Jason Barnes

interested in social evolution and avid Liverpool fan

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

🟥 Inter's Jones Valuation Is Absurd

There are two Curtis Jones debates happening at once, and too many people are muddling them up.

The first is whether Liverpool should sell him this summer. The answer is probably yes. The contract situation has drifted to a point where the player and the club appear to see his future through entirely different lenses. Jones believes he is a starting midfielder deserving of wages that reflect that status. Liverpool appear to view him as a valuable squad player. Even with a new manager coming in, that gap rarely closes once it has widened this far.

After watching Liverpool lose valuable assets for little or nothing in recent years, it would be difficult to argue against exploring a sale.

The second debate is about what Curtis Jones is actually worth.

That is where Inter are taking the piss.

You don't have to believe Jones is Liverpool's future captain. You don't have to believe he is world-class. I certainly don't. The truth sits somewhere between the extremes. He's neither a Championship player nor the second coming of Andrea Pirlo.

He is a 25-year-old, homegrown midfielder with more than 200 Liverpool appearances, Premier League titles, European experience, versatility across multiple positions and years of top-level coaching behind him.

That player is not worth £21.7 million in today's market.

Liverpool should not be bullied into accepting a fee that would barely cover the cost of finding a lesser replacement. Homegrown players carry a premium. Academy-developed players carry a premium. Premier League clubs understand that better than anyone.

If Liverpool can find a buyer willing to pay a sensible fee, sell. If £21.7 million is genuinely the ceiling of the market, keep him for another year and let the contract run down.

I dislike seeing Liverpool lose players for free.

I dislike the idea of giving them away at insulting valuations even more.

[Ja Leto @_falsi1ke]

How a man can make himself sexier to women .

1. Law of Detachment

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[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

🇨🇮 Diomande Price Is Huge, But So Is the Prize

For all the noise, the valuations, the social media experts and the daily transfer updates, the most interesting part of the Yan Diomande story may be what we're not yet hearing.

Liverpool have never been a club that enjoys conducting major business in public. The Victor Munoz deal arrived almost out of nowhere and served as a timely reminder that the most important conversations often happen well away from the spotlight.

That is why I remain unconvinced that the current picture is as simple as Liverpool bidding, Leipzig refusing, and everyone returning to their corners. Deals of this size are rarely built over a few days. They're assembled piece by piece, with groundwork laid long before the public become aware of it.

The debate around the fee is understandable. More than €100m for a teenager with only one full Bundesliga season under his belt sounds extraordinary. Football, however, has long since stopped operating on yesterday's menu or price list. Clubs are not buying what a player is; they're buying what they believe he will become.

Diomande's pace, power and ability to unpick defenders have elevated him beyond the category of promising youngster. Leipzig know it. Liverpool know it. Every major club in Europe knows it.

There's risk attached to every transfer. There always has been. The same doubts surrounded record signings of the past, players who would later redefine eras and make those fees look modest.

My suspicion is that this saga is further along than many realise. Whether Liverpool ultimately pay Leipzig's asking price remains to be seen. What would surprise me is if the genuine work on this deal only began when the headlines started appearing. I was told a few days ago by someone I'd like to think would know that Liverpool were in contact with the Ivory Coast FA regarding medical options.

The loudest voices rarely know the most. Liverpool's biggest moves are often still made in the shadows.

[Neil Atkinson @Knox_Harrington]

@ClarkJamesYNWA This run. Tell me the games Isak isn't starting at centre forward in an ideal world once only Diomande is signed. Tell me who is starting at centre forward in those games. Who is coming on at 9.

Then imagine *one* injury to your five. And ask the questions above again.

[Neil Atkinson @Knox_Harrington]

That run between first and second international breaks is exactly why Liverpool need 5 senior forwards before counting Ekitike and Ngumoha.

Munoz makes three. Two more required.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Our 2026/27 Premier League season will begin at St James' Park as we take on Newcastle on Sunday August 23 👊

[David Ornstein @David_Ornstein]

🚨 EXCL: Liverpool inform RB Leipzig of willingness to pay package approaching €100m for Yan Diomande. #LFC firmly in driving seat at present but studying more options if needed as #RBLeipzig want to keep 19yo + #PSG remain strong contender @TheAthleticFC https://t.co/J0zcTChtCg

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy birthday, Jürgen 🎂

[Jason Barnes @jbarnes2004]

@SimonBrundish Good read this while riding bike in the gym..

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

The Windrush scandal stripped mainly Black Brits of their citizenship. It was a gross injustice & a forewarning of the potential future for minorities in the UK. Real people like Tricia & Vaun suffered immensely as a result of racist immigration laws. They deserve justice.

