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Reply | Bit worried about Potter going already!!
at 08:15 23 Aug 2025
Kompany went to Bayern on the back of a 5 win season.
McKenna will definitely be on lists but I can’t see Wedt Ham going for another system guy if they crash and burn with potter. |
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Reply | How much will Woolfie go for?
at 14:28 22 Aug 2025
Cov have plenty. They've just signed a Villa academy rb for £4m when they still have Van Ewijk, they'll have no problem spending £8m if they need to. |
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Reply | If Adam Wharton goes to Manchester Utd
at 12:19 19 Aug 2025
Half the price that they've been bidding for Baleba though. They're also looking to shift Sancho, Garnacho, Hoijland, Antony and Malacia plus have Rashford's salary off the books. Just Garnacho and Hoijland would be £100m in on top of all the money they get from their official noodle partners etc. |
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Reply | George to score 20+ this season (n/t)
at 07:47 9 Aug 2025
30 seems like a push. Out and out goal scoring isn’t really what his game is all about, though he looked assured and played with confidence last night though. Suspect that opposition fans are going to hate him this season with his ability to put himself about. |
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Reply | Need to vent. Had a job offer rescinded after weeks of delay.
at 07:54 8 Aug 2025
Yeah, it’s the same with vfx. You can either get a flame artist to spend 10 days on something or a slightly more expensive flame artist to do it in 2 because they can augment it using ai.
I am on the side of ai making us more efficient rather than taking every job and I suspect that there will be a pullback in just how effective it goes to become at saving costs but it’s also true that there are certain industries that are going to get decimated and not every use case is going to result in greater productivity for the same effort. Some will just be less effort for the same work.
I’ve already seen its impact n LinkedIn with more director level people posting about being unable to find work for extended periods. I have opinions on what that’s going to do to house prices too but they’re for another thread… |
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Reply | Without the outgoing we would be stronger
at 22:21 2 Aug 2025
I’m not so sure on that one. Morsy at his age needed a replacement either way, Hutchinson I feel like they replaced with Philogene in January, that transfer is weird otherwise when you have Clarke and Szmodics. I like Broadhead and feel like he would possibly have played his way in at some point but he’s definitely not first choice and is replaceable for the money. I would be very surprised if we weren’t considering that all of those 3 would be leaving from at least the start of this year. |
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Reply | Glasto
at 10:21 26 Jun 2025
I don't think the viewing figures would do so well if it was a load of people doing pingers at 2 am followed by deep and meaningful chats tbh.
Give me 90's and 00's guitar bands every day of the week please. |
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Reply | Omari off?
at 10:26 25 Jun 2025
His release clause being higher is just indicative of a worse agent or less leverage, it's always in a players best interests to get this as low as possible unless they negotiate it away for better wages.
Hutchinson is a strange one for me. Makes a lot of things look easy but I felt in the championship he was better when he wasn't being relied upon to be the main man and the times where he was it hurt his productivity. He's got plenty of time to fix that though and if he does I would imagine England caps are on the horizon.
I wonder if we were aware of this interest from January tbh, it would make a bit more sense of our pursuit of Philogene. |
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Reply | Hmm, The Athletic framing Omari’s performance
at 15:50 14 Jun 2025
Isn’t profit or loss recognised on disposal vs amortised cost? Hence why a home grown or long term player sale is beneficial for psr.
To whit, anyone sold that isn’t fully amortised will have a cost saving as well as a profit attached so if Hutchinson were to follow delap it’s probably a £9m or so saving to the P&L this year plus whatever the net is after sell one. |
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Reply | Just been listening to BM Podcast
at 14:08 28 Apr 2025
That £30m is heavily dependent on the price we get for Delap. I don't see us getting more than we paid for everyone else so income if we sold any of last summers incomings would be limited to one years amortisation of last years fee. Add to that a second year of amortisation on anyone that doesn't get sold and a case could be made for not spending massively.
That being said though, I don't think we need to. Barring in CM, the team that went up is either still here or has been improved upon so 10-15m on some midfielders would hopefully do the trick. |
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Reply | Birmingham are at home tomorrow
at 08:23 15 Feb 2025
At uni in Birmingham I met a villa fan who blamed his banning order on BC fans. It turned out he’d urinated off the top deck of villa park onto some of them.
Throw in West Brom which is only really the other side of Handsworth and two of the three will be at home reasonably regularly. Not the same rivalry but the distance is about the same. |
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Reply | Sky say five in
at 10:46 3 Jan 2025
We're 18th so it's a bit of a stretch to suggest that anyone outside of Delap have really shown themselves to Premier League quality just yet.
If the opportunity presents itself to improve then we should take it, even if the improvement is in an existing area of strength. The main issue at the minute will be money, you've got to expect that we were pretty much at the limit of what a transfer spend could look like for a club that might get relegated. Unless we're sure of recouping some in the summer (Delap) then any significant outlay will be gambling with the club's future. |
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Reply | Latte Lath to Leicester
at 10:35 3 Jan 2025
Antonio started 11 of 14 games before his crash so they'll need a replacement. Plus factor in his age and the fact that he nearly died and it's unlikely that he plays again. |
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Reply | Rashford
at 11:21 18 Dec 2024
I think United fans have been expecting him to put a shift in for the last 5 years too and barring one season it just hasn't happened.
His attitude stinks at the minute, he's going out every weekend, leaking dressing room info to the press and generally being moody. I'm sure he can go somewhere and do well if he gets away from all of that but for us right now it's a no thank you from me. |
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Reply | Elgin Marbles
at 14:21 3 Dec 2024
I don't have any problem in giving them back. They're culturally significant but the British Museum will have plenty of other items of a similar age/quality/interest level that they can wheel out without causing a diplomatic incident every few years. |
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Reply | Have you actually seen what Morsy is refusing to support....
at 14:00 3 Dec 2024
That isn't really an equivalency though is it.
As club captain he is part of the rainbow laces campaign and has actively opted out of it rather than passively not spoken about it.
If it isn't something he can support then he isn't club captain material imo. 10% of the population is LGBTQ. In all probability he's signalled to at least one squad member that he thinks less of them |
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Reply | Sounds as though Sir Keir Starmer
at 11:32 28 Nov 2024
Surely the majority of what remains of the party would want someone who hasn't fallen for all of this Tufton Street culture war business?
Besides Farage already owning it, the GE showed that the UK public weren't as enamoured with it as they are in the US, surely a return to principals (and vague respectability) would be what appeals?
Not sure what it means but I note that both Dan Hodges (Mail on Sunday) and Matthew Stadlen (Telegraph), who were pretty staunchly Tory right the way up to Sunak, both seem to have pivoted against the more right wing element of the party too. Hopefully that signals a slightly reversion to to mean for the right wing press but could also just be personal preference, will be interesting to see what plays out. |
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Reply | Business' reaction to NI increase
at 10:54 26 Nov 2024
By their nature as small businesses, most would notice a reduction in a full fte proportionally more than they would a small reduction in profits or their customers will in tiny uplift in price. This is going to the consumer, not the business. |
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