With the 10 game clause - 5 of them have to be in the second half of the season, and we're assuming it's all comps.
If this now apparently true thing is true, can you give me plausible answers to these three questions:
(1) why, with all the news about ten game periods, all of the well-connected journalists Who Know Things knew the ten game thing and have reported it didn't know about this weird "but five of them have to be in the second half of the season" subclause? They apparently knew the rest of it last September, why not this bit?
(2) why, why the fuck is that a clause? Who is it to protect or help? In the room where the various representatives of Villa, Liverpool and Elliott are meeting, who is banging their hand on the table and chucking in "BUT! Five games need to be after *checks notes* sometime at the end of January. There's definitely a reason this is important".
(3) most obviously, if this is true it then we could have used him as much as wanted. There's now a weird clause that means we don't have to sign him unless five of the games are later than some random point in January. So...he doesn't now need to be sitting at home for the last four months and we can just use him like anyone else?
