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I rather think he'd have better offers. At the top level though think his lustre might just be wearing off a bit. Bit like Mourinho.

Hopefully they'll go for Gregg Broughton.

What I don't get is, regardless of size of budget, why are we never ready to go on January 1st? We never seem to have any specified targets and the argument that the owners are the problem by being slow in getting back is nonsense. If you know they normally take say 2 months (for the sake of argument) to respond then do your leg work early and put any requests in at the appropriate time. Instead it comes over like it catches us by surprise that there's a winter transfer window every year and like we only start looking once we're into January at which point we've already missed out or we're taken aback by how much players actually cost. It's all the recruitment department have to do all year. There's no excuse. There's still time to get John Park back before the end of the window I guess.

I mean, if we did lose Eustace at some point (I sincerely hope we don't) and Edwards was still available we could do a lot worse.

Agreed. I don't see how it can be. What happens in practice is the big Clubs have loan managers who monitor the progress of their loanees and recall them if they're not happy with their progress or lack of game time. People just said that about Morton because they couldn't believe how he'd been so shite and was still starting every week and/or how he was keeping Adam Wharton out of the side. And given how Wharton has excelled in whatever environment he's been in when playing those people were right I'd say. Morton also looked like he'd had enough of being here last time by about December imo. Hopefully just a random suggestion that's gained legs and got everyone aereated unnecessarily.

It's a game of opinions, a lot of managers here seemingly rated Jason Lowe and Corry Evans as well. When did he make those appearances for Liverpool? In the EFL Cup?

I'd rather rely on unleaded's info. Earth calling "International Rescue. Come in please." There was another chap as well who was always extremely positive and according to him everything was always hunky dory behind the scenes and everyone we signed was always a good signing in his eyes. Can't remember his username. Whereas unleaded used to tell us what was really going on and invariably painted a picture of complete chaos behind the scenes. Lol.

They didn't get a "hands off - he's ours" then. Fairly predictably.

He doesn't get any game time whatsoever at Liverpool according to Wikipedia and rightly so he's rubbish.

Reserve defender from Coventry, Tyler the crab Morton - this is all getting extremely depressing.

I actually thought he was making a joke about Tronstad.

Seconded.

We can't let Leonard go at the moment without probably two coming in that are an upgrade on him. So of course we probably will.

And which doesn't even matter anyway because they only have to give personal guarantees if they want to send any money over.

Tyler Morton - for the love of God, No.

Explained earlier. Someone said words to the effect that savvy owners wouldn't have to fund losses. I replied that was "optimistic" (meaning I think the Club would take a while to turn round due to the state the V's would no doubt leave it in and that any new owners would have to tolerate losses for a period no matter how clever they were)

Aunty, balls, uncle. You're talking about something completely different to the point I was trying to make.

At this point, no idea what you're on about. Original point: "Savvy owners wouldn't need to fund losses" To which I disagreed and to which you now seem to be agreeing with me. I'll leave it there.

Cheers. I think I might have been looking at FIFA regs which seemingly required 28 days notice before you get get the player back.

Not sure the actual ability or value for money of the player is the main point here, which is those 2 Clubs obviously fancy him and think he will improve their fortunes and are making an effort accordingly whereas us....... *Tumbleweed*

Surprised, when I've seen bits of him.on TV I thought he looked lethal.

I think he's a really good player. Do you not?

Again don't disagree - we've been a selling club and not the trading club we need to be obviously - but that wasn't the point I was making. At best there would still be quite a turn round period when not insubstantial losses would be incurred and need to be covered imo.

Meanwhile in the real world Middlesbrough have accepted bids of £5m from Luton and (ironically) WBA for Issiah Jones. And we are doing.......what?

I couldn't agree more with that analysis.