hypochondriac

They've tried sticking something on top! Hilarious failure by all accounts...

Still very slow accessing the lounge. Main forum is fine though.

I think it's more that the political situation in China has changed. I'm not sure anyone can say with certainty that Gao had much control over the asset anyway. The purchase was very clearly for political reasons more than anything else.

Gao has wanted nothing to do with us since at least the end of last year.

I don't think they're too chuffed about it.

Apparently we've known about this situation for weeks and were debating about how to release the info. They've tried to do something with the shirts and it's looked rubbish so it looks like they may have thousands of junk saints shirts that can't be salvaged.

Correct but I was thinking maybe it was a genuine good faith reading of my post and not just another seque into being argumentative for the sake of it and wilfully missing the point. Let's see.

You misunderstand. The contention is that if there are reports in the media that we are interested, fabrice seems to be suggesting that these reports are not true or made up. He also uses examples of where there have been reports that we were interested in a player who then doesn't sign as proof of some of these made up reports. The reality of course is that we have interests in multiple players for the same position and so obviously we aren't going to sign more than one player to fill one role or position. Maehle for instance we probably were interested in as was widely reported but we ended our interest once we signed up kwp. Not signing a player is not proof that articles or journalists have invented stories of our interest.

Exactly. Absolutely head mental to think that just because we haven't signed every player that we are potentially interested in that somehow we never had any interest in any of them.

Can't see it myself.

Who are these people who "work in our recruitment team?" Because I actually know people who work at the club and I know for a fact that we had interest in McKennie.

Lol. You don't have a clue. We were interested in McKennie. What a load of tosh.

Doesn't really explain why we haven't seen a photo though. In fact it makes it more suspicious. No reason they couldn't have knocked up a photo of him holding a shirt and then no one would be asking questions. Curious.

Yes that seems more realistic for me. If Adams achieves that then he will have been a success.

A hatful from ings and 12-15 from Adams would be unreal and would most likely see us in Europe. I'm not sure I can see it myself but it would be amazing.

I'm not sure he's better than Mccarthy either but that isn't what I said tbf.

Interesting. I think Mccarthy and Forster competing for the gk spot if forster has sorted out his head is an improvement on Mccarthy and gunn.

Sorry I've lost patience. Really hope you can fix it and I'm sure it's frustrating but I'm going to post elsewhere for a while.

Yes we are but if juve want him then he will obviously go there.

It's not that surprising is it? We have an embarrassment of riches in that area and he was the standout player in a pretty awful team that stayed up by the skin of their teeth.

The other thing is we have thousands of shirts with the old sponsor that are now worthless.

Who would you sue though? Would be pretty difficult, do they even have a physical address?

I'm told now that we did receive the first 7.5 million but nothing after that so could have been worse and at least we've got a replacement.

Think he just wants rid of us ASAP.

It just makes me proud to even be mentioned in the same breath as those luminaries.