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Everyone must rate him highly all around for this sort of deal, though I'd reckon it's probably heavily performance dependent knowing us? What must be the buy back, I'd would have to be in the £60 million at least. Also think this is going to need him to want to push for this for first team football. I mean he must see Haaland, barely two years older than him and think first team football is not going to be on the horizon for a while and probably saw last year with no real strikers, but still no real opportunities as further confirmation of that.

Looks like he scores quite a few goals there against Kelleher there doesn't he? Who Klopp raves about and has made a fair few appearances for Liverpools first team.

Aouar is pretty well known to be fair, IIRC the guy was in the last few years being linked with big moves to the likes of Liverpool and Arsenal. Seems to have not quite lived up to his early promise and had issues with his coaches. He's in the last year of his contract as well.

And? Your points are irrelevant, I didn't say the issues were 'exclusively' caused by Brexit, I said they were made worse by Brexit and that is completely unnecessary and self inflicted, as opposed to the other issues outside the control of the UK government. Dumb point is dumb, the same dumb point Brexiteers have been making for years when any issues around Brexit are pointed out, it's always 'whataboutism' and blaming something else or someone else, as we see with the current issues at Dover, it's the fault of the French, except really it isn't, its the dumb choice we made to leave the EU. 'Choices made by the EU' LMAO, you mean the 3rd party checks we helped shape and signed off on when we were EU members. Literally done under a Tory government, we agreed to these rules and even helped design them, and now we are complaining they are being applied to us, when we CHOSE to be outside the EU. You are literally blaming the EU for treating us a non-EU member, like it wasn't effing obvious that would happen and we knew EXACTLY what that would mean and the issues it would cause.

Not really democracy when the majority of the electorate didn't vote for the ruling party.

Basically an example of what the ERG driven Tory party wants the country to become, a corporate paradise with no workers rights, environmental protections, taxes on the rich, hiring cheap agency staff on zero hour contracts, no food standards or animal welfare standards. Completely unfettered and unregulated capitalism. This is why we had to leave the EU, because EU rules protected rights, protected the environment, protected workers, protected animals, protected food standards and they were (as the referendum was being pushed) introducing laws to stop corporations avoiding tax in the countries they did business.

https://www.theguardian.com/business/video/2022/jul/22/drone-footage-shows-huge-queues-at-dover-port-video So why are the queues at Folkestone? It's a pure and simple Brexit issue because the checks were not needed under Brexit. Doug Bannister you say? - https://twitter.com/implausibleblog/status/1550550764053008384?ref_src=twsrc^google|twcamp^serp|twgr^tweet Brexit is clearly a contributing factor to ALL these issues, shortages of food, lack of lorry drivers, lack of staff for airports, increased checks at borders, inflation, poor recovery of the economy, etc. etc. All of this was predicted and dismissed as 'Project Fear' but it was predicted by sensible, knowledgeable academics and experts in their fields. It was dismissed by biased, ignorant right wing newspapers and leave politicians, most of whom did not know what they were talking about or in many cases were just flat out lying as that 'leave' advert above shows, just flat out lies based on ignorance. There is only so long this blame game can go on, first it was the pandemic, that can't be blamed anymore, now it's the war in Ukraine, at some point down the line it will have to accepted that the major issues with this country have been caused by or have been made worse by BREXIT and the people that voted for it, the people that engineered it, that pushed for it will have to accept that reality before we can actually fix it. Because you cannot fix problems if won't acknowledge what is causing them.

Chelsea don't have any strikers though, and seemingly want to get rid of Werner (but are having issues with people taking his wages) so Broja could quite easily play there if Tuchel likes him and they basically only have Havertz up front. It also doesn't make such sense we still are in for him when we are signing Mara and still apparently putting in bids for Delap.

Still seems to me that Mara is the second option after Delap. Man City don't seem to want to sell Delap and presumably contract situations means they can hold onto him more easily?

Key line from this as well - "As members of the European Union we helped to draw up the rules for “third-country nationals"" We literally agreed to and developed the rules that we are now forcing upon ourselves and are now complaining about them. It reminds of the Daily Express article a while back where 'readers' where outraged at the £6 visa charge they now had to pay, again something the UK literally helped come up with and agreed to.

