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Bottom line is you don’t know but that’s seemingly not stopping you getting all bent out of shape about it.

Yes, as I said I over-simplified it but the fact that the Gov will receive 45% taxation from the players wages far exceeds what they would pay SFC employees on the furlough scheme so as we are not taking advantage of it is a massive help to the Gov coffers. Albeit some of that tax might be delayed a few months.

Well I guess either the Government get 45% tax from the players wages or they pay 80% of the salaries so it's a win-win either way. Yes, I've over-simplified it.

Che Adams has posted the PlayersTogether initiative as has Romeu and others so they are doing their bit. Hopefully you are too.

100% this. Somewhat of a curveball from Gao. Interesting.

No, he was doing his bit to support a couple of self-employed ladies too!

By hosting a party?

Really? That was one throw-away comment in an hour+ extensive and detailed update in response to a specific media question.

Saints eye Omar https://apple.news/A6js7tnQzQ06As3iEtJ-JbQ

WBA have released a statement that Austin has NOT tested positive for Coronavirus. He really is some sort of grade A knobber. https://www.skysports.com/football/news/11095/11961147/coronavirus-west-brom-clarify-charlie-austin-has-not-tested-positive

That is exactly the reason.

If it wasn’t so serious I’d find some of these comments comical. The Government are giving advice based on the advice of an extensive array of experts and the response from some seems to be I’m going to ignore that because I’ll get a bit bored. Well, being a tad bored for a few weeks is better than one of the alternative options.

As someone who spends most of his time pointing out the blindingly obvious I’m surprised you didn’t mention to the OP that there is already a 10 page thread running on this topic?

A brief article. Nothing exciting. https://apple.news/ARZH6hB24TxqwGi93h2t5Zw

I thought I was clear. It’s not an issue of not spending money. It’s the right hand not knowing what the left hand is doing. Ralph was working on bringing players in and talking this up whereas, in reality, this was never going to happen with the financial position of the club. Comprende?

If they indeed did it was well into the window as, on more than once occasion, Ralph talked positively about strengthening in the FB areas in particular. Still a shambles whichever way it's dressed up.

Shame the club didn’t tell Ralph who was lining up players to bring in during January. What a shambles.

He hasn't swerved them whatsoever. You stated the only thing Gao has done that fans don't like is not throwing money into the club Benji responded with his reasons. It's not that complicated.

Stephens has a habit of being equidistant from all the opposition in his box. It's uncanny, it's like he's playing his own game of zonal marking but no one told any of his teammates. At times he looks completely disorientated as if he's just played the spinning-the-broom on your head game at a BBQ after a few beers.

If you are the owner or CEO or whatever top dog then you are ultimately responsible for the performance of that asset. Always has been and always will be that way and rightly so.

Let’s say it was on the commercial side.

I don’t think we have any. A good friend of a friend who has a fairly senior role at the club was made redundant very recently. All ties in with the club not doing what Ralph had indicated would happen in January.

People are basing their opinion of Valery on all his games not his horror mistake yesterday. He may well improve, in all likelihood he probably will but he’s not good enough right now. And by the way, Maximin did him pretty much every time yesterday.

https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/sport/18279971.southampton-captain-pierre-emile-hojbjerg-contract-2021/

He has that combination of pace and power that we pretty much struggle with every time we encounter it.