Monday Feb 10:
We would have got City away if we’d won yesterday. Glad we’re out now. We’d probably beat City but we’d have to go much stronger than we’d ideally like in order to do it. Far better to have that weekend off. That doesn’t mean I wanted to go out, I absolutely didn’t, but this is the hand we’ve been dealt and as much as yesterday was shite, I think we’ll be better off in the long run.
In other ‘news’ there’s more stuff about how ‘close’ the Saudis were to getting Darwin. Get the fuck outta here with that attention seeking bollocks. Feeding shit to gullible journalists about how they “so nearly” got him but Liverpool in the end decided they couldn’t do it as there was no time to find a replacement. If they were so keen on doing a deal, why was the offer not put in on January 1st, meaning Liverpool had a full month to arrange a replacement?
It’s nonsense. Liverpool were never going to sell an important first team squad player in this window, but the Saudis are doing that “hey look at us, we’re over here!!” shite we get every time a window opens.
For every signing they make, there’s about a hundred who were “close”. They just want people talking about their dogshit league, and nobody talks about it because of the football so they have to throw in random bids for players they’ll never be able to sign just to ensure they still have some degree of relevancy. Now don’t get me wrong, if they come calling in the summer with a bid of £70m, they may well have much more joy persuading Slot and Richard Hughes to sell. Apparently they’d agreed terms with Darwin, which I can well believe, especially based on him joking around about it in a video released today with him and Diaz.
They were offering him five times more money than he’s getting here, which is actually in effect ten times more as there’s no tax over there. Maybe he thinks he can cash in for a couple of years and then come back to Europe. Which sounds like a plan, except for a player like him who plays with such passion and emotion, he’ll absolutely fucking hate it over there. Bet his agent isn’t warning him about that though.
The video with him and Diaz was quite funny overall and the joke about Saudi doesn’t seem anywhere near as bad when watching the full video rather than just the clip in isolation, as him and Diaz are just messing around the whole way through. The funniest part was when they were asked which team-mate is least likely to pick up the tab and Darwin said that “Jota has a crocodile in his pocket” which is an expression I’d never heard before but it’s fucking boss and I’m gonna nick it.
Funnily enough I saw Jota interviewed recently and he was asked the same question. His answer was “probably me” so this is clearly a thing; Jota is a mingebag.
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