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@Idisi, I see Dynamo Berlin are playing Carl Zeiss Jena on Friday 25th (the night before our game). I was thinking of going - would this be a pay at the gate affair or would I need to get a ticket beforehand?

Transfer work will obviously be going on behind the scenes, with minimal leakage to the scummy Scottish press - as it should be. Thankfully*, we've got the jokes about Saudi Arabia and China to keep us all entertained though. *

It's a pre-season friendly against a Man Utd team with not many starters - what a player does in a match like this won't make much, if any, difference to how the support or management view him.

I read (rumour) that Raskin will be out for a while. The Moroccan lad won't be a starter, initially, according to Clement.

Raskin already out.

They want £7m. We can't afford him.

Things can change fast during the transfer window but it certainly looks pretty grim, as it stands.

So the "cold hard facts" are that we don't know what went on.

Absolutely.

Cold hard facts based on guesswork.

Exactly. We should have learned our lessons by now. As much as I can't stand him, Alex Ferguson was a master of getting rid of players at just the right time. We could do with more of that harshness and less of the cloying sentiment.

Well, Hagi and Lammers haven't contributed anything recently, so those two don't need replaced. It's all about sensible squad management, although recent windows haven't exactly given us much cause for comfort.

I don't think anyone is obsessed about it. A lot of us think changes need to be made, after years of failure and that certain players aren't what we need. Do you want Dessers and Tav to stay?

We need better than Dessers if we want to win the league.

Any news on Raskin's injury?

It is.

After a shaky start, I'm quite satisfied with mid-table mediocrity. Thank Rousseau and well done dB.

HP sauce on chips. And don't get me started on mayonnaise (nearly had a fit in Amsterdam!).

The collective chip on the Scottish shoulder...will it ever go away? All very childish and totally ingrained. I didn't care who won tonight - just wanted to see a good match and thought it was okay.

Winning trophies is what it's all about. England can only really win two and they have never won this one, so it'd be huge for them.

We always seem to have issues with wages (paying players too much and having too big a squad). Needs looked into.

Nothing new. Teams who have qualified for Europe don't participate in the early league cup rounds and haven't for a good few years.

FFS Butland!

I didn't say they were. My comments are generalising a bit, looking at the bigger picture. There are exceptions to every rule etc.

It is 3pm, GMT.