Thought he'd said that he'll not go to Sociedad and wants to join Liverpool, could be just press speculation on behalf of the Liverpool FC party though.
Absolutely, Pellè has been a true waste of space these last few games, predictable and slow and has acquired the dubious honour of being the PL player who has committed the most handballs so far this season. He's a dud who's been found out and now we need to try something else.
Speculate with what exactly? The situation seems to be quite transparent, we didn't have the necessary funds (KBilly) KL doesn't want to invest any more of her money (R Krueger) so unless we could have got a hotshot striker for the pittance we obtained for Cork (who would probably be more useful to us than said pittance) I don't see how speculating would be possible.
Strangely enough Busquets is just about to extend his contract at Barca up until 2019, apparently he has a buy out clause of ...wait for it...150 million euros. Still not sure that Barca can recruit anyone before January 2016 so it makes sense to not make it easy for any current regular to leave them.
Gignac is currently on 4.2 million €s a year, these things are less secret squirrel in France, so about 70K£ a week or so, we'd need to pay him far more than 50K a week, won't sign for us anyway and we'd not be the losers in that.
We shall just have to wait and see. Seems to be taking a long time though, trouble with these lads is that over the last 12 months they've played and trained for too much football. Think it's a pretty regular occurence in WC affected seasons.
Because basically after taking 1 point from 3 home games one point from this sort of game is of little use to us, we've played our last joker against middling teams now we need to win.