Gold Hints At Sale Of Parker

Interesting to read Gold's latest comments regarding Liverpool's interest in Carlton Cole. It is certainly not the categorical, they can take a running jump, only over my dead body stance adopted by Sullivan following Tottenham's INITIAL approach for Parker.

Instead of, "Parker is not for sale", the language has been softened to "We will do everything we can to hang on to our best players." Ah, "our best" may not be good enough of course. But the Davids will "try". But try as we might, we all fail at something don't we? So Davie G warns "Clubs are coming in for them because they are good players". And in case the Davids get unfair criticism from the fans should a big name go, Goldilocks reminds us, "But we’re trying to break the mold of 50 years of selling". But try as they might, and all that...so the porridge eater adds, "Will we achieve that 100 per cent? It’s going to be difficult."

Difficult to achieve that 100%, yes David, we can see that. After all, as "That first offer was too soft and our demands were too hard, but that deal is just right!" reminds us, in his coup de grace, "We have a £100million debt so we can’t ignore the economic reality. Clubs know we are in debt and want a bargain."

Now let's strip that down to the basics shall we? David Gold has just said: "We are £100million in debt. We don't want to sell our best players on the cheap but if the right offer comes in, what can we do?"

One last footnote. The Metro reported the story and quoted Gold saying, "We're trying to break the mould" (sic). Break the "mould"? Tell Karren to get the rubber gloves on and start scrubbing. What's the good of having a woman if she can't do basic cleaning duties!