TRon

Hopefully Palace didn't front load his contract like we did with Little Dan. I'll happily be accused of being a hypocrite if it gives us some luscious PSR spending power.

Would we have to pay compensation to release Freedman from Palace? Would be interesting to see how much we are quoted after all the fuss around the fee for Little Dan Ashworth.

I always thought he had a decent all round game, not the worst finisher either. Just a bit too nice for the PL maybe.

Football success obviously counts for plenty. I doubt anybody would have described Liverpool as a desirable destination before the Shankly/Paisley era.

It's not really. London and the Midlands are significantly more multicultural than the North East, although the gap has closed a bit. That doesn't necessarily matter much to everyone, but sometimes it does, especially for those who don't know much about this part of the world. Personally I'm not a fan of London, but for people who haven't been here much, maybe London just seems more glamorous.

No I'm not. That's why I asked for your reasoning why they might be such a problem beyond their recent results, e.g., players who might give us a problem due to specific attributes such as pace or set pieces. Think of Forest and Palace who regardless of their results have players who can clearly hurt us.

You were just looking at recent results without knowing anything about their team so that wasn't solid reasoning, it was just guesswork really.

TCD knows ball mind, wouldn't want to question his footy analysis.

Will always be a legend for having the best home made fan video ever. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-r9oQke56H4&ab_channel=NUFCEdits

Agree, would much rather he stayed at West Ham as I don't particularly like him or the club. A match made in heaven as far as I was concerned.

Just merge this back into the Transfer Rumours thread and chuck a one week ban @Jack27 just to rein him in next time he gets the itch to start a new thread.

His close control is also suspect, hence why he struggled so much under Palace's high press when he was asked to play wing back. He does have a very good delivery into the box though, decent enough as a squad player.

Not sure Ten Hag will be going anywhere next season tbh. I can't see Sir Jim Ratshit needlessly wasting money sacking and hiring new staff unless he's convinced it will make him money. Plus Ten Hag will probably fall in line with having less say in the transfer business as he's desperate to keep his reputation intact, and for that he'll not want to fail at Man U.