Farmer Saint

That and patella tendon. ACL is run of the mill now...

As presumably a lower earner, and the guarantee of £40m next summer (with a presumed lower %age sell on clause), if SR are happy to try to fund with a lack of high profile sales, then do it.

Well, luckily The Sun won't come out of this very well. Seems like he has suffered a mental episode from this, and as someone who has suffered previously I don't wish it on anybody. However, I think the more serious mental episode is the previous near-noncery (and this brings up the more serious discussion of whether paedophilia is a mental illness).

Fuck - I thought it was Jennie Bond. Can't imagine anyone thought it was him.

Insane signing.

Bloody hell - this has all gone a bit sideways!

I would be very surprised if it weren't though, wouldn't you be? News presenters with pictures of themselves with their pants around their ankle's.

Can anyone guess Huw it is yet?

I'll bow to your greater knowledge on noncery.

Got to be underage to be a nonce, surely?

It depends if you're expecting him to be first team from the get-go. Otherwise age is the most relevant part for development of a player.

Apparently they finished so far down in the League due to their keeper being utter shite.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2023/jun/27/corporate-profits-driving-up-prices-ecb-president-christine-lagarde So, apparently the biggest driver of inflation over the last year is corporate profits, passing on more than the increased costs to the consumer. Capitalism needs to give it's fucking head a wobble.

But why would you think people would want to buy the dross, and not the good players? That literally makes no sense.

£20m plus a year on loan and it's probably worth it given what he's coming back from. I'm assuming if this is the case we're stumbling on people coming up with the money for KWP. It's also early in the transfer window, they always low-ball early on.

I like Raynor, great norks.

I have never said that Labour shortages do not contribute to rising inflation though?

It should have a short to mid term impact. There will be a lag of course, but it tends to be about a quarter of a year to start seeing the results. Not quite sure what you are getting at with the above?

Shit, isn't it, but that's what happens when all your eggs are in one basket? I think Sunak is a self-serving, caniving little shit, and I will happily criticise him for any little thing he does wrong, but he's on a hiding to nothing with this one. BoE raising interest rates and making those with mortgages poorer isn't going to help.

Not in this situation, no. The price rises are not due to excess spending, it's *mainly* due to fuel and supply chain costs increasing. Normally I would say yes, but as you can see since the BoE started increasing interest rates it's had no effect - supply chain has been screwed since Covid, but the fuel increase since the start of the Russia war has done the most damage, and a lack of spending in the economy is not going to surpress this, it's only going to send us into recession (BTW, always seen as a very scary word, but with the Labour shortages in the UK since Brexit actually not a big deal ATM - I think they call that a Brexit benefit).

Gotta love democracy eh? https://www.instagram.com/reel/Ct1vMiMqrIY/?igshid=MTI1ZDU5ODQ3Yw==

Of course there are, it's a macro problem. My point is that interest rate rises won't fix them, and never was going to.

Unfortunately I don't think a lot of you are getting this. All that raising interest rates will do is cause a recession - it won't quell interest rates due to the rises being caused by EXTERNAL factors. There is nothing that can be done, this damage is due to the privatisation of the utilities, and the fact that we import so many products. The BOE has to be seen to be doing something, and this is the only statutory instrument they have. But it won't work. Nothing will. This is what happens when you don't make stuff, and you don't have control of your utilities. Unfortunately, Economics for Dummies won't help you here.

People are still spending, but I don't think it's out of control. Butter isn't £5 a pot because we're buying too much of it. It's largely irrelevant - it's not going to make a difference to inflation - it's just not related to the reason we've got inflation.

Unfortunately this is not the way to deal with this type of inflation - they're using the good old 1970's rhetoric of increasing interest rates as there is "too much" money in the economy. There isn't. The issue is that due to external factors, the war in Ukraine being one, the increase in fuel prices is being felt across the whole economy, through costs increasing. There is nothing you can do about this, except to wait until those costs to subside. That should bring about a fall back to the natural levels of product pricing, but not sure we're going to see this as this would lead is into negative inflation, which brings it's own issues. The reason we're being affected so much is due to our reliance on imported energy and an abundance of imported goods. This would not be an issue if we actually created our own energy, or made our own stuff, but this country doesn't do either enough. The only thing the BoE is doing, is driving down house prices (which will have a small effect on the inflation measure that includes these), but apart from that, nothing else. People aren't frivolously spending money, so increasing interest rates is not the instrument to use.