Matthew Le God

His mother is French, his father is English. Making him part French, part English.

Does reading rumours in the French media linking him to Saints count as being ITK?

If he signed a new contract what possible reason is there for the club to not announce it? They announce contract extentions for 17 year olds in the academy, so why keep a first team player's contract a secret? Alternative is the story of a new deal being signed already is bullshit.

Lloyds bank

We don't know how much or little financial muscle Saints now have under the new owners.

He claimed his source was staff at the hotel previously...

It would be a multi million pound deal to get him on loan for even half a season. So it isn't really 'risk free'.

What remarks?

It didn't talk for Everton. They've significantly outspent Saints in recent years and are below us.

PSG do not operate under Premier League financial fair play rules.

Gustav Lillienberg returns to IFK Gothenburg on a 1 year contract

That doesn't really hold up as he was at his best when working with Pochettino, who expects all of those things.

It is not even remotely close to being equal.

"We shall fight on the beaches" - Churchill "The lady's not for turning" - Thatcher "I was ambushed by a cake!" - Johnson

I did answer the question. You can't grasp the answer was in that post. The question was flawed, I used an example to highlight the flaw in the question.

@stknowle asking someone 'why?' is not pedantic. Pointing out that you don't understand what pedantic means is pedantic. 😉😇

I didn't. Read the rest of the post you quoted.

I did answer the question through my example of why your question is fundamentally flawed. Plus I didn't say what you think I said. I said they are affected by money placed. Other factors also influence them, but due to money altering the odds they can't reflect liklihood as they can be distorted by a factors that has no connection to liklihood of the event occurring and thus are not a reliable source of liklihood.

If I were to place a £1k bet on the 25/1 team the odds would shorten. The shortening would not be due to the liklihood of the event occurring... it would be due to money placed.

Are you suggesting what I said isn't true?

Betting transfer odds do not reflect the liklihood of an event happening. They reflect the amount of money placed by punters reading rumours and bookies trying to make as much money as possible.