CB Fry

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It almost certainly hasn't even come from Everton. There are layers and layers of brokers and agents chatting multiple layers of sh it that the papers are happy to hoover up. I would think Everton probably won't even bother appointing anyone for at least two weeks anyway, it won't be before Sunday so that's many days of backpages to go between then and now. People needing to see the club "doing something" in the bloody papers is just mental, especially when multiple times over the last season we've seen pretty much the same people whining about "... and they said talks with Clyne were progressing and look how that turned out!!!!!". On balance it's sensible for the club to say as little as flipping posible.

Are you having a breakdown?

This constitutes lots does it? Good-o.

Being that I am specifically responding after two posters in succession mentioned about lack of quotes then I don't know what your point is. Meanwhile the hunt for "chatter that he is interested" goes on, right?

Have you actually found any chatter that Koeman is interested yet?

I don't think it will happen, it's a bit of brokers/agents talking and quite frankly it's not really a great move for Koeman - a sideways move to just another club that could potentially finish sixth, just without the two year head start he has with us. It's not going to get him any nearer to managing Barcelona than we are. But stop asking for quotes in newspaper stories people. Quotes in many many cases are not indicators of veracity - quotes can be from no-mark sources. True, good sources would provide info without giving usable quotes. Judge stories on their merits, it's not that difficult.

Have a Wispa and calm down.

This is correct.

Lee Holmes was very good at Derby away. The solitary, glorious moment of hope of the Poortvliet era.

This is a pretty horrific opinion to hold.

And out he slithers. What a surprise.

Fascinating that the debate always goes back to heavy industrial manufacturing - that's not really what we do anymore and not really why businesses might set up shop in the UK to access the EU. The little bit of production line parts assembly of Nissans and Toyotas is a small-to-negligible part of the UK economy. We're all driving around in cars with parts and assembled in different places all over the world. Being in or out isn't going to make much difference to that.

World leaders at it.

The French owning our electricity has nothing to do with the EU and absolutely everything to do with the Conservative sell-offs of the 1980s and 1990s, cheer-led by the kind of people who are lining up for Leave now. It's also been said many times but the kind of de-regulating free market folk that the Leave campaign are typically drawn to would sign up to TTIP in a flash and it's the Brits in the EU who are pushing to get it done. Leaving the EU is zero protection from TTIP. There's plenty of that persuasion that would shut down Port Talbot tomorrow because "the market" has spoken. The idea that old school protectionism will take over come Leave is pretty fanciful. It won't be Boris's style that's for sure. And I'm not convinced that in the battle of the widget makers, the one not adhering to EU regulations is the one with the competitive advantage over the one that does. As the largest trading bloc in the world, EU regs are a very strong currency and guide of quality across the globe. I'm not convinced there is any evidence that manufacturing things to a completely new set of regs we have to make up is going to genuinely unlock any market for any British business.

One point better off than Liverpool with one game to go ain't half bad. I don't think we will finish sixth but expect us to secure seventh now. All we can do is win and I think we will.

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I thought we get EL if we finish sixth come what may - we get Man City's league cup spot. The EL spot only disappears if Liverpool win the EL if that spot is occupied by Liverpool. It doesn't come from another club.

I wish we were Everton.

I think that's right. One EL spot for the league (5th) and one each for the two cups, with the League Cup one given now to sixth. Yesterday's result left us really needing a MUFC Cup win to be certain.

If they lose tonight we could draw and still finish above Liverpool even if they win on Sunday. Which would be nice.

It's the sheer volume of people that believe this kind of meaningless nonsense that convinced me that leave will win pretty easily.

Pretty spectacular people are still peddling that one when it was comprehensively debunked in about day three of the campaign.

Pretty despicable that you think all Irish people are terrorists.

Of course. *****! Sixth or bust then.