https://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/20 ... year-deal/

Done and dusted.

Absolutely vital that we got this done. Tremendous news.

Absolutely vital we got Saliba signed up. Keeping the core of this team together is crucial if we want to build on the progress we've made this season. Plus it makes us a much more attractive proposition when we try and convince new players to join. Given Edu and Arteta's record of signing players who've clearly improved us, I'm so intrugued to see who they go for next.

Question for fellow season ticket holders:

Am I correct in thinking our season tickets are being automatically renewed? The email from the club seems to say that but I cant quite believe it!

My advice would be to ignore the auto renewal and just use the app to renew in advance bored. What I did. Screams like something that will go wrong.

Random old match between West Ham and Man Utd. So many names: Redknapp, Robson, Law, Best, etc

I'd agree with TG, Bored.

The website may be clunky and the availability of information isn't great, but the actual renewal process isn't difficult.

Agree, this is how I renewed mine too. Felt safer. You could say I didn't trust the process.

I've downloaded the app but cant see anything that says renew season tickets. Where should I be looking?

Next season's fixtures come out on Thursday. I wonder if we'll find ourselves away to a promoted team on the Friday night game again? Perhaps our performances have pushed us past that and someone like Chelsea can now get that slot as sky salivate over an opening night upset - random fixture generator indeed!

One of the promoted teams will play away at one of the real big boys as well (usually Liverpool)

Make sure you are logged in. I know this sounds obvious but sometime I think I am but not.

Click on profile in the top right hand corner and it will give you a bunch of options including “tickets” this should take you to the box office and give you an option to renew your season ticket. The amount they provide stupidly wont include any credits you are owed for using ticket exchange or not having a cup game hence credit but you will see this when you go to pay with your debit card.

Hope this helps bored

CL pot 1 for the draw
Sevilla
Man City
Barcelona
Bayern Munich
Napoli
Paris Saint-Germain
Benfica
Feyenoord

Pot 2
Real Madrid
Manchester United
Inter Milan
Borussia Dortmund
Atletico Madrid
RB Leipzig
FC Porto
Arsenal

Pot 3 and 4 still to be decided

Definite Pot 3
Shakhtar Donetsk
Salzburg
AC Milan
Lazio
Red Star Belgrade

Definite Pot 4
Celtic
Newcastle United
Union Berlin
Lens

I renewed through the website on the PC, not the app.

Check the email you received (mine were dated 31/05/2023) and hit one of the links - 'UPDATE DETAILS' worked for me I think but there are several other link options to get to your account.

As TG says, you just need to be logged in.

Reiss Nelson’s new contract gives him 100k a week apparently.

Seems an awful lot I have to say. Not an international, rarely starts. Seems a lot

I've seen it with ex uni or NBA players at Venice Beach, CA or some park known for having fairly good quality play.

I wonder who this guy is. Shows you how those Sunday pub leagues are when a 'ringer' is on one of the sides.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/7DCQ2D-3BLE

Bit of noise about Pep walking away from city in 2025, 2 more years. He’s said previously he wants to manage a national team. If that’s true then there’s two things for us. 1) make sure we’ve tied Arteta down so they can’t pinch him and two make sure we’re perfectly placed to take advantage. The age profile of the squad should be peaking around then if we can keep them all together

Even though I was a defender in my time, and I agreed with George’s disciplined back 4, I’ve always believed that a mobile, defensively offensive, fast paced, intelligent midfield was the key to success. And we had an England schoolboy midfielder in our school team, who was our best player, but when he played for England, we were like WOW! Didn’t know he was that good.

So anyway, IF we sign Rice and Caicedo, we’ll be unstoppable.

Fingers and toes crossed.

It'll never happen - There's no way Arteta would ever work for City.

He would be the perfect choice for them, was respected at city, knows their style and would slot right in if nothing had changed. Theres no doubt they would try. Strikes me as a stubborn type though and he probably would only leave if he was wronged

Blimey, sounds like it’s happening. Would be a major coup

https://www.theguardian.com/football/20 ... are_btn_tw

Mbappe has said he won’t sign a new deal with PSG. His deal runs out in 2024 so PSG need to sell this summer if they want a fee. With Benzema having left for Saudi it feels inevitable that he ends up there

Bet you a score he doesn’t.

There are only 4 clubs he will go to: Either Spanish giants, Bayern Munich or City.

That's it. The best of the best only go to one of 5 clubs. The above and PSG. That's it.

Plus a £5m signing on fee.

It does sound a lot for a largely unproven talent who Arteta is yet to really show he trusts.

Must be impressing in training.

Won't be easy to shift on that kind of money if he fails to live up to expectations.

Hi AG,

Barca can't afford him, nor can Bayern, City have Haaland which really leaves on Real. He's always been a target for them anyway.

I will have to eat humble pie if this Rice deal goes through, I didn't think we would be in at the kind of numbers being talked about.

Kroenke has won all he can in America. Now its time for England.

Hi Soc,

I think Man Utd would be in the mix if the Qataris take over. There’s probably not enough time for that though, thankfully. Let’s hope he goes to Madrid. It would make next year’s La Liga really interesting too.

Yep. Looking good. Fantastic signing. Our biggest one since Sanchez.

We could take a shot at him.

It keeps him up every night.

He sits on his ranch in Texas every night pounding rare whisky in tears about the lack of silverware in N7

RM has always been the one most strongly linked to him. I wanted to use him as a generalization that there are only 5 clubs the best of the best consider these days. If Man Utd get back to challenging they'll re-enter that group. They were for a while, now they aren't.

Liverpool aren't quite there. I don't see them winning a fight for the next Ronaldo or Messi over either Spanish giants and if they matched an offer, I am not sure they wry anyone from going to PSG or BM.

More anxious on Saliba's extension than Rice's. Come on, get it over the line

Forgot about Kroenke's football team in Colorado that won the title about 15 years or so ago. Arsenal is the only thing left.

Bayern have pulled out of the race for Rice. Supposedly the increased cost has made them pull out but I also think Rice has decided he wants us. This one really does look like it’s happening

He's from Greater London, right? We're the best team in London. I'm sure Wilshere has been chatting him up. His family can come to see him play, CL football. Title contenders. It's just what WH will demand, the player has to be very keen on a move anyone would guess.

I wasn't sure about something and I looked it up to confirm. This is the longest spell we have gone without winning the title since our first title in 1930. The previous longest spells were '53 to '71 to '80.

Does this spell seem worse with regards to light at the end of the title or did '71 to '89 seem longer? Or perhaps'53 to '71?

We haven't been in the CL since 2016. Celtic has won 9 of the most recent 10 SPLs and we're 2 pots higher than they are. We are beneficiaries of a corrupt system.

It's hard to complain why the governing bodies aren't doing more to curb abuses when they are inherently unfair. If our governments was this blatant we'd be up in arms.

There is a transparent seeding system that takes into account that the Scottish league is very weak. So what exactly is corrupt about it?

Your last sentence is mind-boggling considering that the state of US politics and the continuing attraction of Trump!

Can't stand him.