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Uhh, that's what I said. Triggering the clause is one thing. If the player doesn't agree to come then it doesn't matter.

Everton are fucking idiots for turning that down. They could buy 3/4 nice players with that money.

Still up to the player in the end, isn't it. He can't be forced to leave if he doesn't agree to a move.

On a scale from 1-10, how likely are Atheltic to sell if we triggered Laporte's release clause? I hadn't watched him in a while so I hopped on to the old YouTube and watched his highlight from this past season. Fuck, he's good.

The week of the first Porto tie and the week of the second Kiev tie are the concerning ones for me.

94.5% chance

Wow. Some of those weeks are going to be tough as hell!

Getting a CB from a small, relatively poor club like Everton doesn't look like it's happening. Getting one from a rich Russian one should be fun...

Absolutely nailed on. Lukaku too, most likely with the way our defense looks.Thankfully they aren't good at the back either so Hazard and Pedro could run riot.

That's what he'd say if we still remain interested. If it's dead he'll probably say something hilarious and inflamitory like "a small club like Everton is keeping a player against his will," or something like that which will piss them off.

Mourinho's reaction tomorrow should be interesting.

Everton will come out with some nonsense in the press that his head wasn't right and that big, bad Chelsea pressured him to hand in the transfer request. They'll try to make him a sympathetic figure now how was too confused to think straight.Fans are fickle. They'll cheer his name and applaud his every touch this weekend. Just like every time Rooney kicked up a fuss and United bent over and gave him his money. The fans still cheered him and treat him like a God.

Even going AWOL won't do anything now. What's he going to do, not play for the 4 years he has left on his deal? He pretty much HAS to play.Only a massive bid can get him now. One that their tight owner couldn't refuse.

That's why another bid needs to go in to keep his head turned. If we simply give up he'll think we don't want him badly enough.We have to make him think we're desperate for him (even though we aren't) in hopes that he'll kick up a fuss.

Took those Scouse cunts that long to release a two sentence statement? Throw one last bid in and see what happens.

Damn. Haven't looked ahead at our PL fixture list but lemme guess, a bunch of matches against the big boys right around our CL ties again?

So for the English teams: We should top our group with relative ease United should top their group with relative ease City have a tough group but should top it Arsenal will finish 2nd in their group All English sides should pretty comfortably advance.

Remember Porto sold some of their best players in Jackson Martinez and Danilo. Not the same team as last season.

United should walk that group. City...

Some nice match ups here!

Wonder if Mourinho will budge at all when asked tomorrow about Pogba, even if it's just a straight up denial or he'll just say "we won't talk about players from other clubs." If he says that he'll just keep leading people on and setting a huge number of our fans up for disappointment.

Maybe some of Roman's henchmen showed up at the Goodison Park offices this morning.

Maybe Everton's social media guy fell asleep?

Let's hope for the annual "Man City get a group of death" draw. Watch United get a piss easy group.

That Sergi Dominguez guy must surely get bored of saying Pogba isn't going to Chelsea every single day.