I suppose we don't want to let him go until we have secured someone......

As he’s at the end of his contract this summer, we won’t get anything for Nketiah if he goes elsewhere in England, not just abroad.

To be honest, I would snap anyone’s hand off if they’re offering £9.5m. I just don’t think Nketiah’s good enough to delay things over a few million. We should have sold him before.

A non league player for Lewes, 19 year old Ollie Turned has rejected Spurs after they tried to sign him as he wasn’t happy with their terms! Don’t think I’ve ever heard of something like that happening. Unless the lad has clubs lined up to take him on, or spurs were somehow offering him pennies then that would seem like a silly move. I know we like to laugh at spurs but you’re 19 playing non league football and spurs want you….you should be desperate to go

If he goes to a club in England we will get a fee decided by a tribunal as he came through as a hike grown player and because he’s still under a certain age I think. It’s difficult to predict but it’s likely to be a few million at least. Part of it is decided by contracts offered so you can legitimately say “this player was worth x amount to us”.

I think we could get between 4-8m for him but very difficult to predict.

Probably didn’t want to play for their reserves and disappear.

Wonder if this played a part

Thanks, I didn’t know that. I thought the principle enabled players to move at the end of their contract for free, regardless of being home grown or staying in England.

ditto that

Yoko Ono has threatened to have her music added to Spotify unless Joe Rogan is removed.

Loving this one. I'm sure most fans from that time have it as one of their all time best results of of the era.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r-7t_IRxqY&t=70s

70s derbies...gotta love it. I like that the announcer talks about how important the game is to sperz. Don't know what was happening for them why, but I like this game.

That Brady guy is not bad. What a pass? The tackles were flying as expected.

AG, Spurs avoided relegation by one point that season. (We weren't much better.) Heading down a YouTube rabbit hole, I liked this moment from Leeds v. Arsenal in 1972. When Alan Ball goes into the ref's book, he helpfully spells out his name. I think he might be slightly annoyed:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fhStPGirTNQ#t=10m01s

Mason Greenwood looks like he’s in trouble. His girlfriend has posted pictures on social media of bruises and a bust lip and accused him of physically abusing her.

Saw that. If it’s legit, and there’s very little reason to assume it isn’t, then he is a scumbag who deserves everything that will come his way. *%^@.

That’s a shame. Looks like it’s not going that well for Reiss Nelson. https://www.mirror.co.uk/sport/football ... WkZR8Yo-9c

Hi Darren,

We all know how this plays out, he promises to get help and it gets brushed under the carpet because he's too big an asset for United to kick out the club.

Reiss Nelson has had a dissapointing spell, he's looked distinctly unimpressive in the few matches he played for Feyenoord. No way good enough for the Arsenal.

Not sure about this take. The video put out is pretty visceral, I can’t see how they could continue playing him whilst there’s no clarity from the poor girl or he himself. Serious accusation backed up with photographic, audio and visual evidence it’s not like the other cases based on what’s been said.

It’s crazy the way all of this stuff plays out on social media these days.

Hitting women is wrong under any circumstances obviously. When you are in the public eye, you have to be extra careful. Is it worth your career possibly? Walk way, drop the girl if she's mouthing off at the lip. I think it was the rapper Jay Z who said he had to take more lip and walk away from people and situations that he would have otherwise dealt with on street level. He hits someone before he's famous nothing comes of it. He hits them now and its front page news, a lawsuit, etc.

Let's hope the club doesn't have a Richie Aprile view of domestic violence.

Where to start ...

Yeah we have our own DV celebrities here.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/articl ... -post.html

Paywall/Email sign-up. My grandad, who was a Spurs fan, was also a long-time reader of The Telegraph. I'm not, so maybe give us a quick summary?

Heya - I can see that ok - I use ad blockers on my computer with Firefox.

Does it show any of the article or are you using a mobile phone ??

LOL...funny little story. Why do players feel so intimidated by Keane even off the pitch? Sometimes I like Keane, sometimes I don't, but whatever, so what? Do you.

https://www.givemesport.com/1830178-peter-crouch-once-sold-aston-martin-for-20k-loss-because-of-man-utd-legend-roy-keane

"alleged" victim. In American media they do a checklist of the accused to determine if the term 'alleged' should be used. It could be on camera and I've seen 'alleged' banted about.

Like the old adage 'Are you going to believe me or your lying eyes?'

That's a crazy story though....crying out 'no justice'! Ha! Talk about feeling entitled. I was waiting for him to finish with '...no peace'.

