Apparently, Jamie Mackie once said he was proud to be former Wimbledon, not MK Dons.which is nice to hear but, he did still play for the scum. Although to be fair, like Darlington, he was still under contract when WFC moved to MK and changed their name.

Whilst I will never turn down the opportunity to berate and boo a Frannie, I feel less comfortable with booing Mackie.

Wazza - according to wiki he arrived in 2003 at 18 and played 13 times, then three for MK after the move

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On this day above - it's a real shame that Olsen picked us over Brazil :-(

What was the sitch with Mackie? Did he just come through the youth team? Because I remember him doing an article in support of us

Nug I don’t think it is entirely fair to say 1 good game but to me it was noticeable that when Parrett came back and was firing he was overshadowing Forrester. In fact on a couple of occasions I thought HF was trying too hard because DP was starring and he was trying to match him.

Jamie Mackie signs for Oxford. We’ll need a new/extended banner for the 29th September.

I think I saw forrester had about 1 decent game last season. A mixture between his attitude and the manager not really using him properly. Not worth bringing him back for the money he would have wanted

Hi Tudor if you're there, I've tried to send you an e-mail (to your hotmail address) but it's bounced. Have you another e-mail address? Thanks, Gail

Sharif 100%. I’m not a massive fan of his but he appears with Oblak to be the highest rated. I would think any move now could be close to the €100m mark. Not sure Manure could afford to sell though. They don’t need the money and getting a replacement won’t be easy, especially if the best of the rest are sold/settled.

DDG probably would've surpassed it if United knew how to use their fax machine

Sharif it does sort of make sense when you look at who of a Buffon level has moved in that time. De Gea was little known when went to Utd. Loris same when went to Spurs. Courtois ditto when signed by Chelsea. Had Chelsea bought him from Athletico rather than loaned to them might have seen a big fee. Pickford being up to £30M gives a guide to what a top level keeper will go for now.

Crazy that Buffon had the record for 17 years, and even now, adjusted for inflation, his €52m fee (€71m in 2018 money) is only just slightly lower than the price Liverpool have paid for Alisson.

I got the impression Forrester was part of that "bad" culture group, NA may have been referring to.

Surprised at Forrester going to Iran! I wonder if we did make him a offer?

They've put him on a British Airways flight for tonight and graciously agreed they'll pay his hotel bill as a goodwill gesture (and an obligation under the Montreal Convention). He is probably on their database as someone who knows his rights after we had him quoting EU/CAA regulations at them on the journey out but yes Westjet look well worth avoiding.

SA Alisson is on Real’s list if they don’t get de Gea or Courtois and he is also on Man Utd and Chelsea lists to replace those guys if they do. He is layer 2 in the goalkeeper hierarchy. Layer 1 has maybe 5 keepers in it. Butland and Pope would be layer 4. They’re a small upgrade on Karius and Mignolet. Alisson is a big upgrade. GK currently are massively higher value cos the number of good game decider ones is very small and the big clubs have the money to spend on them.

RE: Flights to Canada.. I used Air Transat a few years ago when flying to Montreal. It was pretty basic but no real issues to report. It was quite strange having to go into the basement to check-in though.

lurker - everybody has a price! For that sort of money they could have got Butland and Pope and still had enough change to pay off Karius and Mignolet. Let's face it, who else was after him? Most of the big clubs are sorted so it's a buyer's market and Liverpool have paid well over the market rate fo Allison IMO.

“Everybody knows that Brazilian keepers are poor”. Not sure one should make such a generalisation based on race.

Stevenage have signed Ben Nugent

Secret Agent he is probably the highest rated attainable keeper in the world right now. All of the top few are waiting on what Real and Barca do. Liverpool aren’t wasting money there. A keeper is realistically the final piece for them. The alternatives were Butland and Pope and decent though both are Alisson is viewed as significantly better. The cost for Butland or Pope would be completely out of proportion to their value.

OI - Air Transat is the way to go. I was hoping Westjet was just teething troubles when they started transatlantic flights, but nope looks like they're crap. Not too bad for short hops, but again limited experience.

non posh would go to Imperial Fields