ErwinK1961

Except that’s not happened before.

He left 24 hours ago, in what was clearly a shock bolt out of the blue for all parties, with Villa looking to rush it through before they announce selling Grealish. Not sure we can say we’re falling short on succession planning just yet. I’m sure we’ve got targets lined up, but 1) we were probably surprised at how quickly the Villa transfer went through (all done in a day) and 2) needed the money from the Ings sale to actually buy his replacement. If in a couple of weeks time we still aren’t any closer, I’ll agree with you.

Imagine all interested parties will get to the magic number eventually, so will come down to him and where he wants to be. Personally wouldn’t offer £20m. Wonder if we may firm up interest in that French lad with the 200 person family entourage, that all wanted a cut? Or whether we’ve walked away from that as too messy.

The amount we got for Ings was more than I expected us to get, so hoping we may look a bit higher up the shortlist for a replacement.

Agreed. Which, as a CB, shouldn't really be your best attribute.

Spot. On.

Now that would be insane.

All you’ve done in the JWP thread is repeatedly tell everyone about how big a side Villa are, how much better they are than us, how they have so much more ambition and how they are going to finish in Europe etc etc. Now they’ve actually bought one of our players, you’re moaning that we’ve sold to them? So what is it then? Can’t have it both ways. I’m not sure why Ings going appears to be a surprise to you, it’s been in the pipeline for at least a year (which again you’ve prattled on at every opportunity about saying you were ITK). Would have thought you’d have come to terms with this by now. The club offered to make him our best ever paid player. He turned it down. What else could they have done? Nothing. His motivation has clearly now been shown for what it was, a bigger pay rise. I can’t see Villa being the move he was hoping for, but a bit like Fonte I don’t think he’s had much choice in the end, so backed himself into a corner (his pay packet will soften the blow I’m sure). Pretty sure you’ve also been questioning his attitude these last few months, so surely the club selling him for as much money as possible, to bring in someone who actually wants to be here, is the right call no? Perhaps might be an idea to refrain from writing them off before they’ve even signed.

Clearly a rushed transfer by Villa, trying to get the good news in before Grealish sale is confirmed. Best outcome we could have hoped for in terms of monetary gains - also nice to see his real motivation come to the fore. Massive couple of weeks now, got to make this money count.

So by that rationale, everyone has regressed at Liverpool under Klopp.

I very much doubt we’d reject £25m as derisory, but accept £7m more.

Interesting - so wasn’t Ethan Ross then in the last two games.

Anyone gone to watch this? Would be interested to know if Abdul Abdulmalik is playing again.

I asked this previously, but I don’t think it is. Website says full match highlights can be viewed after I think and to follow Twitter for live updates. Maybe there will be a dodgy stream somewhere

I see Jamie Carragher has criticised Kane for his actions... funny, I don't remember him feeling the same when VVD went on strike.

"You'll never win anything with stats"

I'm loving how much you 'trigger' certain posters. It's like moth to a flame. Keep up the good work.

Bring back Alpine.

Yep think you're right, obviously got some good links up there. So if he says we're still interested, I would say it's likely to be true.

He has pretty good links seemingly in the lower league North West clubs - Blackburn, Bolton, Wigan. Was very clued up on both the Wigan and Bolton administrations (some of the Wigan stuff was just mental).

Sounds like Watford have ended their interest in Armstrong.

Be interested to know who you think we could realistically sign to replace Ings, that wouldn't leave us 'fucked'.