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Even if there was that sort of clause in the contract (and I can’t see us giving any other club a say in our match day squads) then there would be caveats around the players fitness. If he’s injured Barca aren’t going to want him taking part in pre match warm ups etc where he could risk making...

Why bring him on? We gave time to two youngsters who will be here next season when he isn't. Pre injury Fati was showing signs of understanding our play and starting to contribute, but he's been poor the second half of the season.

Webster has made the last 10 PL squads, playing in 4 matches, before he missed Brentford. I’m sure I read something that he’s injured from the press conference and will miss today too but can’t find it now.

The one advantage Solly has is the fact he's been through this injury before, he knows his body can cope and I don't think we will see any lack of confidence when he comes back, he may take some time to fully find form but he'll be trying from the get go. Fati is suffering from this constant...

It strikes me that Fati is possibly a confidence player and at the moment he's lost that trust in his body following another spell out injured, and that was part of the reason he was loaned out in the first place We were starting to see what Fati was capable of just before his injury, he looked...

The designated player rule would get around that.

Part of the reason teams have been able to double up on him is that he hasn’t had Pervis making those overlapping runs for a majority of the season. Players can concentrate on stopping Mitoma cause there is no other threat on that side. Get them both back on the pitch and hopefully we will get...

Rules are slightly different for UEFA competitions. You can name a squad of up to 25 players 17 unreserved places that can go to any player 8 places are reserved for HGPs that must be split as follows 4 places for club trained players (to qualify a player has to have been registered with the...

We can only add 3 players to the squad, assuming that wanting to get Moder and Enciso into the squad is two of the changes, we’d have to drop someone to make that happen. If Barco stays he could well be the third change, but we’d have to drop a second player to get all three in the squad...

Any recall clause has to be included in the original loan agreement, it cannot be added retrospectively in January. Obviously the recall can only take place during a transfer window. I doubt we agreed to a recall clause if we are covering a majority of his wages. Besides which they needed him...

That just shows how good the run was. Although the keeper got down well I actually think Fati should have shot into the other corner. It was the harder shot to take but the keeper wasn’t covering as much of that side of the goal. I think delaying his shot possibly removed that as an option as...

Goes some way to explain why Palace went broke under him.

He probably won’t be available for tomorrow anyway as the transfer will be subject to international clearance which always takes a few days for the relative FAs to send paperwork etc. You’d think in this day and age that could be done with the transfer but it always seems to drag on around the...

Yes it is.

Even that 80% is nearing 100k a week. Big investment but if it pays off could be a small sum compared to what it could mean to the club in the future.

The flight path appears to go almost over Lancing, maybe he’s parachuting in?

The Ali Mac deal was unique, we only agreed to the release clause as he wouldn’t sign a new deal without it and we’d have lost him for a lot less without it as he only had a year left on his current deal (which was our years option). We won’t be offering many players those terms as standard...

Of course it’s not the end of the world, and hopefully we’ve got the strength in depth to cover it. However, in what is already a very long season we could do without players having an international tournament to take part in when we’ve got a relatively quiet period ourselves as the European...

Whilst not down to the barebones we could potentially lose Mitoma (Asian Cup) and Baleba, Andingra and Lamptey (AFCON) for most of January and early Feb. Assuming Cameroon and Ghana confirm their places, which looks likely. I’m guessing countries will want players released a week or two before...

No one. The plane current flying down there is flying back to Biggin Hill. Due to land back in the UK at approx 3:15 this afternoon.