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Said there would be an announcement imminently back in April. Other than that has mostly made some utterly unprovable statements.

For footballing reasons alone he is certainly a better option than Joselu If he's ever on the pitch, which he hasn't managed for 8 years.

So who should we have signed that were of a higher standard? Solomon Rondon to name one. There are a hundred better strikers out there if you're prepared to spend a bit of money.

According to him it was Rafas purple that informed them he was going to the training ground.

I think Southampton's owners failed it at first didn't they?

The two statements from about 6 weeks ago were official statements I believe.

Me being an optimist: This isn't the official statement talked about last week. That was a statement written assuming official ok from PL arrived, which it didn't. So, BZG annoyed with PL dragging their heels and because they had said a statement would be released have spoken to the journalist and given an update. They're still waiting for the PL approval to release the official statement. Ok, more than an optimist. Probably obscenely deluded.

I think that this might all be being orchestrated by shaping shifting lizard aliens.

This is how I am interpreting it. Premier League are proving difficult in approving the purchase and may even kill the deal.

What do you make of the Chronicle claiming it was confirmed at the AGM that no fit and proper persons test is happening yet?

You can literally go on companies house website yourself and check it out.

Their own statement

There were growing protests so it suited him to overplay how far the deal was. Right now, he couldn't give a damn.

He's started more games than any other Liverpool midfielder this season. He's started practically every game.

Spot on. Benitez should have all the Mitrovic money, but this summer he will only have another £5 million from that sale to spend and it will be same if we sell Hayden and Shelvey in the summer. Selling players is kind of pointless for the club when it adds next to nothing to the managers budget. It'd be ok if we would buy players over long installments similarly, but we don't, or very rarely do. I know the clubs idea is in the long run you'll have this ongoing income of fees, but when it inevitably leaves with a weak squad that gets relegated and then you lose £100m and wipes all of that potential profit out.

People seem to be eating up this £50-60m plus player sales nonsense. Even Luke Edwards makes out it could be more like £100m with player sales. Nonsense on so many levels. First because when we sell players we always take them in installments, so if we sold £40m of talent we'd see about £10m of that right now at best. Then with all signings it'd inevitably include agent fees and probably wages. Our net spend on actual transfer fees will be more like £10m inevitably. I don't know how anyone could believe we're suddenly going to make a net spend of £60m on transfer fees.

This is quite the take on the racist abuse debate.

Joint 7th best you mean right?

Not quite the same, but whenever people say Henry is a better goalscorer than Shearer because he has a better goalscoring ratio, I like to point out the Adam Le Fondre has a nearly identical goalscoring ratio as Henry.

It was $30m. That's £20m. That's a drop of about £3m I think.

Thanks for fuck all Reporters should be banned from Twitter. It's resulted in them needing to fill their timelines with absolute unneeded guff. Not blaming then directly as it's just the culture we're in now but fucking hell, what is any point in that tweet other than the masses are demanding information from someone who clearly has none? I don't think it's a load of guff, I think Edwards is just saying that the S*n and Mirror reports are crap, nothing has changed since before Christmas and no one knows anything different. Daft that it has to be said but so many fans have whipped themselves into a frenzy over those dubious reports he probably felt he had to quell the fire. People were asking him about the reports and he said he'd been away for a couple weeks and would check it out. This was his response. It was reasonable of him I think.

But Ki himself has been quoted as saying "I don’t know when I come back if my place will be there". I am pretty sure their research is fine.

That could be the biggest hurdle in all of this. If Kenyon's consortium or another investment group is buying a club as a business interest it has to make financial sense. If due diligence shows the club to be worth £100m less than Ashley is asking, due to the low value of playing staff, poor training facilities, stadium needing updating etc. that isn't a sound investment and a lower offer makes sense. Kenyon could hardly go back to his backers and recommend that they pay £300m for a club that is actually worth £200m. That could've been why Staveley walked away, maybe she was serious after all but pissed Ashley off because she proved he was overpricing the club. She wasn't serious. She was a big a player as Ashley. According to? Mike Ashley, and if we can't trust him, who can we trust?

So technically Crumpy is dead on the money. That's some pure ITK right there.

Bar Dubravka, Lascelles, Fernandez and Shelvey, we have a squad full of Champo level players, so he won't look out of place here. Lejeune? Schar? Ki? Rondon? Yedlin? Kenedy? Aye, some of them we should be looking to upgrade on but to dismiss them as Championship standard players is harsh imo. Schar looks like he has some potential. Rondon could do a job with a decent 10 behind him. The others - nah... You don't rate Lejeune? He was brilliant last season.