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It seems chelsea have performed the same trick in this financial year too having taken cobham training ground into their ownership ten years ago for approx £20m, they’ve sold it to another group Co for around £150m I suppose they must be confident of getting the hotel through if they’ve bothered to do this mind you, justifying the hotel appreciating in value in prime west London housing space is one thing - having what is effectively arable farming land in Surrey go up that much is quite another. Surely the authorities would require at least having planning permission to build houses in place to allow that ?? checking club badge ……. Nah

I look at some of the stud layouts on boots these days and wonder if they’ve actually done research into how likely they are to stick in the turf etc im sure they’ve done the testing to see if they provide better traction when trying to push off or move from foot to foot but I wonder about the dangers to the knee of course I’ve no idea of this particular issue was impact cause. There seem to be many knee ligament issues nowadays - cartilage less so than a few decades ago but ligaments moreso

That was the wierd thing Take out the politics and the Israeli song should have done well with the jury and not the public - it was artistically v sound but lacked something that the public need to get behind. the Croatian song reflected that - was one for the public and not the juries the French one attracted support both ways. I’m not surprised that the juries realised that they had the responsibility to avoid the issue of Israel winning. Allowing the public to vote 20 times (or whatever it is) seems bizarre (although good for telecoms business’ )

it’s just picked back up into the red - there’s a chance again if it ticks a bit higher

I think this is supposed to win according to my bookmaker …

Geomagnetic activity has dropped back unexpectedly last couple of hours

I think this evening is going to disappoint

Anyone remember ‘they’re coming to take you away haha ‘ from the seventies?

Might get an entry next year!

Wasn’t there a song last year or the previous year which effectively said ‘Russia pee off’ ? (And the political interpretation of the Israeli entry is down to the individual)

Assuming that instagram aren’t over stating the posts this should be concerning to all of us re our kids

Maybe some of the discrepancies are due to signing on fees/loyalty bonus’ being spread across contracts and paid as ‘salaries’ ??? I mean paying JJ six figures would be astonishing

The Chelsea deal worked for them because of the increase in value in the hotel it was valued at x a few years ago and they sold it for significantly more which goes down as an increase in their income. It was commercially valued at this price. If we paid 85m for seagrave and it’s still worth 85m then if we sell it for 85m then we lose 85m from our fixed assets but gain 85m in cash. I don’t think that makes any difference to our psr situation. We would only benefit if we could sell it for a fair bit more than we paid for it. That’s not happening. At the moment, Chelsea have still not had their hotel sale signed off by the PL

I believe that interest and other costs are deductible from psr after full planning permission is granted I’m not certain if that’s the case in the efl where rules over asset sales etc are different to the epl which may be another reason why we appeared to do nothing this year

Could you confirm this is actual knowledge on your part? in feb ‘22 Ricky signed a four year extension. At that time he was still not playing regularly. it was thought that the club had exploited his injury issues to get him to renew on a reasonable salary (similar to the standard 80k many were earning)

If Hamas made a ceasefire deal that actually agreed to release all the hostages in a timely fashion over the three six week windows (that’s not what was proposed on Monday) then Israel would really have little justification for entering Rafah other than to finish off the last four battalions. If the hostages are all freed (though many will likely be dead), then I don’t think BN can carry his war cabinet with him ref a full on Rafah attack. Hamas will hang onto those hostages (dead or alive) for as long as they possibly can. If they really thought Israel were coming into rafah full on then I suspect they may have to deal. a real ceasefire deal exposes BN and his govt - I’m still of the opinion that Hamas are happier to have a right wing Israeli govt waging war on them than a more pragmatic administration looking to do deals. The Americans need to work this out and try to isolate Hamas militarily because that will do the same with netenyahu’s govt. what they seem to have achieved last couple days is to embolden Hamas.

We don’t sell them bombs now so why would we start in that scenario? (Which is clearly not happening under any circumstances). we issue licences to some exporters who sell ‘military equipment’ but it’s less than 1% of their military imports we could withdraw those licences but I would be asking in what context that equipment was being used before making any decisions

I’m pretty sure that Ricky’s renewal was below 6 figures - I’d guess 75k. (we renewed him as he began to play after his last big injury - he wasn’t in a position to demand too much - we were taking a chance giving him till 2027). and JJ would be on a par with bouba/patson at most. but the majority of ric’s guesses are likely close

Pedantically , the costs of stadium expansion can only be deducted post planning permission being granted

Agree but if we make it look like we absolutely don’t want him here then we devalue him even further.

With braybrooke and alves we could be looking at fielding a whole team of ACL recovered players ……… you’ll never sing that !

We have more pressing places to spend the money

They found some noodles in the keyboard …. (Sorry)

Not completely sure about that we have players to sell who won’t leave because they’re running their contracts down to leave on a free. To argue that we should sell assets to cover the shortfall has to take that into account. I suppose it depends if we really did have offers for players in summer 22 and Jan 23 that we knocked back.

Reining in by whom ?