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He really is having a great season tbf. Surely in the running for POTY.

Apparently they are keen on Butland at Rangers but would have to pay a decent amount. He only signed in the summer and is having an unbelievable season.

Has to be wages, surely.

Does a one-legged duck swim in circles?

Just call me Armstrong 'cuz I'm stretching!

Could be that Inter started dicking around trying to amend the deal last minute and whilst we were negotiating that, started sounding out alternatives and stumbled on something better.

These terms are agreeable.

Add to that, Nelson is starting to make a fair challenge for that RCB slot.

Does that make us their version of Torino?

Even if he does sign today, our past form tells us that we will still wait to announce it until probably somewhere in the next 3-4 YEARS!

It's funny, at the start of the season, he was the one player that I really didn't want to lose... Now? I'm very eager to see him go. 6 months on his contract, arguably 4th choice striker and would alleviate some of our reported financial worries. It's weirder when you consider that of all our strikers, he's the one that on paper fits what Enzo wants from our striker the most but it's just not worked out that way.

He seems to have dodgy ankles. In the last 6 seasons, he's missed 60 odd games with recurring ankle problems.

Why, in your own words, he has be "consistently poor" at times this season. Surely £30m would be great business.

Couple of months ago you were saying there are "plenty of players that should be playing ahead of him" and now the thought of us selling him for £30m means the board should go...

I've suspected that this could happen for a week or so now. It makes sense.

Surely, if he has refused to do a breathalyser then we will never know the severity of it? Without knowing his blood/alcohol level there is no accurate way of telling if he was a little over the limit or completely sh!t faced.

Innocent until proven guilty doesn't mean anything anywhere to be fair. It's just a thing people say. You can't really say that when we are remanding people in custody before they have a trial.

Absolutely. I said earlier in the thread, the last two seasons he's only missed 7 games per season, which is decent. Hopefully the worst is behind him but it IS something that should be considered still.

Did anyone ever have any conversations with a poster called @Alan Frost... I don't think he posted much. Came out of nowhere and posted some mental opinions. Me and him got into it once or twice that led to some decent conversations in PM. Fairly old fella from Scotland, in his 70s and I think the last PM he sent me was his phone number and Email but I never contacted him. I was thinking about him the other day and noticed he hasn't been on in a few years.

He'll be like a vampire in a chapel.

Oh, I 100% agree. I'm not knocking the potential of the signing. I'm just stating that his injury record is and should be a valid concern.

99 games missed due to injury in the last 8 seasons is fairly substantial to be fair.

We're gonna lose this game and people on here will break down. I can see it now.

With Deeney publicly dragging players under the bus, by name in interviews... I would be keeping our lads away from that atmosphere.

Rangers are actively looking for a LB. A few names floating about but apparently they are keen on an unnamed England based player that would cost a decent amount. Absolutely nothing to suggest it's Thomas but would be a good move for everyone.