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Maybe luckily they don’t have any decent wingers 😄

Forgot about big Kim. (And someone else cos you’ve not included Iran - I think I didn’t count the usa 😄) the ‘sharers’ are unable to drop anything without one of the nine effectively doing it. I can’t see any of the security council members dropping one (that not because they are sc members btw) I don’t see anyone dropping one adjacent to their country either. Not sure that n korea are interested in dropping one. they just want everyone to stay out of their self interest most likely would be Iran or Israel because striking either nation would not badly affect the sender with fall out. But Iran isn’t nuking Israel because there are 2 million Muslim Arabs living in Israel and a further 5 million in Gaza/West Bank. It’s a v small area. and Israel have access to conventional weapons that mean they don’t need to nuke Iran to achieve their goals. So I’d say it’s most likely that a non state actor would be responsible. (Perhaps with the assistance of a ‘crazy state’)

You are our senior spurs hater sylo ………. No one is more senior than you in this respect

Depends who drops it, where they drop it, and what they drop if you accept that Iran are pretty much there then I think there are potentially 8 ‘crazy nations’. (Unless some non state entity manages to get hold of one like in a 60’s James bond film)

surely if they asked 6 months ago and 120 business’ replied stating support for Labour and now only 28 will do that then the headline isn’t unreasonable. A backer is surely someone who replies positively without needing to be prodded several times and still not answering. clearly city AM have an agenda here but having initially thought the same as Urban, I read the article and then changed my mind somewhat. Headlines will always be headlines (from all sides).

City AM would make the argument that not answering (despite many requests) would imply that they no longer have support. It doesn’t mean that they are anti - just that they are no longer prepared to publicly support. I understand the way you’ve looked at it (and you could be right) but their deduction is also supportable.

And he’s pretty much guaranteed a European trophy winners medal in May (expect a few of their better players to be added to the squad for the knock out rounds) coming here and being in another relegation fight - I mean he could help save us but what if we went down again??

Wasn’t it hull? Villa had a buy back clause in the original sale deal. They also undoubtedly bought him back for more than they sold him. (Though the original sale was undisclosed). The sums involved are not as large as with KDH. The premier league have publicly commented that they are monitoring the sales of academy players between clubs and will get involved if they believe that the sums are not justifiable and potentially being used to usurp PSR. (Even though we all know they are). I can 100% guarantee that, given our current relationship with the authorities on PSR, if we buy KDH back in jan for £25/£30m that we’ll be embarking on another legal case with the PL within months (unless we make adjustments in our 23/24 accounts to compensate). they are waiting for us to screw up so they can clobber us.

Good point we were asking too much for him in the summer based on a championship season irrespective of whether we stay up, 40m is a reasonable ask now if we are relegated then I doubt we’d get more than 30m though. If we stay up then it’s 40/50 depending on how desperate we are for the dosh before June 30

Sell a player for 30m to pass psr buy him back within six months and spread that over five years they wouldn’t allow it. Well they couldn’t stop it but we’d be charged and sanctioned unless we agreed to take the income off 23/24 psr

We could buy him back for 30m quite easily But the premier league wouldn't allow it I assume they would just about accept a loan deal

Who will the new wolves manager be ? potter is a west mids man but he surely isn’t taking on this job

Apparently he didn’t step on it hard enough 😄

100% a penalty with a European var

full time please not now

They aren’t charged with anything in those two seasons infact, they are probably charged for misdemeanours in 15/16. Maybe we should appeal against us winning the league on the basis that Man City were cheating 😄 In the first of the two seasons you refer to, the club were guilty of accepting the uefa sanction and not thinking that CAS could overturn it. The club thought that finishing 5th would be ok for CL. Whether that transmitted through to the squad is unknown.

Leicester ?

A few things mainly that he gave ETH another deal rather than the tin tack also, some of the players signed in the summer have been questioned by Amorim as per their adaptability to different systems he also felt Southgate would be the best man for the job. That wouldn’t actually be the reason for him to be sacked. (Although many supporters would think that ) looks like he wasn’t particularly happy with the interaction with ratcliffe and brailsford and they weren’t happy with some of his decision making

Assume it’s an automated system. The model is powered by historic shot-based data and typically takes into account variables such as the distance and angle to the goal, shot type (header/feet), the assist type, opponents beaten on the way, the possession nature (a rebound? An after dribble shot?), and others. it clearly doesn't/can’t take all the info into account. Reid’s chance yesterday should be 0.9.

According to that, 45 times out of a hundred, it’s not a goal. This is where Xg is not v good. It can’t effectively take into account where goalkeeper and defenders are - the attackers body shape, pace of the cross and whether the ball is on the floor or not.

According to Jim white, Antonio won’t be able to train for at least a year. He has a long way back and not clear that he will ever be able to. At his age you’d expect West Ham to try and claim on their insurance and to effectively pay him off and terminate his contract. very sad for a solid player and someone who seems like a very likeable character.

Free winger welcome Ryan ……

Why? seemed to a pretty good job at putting the base in at brighton and newcastle with their new money

From what I’ve seen we lost by 0.3 on Xg - effectively a draw given the clear issues with it that’s an improvement for sure on what we have been doing

I bought he looked like he could be much improved under Ruud after Tuesday night today he looked out of his depth again either way, the coach needs to decide if he can trust him. I’m glad he didn’t hook him at the break because that would have dented his confidence