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What are the glaring weaknesses then ?

I've only mainly seen him in the french national side and there he's usually rock solid and a motor for the team. Perhaps he's not just a typical UK type footballer.

Perhaps they are just plain wrong in that sense. They don't seem to mind being less than whiter than white in many aspects and yet a good player who has some sort of disciplinary problem is chucked into the waste bin illico; Then again it's Liverpool where murky is the new clear. I'm not really a fan of Klopp, he's an OK manager but sometimes he seems to act like one of the lads and anyone who doesn't fit in just doesn't fit in.

And MLT of course was of the most disciplined kind off the pitch. A player's value can only be judged on the field of play. If what he does there is generally impeccable then the rest just doesn't matter.

Pocketed by whom ?

Certainly, better than Yoshida, Stevens, New bloke or the Invisible Man. Don't really see what people's beef is with him.

Anyway Liverpool will have to move on to other targets soon if they're not convinced that they're going to be able to sign VvD . Can't start the season with just Lovren and those other 2 blokes. Unless of course Klopp is prepared to back down on Sakho but I really don't see that happening, which is silly on his part. Sakho is a far better defender than all but Lovren.

If only he could stay onside. I think if you look back over last season he had a fair few golden chances and even "goals" disallowed for a few inches offside each time.

Won't be anything really new for us though will it. Need to get richer owners and more success, that's how we'll keep our better players. Other than that we just need to accept that we're a run of the mill, top half of the PL club and let every first class player move on when he gets a chance to better himself.

Well I'm certainly not worried by it, if he stays, so much the better, if he leaves we'll get a shedload of money and get someone else. He's a good player but there are plenty of others who have the potential to be equally good. We did Ok without him for the last what 4 months of last season so if we have 50 or so million to spend on a creative number 10 and another decent striker I'd not be that sad. VvD has become a cult figure here, if it weren't for all the Liverpool stuff many might see it as I do.

We have what we can afford to have is the short answer. If we want better, more efficient, players then we need to find more money from somewhere or other. Both to keep the rare talents that we do find and obtain new ones. Isn't it strange that the clubs who have the most money have all the luck in finding efficient strikers and creative midfielders. We need to get the takeover done and move forward.

Not the same thing, Boufal is a frenchman from Paris who plays for Morocco because that's his parent's nationality and he isn't good enough to play for France. The bloke from Alaves is a Morrocan, from Morocco.

Boufal is French, this bloke is Morrocan. WP problems I'd think.

JRod has been sold and the Polish CB signed but I really, really doubt that we'll sign much else in the way of quality players unless we sell the same. Doubt if we have the money to do it actually. For the moment we're probably about even Steven in the ledger, about 12 million in for JRod and the same out from having paid off Puel and buying Bednarek.

No you're not. Betting on transfers, manager appointments etc is just another way that bookies and the like have invented to separate idiots from their money. Greed will always have an effect on part of the populace. But whilst the government taxes gambling there will be no action against something which is obviously not right. Me personally, I wouldn't give any benefits to those who gamble or smoke. It would be quite interesting to know just how much profit Sky subsidaries make from football related betting.

Pretty good start, 3 overs so far, Vince hogging the bowling and hitting it hard. 3.2 overs: Ah well it was no doubt good while it lasted.

So anyway, not really a defector but remember Krchowiak, that bloke who was pretty brilliant at Seville and who I believe we tried to sign? Well he had an awful season at PSG last year and has now been left out of their tour group along with Ben Arfa. Perhaps it's just a PSG thing but we might have done well not to sign him.

He was a waste of time and money at Saints. Now he's a fat waste of time and money. He must have a brilliant agent though.

Excellent little stage today. If I were Froome and Aru I'd not have let Quintana go like that (if they had any choice that is). He's a 3rd week rider and there are a couple of big, big stages to come next week. Given that Sky don't want Landa any more I'd be wary of him as well. Movistar will snap him up and he might just give them a little advance on his next year's contract.

Berg has done pretty well since he's been with Hants. I'd not knock him for one T20 slogfest bowling jaunt if I were you. He often gets wickets when we most need them in all competitions. He's also pretty handy with the bat when we need some quick runs.

So? Gardos is nowhere near the level required, neither was Juanmi . They go back 3 and 2 seasons respectively don't they ? Add Hojbjerg, Clasie, Boufal etc and Glasgow isn't entirely wrong.

Seriously though he is not wrong on this occasion. Clasie and Hojberg are nowhere near the quality of players they have replaced. Idem Boufal and perhaps even Redmond although I think he still has a bit of progress to come.

So in fact, you believe that the players that we actually have are no longer good enough is that it? If so why did we waste so much money on Clasie and Hojberg or whatever his name is then ?

Why would he leave Swansea to sign for Saints though, that's a sideways move in anyone's book. Especially when better clubs are pursuing him. Anyway the idea of Saints paying even 40 million for one player is just a non starter. We sell for that price, we don't buy.

Don't think we'll be signing any more midfielders unless we have plans to offload some of those that we already have.