Interesting. Thanks, Rog. I don't use ad blockers, of Firefox for that matter. I was using my desktop (on Google Chrome), which, admittedly is as fresh as BoyzIIMen. Great as they were.

At this rate I wouldn’t be surprised to see Wilshire unveiled as our new signing.

My man - Try using UBlock Origin for Chrome.

Adverts suck, slow down the internet, can have privacy issues, are distracting and use excess bandwidth, and can also contain malware/viruses if clicked on.

Link here : https://chrome.google.com/webstore/deta ... iagm?hl=en

You can always switch it on and off as needed.

I use many ad blockers and privacy blockers, VPN's etc.

I've not seen an advert on the internet since the Thatcher era.

Here's a quick list of what I use - because I'm bored

PIA VPN which has an upstream adblocker (Mace) which blocks ads at the source.
*It also allows viewing of anything from whatever country which bypasses "GEO Blocking"

It also uses a private DNS server and not an Australian one which prevents me from getting pages blocked via DNS poisoning - Which they do here a fair bit.

In Firefox, I use AdBlockPlus, UBlock Origin, Privacy badger, NoScript, Absolute Right click (which enables right click on all pages), Don't 'F' with Paste (which allows password pasting even when websites try blocking it), Multi containers for tabs, Enhancer for YouTube (Adblocker and enables loads of features in YouTube), "I don't care about cookies" and Auto Cookie delete (which enables viewing news pages that have limited free articles.)

UBlock Origin is a beast though and will kill all adverts and has a script killer in it too for those web sites that ask you to 'register for free to continue reading'.

It's nice watching YouTube without any adverts too.

Protip - You can add UBlock Origin to mobile phones, Chrome, Firefox, Edge, etc too.

Thanks, Rog! I really appreciate it. I can almost forgive your earlier comment about Yoko. I reckon 'Walking on Thin Ice' was pretty good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9u7jf-TYoZk

But then there's this ...

The only reason for not getting a striker in now can;t be because of the money, because all of these strikers will cost the same in the summer no doubt, it can only be because clubs won't let them leave in january - which is understandable if teams are on the brink of Europe/Relegation.

However, we should be exploring loan options to see us through to the end of the year. Low cost, low risk, potential high reward

No way are they contemplating letting Aubameyang and Nketiah go if they aren’t speaking to a new striker. No chance. Ornstein is saying Aubameyang is off to Barcelona.

Isak must be joining.

This is the portion about us...................................................

Arsenal have to do something, but why have they left it so late?

Arteta’s hand is not as strong. Arsenal is his first managerial job and so he has to be more cautious in how hard he pushes especially as club owner Stan Kroenke will have wanted answers during discussions in Denver last week as to how the squad’s highest-paid player, and the now defunct captain, Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang has been exiled and what the plan is for him. There have been loan approaches from Barcelona and Juventus but wages, obviously, are an issue for a player on such an incredible salary.

How Arteta would love Aubameyang to leave and a new striker sign in the next couple of days but Arsenal have hit a brick wall, so far, on both fronts. Their number one target, Fiorentina’s Dusan Vlahovic, has joined Juventus for £58.2m and if he lined up alongside Aubameyang in Turin rather than at the Emirates then Arsenal fans will believe it sums up this window.

Alternatives such as Real Sociedad’s Alexander Isak appear to be too expensive. Will Everton sell Dominic Calvert-Lewin? Arsenal may have to look elsewhere and it is negligent to go in the second-half of the season like this especially as Alexandre Lacazette and Eddie Nketiah are out of contract in the summer and probably leaving. Nketiah may go before then if Newcastle can finalise a move.

In midfield, too, Arsenal have been unable to strengthen as planned. Talks with Juventus over a loan for Arthur Melo have gone nowhere, Guimaraes is joining Newcastle and Aston Villa insist Douglas Luiz is not for sale. Again Arsenal surely have to do something although their fans are right to question – as is happening at Spurs – why they have left it all so late. Both clubs have technical directors. They appear to have been asleep at the wheel.

He was photographed in Dubai training and he had a squad number. 12 I think. Maybe he will be a "signing ".

The answer to all our problems. Jack Wilshere. As centre forward no doubt.

Wilshere, in theory, can sign out of the window as he’s not under contract so the rules don’t apply. He can sign in a month if we so wish.

The Bruno Guimaraes deal to Newcastle includes a 20% sell on clause. Suspect not many of the clubs with him in mind would have accepted that clause