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The political journalists I work with view these sports client journalists/marketeers as a bit of a joke - a total embarrassment to their profession, but a necessary evil as they bring a lot of money in to the publications they’re nominally attached to - which helps balance the books and fund...

If his ‘articles’ are useful at all, it’s to understand the comms position FSG are taking on key issues - and the direction one of the key players in the PL’s current US ownership bloc are promoting the PL towards. His words (and those of other US-led club client journalists) are indicative of...

Herbert is nothing more than a client journalist - essentially an extension of Liverpool’s marketing department, whose role very simply is not nor has ever been to apply balance or provide accuracy in his ‘reporting’, but to deliver copium to Liverpool’s fan base. That’s literally his job...

You do realise any delays to publication of the judgement on this don’t sit with either City or the EPL, don’t you? It’s currently sitting with the independent judiciary panel, led by Murray Rosen, to write up their findings and make their judgement based on the evidence provided. So if you...

Your assessment definitely is premature - the evidence is there in the fact you have to rely on an ‘if’ and an ‘I think’, because the reality is that all you’re doing - guessing - because as yet Donnarumma hasn’t played so much as a single minute for City, so there is no actual evidence anything...

Is this intended as a parody? I genuinely can’t tell. If so - it’s an expert piece of work, and a note perfect evisceration of the typical fucking idiots who’ve flooded into the general football fan base, who - wide-eyed and utterly witless - fall for every fucking word they read/watch on...

And a keen nose for mince.

What the fuck is that supposed to mean? If Pep doesn’t sign a new player, then signing one will still be a priority when the transfer window opens again? Seriously? That’s what passes for content these days? Firstly - Pep doesn’t sign players, and secondly - how the fuck is anyone supposed...

Probably? I wouldn’t be so sure after the summer just gone. We’ve got some very high earners off the books, and our competitors have spent huge sums on players that will expect wages commensurate with the fees their new Clubs paid for them. We’ll be near the top, of course - but I’d have to...

Thanks for clarifying mate. There’s been a lot of upheaval in our goalkeeping department in a few short months after years of the same faces every day, so I’d imagine that was a pretty strange vibe to walk into. Three in, two out (and a third almost out!) after Eddie and Scott had been...

Another legend departs! It can’t be overstated how integral Eddie has been to all our recent success. He was central to the way we played, and completely revolutionised the role of the keeper in English football. When he arrived, playing out from the back was laughed at as an absurdist...

Interesting - I’m trying to work out who you’re referring to here mate, but the only recent Bundesliga acquisition I can think of is Marmoush - and I can’t imagine he would be so disruptive as to have pissed off Rodri (and Traff) to the extent where he’s giving off about it in public like that.

Another legend departs! What a player Gundo has been for us - won the lot during the Pep era, and captained us through our greatest ever season, playing a pivotal role at every stage. Time waits for no-one, and he deserves to see his career out in a country and at a Club that’s clearly very...

Granted this is probably a bit of a technicality, but it sounds like we’ve agreed a payoff with him which no doubt covers the majority of his final year’s salary in a lump sum - so he probably is off the payroll, even if the net financial hit for City is more or less the same!

It seems the Club took the decision that none of the RB options on the market this summer were worth progressing at the prices their current teams valued them at - so rather than actively buying a player they didn’t think was up to standard, who would likely be difficult to shift in future...

He’s not even 22 anyway. He’s only recently turned 21, and was 20 for the majority of last season (birthday in April) - which is the form people are evaluating him on, given he hasn’t actually played for us this season yet.

Both qualify as Association Trained, so there is no requirement for us to move either. Akanji is on our non-homegrown list, which was over quota - and which we needed to lose players from. This is why he’s leaving. Same with Gundo.

That’s the thing with rumours though - one site makes a claim with no stated evidence, then others are free to run with it using the original source as their ‘evidence’. So you can then pull up lots of different outlets all making the same claim, probably citing Sky Germany as the source in the...

There is a reason, you’re right. It’s because he rejected their contract offer. Don’t try and pretend PSG didn’t try to offer him an extension, and were desperate to get rid. Making shit up doesn’t strengthen your argument - it makes you look ill-informed and agenda driven.

Akanji’s still got two years left, so it would be the same situation as Grealish. Get a chunk of their wages off the books for the season, and free up the squad place for a player we’re actually going to play. Not ideal - but we are where we are, and we need him to leave to have any chance of...