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I couldn't agree more LeG, sometimes I feel uncomfortable in the stadium because this type of player are so obviously singled out for excessive criticism. Redmond had it a lot this season, the groans are just that bit louder when they do something wrong. Sofiane has looked absolutely out of this world in 5 minute spells this season, and then absolute toilet in others, but that's the nature of this type of player. But he could win a game in that 5 minutes, it's down to others to make sure we don't lose it in the other 85 when he's not doing it.

For me, the victim tag is nothing to do with Hillsbrough. The best example I can think of is when the whole team wore shirts in support of Suarez, who had just been suspended for racially abusing a fellow professional. So they wore shirts in tribute to a racial abuser. Because somehow, some way, he was the victim in the saga. That's why that tag exists, events like that.

Blimey are we the first club to ever say 'not for sale'!? At the end of the day if we pay enough (transfer fee & wages) then people will deal with us.

Blimey we had Mane and Lallana together!? I must've missed that. That tweet doesn't say anything new at all. Of course Van Dijk expects to be a Liverpool player, he wouldn't be pulling out all the stops if he thought it was in vain. We have to make sure his expectations are not met, otherwise it's open season for ****housery.

His position isn't 'untenable', nor is he 'on strike' from what we've been told. Of course it could be downplaying by the club but it's been the manager's decision to leave him out of any team duties because he's 'not 100% psychologically', that isn't the same as him refusing to do anything. If the transfer window closes and he is still with us then in my opinion he will get his head down and play just as well as he always has done, as Schneiderlin and Wanyama have done before him. He's just playing the transfer game on his part, not many players genuinely would waste a year of their short career sitting around doing nothing, potentially jeopardising a move in the future. Let's see what happens before we start giving the impression we wouldn't back him.

If they weren't willing to meet the £30mil for Danilo i'm not sure they'll be getting Bertrand. Unless of course that's all they thought Danilo was worth.

RAWK's Van Dijk thread has already hit 158!! I'd be shocked if even 5 of those pages are meaningful.

The transfer thread on RAWK has 'No Bascombe' in the title, the guy who wrote that piece. Dunno why, I never knew what it meant 'til I read that article.

Some bloke on RAWK has spotted that 'ITK' post earlier about a transfer request being imminent. Off they go again..

TheVMan or something? Might be wrong on that one but I do remember he existed, prat.

Ha! I thought that. Monk (although I seem to recall he's lost some of his access?), K.Billy and Guan are the only voices I rely on

Christ i'm now seeing Arsenal fans say that Chambers plus 30-40mil would get Van Dijk. One even said Chambers could turn into a real talent so they should loan him to us for a couple of seasons and give us 40mil for Van Dijk. Am I in a parallel universe? Or is this real life?

I'm interested to know how an article saying 'If Van Dijk goes he only wants to go to Liverpool' (something the Scousers have told us all summer), has turned into 'Van Dijk has told Southampton he wants to leave' and that a transfer request is imminent. I've never been to Merseyside, but Twitter and the like gives me the impression that it must be a ****ing weird place.

Apparently Lukaku has a 25% sell on clause from Chelsea, meaning Everton will only see 67 of the eventual 90 according to Twitter, and if he doesn't his whatever the clauses it'll be less than £60mil, so given we sold Mane before Pogba blew up the market this transfer isn't that much more above Mane's relative value at the time, and Lukaku scored more last season than Mane did in his whole career for us. I also realise i've used Heisenberg maths in this calculation.

He got tagged in the message by the club so it would've appeared in his 'mentions', but of course a professional footballer probably gets thousands of 'mentions' a day. It's act of 'liking' a happy birthday message from Groningen which was posted after the Saints one that would've caught the attention of most, because it gives the impression he ignored the Saints one posted before it. Of course it could be an unfortunate accident, but it might not be, either way it gives something to talk about.

He has liked the post

I saw a poll on Twitter earlier asking which set of fans was worse, Liverpool or Everton. It really is like Sophie's Choice.

Callum Slattery just signed a 3 year deal. Says 'young midfielder', I always had him down as a centre half for some reason?

West Ham, Huddersfield, Newcastle, Everton the names mentioned on Twitter. I've only heard of him because of how much the Brentford fans worship him, but i've never seen him play myself.

Jota from Brentford not in their squad tonight because a bid from a Premier League club is 'imminent'. Any chance it would be us? Attacking midfielder apparently a bit of a magician (according to their fans) and supposedly about £8mil. 26 years old.

There is absolutely nothing to gain by selling Van Dijk this summer. He is our best player, he's probably the best centre back we're likely to see for a very long time, anyone we replace him with is going to weaken the team. For once, just to set a tone for the future, we need to not sell him. Remind everyone that we do only sell on our terms.

Heisenberg is gonna be in here saying that Everton can get top dollar for their players. Well their forum this morning reckoned they'd be getting £100mil for Lukaku! After his Van Dijk maths, a £75mil deal for Lukaku, subtracting agents fees, signing on fee, petrol money, lunch money, new training kit, leaves them with about 50 quid!

Anyone in the Premier League other than those that get Champions League football are also-rans. Fair play to any Everton or West Ham fans that take pride in being a 'big' club. But they're not. They're competing with us. No player is going to choose them over us because they're 'bigger', it'll come down to who pays them the most money. Also when I say 'those that get Champions League football' I basically mean Arsenal, Man United, Chelsea, Tottenham, Man City, Liverpool.

But he's evil isn't he? The most influential assistant manager in the history of football, it was ALL his fault ffs

Guly definitely in with a shout but for me it's got to be Maya Yoshida, never rated particularly highly by most here, but just a great team player who gives everything he's got, bloody love the bloke. One of those guys where it feels extra good when he contributes something big to a game, when he scores it feels like the whole stadium turns to one another in surprise when they realise it was Maya that popped up.