target by a point. I think everyone agrees that ideally we could do with some...

We weren’t looking for players to improve a European/top half squad when we signed those players. The standard required now to better what we’ve got is higher and consequently a lot more expensive, not helped by Chelsea chucking money about over the past 2 years. If you can name a few...

Sorry, but I don't think you're telling anyone anything new. The model (that's worked) is exceptionally talented young players, mentored by very experienced pros because that's what we can afford and still be competitive. It'd be great, for instance, to go and sign Morgan Gibbs-White but he'd be...

He's less of a risk, fan unrest aside.

I doubt we'll go for top players hitting their prime because the type of proven Premier League ready player we'd need to improve the current side would cost £60-70m each. We broke our transfer record twice last summer though to bring in Pedro and Baleba, so Bloom is not exactly tight. Just not...

I was absolutely bloody furious. But so would I. The downside is potential negativity from fans rather than a lack of coaching ability, as far as I can see.

That's a leap considering the performance of the promoted clubs this season. Don't see any reason at all to think that.

Does it? I think it just signals we're not going to spend a lot of money on players that he wanted, as opposed to ones the club has identified.

"Trust the process"? Definitely Potter! :lol:

I’m not even sure we’d be a laughing stock. Get back someone who had us 4th in the Premier League, having banked £20m+ in the process.

Kompany has a massive international reputation as a player to fall back on. Rightly or wrongly, that helps.

Very much hope the Maresca rumour is true. Anywhere but Chelsea would be easy enough to accept.

I know we didn’t. That was the point I was making.

The Athletic, not The Guardian. Probably the most reliable journalist there is on this type of story as he seems to only deal in facts. Covering himself though with ‘known options’, suggesting he believes there may be others but hasn’t been able to get it confirmed.

Absolutely. A good, detailed explanation of the point I’ve been repeating. None of us know exactly what happened and probably never will but the idea RDZ was forced out is clearly wrong if this compensation clause exists. My feeling is he engineered a way out with his behaviour this year. If...