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Laurens didn’t need to do any editing. He was correct first time.

If you have more than one baller in your team are they just ‘ballers’, or is there a special collective noun/name? Like a group of geese is a gaggle of geese. A battery of ballers? A band of ballers? A squadron of ballers?

If there was ever a player to trust Laurens on, it would be a French player with PSG connections. If you look at his Twitter timeline, he doesn’t actually tweet much in the way of transfer rumours, so he must have had solid info to go in with this. He’s also a pretty well established ’proper’ journalist, so isn’t quite as much of a slave to the interaction and clicks world of SM.

These ‘super agents’ tend to get their way eventually, and secure their sweet percentage, so hopefully this Borat fella is able to leverage enough pressure on Frankfurt to get them to compromise to some degree.

Is both an option?

Actually Laurens does say Newcastle, not London. Did he say London originally? Anyway, he definitely now says Newcastle in both his tweet and espn article.

His reps in London and Frankfurt’s in Austria?

You’ll feel better when you catch up on the bit where every journo reporting the story says it’s to play WITH Isak.

Probably worth re-posting the Laurens article the thread title refers to:

Tbf on the Ornstein tweet, no one had actually said it was done, or close to done, just that we were negotiating. So he’s actually confirmed that. So there’s your positive spin.

Turn on Twitter notifications for Edwards and immediately get this FFS.

Believe he’s just messaged Yasir on Facebook messenger.

So was this one carrying our ‘top brass’? *not a euphemism for one of them Geordie Shore tarts Trips hangs about with

Very true. Sweden are shite like, but we’ll gloss over that bit.

He’s proper legit. Especially on French football/players.

Keef dropping that last line in a desperate attempt to not get 5 million responses about Isak from Liverpool fans 😂

Laurens is basically de facto foreign football correspondent, particularly France, for the BBC, amongst other things. He’s proper legit. *I also find him him a bit of a condescending prick, but happy to overlook this right now

Wow. That’s proper legit confirmation.

Reaching the point where Edwards, Hope, Douglas or Hardy is gonna have to pop up with something on this, even if it’s to say nothing.

Dunno if there’ll be a press conference, but there should at least be an interview after Celtic on Saturday.

Does he want to qualify those five words in any way…

If you can consistently get enough interaction, then yes. That account has not far off a quarter of a million followers.