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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.

They should have done the conf statement early Nov to avoid the problem. Nothing to stop them doing it early. Then they’d have months to sort that ID stuff out.

They police the event as they should do. however, this event was ‘un policeable ‘ but no one could admit that for lots of reasons Mac - many fans sing about horrible stuff. They don’t get banned for it. @ClaphamFox - it was maccabi tel aviv if the authorities don’t address the elephant in the room here then they leave space for people like farage to step in.

the Birmingham thing was inevitable anyone who had actually followed what happened in Amsterdam knew that the report was fabricated. Hence the decision SAG made was bound to be flawed. are MTV fans angels ? Absolutely not. are they any worse than lots of clubs across Europe who have not been banned attending matches here ? Absolutely not WMP were in an unenviable position where they knew that Israeli fans in that area for the game would be a target for some unpleasant elements of the local community. Even if they bused in those who had travelled from the airport and straight back again afterwards, that would be a difficult target to protect. Add in that uk based Israelis would likely attend and they were stuck between a rock and a hard place. hence - conformation bias and they grabbed anything they could to back up their position. the basic point here is that the Israeli fans simply couldn’t be protected but that isn’t something that either the police or govt can admit. So the chief constable will be the fall guy here - I suggest some local politicians are just as culpable.

It was pretty clear his foot was beyond the keeper or the defender. Only needed to be one of them. can’t believe it took them so long to draw the lines.

He condemned it days ago when most who are criticising him probably didn’t even know what was happening !

Trans Jordan was drawn way bigger than it needed to be ……….. who needs that much desert ?

Wonder if he has time to get into the Belgian squad ? that’s a big carrot and may concentrate his attitude to succeed out there. I wonder if the option fee is loaded on things like ligue 1 appearances and selection for the world cup squad. seen quite a spread on option fee. From our perspective we might be thinking if he makes it to the states and actually performed then we’d get €10m from somewhere. We may have turned down an obligation at €5m !