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And this is the same person moaning about how hard done by his great pal Corky Morris was at not getting an EFL Cup Final ticket.

Perfect! Should be able to take those idiots for about £20m.

No, if a Level 1 club is buying it doesn't work like that. Berahino was sold to an upper Level 3 club.

Exactly! They bid £20m six months earlier, so thanks for backing me up.

They called this year's Royal Rumble. Just saying.....

Sorry Batman, wasn't trying to pick on you and there are other worthy quotable posts as well but I admire your conviction that he definitely wouldn't be good enough and would spends months on end as a sub...!

Just for perspective, anything north of £50m would make him the most expensive defender ever. Is he better than Stones? Yes, IMO. Does that mean we will get £60 - 70m for him? Doubtful, unless there is a serious bidding war. I can't see Man City wanting to go huge after their abysmal CB recruiting efforts (Mangala, Otamendi etc...) so I reckon barring an overseas super-club bid it will be Chelsea for him. Of course, I would like us to tell him he is staying for another year.

He was two years into a four year contract so his value would have started falling after the summer when we sold him. He would have ended up going cheaply like Wanyama if we didn't sell him then. If no-one apart from Liverpool was seriously interested and Mane was determined to move on then the deal is fine. It may be disappointing not to have got more but there isn't an equivalence between that feeling and the deal being necessarily bad. You can't just say, "there are worse players who cost more", and criticise SFC accordingly because there is more to any deal than the pure footballing ability of the player involved.

He's the difference between a top four Liverpool and a crappy, easy to defend against Liverpool. Whilst that makes the fee look cheap in hindsight it wasn't a nailed on certainty that he would do so well there and it's only a bad fee if someone else would have paid more.

And Mawson at Swansea looks decent whenever I've watched them.

Wouldn't be surprised to see Bertrand and Tadic go. At their age their value is probably not going to increase. Of course, this assumes no new strategic approach following a takeover.

Marco Almeida replaced by Florin Gardos....

Please, just stop.

St Will was funny. So it can't have been Glasgow/Bournemouth.

Although he's a scouser and therefore inherently painful to listen to for any length of time, I actually thought Carragher did a good job of being as impartial as possible. Much fairer than a dumb-ass **** like Niall Quinn or some of the morons you used to get on ITV, for example.

One of the most entertaining refs IMO.

A hard match to predict. Welbeck murdered Stephens in the cup match so that's a bit of a concern but it will be interesting to see if Stephens takes that lesson on board. You never know which Arsenal team will turn up. Sometimes they are lightweight, lethargic and lack leadership; sometimes they are fluent, creative and very dangerous. We are similar! I think Puel will get us to have a go and take the game to them. We're safe, we can't qualify for Europe, we just got a decent away draw but we failed to score in our last home game and people got the hump. It's not like he set us up defensively against Hull, rather the players on the pitch let him down somewhat. I can't see him asking us to play like yesterday again because he knows the crowd won't like it in a home match and he hasn't really got anything to lose. I would bring Redmond in for Tadic and go back to more of a 4-2-3-1 with JWP wide right, rather than yesterday's 4-3-2-1. Boufal behind Gabbi, Redmond on the left and give all three more licence to roam and have a go at Arsenal. .

It wasn't a red card offence. There was a defender there as well and Tadic was running away from goal towards the corner of the pitch.

Indeed. And we should have scored with the attack where Redmond hit a raking ball to Tadic to square it for Long. That was the best attack of the whole match!

If they fail the test then maybe Ali Al-Faraj can do another short-term stint at the helm of a football club.

Just seen the latest Dianne Abbott clip. My goodness. Why on Earth are Labour letting her do media appearances? I know the shadow front bench is a bunch of no-hopers but literally doing nothing would be better than having her visible.

Well?

I think the word you're looking for is "popular", rather than necessarily "amateur" (although I'll save you the trouble of pointing out that the two are not mutually exclusive). I suspect he, quite rightly, thinks that only a small group of weirdos would be remotely interested in the mathematical theory behind everything postulated in the article.

You can still get 1/20 on a Tory win. 5% tax-free guaranteed return in a month's time. Attractive.