He added they had cost him about £35 each.

Now for the unquantifiable bit. The better - and faster - United can sell, the more flexibility they will have to buy. The longer it goes, the less easy it becomes to strike deals for the right price and the potential for mistakes grows.Arguably, United are still paying massively for the summer of 2022 when Ten Hag arrived and demanded the club bring in Frenkie de Jong from Barcelona.

United officials quickly concluded it was an impossible deal to complete. Ten Hag argued otherwise.After the attempt was eventually aborted, the season started with a home defeat by Brighton and a four-goal hammering at Brentford. United were panicked into spending £150m on Casemiro and Antony, neither of whom has come close to providing value for money and remain under contract heading into next season.There is an ideal and a realistic view of this.

In the past, United have ringfenced players who they regarded as off-limits to other clubs.Last summer that was thought to be only

I doubt there is anyone in that bracket now - and that includes captain Bruno Fernandes, even though the club did say they weren't interested in selling the 30-year-old Portugal playmaker when recent interest from the Saudi Pro League surfaced.

First, the easy bit. The contracts of Victor Lindelof and Christian Eriksen run out in the summer. They will not be renewed.Zephaniah's wife Qian, Birmingham poet laureate Ayan Aden, and Baroness Mary Bousted, former joint general secretary of the National Education Union, attended the BCU building's official opening last week.

The building, which is on the university's city centre campus, has science labs, a space for design and technology, an art room, and general teaching rooms.Three months into Donald Trump's second term, foreign leaders should be aware that a coveted trip to the Oval Office comes with the risk of a very public dressing down, often straying into attempts at provocation and humiliation.

Wednesday's episode with South Africa's President Cyril Ramaphosa was a classic of its kind, with the added twist of an ambush involving dimmed lights, a lengthy video screening and stacks of news story clippings.As television cameras rolled, and after some well-tempered discussion, Trump was asked by a journalist about what it would take for him to be convinced that discredited claims of "white genocide" in South Africa are untrue.