I read something about it last year where basically Dover had to put traffic calming measures on average maybe 5-6 times a year, and it's basically now increased to them having to do it way way more often, this was happening in January, and they were saying they'd never had queues in the quieter times of the year.

Thanks, it does just baffle me how ordinary people vote for the Tories, what they think they are getting out of it. I might get like very wealthy people voted for less taxes etc. but normal working people, just don't get it, do they just read one newspaper and believe everything it says? I have an uncle, he's basically the facebook uncle meme in real life, constantly posting stuff about Brexit or how good Johnson is, the guy has worked on the railways most of his life, never been well off, struggled with illness and disability, yet somehow thinks private school educated millionaires have his best interests at heart.

I think he'd be a solid signing, especially for the price, but don't seem to be too many links about and most recent ones are talking about a move to Utd or him running down his contract to move on a free.

There are no Ings transfer rumours about as far as I can see, let alone to us.

The last links basically said he wasn't interested in coming to us.

On the actual topic, the tory MPs have elected the two people probably the least electable. They are about as incompetent as Boris, they backed Boris for years, they served in his government, have made countless amounts of gaffs of their own and neither has 'lovable buffoon' act Boris cons member of the public with. Starmer will own Truss in PMQs, she is not bright nor is she a very good public speaker, as previous speeches have shown (apples and cheese anyone, long pause for effect, would highly recommend the 'room next door' parody videos of her speeches btw). 12 years of Conservative government that has failed the country and led to the mess we are currently in and they have played a huge role in it, how can it be a 'new start', is anyone going to believe that when they basically had been there the whole time? And both them are pitching absolute bonkers policies, I presume directed at the bonkers conservative party members, the group that is like 65% white, over 50, male, wealthy and lives in the south of england, but is completely meaningless to the rest of the country and the issues we face. Still blindly backing Brexit, still backing the absurd Rwanda plan, pledging tax cuts with cloud cuckoo land money, still talking about trickle down economics which didn't work 40 years ago and won't work now. The only candidate that had a smidgeon of hope of winning a general election was Tugendhat, not really associated with the Johnson government, far more centre-right than his colleagues, has his war record to elevate him which generally plays well with conservative voters (and not a made up one like Mordaunt) and generally looked competent in a government full of incompetent ministers who are really bad at their jobs. Hilariously he is one of the first they voted out. Labour must be loving it at the moment, they have voted out all the people that might have posed them any threat, the debates have been an absolute disaster and just highlight to the country how awful the options are and the tories are in general. Would like to see them get some good policies out there soon but at the moment they don't need to much but watch the Tory party shoot themselves in the foot over and over. I fully predict the final two debates are going to be just as damaging for the tories, Sunak and Truss seem to have played the dirtiest campaigns and seem to truly dislike each other.

Er what? Do you lack the ability to read basic facts because you clearly completely no clue what the hell you are talking about. You do get Boris wasn't fined over the cake, it has nothing to do with the cake, despite how many times it was mentioned. He was fined for specific social events that people were invited to and that he was present at that clearly broke the law. Sunak exactly the same. There were no fines for the cake event. Despite the Daily Mail trying smear Starmer for days and days (absurdly going for 7 front pages in a row) they were not smart enough to realise that one of the countries best legal minds was not going to have broken lock down rules (unlike the blonde haired buffoon) despite how many sons of tory donors trespassed to get video of it. They were campaigning, last time I checked that is their job, they went to Durham to support an election campaign in a key area, worked all day and ate some food, pretty obvious that zero lockdown breaches occurred as similar things were likely happening all over the country in various offices. Whereas there were MULTIPLE purely social events, invited social events in no.10, involving no.10 staff and involving the PM. I mean he literally sacked his one of his communications people for joking about the parties. You do also get why the Daily Mail tried this desperate attempt to smear on Starmer and Raynor? Because they know that Boris is a corrupt criminal and they know that most of the country knows it and knows that whilst they were obeying rules, not seeing loved ones, talking to dying relatives via video call he was giving zero f*cks and was partying the night away. The Daily Mail knew there was no way to save his reputation (what little he had left anyway) so they desperately tried the 'all politicians are the same act' and tried to smear Starmer and Raynor as being 'just the same as Boris' except it massively back fired on them because Starmer and Raynor are not at all like Boris and have some honour and respect for the British people and said they would resign if they were fined, unlike Boris. As for putting 'pressure on the police', LMAO, you have literally parroted a Daily Mail headline right there, they Daily Mail came out with that nonsense line when their dumb smear attempt back fired on them when Starmer said he'd resign, i.e. do the honourable thing unlike the bozo they back. The people who actually pressurised the police and wasted police time with a pointless investigation that had already been settled, WAS THE DAILY MAIL AND THE RIGHT WING PRESS. You basically have on the one hand a serial liar, serial adulterer, corrupt, lazy, never worked for anything in his life old etonian boys network bully and on the other one of the top lawyers in the country, a human rights barrister, literally knighted by the queen and you somehow think the latter is more 'sinister' than the former. Seriously read more than the daily mail or the sun, educate yourself, you come across as staggeringly ignorant of reality. The Conservative party and in particular Boris Johnson, and all the media that back them, don't give a flying F about people like you, they just want power and money, so they say whatever they can to distract you from their power grab and money grab.

