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Viktor dropped by Denmark

I can imagine that’s true cand anyone tell me how facemasks or protective clothing become outs of date ? I mean what makes them become inefficient at stopping virus’ getting through ?

Villa have apparently done enough to meet psr for 23/34 they will almost certainly need to sell again next spring to meet 24/25

It’s quite an important part of this at what point did the NHS realise it had way too much stock and what did they do to try and sell the overstock to countries that needed it ? My guess is that they just moved it into storage and had no contacts to find a home for it. The stuff had a 2/3 year shelf life so it needed dealing with urgently.

They’ll be selling players too mostly into next seasons accounts just because they’ve exceeded psr before doesn’t mean they can’t spend anything same for us it’s not a straight transfer fees in and out scenario I reckon they will fail for the season ending this June which will cost them a couple points and then they will probably pass next season

Well he won’t look any worse after taking a few punches….

It’s astonishing However, this particular company was actually a functioning PPE supplier pre covid and I can fully understand giving them big contracts in 2020. (Assuming they could justify the prices being charged against what they were paying). but many of the other ones handed out to ‘Tory donors’/mates meant that lots of the PPE ordered ‘correctly’ wasn’t required. we should also recognise that in 2020, lots of PPE was ordered because we were massively ill prepared and no one had a clue how long the pandemic would last etc etc - the speed of the vaccine meant we didn’t need anything like the volumes of PPE that we could have done. But there was little structure applied to what volumes were actually being ordered and delivery scheduling.

Some of you may be wondering why I’m babbling on about Israel/hezbollah here’s a US general’s thoughts According to General Brown, Iran is increasingly inclined to enter into a direct war against Israel in the event that Tehran feels that Hezbollah is under a real threat • Report: Alfi Militia fighters will arrive in Lebanon in the event of an all-out war. General Brown, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff in the US Army, said that the chances are increasing that Iran will choose to enter into a direct war with Israel in the event of a war between the IDF and Hezbollah. I’d also throw this in - it seems the the Biden administration has been holding back on arms exports to Israel for various reasons. We understand the Gaza scenario - they want a ceasefire there and that makes sense to them. If Israel don’t have the conventional weapons to take on hezbollah in Lebanon then they would have to use non conventional - I don’t mean nuclear btw. But evidently there is stuff that we’ve not seen used in the theatre of war (at this point in time). Israel very much views hezbollah as being the biggest existential threat to itself in the region. They won’t just continue to take in a couple dozen rockets/missiles each day with 70k displaced residents ad infinitum. so the stakes in the north are very high indeed - it just feels like we are in a holding pattern awaiting news on which way the us election will go before big calls are made. But Israel won’t wait that long before properly attacking in s Lebanon. (Rather than reprisal strikes which are ongoing)

Strangely caught between two stools they didn’t really go for the second and then were pinned back for long periods and then in added time they didn’t take it into the corners to see out some time

Winks a better 6 than paulinha ? Mads is untested at PL level. Leno is a v good keeper if we can take momentum from promotion into the season then yes, we could be fine. But then there’s the points deduction to take into account, sadly this season will be way tougher in the PL than last in the relegation area

I don’t think it currently is re forest, Brentford and Fulham we’ll find out in two months!

what percentage of them do you think are genuine ? some of them are way too nuts not to parodies

We have problems next season aswell i have a feeling that we'll put all our incomings into next season to reduce the amount we break psr by when we are charged again by the PL. our EFL break will be record breaking!!!!!

I did see similarities- but I think last nights was stronger for manufacture although vards dive was worse

To those of you thinking that the semi automatic offsides in the euros are great because of their speed, I have bad news if you expect the PL to now be the same. the in ball chip used to identify exactly when the ball is kicked and freeze the play is adidas patented. hence the PL will still require the var in stockley park to ‘manually’ freeze the play before the auto technology can deliver a ‘picture’ to show if offside. We’re losing the lines which will obviously save some time but it won’t be as quick as we’ve seen in Germany. more concerning is that we are back to toe nail offside calls which were dumped because of this manual freeze framing of the play - you couldn’t be sure exactly when the ball was kicked so it was decided that if the lines were too close then wouldn’t be offside. We will undoubtedly now have erroneous calls made because it’s impossible to freeze the frame at exactly the right time. of course we won’t see that because we accept the frame is frozen correctly.

I read it that he was thanking us for allowing him to coach the U18 as part of his A licence I didn’t read it as him coaching them in the future

Be funny if 2 points would have been enough …

Officially a cable fault The blood supply Co earlier last week was possibly a Russian hacking group (could be based in quite a few countries !) I would have thought that if Russia could induce a power failure at an airport, they’d choose Heathrow for biggest kudos

Spanish gp lasts two laps longer than expected !

Correct - non staff asset sales inadmissible on efl psr. You still have to justify a sale in PL psr. Chelsea owned a hotel in Chelsea. It worth a fortune on the basis of the land alone. I assume that the value of seagrave is in the books at full cost which is then reduced by a percentage, year on year based on the cost of the building rather than the land. Im sure if we had an allowable asset we’d have used it. we had an opportunity last June to inflate Maddison/winks values by another 10/15m but we didn’t I believe that’s due to spurs being too close to Paratici when he was banned by fifa - I believe some of the things he was found guilty of was movement of players to/from juve for inflated fees to help ffp. Levy didn’t want to get into this so soon after paratici left.

We can do that but unless it’s value has increased markedly, there’s no notable benefit Chelsea are able to exploit the huge increase in value of land in the area of Stamford bridge over the past twenty years. It’s the increase in value that bolsters the bottom line, not just the sale. That would be pretty negligible if we sold seagrave. The Chelsea training ground may not be of much use unless there are no planning restrictions on house building in that part of cobham. I suspect there mustn’t be or they wouldn’t have bothered.

They sold the hotel to another group Co the generate additional 80m income. That sorts out 22/23. They made some sales last summer to help 23/24. In addition they’ve sold the training ground for 23/24. - not clear until they file the accounts what the nett gain was on that deal. The sales of academy players this month will sort out 23/24. The can is then kicked down the road to 24/25.

Because debt is not considered a problem in business. It only becomes a problem if income is insufficient to cover the interest payments. And Man Utd generate more than enough income to cover that. Lots of companies carry debt when they dont actually need to - they’d rather use the cashflow for other things that generate more income than the saving to be made by reducing the interest payments. united are somewhere in the middle - the owners generated a lot of the debt to buy the club. That debt is around £500m. The other 3/400m is revolving debt around running a football club.

can we comment on responsibility for what’s happened at our club over the past few years? we have no idea who cautioned against what and whether they were simply outvoted by the ownership OR whether the owners allowed these charged with running the club to do so without effective controls (In hindsight). Or maybe a combination of the two. we can see the consequences but we don’t know where responsibility lies.

I just had to caution my 13 y o about the jay slater story he began to tell me about a vehicle that had been seen blah blah blah. ‘Yes it seems odd’, I agreed, but then advised him that nothing he’s read on SM needs to be true or false - there is no accountability whatsoever. I told him he shouldn’t be wasting his time looking at the story. social media again I’m afraid - I will say that some of the facebook stuff I’ve seen is hilarious - trouble is I can’t say whether those responsible are genuine or taking the pee. That’s how low the bar is in this country for intelligence.