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Angers I think...should be announced at some point. Talk of 2-3m.

We've just got Carillo off the wage bill, Boufal and Hoedt to follow. We should be able to afford 50k per week for 12 months. We've freed up quite a large % of our wage bill now. Risk free for 12 months, then see if he fancies taking a big pay cut next year. Cheaper than Boufal who was on around 65k p/w according to reports.

Can't imagine us bringing in any more than Theo.

Yeah, it's a strange one in my eyes. Have been thinking about this all day and I still can't quite make sense of it, other than it being a bit of an emotional return. I guess he'll offer us more than Boufal, so it's an upgrade of sorts in that area....I dunno, jury is out. Need to see him play to understand if he's any good these days, the talk is that he isn't and his legs have completely gone.

That transfer is going to be hurting us financially for a few years to come. Massive loss on that one, a criminal use of the VVD funds - that should have been used to build a legacy, but we splurged it on guys like him who we now have to let go as a freebie. Glad he's gone, but christ, what a huge financial disaster for us. It's like we threw £20m out of the stadium and into the river Itchen for laughs.

Sounds like we want backup in full back as our 'third' signing then.

That's the last I heard...but it's all gone quiet!

Really? Not sure I see where you are coming from there. Theo isn't an amazing addition, no, but I'm fairly confident he is going to add more than the 'maybe he'll come good' Boufal.

What's going on with Hoedt? We're not going to be left with him stinking the place out, are we?

Well, I'll take that at the moment.

Ah, I've been unintentionally ITK!

I guess if we look at this as a straight comparison with Boufal, Theo will certainly add more to the squad than he did. So that's something. I wonder how much influence Matt Crocker ahs had on this? I'm pretty certain he was part of the academy setup when Theo was here.

He hasn't had raw pace since around 2015, he's about the same speed as Redmond now. Maybe slower.

Sounds like we're certainly interested in Theo. Really odd signing by us though. He has looked terrible at Everton (and that's being kind). I thought he'd end up in a lower league.

Vokins is fine, I thought he stepped up to the plate last year and is a really good prospect. What's the point in loaning another teams young full back, which blocks the progress of your own young full back? Valery isn't great, agreed, but JWP has also shown he can play there. There's no sense in the Williams deal if it happens, only way it would make sense is if we're losing Ryan.

Adams hold up play is excellent, he fights for balls he has no right to win. He just needs to get a bit more ruthless in front of goal, still lacking that instinct that Ings has. But if he can provide the foil for ings to score, then that'll work. But I'd still like to see him score a bit more.

Still wouldn't make any sense to me, we've got Vokins who is more than capable of playing if required. As he proved at the back end of last season

Gruijc should be straight in that Liverpool midfield! They had no one in there today!

He did get a goal, but he was struggling up until that point. We did look better with Redmond on that side.

From Sky: Truly bizarre. Why do we need to add to full back? Let's see what happens. This signing would confuse the f*k out of me if it happens.

Villa excellent, great passing through the lines and quality from Barkley and Grealish finding space in the final third. But....Liverpool's defending was something to be witnessed. They just let Villa through time and time again, their blocking and press was non-existent, their positional play in the back 4 was awful, Trents awareness was non-existent and he didn't turn up. It was strange, very strange. But don't take anything away from Villa, their passing and movement in the final third was excellent.

Because UA is our kit supplier...?

Neville and Carragher have been absolutely tortured today.

I'll be honest, the whole Salisu situation has been very, very peculiar I'll be honest. I'm sure he's our player, but the lack of media presence over him was weird.

wtf is going on today?? Liverpool have been quite poor since January anyway, they built up a head of steam in the first 6 months of last season and dropped off massively beyond January. They'd built up big enough a lead to be ok though. This season is just a continuation of their drop off.