I tried Instagram. It’s all about photos. My 12 year old grandson got me to try TikTok. It didn’t last long!

Getting fed up with the amount of ads, reels and stuff I have no interest in on Facebook.

I’m edging closer to returning to the 1990s! 😂

I was not familiar with that. I’ll give it a go thanks.

It’s disappointing. I came here 6 mths ago and initially it looked hopeful.

Not posted on my X acct since Jan and don’t plan to - though I still look at it daily.

I’m rapidly coming to the notion of baling out of all social media. It needed the club to make the move.

It was fun while it lasted.

What if Dean said to Liverpool “I prefer Madrid but I’ll come here if you pay £60m. How badly do you want me?” 😂

Right, I’m returning to my original universe now to watch the football.

It was just an analogy. As we’ve said already, the 1st to offer £50m gets to discuss with him. He doesn’t have to accept so while he is considering it another club could bid more.

It IS linked to financial regs as the rich clubs can’t just splash the cash with consequences.

I wasn’t making any assumption. I was hypothesising. That is very different.

So why do auctions work? A ‘thing’ is worth whatever someone is prepared to pay for it. If someone wanted DH very much they could in theory have gone down that road. In the days before financial regulations that is what would have happened.

Exactly. So as I said at the at the beginning, it is a shame a bidding war didn’t start. 😂

No you’re not being stupid! I’m just speculating with incomplete information. But to take your point…

If RM offer £50m and Dean £100k pw and then another big Champions League club (Atletico? Barca?) offer us £100m and Dean £200k pw then what?

It’s all hypothetical obviously.

Yes I realise players have a right to refuse but whether they do or not it would never work out well for any party.

We have all heard of players sold against their will because the club needs the money etc. Not a lot of difference between “refusing” and “agreeing begrudgingly”

I guess it depends if the release clause is ‘first one to offer £50m gets him’ but knowing several clubs might have been prepared to offer it, then one club might have offered more. As we say, he wanted RM so anyone else would know that.

Yes obviously but assuming he was out for next season. Could RM call it off? I guess they will have discussed all that.

I think if there is ANY risk to us we won’t play him other than perhaps a cameo at the end of the Leicester game.

Yes I realise that but the stopper was Dean expressing his preference. The release clause was just the level at which we couldn’t say no. If another club had bid, say, £60m we would have been allowed to accept it even if he didn’t want to go there. But we are not that sort of club.

Interesting isn’t it? I’ve never known a transfer to be done in this way. I hope Madrid have their insurance sorted!

Good luck to him. My only regret is it didn’t start a bidding war. Who knows what someone might have paid?