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'The sun in motion whirling across was amber and obese as if she who caught it imbued in the orb the millions of years of histoire and victorie...'
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Lawyers checking contracts in order to sign Antony deal on Monday, full agreement between Manchester Utd and Ajax is worth €95m guaranteed fee, €5m add-ons. 🔴📑
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The deal can be considered done as revealed earlier today, to be sealed on Monday.
A totally committed Darren Fletcher watched
@manutd
beat Burnley from near this writer high up in press seats at Turf Moor: he kicked every ball. DF a smart Solskjaer appointment as a smart/articulate man/football brain...
When the manager of this world’s biggest club teases you for wearing shades (prescription of course!) to his pressers by presenting you with a pair of sunglasses (obviously returned as no gifts accepted!!!) - fair play to OGS: who DOESNAE ADORE a sense of humour😎😎😎🌴🌴🌴🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽
New detail added to the below story: "The managing director, Richard Arnold, is understood to have cancelled all appointments on Monday to hold talks with [Joel] Glazer"...
Antonio Conte is open to discussing taking over at Manchester United if Ole Gunnar Solskjær is sacked, as it emerged that several players are questioning whether the Norwegian can take the team any further.
Story:
@JamieJackson___
and
@FabrizioRomano
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@ManUtd
hopeful of agreeing new contract with Alejandro Garnacho. Discussions are going positively. Club is keen for him to carry on the way he is developing, is this humble HACK’s understanding…
Pep on CL quest: “Liverpool have six [Champions League titles] and this clubs has one semi-final. So we are far, far away from the You’ll Never Walk Alone team"...
Pogba has been a £90m-plus disappointment; on signing him Jose said he could command
@manutd
midfield for a decade and more: he's maybe done it for half a season in four years and counting...
Klopp: "What Andre Marriner did with Sadio Mane tonight, I'm not sure that's okay. Man United had more penalties in two years than me in five and a half years.... but no excuses for tonight."
Sheikh Jassim submitted a 5th bid earlier this week for Man Utd; he has set Friday as the deadline for a response. Otherwise, it is understood, he will dis-engage from the process... So no more bids, is his stance...
18-year-old Facundo Pellistri is viewed as part of Solskjaer's 1st-team plans, along with other forwards Rashford, James, Martial, Greenwood, Cavani and Ighalo, having been tracked at junior level for some time - along with Diallo...
it’s as WE ALL WERE : neither Sheikh Jassim or Sir Jim have heard yet anything concrete with regard to their respective bids for the ballFOOT club Manchester United…
▫️ Why Ajax don't want to let you go?
▪️ Excl. Antony: "I'm not asking Ajax to release me, I'm asking Ajax to sell me with the highest bid ever for Eredivisie player. I've been insisting on this theme since February so that the club could rebuild the team with peace of mind".
understand Qatar interest in
@ManUtd
is NOT about a minority share - it’s all of the club BABY or nothing (usual caveat, of course : this is football things can be all topsy and loads of turvy so may change)
Sheikh Jassim has made an improved bid for
@manutd
- for 100%, clear the debt, including separate fund for solely club and community, is my understanding...
Guardiola on his subs: "I’m a genius. In the last press conference it was
@JamieJackson___
, my friend, and he said why did you make a sub 87 mins against Everton? I took notes, I thought about him at half-time and I changed it at half-time."
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Garnacho is intriguing: basically he seems to be able to beat any defender with ease: VIA AFTERBURNER pace and an old-fashioned, 1950s drop of a shoulder: LOVE TO SEE IT: like reading a boyhood SHOOT annual...
Pogba on Souness to
@mufc
: "I didn’t even know who he was, really. I heard he was a great player and stuff like that." Souness response on Sky Sports: "Put your medals on the table. I’ve got a big table.” Is that BIG enough for PP's World Cup winners medal...
Sheikh al-Thani has called his Nine Two Foundation (bidding to buy Utd) this because, its understood, he became a fan in 1992, and as a reference, also, to the Class of 92...
"Absolutely logical" to recruit Sascha Lense as psychologist at
@manutd
, says Ralf Rangnick, when asked if he was surprised there was not already one at the club... "not about the red sofa and holding hands for players" he adds...
Pogba Utd’s best player by a universe. Surrounded by mediocrity. De Bruyne would be up/down in this
@ManUtd
outfit. Despite this Pogba STILL tries stuff. He dazzled for Juve/dazzled for France, so...
Utd have a lad on loan in centre mid; another mid-30s who signed on a free at CB, a No 8 who Ten Hag would’ve sold in summer; a CB who was also for sale now 1st choice and a £70m CF yet to score in PL plus a one footed paceless RW and a keeper who lacks presence. not great