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Thread | Guiu to Sunderland
at 14:48 30 Jul 2025
Ornstein and some other quite well informed Chelsea journos posting this one is gathering pace.
Suspect club will have known this one unlikely to happen for a while so hopefully we have moved on some time ago. But new striker seems unlikely to be Guiu for now at least. |
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Thread | Hutchinson on bench...
at 18:40 29 Jul 2025
assuming he gets on the pitch at some point - if I was to try and read between lines - surely if it was all but certain he's going, as per some ITKers on here, why would you risk a potential injury it if it's almost certain he's going?
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Thread | Yesterday's game/Championship Manager regens
at 13:34 20 Jul 2025
Very niche post this one but anybody who played CM in the 90s will probably be familiar with the concept of regens.
On that note, great to see Linz giving a run out yesterday to both "Ronivaldo" and "Viktor Baier" in goal.
Straight out of a 97/98 saved file those two. [Post edited 20 Jul 15:57]
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Thread | FAO Phil/Or anyone else ITK
at 09:50 17 Jul 2025
Is it possible Morsy departure hasn't been announced yet because we won't let him go until new signings are in the door? Or do you think it's done - no way back so to speak? |
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Thread | Starmer's bill and two party system
at 09:50 1 Jul 2025
I'm by no means a Politico so I don't know what the answer is but I'm following the newsflow on the Starmer bill today and it seems there's pretty much open revolt on his back benches from the left wing of his party. The tail wagging the dog so to speak.
It was the same under the Tories with the lunatic fringe pulling them ever further from the centre towards Farage, which wasn't particularly helpful to put it mildly. Indeed every week there seemed some ever more ridiculous pop up group of "neo con" or whatever nonsense Truss and Rees-Mogg were spouting that particular week.
Both parties describe themselves as a "broad church" but in practice what that looks like to me is that you have multiple conflicting views all the time and end up with Frankenstein legislation and policies that don't really satisfy or appease anyone.
Like I say, not a Politico and certainly don't follow UK politics as closely as some on here but rather seems to me the two party system doesn't really work for many people, least of all the MPs themselves.
You certainly couldn't run a company like this anyhow. [Post edited 1 Jul 15:27]
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Thread | FAO DJR/Stokie
at 14:02 17 Jun 2025
and any others who might find this of interest Thought I'd share here following our rather spirited debate a few weeks ago (it's been in most media outlets this am)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-17/reeves-weighs-reversing-non-d
Whether we agree that having wealthy individuals and families paying their tax in the UK is important or that it's somewhat inconsequential as a small piece of the pie, never the less something fairly significant is obviously happening under the surface for this to be considered coming so quickly on the heels of the fuel allowance U turn.
Anecdotally, it was suggested to me that this being considered because they're begun to receive official numbers on the amount of leavers and it's obviously considerably worse than what they or the OBR forecast.
Official numbers won't be released to the public until next year so I have no way of verifying that but would make sense.
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Thread | KoA Ashton Interview: Being a football CEO, not much fun...
at 14:32 12 Jun 2025
Just listened to the KoA interview they just put out with MA. Got me thinking, really is a thankless task being a football CEO vs. many other white collar roles.
MA has been incredibly successful for four years now. Poor guy sounds tired though, exhausted almost. Long summer ahead of being jerked around by agents and player entourages. Long hours. Probably puts a strain on family life and you miss a few milestones along the way I would imagine. And probably the most tiresome of all would be that EVERYBODY, qualified or not, has an opinion on how you could do things better!
To make it analogous to any other "high profile" office role, it's about now when you're feeling totally settled in a role, you've proven yourself beyond doubt. You can get away with rolling in at 0930 on occasion, leave at 5 most days and take a long lunch etc with your team ready to cover. And of course, head off on hols with your family for a couple of weeks - recover and recharge.
The only way I think I could do what he does, is if it was a fixed contract and you had a chunk of equity to participate in any upside success of the business. I guess MA must have some equity but not sure I could do what he does for an unspecified period.
Him, KM and the other staff who all supposedly put in these relentlessly long hours have my total admiration. [Post edited 12 Jun 14:51]
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Thread | Starmer met Jensen Huang today
at 13:45 9 Jun 2025
seems a juxtaposition to woo tech firms and try to make yourself an AI hub when;
a) Energy is so expensive it's unlikely to be a natural center for the AI .
b) So far they have done everything in their power to make it a generally bad deal for entrepreneurs and wealth creators to set up shop here.
Some of the reforms around pensions and getting them to invest domestically and in private markets might help I suppose if you have access to that liquidity.
Other than that I'm not really sure why he's doing it except for the optics. |
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Thread | Harness farewell
at 11:47 4 Jun 2025
nice to hear how his time here changed his life (and ours to some extent!), I assume he also means financially too?
Phil or somebody else would know this better but do hope the likes of Jackson, Ladapo, Harness et al got incremental wage increases as we went through the leagues?
Nice feeling to know the club's success has "changed" the lives of the people who helped us get back to where we are.
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Thread | Retreat East - anyone been?
at 13:00 3 Jun 2025
Hello - my parents have a significant anniversary coming up and are Bury based. As such, want to get them a nice gift.
