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The comments come from VVDs camp, which happen to be a PR team and his agent. Do at least try and keep up.

Clubs can see we are wounded? FFS, talk about over dramatic bed wetting. This bid (if they've made it) and hopefully one from City, has been coming for over a week. I told Ericb last week that City and Chelsea were back in. Let's just say that they're designed to test the water at this stage.

Best get used to it as it's as it has always been and always will be and a bunch of entitled millennials having a hissy fit ain't going to change it.

That has fu_ck all to do with VVD wanting out and only an utter moron would think it does. VVD, for all his faults, wants to play for a "big" club on the biggest stage. I would consider that normal for a player, though why pick the dippers is beyond me when he could have his pick of the big clubs. How he's gone about it, and most of the sh_it in the press comes directly from VVDs agent and PR team, marks him out as a ****, but he's a talented ****. I still think he'll stay though. The club cannot afford to back down.

That's more or less my position too.

You are a ****ing idiot, but we knew that anyway.

Those of us old enough to have seen his career were truly lucky. God knows how many cr_ap northern away games I endured in the hope of some Matty magic.

I would like to think that no fan of any club would use the term victim in conjunction with Hillsborough. Certainly those of us around at the time certainly wouldn't. However, all the other insults are more than worthy and if it tells those at RAWK one thing, it tells them how much their club and fans are despised but fans of every other club in the country. But hey, that's not their fault is it.

As I said. No change. We aren't selling him to the dippers or anyone else.

According to those I know nothing has changed at all. VVD isn't for sale unless £75m is whacked on the table and certainly not to The dippers who Saints are still refusing to deal with. I'm out with them over the weekend, I'll see if I can glean more then.

Apparently it tops out at 33% after a stretch at 28%. No wonder it was so bloody tough!

We have a lane nearby called Buttermilk Hill. It's such a benign name, romantic even. It's tucked away in heart of the countryside, a single track road, entirely enclosed by trees given the effect of being in a green tunnel. It's a fookin bastard of a ramp which my memory had obviously blotted out as a form of self preservation. It's only 400-500m long but averages 17% and tops out at 23%. Not only is it really steep the surface is crap. Why o why I did it again I have no idea. It was followed by 15miles home into a roaring headwind. #ruined.

The sources close to the player are his PR team and agent.

My Doris and I are heading over to Holland and Belgium to watch the ENICO tour, or at least some of it. Always fast and furious until they hit the hills and with Sagan and the other World Tour big hitters there it's always a good fun.

AG2R rode a good race on a course designed for them bit the other teams are just too weak to challenge an uber professional Team Sky and bar Badet, the leaders are mentally too weak to challenge Froome. I'll always prefer the one day racing in the heartlands. Proper racing with proper racers.

You've always been a 'kin idiot. Good to see you intend to carry on in the same manner.

Smelling Delph and Defoe? Hahahahahahahahahahaha. What a muppet.

This is ******s. He wasn't fit. End of.

Why is it that when you go out on a windy day that it's always headwind/crossheadwind/crosswind but never, never, a tailwind. It ripped my legs off today and I only did 50miles!

This is what I've been told from my mates at Stoke & City today FWIW. Saints have no intention of selling VVD. They've said so to Chelsea, City and the dippers. The cash price to "think about it" is £75m, upfront, no add ons, which I think we'd all agree is an insane amount. They were in agreement that someone will panic as August comes and agrees to meet the price but both agreed that he's very unlikely to go for less.

I've about 35KOM and countless top 10s. I'm a right Strava whore although I don't go segment hunting, it's more to do with when I'm doing intervals. That said, now I'm so light I'm hoping to get some on some of the climbs around here.

Always good to bag the 1st one. ? Sent from my E2303 using Tapatalk

Saints won't sell him to the dippers and they know this. They cannot be seen to be doing anything untoward regarding VVD who has been told he's going nowhere.

I think I'll take the bike over in the car and get some mountains in and also watch the match. Result.

F_uck. A. Duck!