[UPDATES/COVERAGE] Fans Forum - Thursday November 8th

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Question: Is training still closed to watching fans?

Answer: That's down to individual managers...

Question: I've been up to training a few times, I've never been turned away early in the week but on Thursdays and Fridays, I've been told the manager doesn't want you there because we're working on team shapes.

Answer: Well yeah, because you could be anyone going up there. You have to respect that. Thursdays and Fridays are an issue, Mondays and Tuesdays aren't a problem if you want to go to training.

S24SU, put that out. Mondays and Tuesdays, if you want to go to training, no problem. Don't try and go up Thursdays and Fridays because Danny wants these private.

 

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Question: Why were Lowton and Quinn transfers reported at certain at certain monetary levels yet have come out afterwards otherwise?

Answer: United haven't put those figures out at the time of the sale or afterwards. That's been reported from elsewhere. As far as United are concerned, these are confidential deals.

 

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Question: FSF have been talking about safe standing and I understand there's an EDM in place. What's United's feeling on this?

Answer: It's never been discussed at board level. But JG is happy to collate information about the European stuff and feed this back at board level.

 

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We're wrapping up but a couple of final questions...

 

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Question: What about the planning permission extension for residential stuff on the Kop?

Answer: It's on hold at the minute.

 

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Question: How long is that stand going to be called the Jess Ennis stand?

Answer: Until anyone else wins gold.

Question: We've got loads of ex-Blades...

Answer: But where do you draw the line? (big long line of Blades legends).

 

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Answer: We ought to be proud of this city and where we come from.

 

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And we're done.

From the top table:

The next venue for the next forum will be posted shortly, it'll be away from Bramall Lane, and there'll be a discussion about who from the club should be there to answer questions.

The events will be more frequent and there'll be some continuity with people in front of you to answer questions. If we put players here, that's more of a social night. But that doesn't get to the heart of what we need to sort out.

 

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And that's us closing off for the evening.

 

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Update:

I've just gone through and added some punctuation to make stuff read better. As much as it was possible for me to type, the stuff above was direct quotes but some was just the essence of what was being said to try and get the point across.

Ordinarily, we'd produce a full transcript, but due to tech issues that's most likely not possible on this occasion.

And Foxy will try and get hold of the details we missed about some of the answers that were read out too quickly for us to type.