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Why don’t England just use the new Everton ground as the north of England Wembley. The thought of tax payers subsidising the new Man Utd ground is enough to make the blood boil.

The level of arrogance from Ratcliffe is astonishing. F@ck him and Man United.

Keep him on garden leave till the start of September so he can’t scupper Newcastle’s transfer business and then get a few million compo

Wouldn’t Newcastle have to agree to this though? If Newcastle want to dig their heels in they could put him on garden leave for the period of his notice period. However, I’d think they’d prefer to accept a lump sum as compensation and move on?

Expect he’s on a fair whack at Newcastle. A move to Manchester United would be closer to his Midlands home.

Down to Newcastle as to whether they’ll accept a comp package to release early. I expect they won’t . They hardly need the money!

Just seeing the sky report about Ashworth, I expect that Newcastle won’t make his release easy. Long notice period I would expect to take him past the next transfer window.

We’ll have a release clause I expect as we did with the coaches that left to join Chelsea. Their release clause was circa £1m each on top of the much higher release clause for Potter. With someone like Jewell you’d expect it would be higher than £1m. If there isn’t one there will be a long...

He’ll have to be careful to use ‘Mandy’ rather than ‘Bride of Frankenstein’ which must cross his mind regularly.

Exactly this. It’s not as if we are holding him without paying him. We are paying him handsomely for doing nothing. He signed the contract. If the Saudis want him out of this position then they’ll have to meet our compensation demand.

I’m suddenly moving from being disappointed to enjoying the fact that we have Newcastle by the short and curlies on this one. Pay us our compo in full or we don’t release him from his contract. No Dan til beyond the summer transfer window. That must be worth a few million from the Saudis. Enough...

I'm also thinking that the 'extremely disappointed' came from the fact that Tony went out of his way to counter offer and Ashworth waited to see what it was before going. If you go out of your way to counter offer and its rejected it must be very frustrating. I think it makes sense to appoint...

He’d be in breach of his contract and we could take disciplinary action. Of course I get your point that communication could and probably will take place. However, he would need to be careful that nothing could be traced back to him.

Gardening leave is not all it’s cracked up to be. He will have to report into Barber if required, so if he wants a holiday he’ll have to book it like any other employee. If we have tied him into 6 months garden leave we are potentially giving up 6 months compensation from Newcastle but it’s...

His Garden Leave could be 3months, and possibly 6months. Cant see anything other than those two options.

I have no doubt that you are 'bang on' here. Nice cuddly TB when Dan Burn goes through the right channels when he'd like to go back to Newcastle as his family lives there, and it's hometown club. Dan is 'relaxed about it' and does the right thing. Tony sanctions it if Newcastle meet our price...

Maybe put in a bid for Bissouma and frankly that wouldn’t be a bad thing as it will add to the value we get for him. Lamptey?, it would have to be a huge bid. Anyone else, I doubt it. Ashworth’s value to Newcastle will be creating infrastructure. Any Technical director can buy good players for...

This was my thought once Weir was promoted. Continuity is key now and we don’t need someone in with a load of new ideas. We have the framework and we’ll continue to work in the manner we’ve built. A bit like the 1970s Liverpool.

Firstly, he isn’t gone yet, although I expect the chances he’ll go are probably greater than 50%. However he is one of a number of candidates. He might just go and have a chat and we then get info on what a competitors plans are. I know examples of that before. If he does go then the...