[Melissa Sigodo @melissasigodo]

Vanderbilt’s family suffered greatly after he lost his job. They shared their story with me for a 4-part series on the Windrush scandal and the Home Office’s compensation scheme. I hope you will watch it and hear their important story 🙏🏾https://t.co/Honys59xE2

[Jason Barnes @jbarnes2004]

@stopvaccinating Good morning.. trying to DM you.. not having any joy.. can you DM me please?

[Eddie Gibbs @eddiegibbs]

🇪🇬👑 The Moment Salah and Slot Took Each Other Down

First and foremost, Salah should never have taken this public. LFC have lived by a clear creed since Shankly’s time: you keep your disputes private, you protect the club’s dignity, you never place yourself above the collective. Hearing a player of his stature lay everything bare felt jarring, because our greatest figures never let us hear their frustrations directly. That code existed for a reason. Breaking it diminishes the standards he once embodied.

Yet the spark was already set. Salah will have watched the same failing patterns the rest of us have, poor form rewarded with protection, Gakpo kept in regardless, Konate shielded despite weekly collapses. A player who has carried this club for years will wince at those choices. The persistence in selection sends a message, and it is not subtle. Slot has shown a strange defiance with underperforming favourites, and the consequences have now reached the most combustible figure in the squad.

Salah is self-serving, but that is part of what makes him great. He has always been driven by an inner argument only he can hear. His interview, his applause to the away end, and the timing of both were deliberate acts. His public jabs during last year’s contract saga were the same. Salah speaks when Salah wants to force the club’s hand. He has never pretended otherwise.

Even so, the line about having no relationship with the manager is damning. It adds to the sense that Slot has mishandled far too many players. Trent felt the coldness; Elliott felt it; Nunez felt it; Chiesa must feel it daily, yet they kept silent. Salah chose not to, which tells you how fractured the dressing room has become. This is not a passing disruption. It is a sign of a manager who has lost emotional control of his squad.

I no longer see a route back for either of them. Liverpool cannot indulge player power, even from a legend. At the same time, the club’s behaviour around Salah has hinted for weeks that they know they made an error with the renewal and have been nudging him toward the exit. This is the moment it became impossible to hide.

Slot looks isolated. The results, the mood, the senior players drifting from him, all point in one direction. The mainstream line about giving him more time feels like an attempt to protect reputations rather than confront reality. If Hughes and Edwards are not already preparing a change, their own futures will soon be questioned.

My sense now is that both Salah and Slot will be gone within the next few weeks. A sad end for one of Liverpool’s greats, and a necessary end for a manager who lost his authority long before this week.

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

Happy Birthday to the Liverpool legend John Barnes 🥳

[Liverpool FC @LFC]

He's here.

[KWAJO- Social Issues Campaigner @Kwajotweneboa]

🚨 Merton Council is paying thousands a month to a private landlord for this temp accommodation. Around £1,000 💷 per room. 7 rooms. No working oven. Leaks and Rats.

Please watch and #RT 🙏🏽

[Mo Chatra @MoChatra]

Liverpool's 'summer of madness' is delighting its fans in equal proportion to upsetting rival supporters. Once the Ekitike deal is concluded, transfer fee outlay will hit £260m- with further expensive incomings expected. This thread explains how the club is financing it.

[🅘 @LFCApproved]

Lost for words, we will never forget you!

“Oh he wears the No.20!”

Rest in Peace, Diogo Jota. 💔

[Sameh Ahmed 𓂆 🇵🇸 @PalPress24]

Yes, I wept...
I wept with a pain I had never known before, feeling a crushing humiliation weighing down on me. The lack of food forced me to stand in a long line at the American aid distribution center, walking on foot, burdened by pain, broken from within.
Thousands of people were there, walking along rugged, destroyed roads—no means of transport, not even a tree’s shade to rest beneath.
I walked, hungry, each step stinging my heart with memories of my city’s streets, its fields, its homes.
I walked, and I wept...
I wept for my son, Rakan, who left without a goodbye... I wept for my destroyed home, my stolen memories... I wept for my city, now reduced to rubble.
I walked, carrying my grief, my rage, my broken pride.
But I couldn’t go on...
I stopped, torn between two choices: return to my tent empty-handed and leave my family without food? Or push forward, trampling my dignity for the sake of a loaf of bread to fill their hunger?
In the end... I couldn’t.
I returned to my tent, more broken than when I left, returning without food, and inside me, a weight too heavy for any heart to bear.
I kept repeating to myself:
"Give us back our dignity... They have stolen our pride, and robbed us even of the ability to live with dignity.
#Gaza