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The majority of the population are more interested in beckham than Greenland …… follow the money

Trump definitely wants the minerals and rare earths - they’re on his doorstep and as climate change continues to raise temps, they may become easier to extract. greenland and danish govt are very eco centric. They’ll never allow it. Maybe that’s where the middle ground exists (if it does)

Can’t believe that Spurs were paying a bit part player from Hemel 90k/week when he’d been injured for a fair part of the season before. Spurs are the worst payers in the big six. The deal for him @10m has its own questions about it - how much was to inflate Maddison’s deal to help out psr position? That could also have consequences in his package over three years. As teraloon says, we don’t know and we won’t know

Apparently all the right people were told about the troops being sent there last week and it seems that whoever should have told trump didnt ……. hence his over reaction - which he has doubled down on and now he’ll be even more annoyed when he hears that the Chinese embassy build in London has been given the nod

I don’t think he has the mental capacity to play 4 D chess but he sometimes gets lucky someone described his negotiating technique as being akin to lobbing a bomb into a room and then seeing who was left to talk to - very much one step at a time without much forward thinking whatsoever.

I would doubt that they would have much info on relegation clause details

If it’s given then it stays a pen bit it’s not an overturn - too much doubt PGMOL will say that it’s because the keeper lifts his leg when there’s no need to do so but the player is already on his way down

All players had a relegation clause. We did not pay winks 90k per week in the championship when we bought him unless that included his s/o fee. And that wouldn’t have been much more than 15k/week. from what I know, he was on approx 60k in the championship with an increase to approx 90k in the PL. still ridiculously high. ( that could have been with s/o fee included) The reason you know that Faes is on 25k/week is because he’s moved so it’s leaked from the Monaco end. Percy told us that players had relegation clauses. but even with those, the likes of bouba, daka and winks are still out of the reach of most European clubs that would be interested.

And you know that for sure ?

Surprised ?

We’ll see this next summer as the USA reach the final 😄

Winks and coady - contracts in the championship was around 60k winks and 50k coady. Went up last year. Dropped back again this year for winks. edouard - premier league loan - have to pay premier league wages. Suspicion that we didn’t pay much of a loan fee - palace just wanted him off their books. If you spend nothing when you’re promoted then that calls the league into question . We spent in summer 2024. Not much but we spent. Couldn’t not - have to attempt to compete. Begovic - free agent probs earning 20k/week.

to who recently ?

Second halves are a strong indication of a coaches ability. It’s not that difficult to give the opposition problems in the first half if you play a slightly different way than perhaps expected. But then you know that the other team will make alterations at HT to sort that out. So what do you have second half? seems all we have is to try not to concede …………

Agree pathetic (unless you’re playing the game as Stephen did)

I think that might be part of our defence on the size of the punishment. we aren’t spending anything so how can you justify sanctioning us. All our excessive debts are old commitments which were taken on when we were a pretty successful PL club. I mean it’s not a defence but it could be used as a mitigation.

I get why jade cracked yesterday. She’s basically been named by a few every day with absolutely no evidence whatsoever. It would get to you eventually . They are so stoopid ……. unless someone thinks it’s her and has decided to try and get to the end and not to vote finished whilst she’s still there. (And not even reveal their thoughts to the production team )

I think the club know the outcome. It will be withheld from publication under agreement of both parties

I think we won’t hear anything until after the window is shut

Maybe they should make them like bush trucker trials 😄 would sort the wheat from the chaff make them eat raw haggis !

Perhaps if you’re a historian Maybe it’s a old man’s thing but the rhetoric these days seems to be all or nothing - no middle ground

Language evolves the twenty first century facist cant hold a candle to those from a 100 years ago. So we need a new word for the facists of the first half of the 1900’s. Otherwise people compare apples and pears and as a example begin to speak about hitler in reasoned terms because ‘well if he’s a facist and trump is a facist then he can’t have been that bad’ .

Trump knows that the Europeans move way too slowly you only have to think back pre Ukraine war when the Russians were building their forces on the border and our response was to sanction a couple of people and tell Putin not to be so horrid. beefing up military spending to over 3.5% of gdp is going to take the best part of a decade like I said, I don’t believe that trump is capable of thinking laterally but if he’d taken an approach that he wanted to get NATO troops from several countries on the ground in Greenland and discussed it in Brussels, it would have taken a long time to happen. (If it happened at all). it’s just an accidental consequence of his approach.

Interesting that we have an island that trump insists has to be protected from Russia and China and it looks like it will now have several European countries with armed forces present there. he’s way too transactional to play 3D chess but I could argue that this is a better option for him than having to bolster his own forces on the island ……

I was convinced that reform had no chance in 2029. But if they are going to start collecting serious Tory politicians and replace the farage/tice types then I may have a rethink.