14 Aug 2025 18:36:59
I’m not ITK but passing on what my wife was told at work today.
So we live in County Durham and my wife is a lecturer at a college in Durham, her Boss is the mother of Harvey Elliot’s Girlfriend, she’s from Newcastle. Apparently she told my wife that the deal to take Harvey Elliot to Germany is done because her daughter is going over to live with him. £50mill was the figure she was told on a 4 year contract. Like I say I’m not ITK just passing on details we have been told.
Cheers.
14 Aug 2025 19:01:02
Finally he's moving out of his mum and dads! Did anyone see the Klopp doc? strange set up for a grown man.
Good luck to them in Germany. Can't see RBL paying 50m though?
{Ed001's Note - in most countries families live in the same house until much older, sometimes right throughout their entire life, nothing strange about it. Better to be living with the parents, with someone who cares about them and won't just let them run wild, rather than on their own and have knobhead 'mates' sponging off them and trying to drag them down the wrong path. We are very weird in the UK, the way we just cast our parents aside and stick them in a home when they require a bit of looking after, despite all the years they looked after us as children. So ungrateful really.}
14 Aug 2025 19:03:25
Love it jamesey! And decent fee if true. Thanks man.
14 Aug 2025 19:04:17
This is the type of rumour we love to see.
Thanks Jamesey!
14 Aug 2025 19:09:29
Makes sense, Jamesey, thanks for passing it on.
14 Aug 2025 19:11:02
Champion
Thanks mate.
14 Aug 2025 19:11:28
I love rumours like this.
Keep them coming.
Well done Jamesey.
14 Aug 2025 19:12:09
Wonderful rumour Jamesey, thabks for sharing!
14 Aug 2025 19:23:14
As a dad of 2 I never want them to leave home, family is everthing.
14 Aug 2025 19:44:41
Vango wasn’t he like 21 when that doc was filmed? Behave buddy, some of us like our kids around.
14 Aug 2025 19:49:34
Agree with Ed01. 30 year old here. Moving out for the first time in November (reluctantly) . And we even made it our business to be within walking distance from both our parents. Makes me like Harvey even more tbh.
{Ed001's Note - that's nice mate. Sometimes we just don't value our parents enough. I know I didn't.}
14 Aug 2025 19:49:55
I’m in agreement with Ed . perfect set up why live elsewhere if u can with parents and that rent and mortgage money is kept in house with the family.
{Ed001's Note - I made the mistake of moving out as soon as I possibly could and ending up with the wrong crowd etc. Much better to stay at home with people around you who care and want the best for you. Ok, that is not the same in every situation, some families are the bad influence, but clearly not in Harvey's case.}
14 Aug 2025 19:53:09
Top notch Jamesy, thanks for sharing.
14 Aug 2025 20:13:51
We are not all like that Ed001. Despite being out the house for 13 hours a day for work, I looked after both my parents. For my dad, I built a “grandad flat” on the side of the house and between myself and my wife, who also does a 60 hr week, we looked after him for 5 years of ill health, until he finally passed in October.
With my mum, who ironically left me when I was young, we looked after her while she suffered with Alzheimer’s for the last 5 years of her life. She also passed away in May. I did end up putting her in a care home, but it was only because it was making me ill looking after her and I felt that I wasn’t giving my kids enough of my time, as I wasn’t getting home until they was in bed. I’m an only child, so it fell to me alone.
I guess you do get people who take the easy option, but not everyone in the uk is as bad as you make out.
Not looking for a row, just saying. Most people are good people, really.
{Ed001's Note - sorry I generalised and shouldn't have. And well done mate.}
14 Aug 2025 20:14:20
My mum and dad thought me out when I was 19 so had no choice really. I get very well with them by the way. They come and stay with frequently.
14 Aug 2025 20:29:21
In my culture you always live with your parents and look after them in old age. I’m 33 and have two beautiful kids who get to spend everyday with their grandparents. It’s normal to honour our parents in our culture.
{Ed001's Note - which culture is that mate?}
14 Aug 2025 20:30:23
No worries ed001 and thanks. I generally don’t share that much usually …. but the red wine has had the better of me.
I do get your general though. In other parts of the world, it’s a lot more common to find 3 or 4 generations under one roof.
