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For now he is but he’s just a kid could develop quickly

Yes yes but apart from that …..

Surely half a hot dog ?

I have to apologise - I mentioned to a spurs fan this evening that I wasn’t convinced that solanke would work out for them

That depends if they’ve specifically called for people to attack such places in this aggressive and violent manner I doubt they have

Guess we’ll find out If I were them I’d be going all out for a jury trial - fair chance they get off !

Well sort of but the additional joke is the issue imo - straight anti semitic trope https://www.theguardian.com/stage/article/2024/aug/16/scottish-theatre-cancels-reginald-d-hunter-show-over-heckling-of-israelis

https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/defence-firm-responds-brutal-attack-9464733

How do you not score off a free hit ??

Club might have expected to move him out on loan or even a sale that's hitting our budget

Once we’ve been trounced on Monday, the price will go up !

I used to live a few doors down from mark when he was at Watford we had a ‘crescent Indian meal group’ nice fella - didn’t strike me as uber sharp but perhaps that reflects how grim mr Rudkin is !

He’s doing the presser from Morrisons ?

People tend to grow into their incomes over time. Their expenditure grows along with it - bigger car, house etc etc. so their disposable income may not be that much bigger than those earning a lower income with smaller car and house. I would have thought that increasing taxes markedly on those with the bigger bills could have quite a negative impact on the economic model the country is running on. consumer spending is so key to it. If you’re going to do this then I think it has to be a slow burner and certainly begin with the ultra wealthy who aren’t likely to notice the tax although they’ll hate paying it send the message that over the next decade the tax take will be increasing notably for those with assets over £10m and potentially lower if the country needs it. I think you need to set a target for 8 years into the future and travel there fairly slowly

I’m guessing we don’t rate them (and they’re not wasserman clients )

Someone who is in favour needs to define what ‘rich’ is ? I’m someone who thinks these ultra wealthy people would mainly find a way around these things there are some countries that do it successfully but I think these are countries which have a fairly strong tax regime and the population buy into that. We are a country of people that has traditionally tried to pay as little tax as we can get away with.

Probably trying to save a few mill on the fee (and perhaps waiting for some alternatives to drop away)

Closer to 60/65k I reckon

Based on what ? we might be useless when it comes to transfers but we wouldn’t pursue a player unless we’d been told he was happy to come beyond that, stuff changes we heard from soule that he was impressed by our desire to buy him and that he probably would have come if Roma hadn’t come to the table

We couldn’t bring players in until July 1 assume we also had to wait and see if kdh transfer actually materialised to establish our budgets suspect we have worked on several deals with selling clubs on the basis of loan and obligation if we stay up. That exposes us if someone else can be brought in who will buy now. Where we can do that type of deal we will due to our circumstances. We won’t commit to straight buys unless the selling club won’t consider the loan route.

Me too but the likely heavy workload as our only competent striker would mean his hamstrings last two weeks !

You are Jon rudkin and I claim my prize!

Closest we get to this is a mockery journo or Tanner saying that we aren’t interested but it doesn’t often happen because we are usually v private about our dealings. There are times when we want agents to spread rumours for our benefit - you can’t have your cake and eat it (though we look pretty emaciated at present) percy did report that we had bid for fotis and were speaking to gala about zaha. Did he get that from here or through contacts in Turkey/greece. Even if the latter, I would expect him to check with his club source as to whether they were garbage or had some veracity. percy made no comment on hlozek as fans, we simply have no idea but the club should not be offering a running commentary on any deals because that way we risk having them hijacked.

I assume that his people thought we’d cover some of his tax loss if we won’t then he will choose from those clubs willing to cover the £7m annual cost to gala of the player. That may not be us so him deciding to take a hit for a year on his tax doesn’t necessarily mean he ends up here .

The basics are agreed the detail will get sorted over a couple of days