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Interesting opinion on the relative merits of Higuain and Pogba HERE

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Well my tip is Man City for the title , Chelsea for the runners up spot , MU for the third place and Spurs for 4th spot.

Predictions anybody?.

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Man United this year. Mourinho is a trophy God. Pep could be awfully exposed this year too given previous appointments at already world beating teams.

Newcastle to win it next year, Dwight Gayle and Mitrovic chipping in with 20 goals each. Not before a Sex scandal with some foreign bird and Mitrovic abusing some Japanese guy on a night out. Then a long drawn interview from the king about the facts. Selling Sissoko to Madrid for £35 million and investing in more boards for the stadium. Ashley hotels@ Sports Direct Arena venue in Sports Direct city via Wongadome.

Arsenal to win their yearly trophy of Champions League qualification whilst pretending they're actually making a title challenge.

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Dream table:

Leicester
Spurs
West Ham
Liverpool

Dream bottom 3:

Arsenal
Chelsea
Man United

Likely top 4:

Man U
Man City
Arsenal
Chelsea

Likely bottom 3:

Burnley
Hull
Watford

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Pogba deal isn't done according to his agent and is the British and Italian press getting way too eager to be the first to announce it.

Which given the latter of that statement, indicates it will be done :erm:

Maybe tomorrow then. This will be the biggest story of the summer leaving nothing but dullness for the rest of us.

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I heard reports that Pogba transfer will be £112 MILLION.

Sorry, NO PLAYER is worth all that money. If clubs can pay stupid money for players, they can afford to drop entrance money, and the cost of shirts.

I may be wrong but l heard that a price to get into to see Barcelona was only £20.00

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RE: Shirts.

Bare in mind retailers separate from clubs often fix the price of shirts in agreement... Money and lots of it of course.

See, Mike Ashley exposing Dave Whelan and others years ago about a meeting that conspired to inflate and fix the price of shirts across all stores. Naturally Sports Direct made a killing from retailing England Shirts and whatnot at much lower prices than others and ultimately crushed Whelan's JJB years later.

In fairness just look at the prices now for England shirt via Nike. Nothing much Ashley can do about that. He's all about money but he's got it screwed on when it comes to sales. You make more money quicker selling it cheaper than selling far less a day at a more expensive price.

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He's no Paul Scholes. If there's a decision to be made he'll make the wrong one.

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Not bad for starters, third touch, three minutes into the game and Zlatan scores. :)

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Well its nice to see the old boy getting excited again.:)

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Watched the whole game live on MUTV, makes you wonder why they have spent all that money on players, Bailley had a reasonable game, Imbrahimovic scored but did naff all else, Mkhitaryan was anonymous.

When all the players that played under Van Gaal came on in the second half United looked like a different team, fast, slick passing, sharper in the tackle, finishing with aplomb.

Looks like the manager was the only change needed. :(

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Newcastle trigger Hull's Diame release clause.

Expected to sign two players before Fulham on Friday. Moussa Sissoko moving to Juventus or Real Madrid for £30-35 million hangs on the balance of the Pogba move. Its alright claiming we don't need to sell to sign players but assuming we make a quick return to top flight football. This £70 million a window budget isn't really that much now compared to top flight clubs and the inflation will only increase. So yeah I think £25 million and £30 odd for Sissoko and Wijnaldum will put us in a good position next year.

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Well l for one under Rafa expect them to go back up straight away with the squad he has assembled.

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Yeah, same mantra as last time. We were constantly told the championship had changed and we'd struggle and never make the extra games. Only to lose the two easiest games of the season and blow away every other team on the way to a comfortable season.

I'm excited. I past the annoyed phase long ago and this is what's best for Newcastle. Players like Mitrovic and Perez will really find themselves this season.

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Newcastle trigger Villa's Ciaran Clark release clause.

There's the two signings before Friday then. Spending continues.