We have now become a national embodiment of the Homer meme where he says 'this is everybody's fault but mine'. Even the bloody BBC, so scared of the licence fee being taken away just repeat the government's nonsense verbatim with zero pushback. We have turned into a nation of spoilt children, always blaming something else. Let's blame the French for having a border and putting on border checks, despite knowing full well this would happen when outside the EU and that we chose to do this. It's only going to get worse when the biometric checks come in as well.

Was supposedly joining Monaco but now linked with Dortmund and West Ham, and yeh I'd expect his wage demands are going to high. Probably his peak big move money and he's been linked with big moves for years.

How is he a 'bloody good player' based on what exactly? Again he's had one good spell of form lasting in reality about 10 games (he even trailed off towards the end of his west ham loan) in the last what 4 years or so, his last decent season for Utd was back in 17/18. Joe Willock had a similar bit of form for Newcastle on loan, they signed him permanently and turned out to be pretty to meh last year. Lingaard did exactly the same, returned to basically his level last year with Utd. If he's a 'bloody good player' how come he barely played for Utd last year, a bad Utd team, and when he did he did very little? If he's a 'bloody good player' how come he's ended up at newly promoted Forest, being out of contract and available for free for pretty much a month? He could have been signed by clubs back in January on a pre-contract, seems odd that is so called 'bloody good player' has been ignored by most decent football clubs across the world despite being available on a free. If he would 'improve anyone outside the top 4 teams.' how come no other PL club has bothered with him?, as MLG said, Man Utd ditched him, didn't see Arsenal, Spurs, Leicester, Wolves etc. all queuing up for him.

I don't agree, but we'll see. Personally I think Forest have just signed a giant a-hole of a player on an absurdly high wage that is hardly known for his professionalism, who as someone above said seems to be more interested in off field bling and looking good on instagram, great assets for newly promoted team likely to be a in relegation fight. Everything about the deal screams over paid mercenary to me.

I would if it was an actual good player but not that overgrown kid who has basically traded his whole career on basically being an up and coming Man Utd talent, whilst never actually reaching any real level. IMO if he'd come through at a championship club he'd likely be very much at one now and have got nowhere near the England team. Another one in a long line of massively over rated youth products from a big club IMO. Danny Welbeck with a bigger ego.

Who supposedly has an offer from West Ham. Also I know some people run for the hills when XG is mentioned but IIRC he had an XG of around 5.6 and scored 6 goals, which generally means he took the limited amount of chances he got. (and obviously an under performing side will not create a huge amount)

He's the attacking midfield version of Tom Cleverly, one great half season in the last 5 years doesn't make a quality player imo and if he was good how come he couldn't get into a bad Man Utd team last year. £200k a week is a hilarious waste of money, you also have to wonder about his motivation and how big his ego is asking for that amount. I wonder what the rest of that dressing room will think when that joker turns up and is apparently 'worth' like 4 to 5 times what the rest of them are being paid, could easily see that cause them issues alone.

I think he is, they seem to be saying his best position is attacking-mid or playing off the right onto his left foot. But yes I'd still like another no.10, you'd think we would have to start shifting some squad players to afford more signings though, unless SR have given us a bigger kitty to just go spend £70-80 million without selling. Another striker, a new no.10 and a back up right back would be what 9 incomings and at similar price values pushing £80 million plus spend (presuming the right back is a loan for cover).