Donatello

Leave it out, mate.

QUOTE=dubai_phil;1997943]Yep you got it in one. Guan said this week. 2 other mates (one with a track record said Wednesday). Just got off Skype with him. Hey no problemo. I let everyone know when I am coming over, invite everyone to meet my gang. It's a forum it was a story with a source that was at least right once this summer so far (much to my merriment with a son who is a Scouser) so I posted it. I'd have been F5'ing all day myself I'll extend a 'thank you' since no one else seems inclined to (and as far as I'm aware, your posting history isn't that of an attention seeker, ha). So, thank you.

Yes.

Cheers.

Guardian are reporting the deal to be sealed at £16m. Hardly eye-watering given Liverpool's recent windfall. A hefty fee, of course, but it should've been £20m. The board should've held out for the former figure (assuming they didn't), but then Loren did weaken our position considerably. I hope the board make public which players handed in transfer requests.

Agreed, it's a fairly unique and disappointing scenario. However, our stability has been undermined by both Lallana and Lovren so I can't hold the board accountable where those two shysters are concened. Lambert, well, we didn't want to stand in his way, supposedly. At any rate, he was going to be supplanted by a new signing. Shaw to Man United was always going to happen. Schneiderlin is the (board's) litmus test. He needs to stay, if only for a season. If we can exit this window having lost four first team players, one of whom wasn't going to be starting this coming season, that'd be okay.

His outlandish imagination.

Double post.

A fair few of you are speaking as if it is/was the board's intention to sell our core, rather than acknowledging that half of our core have been complicit in forcing their way out.

Or a fan. And this "too big for his boots" is complete tripe. One of the very few who contributes anything of genuine substance.

Ah, the voice of reason. P.S Thanks for the info reference Forren/Osvaldo. From that I'm going to infer that Pochettino is more than liable for the Osvaldo car-crash.

Remy has a release clause in his contract.

'Mercurial (anything)'

Thanks, mate (do we know one another?)

Does 'Smiling Red Panda' translate into 'way off'?

Yeah, I was going to query that. When did it become accepted that Sidney was ITK? Genuine Q. At any rate, I'm inclined to believe KBilly *and* Guan on the matter of Ings.

So...we're just giving them money? Gotcha!

What, so pay them to field 'our' player for a year? Hmmm.

Guan has used all of his/her posts for the day.

That Ings isn't prepared to commit to a new deal (fair enough) and that rather than lose a player on a free, Burnley are going to cash in now to the tune of nigh on 10m (what is the rumoured fee? 8m, right?) and reinvest.

This seems positive, given that Guan usually posts his smileys before an imminent announcement. Factor in KBilly's remarks that an incoming Ings was likely and YAYYY!

KBilly mentioned this being a *strong* possibility, did he/she not?

I'd rather see us offering Jack a three to four year deal rather than the minimal two which has been mooted by Monk. Jack's easily a starter for nigh on three quartets of the teams in the division (it just so happens that we have two other holding midfielders whose strengths outweigh his own).