PODCAST: Transfer Window Recap, FSG under the microscope and Michael Edwards off?

Listened to it whilst cycling this morning. Very enjoyable indeed. 

Ceefax transfer news - Classic Dan that was.

Think Paul is spot on in this!

Sorry to hear about the loss of your dad Dan. 

Sincere condolences to Dan.

I loved the podcast, really enjoyable dicussion - thanks. 

Great stuff as usual.

One thing that nobody has brought up yet is how we were never in the conversation with Jadon Sancho. Heavily linked with him last summer but obviously didn’t have the money to compete with Utd. 
 

“if the right player becomes available” absolute bullshit.

Great listen.

A lot of it echoes my thoughts on what Man City, PSG, Man U and Chelsea have done to the current game with massive wages. Where will it all end? I don't care about the game as much as I used to, and with these lot breaking the rules what's the point. 

The Mancs aren’t cheats. They’re just two decades further down the commercial maximisation path than we are. The rest though…

1 hour ago, Paul said:

The Mancs aren’t cheats. They’re just two decades further down the commercial maximisation path than we are. The rest though…

The sad thing is, we would have been as far down that road as them if the club had been braver in the 80s. We were the first English club to wear sponsored shirts and refused to wear a non sponsored one when BBC or ITV wanted to show highlights. The reason being we got more money from the sponsors, Hitachi, than from BBC \ ITV.

But then we kept sponsorship and merchandising at arms length until we were so far behind, united and a few others had disappeared over the curve.

We never properly dealt with the stadium issue either. We should have had full, frank dialogue with residents on terms favourable to them and had a stadium comparable in size to OT. 

10 hours ago, Paul said:

The Mancs aren’t cheats. They’re just two decades further down the commercial maximisation path than we are. The rest though…

They aren't cheats except for the badgering of refs and getting them banned from Old Trafford for giving unfavourable decisions against the home team.

They're bad cheats, always have been. But they aren't financial cheats like their neighbours.

26 minutes ago, dave u said:

They're bad cheats, always have been. But they aren't financial cheats like their neighbours.

Remember when they just didn't send the papers for the de Gea to Real Madrid transfer and blamed a fax machine? In 2015! 

And then had to give De Gea 350k a week or something, which when he signed it saw his form completely fall off a cliff.

Is it just me, or does Dan sound a bit like Peter Beardsley?

It's just you!

He looks a bit like him though....

(not really).