{Ed001's Note - yeah in Spain everyone tends to be ruled by their grandmother. Pretty much the same in the Philippines too, though just with a lot less rooms for them all to live in. They pretty much all sleep together in one room there.}
14 Aug 2025 20:40:40
Elliott is hardly a grown man, he’s still very young. My boys are 27 and 25, both own their own houses and still live with us. I’ll be gutted when they move out but I know it’s coming very soon☹️.
14 Aug 2025 20:00:04
Well said Ed001, you kick facts. Not just a pretty face lol ;-)
{Ed001's Note - thank you mate. Good you noticed the prettiness ?
14 Aug 2025 20:09:48
Ed as someone who is of Pakistani ethnicity when i hear people moaning about other living with their parents i an genuinely baffled, I'm married with kids who adore my mum, she's in her 80s there is no way I'm letting her move out to old people home or even with my siblings i feel blessed looking after my mum as she took care of me, in Islam it actually says if u done everything for your mum u still cannot repay her for the one night she had u in her stomach, with many people talking about immigrants not respecting British culture I always remind them how the culture was to take care of your elderly esp your parents, i took my brother to A&e and was saddened to see many English elderly sitting in waiting room all by themselves when i asked them where their kids were they said oh they live far away n only visit few times a year so sad, families everything.
{Ed001's Note - I have been trying to convince my parents to move here, it worries me them living on their own, especially now. Me ma is having to use a stick to walk with and me dad is deaf and half blind.}
14 Aug 2025 20:51:27
6 Gold Stars
We did the same for my dad mate. Built him an annex from a double garage and looked after him when he had Alzheimer’s. He didn’t want to go into a care home and we certainly weren’t keen putting him in one. Not going to say it was easy, far from it actually and on occasions it took its toll but he did a hell of a lot for us all growing up, he was some man.
14 Aug 2025 21:00:54
Very rich discussion here, guys. So many reasonable on this forum and I'm glad to be a part of this community! Our society could learn a thing or two from y'all!
14 Aug 2025 21:02:52
I went to Manila once in my younger days, while serving in the Royal Navy, I loved the place. Do they still drive the chop shop American jeeps?
Every vehicle (other than the millions of scooters) were different variations of custom military jeeps, most of which were fully chromed up. Buses, taxis, limos…. everything!
14 Aug 2025 22:46:04
I lost my mum in 2020 just before we lifted the 19 champions. Spent the last night with her in Winston hospital on my own.
She lived with my sister in Liverpool, we talked every day. I lived and ran my business in Essex. She was safe cared for with a big extended family around her. A few weeks after her funeral my sister stopped talking to me. I can only assume she blames me! I left Liverpool first time aged 17 looking for work. After being let go by Bolton wanderers. Got with wrong crowd spent time in jail. Couldn't read well or write. Ended up working for myself own business relatively successful.
Often look at other cultures. The way their parents are so important and envey what they have. My prospects were limited in 1979 to 82 in Liverpool.
I always sent money home, always visited, life make is wise Ed001 I understand your thoughts mate.
Careful we may miss a signing lol. YNWA.
{Ed001's Note - so sorry about your mother and sister, grief can affect people in strange ways. Hopefully she will see sense in time.}
14 Aug 2025 23:46:02
Ed, I believe in Asia especially Southeast Asia where I come from, its common for adults to live with their parents until they are married and have their own families. Even then, some still lives with their parents especially the one with single mum/ dad.
I can't speak about western countries though as I'm not from there. But from watching a lot of western movies, adults that are still living with their parents are often ridicule. Its a mandatory things that once you got a job, you need to move out of your parent's house and live on your own. Otherwise, peoples will mock you.
14 Aug 2025 23:51:54
Reading your reply to YNWAKoppite, Ed001, is Ed025 your dad?
His replied to the previous thread made me think he is losing some faculties ??.
{Ed001's Note - thankfully I am not related to Ed25 in any way, shape or form!}
15 Aug 2025 09:33:14
In fairness Ed001, your Dad is now qualified to be a premier league referee or VAR operator. So the glass is always half full.
{Ed001's Note - good point, I will send him down to the FA now.}