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It's bad when you look at that and think '£27m. That's cheap these days.'

Still only 2 with him in the squad so him going doesn't make much difference there.

Sounds more like a 'hurry up and get on with it you fat twat' but in Rafa's polite manner of speaking.

Absolutely ludicrous. Our left back options are so poor. Unless Lazaar is secretly some kind of beast and is just waiting until now to unleash it.

Post the quotes pls.

Hello darkness my old friend...

'You expect me to be first choice for you in the Premiership next season when I could be earning less in the Championship with Wolves? I can't work in these conditions any more'

Really? Surprised by that, I always thought that Wilshire was a cut above players like McCarthy (when fit). Just me personally. I feel McCarthy is exactly what we need and I think Wilshire would come here to let his career die.

Would rather we spent that kind of money on McCarthy than Wilshire.

Doing the Borat pose.

Played in a friendly for us didn't he? Celtic IIRC. Yeading? Yep

If only we knew eh?

Probably got to make one of those picture montage videos.

Nothing against the lad as it's not like he's making a bad choice career wise, but I hope he amounts to nothing.

He does have a horrible resemblance to Van Persie.

I assume the whole 'we can only do one deal at a time' thing is actually true.

Quite possibly and that approach could perhaps have merit in different circumstances but the problem is that we already have a lot of players who are below the quality required for the league we're in now and so adding more of the same standard doesn't really seem beneficial at all.

The Gibbs one is the real head scratcher. Struggle to see where we'd get a better left back with our seemingly shrinking budget.

'Bear's deluded mags on Twitter thread' 29 pages too.

Can taste the tears through the screen.

The Rolan one is concerning. Hopefully there's nothing to it.

Not really familiar with him. Hopefully he's more Yedlin than Strollback.

Completely missed this story. What was it? http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/rafa-benitez-reveals-how-persuaded-12892366

*Eyes scanning thread title* No no no no no YES!