Yeah but would you sign him?

Given that we had no intention of actually signing him, technically the money we were going to spend on him has been made available.

This is how it should work but in opposite land of Venky FC we only get the money in installments and therefore couldn't possibly buy anyone.

With all this talk of Rhodes, how long till we're debating the merits of signing a 36 year former Benin international striker?

"Pleaaaaase please please please pleeeeeeaaaaase" "Will you pay any loan fee" "No but please can I have him" "Will you cover any of his wages" "Omg you're being so unreasonable"

Time for Rudy to work his magic and find the next Billy Koumetio

We got lucky with Gueye but the one on hyam was stonewall

You know what's happening don't you

Todd Cant-he-take-it-well

I think it was possibly the Burnley game I saw him drop the shoulder twice and do three pirouettes. He was in his own half and there wasn't an opposition player within 20 yards of him.

Innovative tactic putting a ball into the box when you have a big lump up front.

I can't imagine any photograph that would give me a lower opinion of waggot

Still trying to workout Arsenal's red card yesterday.

Best club on that list, good relationship with Liverpool in terms of loans, Beck here already, he'll get plenty of minutes as we desperately need a striker. I'd say if we were serious about it we'd be in a very strong position to win it. But like you said, probably not true.

Good win and 4 winnable games coming up should see us hit 50 points a good while sooner than we were predicting at the start of the season.

Same, heard good things about him and he's looked decent in cup games for Liverpool. Seems confident but with a good attitude

Wolves at home. A winnable Premier league tie. Hopefully they'll have one eye on staying in the Premier league.

Christ i thought he was a good 5 years older when he was here. That's a criminal loss of ability.

They deserved nout out of that

Some shocking passing in the final third

It's hard to judge the quality of united players because playing for united seems to ruin players. Sancho is a prime example looked significantly better before and after united. If they signed a decent player he'd automatically be half as good the second he pulls on a united shirt. Something is rotten at the club - no matter the coach or the players they just can't get back to where they were and it's fantastic

Pep has always been called a cheque book manager so I was surprised I'd not seen this before but 'Guardiola' translated from Catalan (where he is from) to English means 'piggybank'

If only official attendance figures were counted based on numbers left at the start of the second half. Saints could have been counted on one hand.

They could be 3 or 4 down. Good to see

Don't know about anyone else but I don't mind this new format for the CL. I found the group stages to be a bit meh the last few seasons. Liverpool vs Real Madrid was a cracking game to watch. Also great to see city lose a 3 goal lead.