Tommok

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It'd be nice if we actually had some players to wear the new kit

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I read that in the voice of Alan Partridge

Ouch!

Looks like a coldwarsteve piece

Seems so

My better half starts rounding up my age from around 8 or 9 months before my next birthday. She doesn't do the same with her age tho...obviously. Women eh? Amirite, fellas..

They spent around £250m on players last season. And had to sell players this year.

Around £40m for Rodri seems pretty cheap

The Milk Marketing Board did well for a time in terms of exposure. I never really bought into the "Gotta lotta bottle" tag line tho.

I think most managers would have had sufficient sense to realise that despite working really well the season before, there needed to be a tweak to the approach last season when things went terribly wrong. The fact that he seemingly used every bit of downtime to jump on a plane somewhere, rather than maybe stay at Melwood and sort things out, was a massive red flag and couldn't have purely been linked to a set methodology. Basically I'm saying he seems to have half-arsed it.

That would've seriously cut into the time Slot could be jetting off somewhere for a mini break between games tho.

Cunning

Yeah and also Klopp taking over the Germany job makes me more confident that Wirtz will kick on and find a new lease of life

Isn't that the point of a release clause tho? Assuming there is one for now..

That's rubbish surely. Barcola surely isn't going play on the right very often so Salah leaving has little to do with it. Salah leaving was hardly a last minute shock either. Was way too early for us to worry about blocking the progress of Rio too.

Small beer - he makes more than that from his extensive TV advertising work

That's where Rayan makes a lot of sense - he can play RW and CF I think?

Oof! How long have you sat on that?

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Well there's probably going to be a few interested clubs at that price given the current fee inflation. Hopefully we'll soon announce our intention to commence our preliminary preparations for putting together an initial offer (that is way below that amount and so inevitably unacceptable).

That's now or for January?

I think I prefer it when we let someone else do all the negotiation and agree a fee and then we bowl in and say "yeah, we'll pay that" and buy the player straight away. We do this occasionally. We also seem to be the ones who get gazumped sometimes too tho (Diomande seemingly). Chelsea often seem to favour this approach too altho they couple it with an offer of stupendous wages and contract length.