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FFS. You gotta be kidding me?

P.s. I can't begin to imagine what 99% of the journos' questions will be about.... (Clue: nothing to do with the game)

Update..... Our SWF colleague MLG has just kindly messaged me to say the club have tweeted that it's tomorrow.

That's a fair point and a good spot sir. It is indeed usually held two days before the game. I suppose the opening game of the season might be an exception for some reason?

At least no-one has disputed my pie choice....yet.....

Yep, just added that omission to my own observation too. My thinking is that we could probably shuffle Bertrand into CB but not ideal.

Yep, just spotted that! Thought I'd snuck the update in without anyone noticing.

Forster Cedric Yoshida Stephens Bertrand Romeu Davis © JWP Tadic Redmond Gabbi Subs: Taylor, Pied, Lemina, Hojbjerg, Boufal, Long, Austin Injured/Dropped/On-Strike: McCarthy, Targett, Flanagan, Van Dijk, Gardos, Clasie, Gallagher, Wood, Jones, Bednarek, McQueen, Sims, Hesketh, Valery Saints 2 Swansea 0 (Gabbi 23, Austin, 81) Attendance: 30,975 Best pie: Chicken Balti

Very much this. (and I salute you sir for keeping the same avatar all this time. Great minds.... )

It's only bizarre if said repetitive critique was posted by someone who wasn't on an obvious wind-up and/or hasn't an obvious agenda

Different

http://www.eurosport.co.uk/football/liverpool-hold-power-in-coutinho-saga-says-former-reds-boss-brendan-rodgers_sto6283483/story.shtml Brendan Rodgers: "Philippe Coutinho is a world-class player but the power in the position is with Liverpool. Phil has signed a new contract. He's always going to have other clubs that want him. But Liverpool don't have to sell him if they don't want to. So the power is very much with them." A bit like Saints and van Dijk then...

Even if he'd done that he would have got his technique all wrong...

Lemina gets the no.18 shirt

Guan 2.0 lives!

Thanks. Much appreciated

Who?

Indeed. The more intellectual response would be to sing the original words, i.e. the opposite of what van Dijk and/or his agent is hoping to achieve at this moment in time. The time to wheel out the vitriol is after he's left

I don't normally call for polls on here but would be interesting to have one on the VvD situation now that his cards are on the table, as to what the club should do now. Stick or twist? Mods?

Dubai Phil is involved in this? The plot thickens

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So, he never went "on strike" then....?

No sign of Yoshida in today's training footage: Still nursing the injury he sustained on Saturday, one assumes.

https://www.thesun.co.uk/sport/football/4188037/crystal-palace-and-southampton-leading-race-for-8m-rated-benfica-right-back-andre-almeida "Crystal Palace and Southampton leading race for £8m-rated Benfica right-back Andre Almeida"