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It’s on the homepage but when you go to the Scottish Premiership page there’s no word of the Kent deal. Very strange that it is the only one missing.

£7.5m plus 25%, if that’s where the negotiations ended then where on earth did they start. I thought Liverpool’s negotiating position had weakened since there hadn’t been the interest they hoped in Kent but I’m wondering now if our negotiating position had weakened too because we looked desperate at the last minute and they knew we had more money than before

25% sell on clause ?

I’ve mentioned Aribo playing in that position before but as a matter of curiosity, an experiment. It was some time to try it out ? he’ll still be a huge player for us this season

He is low risk in terms of settling in and the British style of football. I wonder if Gerrard’s decided he couldn’t afford another risk this season.

The risk is that he doesn't prove to be good value for money. £5-7m is a huge sum of money for us and he needs to prove he can improve his end product to live up to such a bank breaking fee.

Aribo was played out of position in the toughest game of the season and suddenly he's Ejaria.

The point is that it is a lot of money to us. In fact you can go back 25-30 years and the fees involved haven't really changed much if an EPL club aren't involved. £4m for Duncan Ferguson from Dundee United in 1993, £2.6m for David McPherson and £2m for McLaren from Hearts. More than a decade later we picked up Kris Boyd for 500k and Naismith, Whittaker etc for pretty modest fees too. Another 12 years later and Celtic are signing a young Scottish International from Kilmarnock just now for a similar fee, about £2m. For our whole league the total transfer fee ins and outs are down since the 90s despite inflation (bar the odd big sale like Tierney). In fact the ins and outs are pretty much zero for most clubs but were in the millions for many in the 90s. The English Championship also doesn't have nearly as much money as people up here think, most have a very low net spend and lots actually have a minus net spend due to sales to the EPL. If £7m wasn't much in today's money I think someone would have taken a punt on him but it's still a lot of money to anyone outside the EPL in the UK and certainly for us.

He will be able to yeh

Gerrard said a few weeks ago that we'd only had loan offers for him and they weren't acceptable to the club. To me that means they weren't willing to pay enough of his wages. I really hope he doesn't miss out on a move because if so the club have misjudged this one because he can only rebuild his reputation (and value) by playing games.

You'd hope Dorrans wouldn't hold out for full payment of his contract. He's a wealthy man and a Rangers fan so hopefully this has saved us a bit of money.

Great news for us and him

I'm relieved that we're adding an attacking midfield despite not being Kent's biggest fan. If we're paying something in the region of £6m-£7m I don't think that is value for money at all. However if this goes through I'm going to try not to think about that and be glad that we've strengthened the squad in an area of the team we needed strengthening.

We’ve come into money only a few days ago obviously. But Liverpool also had no incentive at all to sell before the last day. Barker got injured last week too.

Ooft. This on top of the other reliable journalists reporting it more or less confirms it. That is one way to make the fans forget about yesterday.

Sorry for the bombardment just thought I'd share the official twitter accounts reporting on this. I'm surprised if the fee is correct. After counting up the injuries in the winger department and Hastie leaving I did think surely we'll move for someone but this would be a big surprise for me.

He's been linked with a permanent move to Brugge today. Don't think there's anything in the link to us.

Gerrard has already made it clear Grezda isn’t in his plans

With Jones and Barker injured and Hastie loaned out maybe Gerrard has been handed an excuse to make a last minute loan signing...

We stuttered from the off last season really with draws at Aberdeen and Motherwell before qualifying. The loss to Celtic was a few days after qualifying just like this season. So far the difference between this season and last season in the league is that this season we found the winner twice whereas last season we had already dropped 4 before the Celtic game. I felt in those early games it showed that we didn't have many possession players in the team and couldn't keep the ball, that is certaily in stark contrast to this season. Still reason to be hopeful but I'm starting to wonder if come December the moaners among us will be screaming for a number 10 to be signed in January like we were last season. Ojo looks lightweight and not up for the physical side of the game and a bit raw in general, Jones is best on the counter rather than unlocking defences, Arfield is a player I really like but he is maybe struggling with playing every game, Barker is injury prone and a bit of a counter attack player like Jones and Stewart doesn't seem to be fancied by the manager. That's a cup half empty assessment of course but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't hoping Allen pulls a rabbit out of the hat today.

The Phil Foden link was crazy. Reports that we had a loan offer turned down. An audacious move if true but I highly doubt it. A Phil Foden type player would be amazing but I'm expecting a quiet day and frustration that we haven't shifted more wages than we have ?

I found the celebrations when Lennon was appointed strange. He's not flashy but he does have a decent track record of getting the job done and showed himself to be far more pragmatic than Rodgers in Europe. He's the only Celtic manager I remember since Martin O'Neill who gets results in tough games away from home for Celtic. We can still do this though and get a result at Parkhead, I just think people were naiive to celebrate and gloat when he was appointed.

Sorry to nitpick but this is clearly not true. Defoe is far better than Morelos at retaining possession, whatever else you say about him. Sure Morelos is strong and has the ability to hold off defenders sometimes but overall Defoe's technical advantage shows and he rarely gives away possession compared to Morelos and the stats would back that up. I don't think starting Defoe was the problem yesterday at all. I think Barisic and Jones starting would have made a difference.