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I hope so. I quite like Ruud but the Board need a media spotlight pointing at them … and Ruud walking achieves that

My prediction: We’ll be more angry with KP / Top / Rudkin at 11pm than at the start of the day

Just like Thomas and Iversen… they were one off offers and we refused. All of them will eventually leave for free having had no impact on the team in the interim

If he even bothered setting up

He might get some games, but he won’t be a regular starter and he won’t improve the side. £10m pure PSR profit turned down for a limited squad player is absurd to turn down

Incredible. It really is getting beyond parody

It’s incredible to think that the scenario that we haven’t planned for is “needing a winger”!!!!

We won’t

How does anyone in their right mind refuse £10m on deadline day?

I think he’s exactly what we need - someone that will put 100% in and do the hard yards… and demand others around him do the same. Someone who cares!

I think this will be a 3 way agreement that we cancel the loan

What time does he walk tomorrow???

A massive few months in a young player’s career. Good luck Will!

The huge question is who is responsible for the Skipp / Ayew / BDCR deals…. Has Cooper suggested Skipp? Was the brief to Glover “find me two experienced PL wide attacking mids” If Glover came up with these transfers aligned to a strategy given to him by his boss (Rudkin) who was responding to a request from his 1st team manager (Cooper), then Glover takes no blame at all. Whatever the truth, you can be sure that Rudkin is in Top’s ear blaming someone else

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I have a friend, a successful wealthy guy around 60, that goes home and away, and “gets behind the lads, rain or shine”. He genuinely thinks he’s a “proper fan” / “loyal supporter” clapping and singing however poor we play, and however badly the club is run. He hears me moaning about Top / Rudkin and shakes his head (a bit like Top did actually) and looks down at me from his superior supporter pedestal… He really can’t see that he’s the problem!

It shows confidence in your ability to be open and transparent. It’s why LCFC does the opposite

It seems to be one of those manager etiquette things like not singling out players for criticism, or speaking in a weird present tense when referring to the past …. You don’t say you were promised X until you leave. I dunno, I’m clutching at straws that something will happen to trigger a change!!

Yeah it doesn’t make sense. My only hope is that RVN took Enzo’s advice and got them to explicitly commit to a budget of funds for transfers…. And that on Tuesday, when it’s not spent, he walks and tells the press what happened. It’s a vain hope I know!!!

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Ian Ormondroyd 2.0

Top “I have no idea how to stop this decline, which is costing me £100m/year” Rudkin “Always copy Top’s facial expression he’ll never suss I have absolutely no idea how I got here”

After the game I said to my son “I’m sure there are worse performances if I really wracked my brain to remember, but this is certainly up there with the worst I’ve seen”. After thinking it through, given the context of the game, how terrible Everton are, and how big the stakes were today… I do think this was the worst performance I’ve ever seen.

This is the worst 20 minutes of LCFC that I can remember

I didn’t think anything could irritate me more than our lack of activity in this window. But… ”ain’t” Is giving it a good battle!