DanWM

City supposedly have a sell-on clause too, so Ipswich will be looking for a much higher fee from another club.

We've got two weeks off the league. We should send robbo on holiday.

This is the thing, it's just been raining a bit through the day. Surely you don't get games called off "because it snowed 10 hours ago" Feels like it would be a f*** up from the council if it doesn't get sorted in time.

JLA and Manchester airport have both closed suspended flights while they clear the runways. Still ages til kick-off though, and there's no more snow forecast.

Tbf none of the met office warnings make any mention of danger, just delays and disruption to travel. The wind warnings before the derby told people to stay inside because it was dangerous.

Yeah this is it, they could have gone and bought more creative players in the summer, but instead he's decided to buy more big lads to win headers and keep running Saka and Odegaard into the ground. Their fans should be running out of patience if they don't win anything this season, they're absolutely brutal to watch.

He probably will, but he won't get a look-in once Rodri is back. Someone needs to tell him The Tale of Kalvin Phillips.

Timber's suspended for the Brighton game now, not sure how much of a difference it'll really make.

No havertz in the arsenal squad, they've rested a few others on the bench as well.

I'm guessing that's including substitute appearances? But yeah, he feels like a big figure in the squad these days, and he's done that with the way he's approached those league cup type fixtures where he was given a chance. Worked his way into the first 11. What a fella.

The way that the club's briefings have only ever said that he's not informed the club that he wants to go feels quite pointed. As Dan said, I think it's all been a bit of a PR battle since the summer. The club have to show they've offered a contract even if they know he's not interested, just to put the ball in his court.

Ah yes, 'the butcher'. Wonder if we might start Nunez for this, if only to keep them preoccupied. At least pickford isn't playing for them with his flying two-footed 'saves'

They've left themselves with the worst possible hand in terms of negotiations. The only thing we really have is the fact that the other two really seem to want to stay at the club. And even then we've taken that as a cue to get into a big game of brinkmanship that's caused a massive amount of unnecessary noise for the boss to deal with when we're trying to win the league.

To put a positive slant on him sorting a contract with Madrid in January, players running down their contracts to become free agents at the end of the season will inevitably worry about a big injury that might leave them without a club. It might be best for him to stop all the speculation and put out a big statement saying that he's going to give us everything until the end of the season.

Yeah, Carvajal's out of contract at the end of the season. They've had Trent earmarked for a longgg time.