I'm not local anymore so no idea if it's good but keep seeing "Retreat East" pop up on my socials and in the broadsheets (Sunday Times etc). Online reviews look good too.
Has anybody been? If so, any thoughts? My main concern is it looks quite "trendy" and both my parents are now 70 - so wondering if it's age appropriate or not. Looks to have kind of Soho House vibes almost.
Any help or alternative suggestions gratefully received!
Thanks :) |
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Thread | Trumpenomics
at 08:48 19 May 2025
You have to laugh really.
Comes in telling the world he's going to bring interest rates down to help his base.
Cue enacting a raft of textbook inflationary policies and receiving a rating downgrade on Friday.
30yr treasury through 5% this morning and 10yr back above 4.5%.
Sure we'll hear lots this week about how it's Powell or Biden's fault... [Post edited 19 May 9:35]
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Thread | DeepSeek
at 11:41 27 Jan 2025
Haven't seen this discussed on here as yet.
https://www.cnbc.com/video/2025/01/24/why-chinas-deepseek-is-putting-americas-ai
Keen to hear what any resident tech bods might think about this?
I'm sceptical that they created this for just $5m and didn't have access to Nvidia's high end chips in the process.
But broadly speaking, this does have the potential to be an absolute game changer in AI given it's all open source. [Post edited 27 Jan 11:48]
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Thread | Away fans seating
at 13:11 1 Jan 2025
Firstly HNY to all. May ‘25 bring health, happiness and a 25pt haul second half of the season.
Secondly, had some family who were in the away end the other night. They sent me a pic and had those block 16/17 seats that were literally on the half way line opposite directors box - basically the best seats in the house.
I know what happened with seat moves in summer to accommodate extra away fans, but was it ever explained why they don’t just have half the Churchman’s?
Seems a bit mad to give the away fans such prime seating. |
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Thread | Delap: City's demise bad news for us?
at 11:31 16 Dec 2024
Romford Blue posted a good ITK post recently on Delap and his buy back. Forgot the details but I think he said, it did exist but was for a higher fee than had been touted?
Catching up on the City highlights from yesterday, it's clear they've hit a wall and are in need of a rebuild. Without much in the way of saleable assets (Haaland aside), you would have to assume, as things stand, there is a high likelihood of them coming for Delap in the summer as a cost efficient and versatile option?
Albeit the above is somewhat irrelevant if we go down as we would have no hope of keeping him regardless (I don't think we'll go down though). [Post edited 16 Dec 2024 11:32]
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Thread | McKenna: Watch afficianados
at 14:16 11 Nov 2024
Looks like KM’s ditched his Apple Watch in favour of a stainless steel number this season. Doesn’t look like any of the regular high end watch brands.
Anybody aware of the make/model? |
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Thread | Liverpool St return for Fulham £52!!! Really?!
at 15:59 20 Aug 2024
Don't live in UK but will be in London weekend of Fulham game so am coming to the match.
£52 for the day return from Liverpool St?! Standard class! Like Wtf.
How does anybody who wants to take their kids for example afford that ffs.
(sorry, not really a Football thread I realise) [Post edited 20 Aug 2024 16:00]
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Thread | TNT with BT internet?
at 19:31 16 Aug 2024
Hi All - I see we're on TNT tomorrow which doesn't offer a day pass nor is it on Now TV.
Do you get TNT free with BT internet like you used to get BT Sport? If so my parents have BT internet so I can borrow their login.
The info online is somewhat confusing so if anybody can shed any light that would ideal.
At worst I'll go to a pub but would like to avoid that ideally.
Thanks in advance. |
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Thread | PSR Theory - ORG portfolio
at 10:11 3 Jul 2024
Given that it seems we have bid 30m for the Hull pair and also spent 20m for Omari - I wonder if we may see some clever accounting between the different parts of the ORG/Pension fund portfolio.
From Swiss Ramble and others, sounded like we had about £60m to spend but seems we'll likely blow through that.
Chelsea for example sold their training ground (I assume no money ever exchanged hands) to another company in the Clearlake portfolio. I wonder if we can move assets between other companies in the ORG portfolio? More difficult as we don't own the ground but would make sense from a "clever" accounting point of view.
It's not really cricket in my view but the PL turned a blind eye to everyone else for so long, so why not. Whole thing is a sham anyway because it means the rich clubs stay rich, while we are penalised for being promoted from L1 to Prem in successive years. |
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Thread | Al Hamidi's latest insta post
at 12:01 27 Jun 2024
Maybe I'm getting old but don't really like to see a guy flexing like that who has achieved not much at all. Wearing about 5 different watches in the same video.
All for Burns et al posting fun vids of them in Myko etc but Al Hamidi really looks a bit of a wally.
The alternative view of course is just that I'm old now and no fun. Both explanations equally plausible.
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Thread | Chelsea fans really really don’t want KM
at 08:47 23 May 2024
Protests about Boehly and the board now planned. Which is a big deal given Chelsea have such a placid fan base normally.
KM and his agent appear to have pulled off the remarkable feat of upsetting everyone here but also sounding out a club where the fan base don’t want him either.
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