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Matz Sels set to join Anderlecht on loan a year after signing for Newcastle.

Tammy Abraham set to join Swansea, reasons behind him moving to Newcastle ending in collapse are supposedly a change in the deal and Chelsea refusing to an option to buy.

Florian Lejune will undergo a medical in the coming days and will be confirmed as the window opens I presume.

Lastly, the takeover talks keep continuing, The Telegraph handily pointing out that Newcastle are on the verge of being awoken and should the Chinese plough money into the club it could see Newcastle become a global powerhouse.

Someone needs to wake me up, Benitez, an actual transfer budget with proper money in it! Chinese takeovers on the horizon. This has to be a cruel dream.

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And we are set to pay £40 million for a Chelski flop.:shocked:

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Makes you think, just what do young players have to do to get a contract these days. He was excellent in the last match of the season and had a decent year in the reserves.:(

http://www.manutd.com/en/News-And-Fe...er-united.aspx

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Depressing ain't it?:(

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l wonder what the devotees will think of that..

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To be fair to United I have just found out that Josh Harrop was offered a further contract at OT but turned it down for the chance of regular first team football at Preston.

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You cannot blame him for that as would you have done the same if you was in his position?.

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Not sure I would have jumped ship at the age of only 21 and having just played my first ever 1st team game.

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Football in many ways ain't like it used to be Jim.

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But the dives are getting better...:)

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/football/...ly-awful-dive/

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Good grief that's pretty bad.:td:

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Further leaks of the Garcia report show Qatar essentially bought the World Cup despite what the journalist claims.

10-year-old daughter of a Fifa official received a £1.6 million payment for absolutely no reason from the Qatari group
Three Fifa executive members were flown to a party in Rio in a private jet belonging to the Qatari federation before the vote for 2018 and 2022 hosting rights.
The Aspire Academy in Qatar was implicated "in a decisive manner" in "the manipulation of Fifa members who had the right to vote".

None of this was detailed in the report that 'cleared' Qatar strangely enough.

Corrupt then, Corrupt now, tear it down. They had time to fix this and just went about continuing FIFA the way it's been run for the past two decades.

Everyone involved in the bidding process bar Russia and Qatar should be re-reimbursed in full by FIFA.

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Sadly Adzii you . l and many others thought this at the time and nowt has changed sadly as yes both countries should have been stripped of being awarded it but alas that is never going to happen sadly as corruption still lives in the deep apparatus of FIFA and one suspects that is unlikely to change.

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England v Germany semi final U21s goes to penalties, who's your money on?

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No contest Jim given previous history.;)