CB Fry

Alpine was right, as your quote proves. Subjectivity basically means "opinion" in contrast to objectivity which is cold hard facts. This entire forum is subjectivity, except for maybe the full time scores. Don't hang Alpine on that point. The objective facts prove he is an effing chubby idiot but he is right on that one point.

Not really: surely the only ambition a player ever needs is to play for a team with ambition and vision. RK has, I'm sure, convinced Lovren that we will be that team. And as we know playing for a team with ambition to play at a higher level beats playing for a team who already are at a higher level hands down.

Fraser Forster?

Les "too much power" Reed is only responsible for stuff that goes wrong. Good stuff is all down to other people.

Feyenoord? Feye-sale more like.

My favourite bit is when he accuses "the forum" of being "illiterate".

I think I speak for everyone on the forum when I say I love jizz cocks.

Nah, he's on an obscene amount of money. Once someone sat him down and told him that his ambition to ever play anywhere else simply disappeared.

Hasn't he got ages left on his current contract?

Sharp definitely wanted out but was told in no uncertain terms that no means no.

Thank god our visionary former chairman signed off such a lengthy contract for a player we need for all of six months.

What an over the top jizz cock.

Matt was already a talismanic player pre Branfoot, and scored some of his most iconic goals during the Branfoot era, as a direct response to being dropped. I get your general point but the comparison is flawed. Maybe Peter Crouch under Redknapp is closer to it.

Still seems massively unlikely to me.

Well, they do. If he signs an extension he won't go anywhere this window. And he'll get a pay rise which will be worth more than a rats arse.

That is stretching a comparison to absolute breaking point right there.

The world can be divided into two: All us "Gashton Apologists" on one side, and Alpine on the other.

What an effing wastrel.

What will your excuse be if he is back this weekend? Oh, I think we know already. The mating call of the Alpine weasel. "It's easy in hindsight".

So the "ineptitude" accusation can be nicely squared at.....

The fact that the "offer" has leaked out makes me think this may be the case. Orrr, he signs it for this season but with a release clause in it.

Yep.

It's very rare to have a Bale/Suarez level transfer where the player is sold against his will, so it's a bit of a false argument. In fact, if we were skint it would be more likely we would have to sell, say, Shaw to somewhere he didn't want to go, who happened to offer more and we were obliged to take it.

If we had no Alpine we wouldn't have this.

Spoken like a true "Gashton apologist" whatever the eff that is.