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You can use that picture when you need me. 🤣

Well I’m sat in Gran Canaria, with slight sunburn and a missing bag but as a man engaged to be married. If you want to donate to the Strawb wedding fund, please let me know

AP will have trouble with that as well.

That is absolutely no way to talk to PaddockLad.

Look at it this way, if ASM played for another club then would Eddie Howe be interested in signing him? No chance.

Did she say no,then? Congratulations.

What's it say? Can't read french

FYP

Definitely a saleable asset. And add that his sale goes against the wishes of the board's biggest pain in the ass. And LTA likes him too. What's not to like?

This a new level....the stats-nerds arguing over semantics.

Congratulations! (Your lass is organising the next kids/poo/parents chat get together as we speak now you're going to be part of the family).

Parkin

Is that the Yorkshire Putin in the bottom right hand corner?

That’s a new one on me Dave , very apt though

I can't believe I wrote in Spanish ahahahahaha Sorry. Should be the 40º we have in Madrid today.

Another Viz one but specifically for Wyki this time:

Sorry CT, your Mug venture isn’t Stayin’ Alive if we follow Barry’s top tip.

Probably but as others have said he's our only saleable asset and sometimes you have to sell your better players for even better players who will take you forward

This is the same as people posting those wordle things last year. Don't understand it, couldn't give a fuck either.

Strawb needs a donation 👍

How about cracking down on private schools you fucking nonce

Congratulations! We'll get CT to send you a selection of his finest cryptocurrencies.

This is an unacceptable about face from you. You gave me endless shit because of my defence of Robert, Ben Arfa and ASM. Derided as a romantic, mocked as a lover of all things fancy, but now I've accepted that what is best for the club and the player is a change, you're wanting him to stay?! Outrageous.

She doesn’t like watching you play

He failed in his remit, but I won't hold it against him. He took himself out of the argument by admitting he couldn't be objective. The topic is I think ASM is our most saleable, least integral player. Your position is that he's irreplaceable (either directly, or in the aggregate). Diego said that he can't speak objectively, so would forgive him his failings because he likes watching him play. I don't have this problem with my wife, because she knows her place.

I'm a fan of ASM, I love watching him play. However he's our most saleable, least integral player. I respect that Diego rates him, but he admits he's not objective. If selling ASM brought in players that better fit Howe's system Diego would be on board while you're still cry-wanking over ASM's highlight video.

Cheers for reminding me, I forgot to let the lads in the guitar thread know I can’t read music but don’t give a fuck anyway.

Congrats strawb mate, just be sure to put pics up of the happy event so we can feel more involved and definitely not be nosey bastards making judgmental comments about your new missus

I don't think they've done anything wrong, I think the timing is just serendipitous. A season before, or after and they would have been fucked.

Plus he's the only one of the old guard we'd get a decent fee for.

Looks like he's got a good build for his age. He's only 17 and he's got to be about 6ft and not slight at all. Hopefully see him and Anderson get some game time this season.

Handbags at half-mast.

I guess CT isn’t having too much fun with a camper van in France…

Kev. Call him Kev.

I don't even seriously think I could say his name out loud.

I’d be more against it if I didn’t believe that FFP was a total heap of fucking bullshit that was designed purely to keep the established elite in place. When you look at how little we get from the CL compared to others and the minor punishments Manchester United and teams like that receive for breaking FFP it just shows how nonsensical the whole thing is. FWIW I think multi club ownership is one of the biggest threats to fairness, but kind of how KD mentions other clubs do it, while not directly funding a purchase of a top player they’re strengthening - the fee paid for Sesko was a joke for example, the Harrison and Mooy deals both of which were sold on for huge profits. Brighton and Villa have both been called out by UEFA, Arsenal and clubs like it historically used their status and sometimes minor ownership to funnel African prospects into their club using that ability to get around visa requirements. Watfords owners have had great success (comparatively) pushing players from Udinese to Watford which allowed them to get into the PL. My preference would be that you flat out can’t own multiple clubs, but similarly to FFP it’s suited the elite so until they get rid of it fuck them. I also don’t think ASM going there for £40m is ridiculous, no more so than other deals (Neves got similar) it’s not like they’re planning to buy Hendricks for £100m or something.

Going to say it now…despite PiF blatantly helping Chelsea out earlier in the window I think it’s an incredibly bad look for us to sell anyone to a Saudi club owned by PiF. If it were another club we’d all criticise it to say the least . I don’t think our owners have done much wrong since they’ve bought us, the shit that’s been chucked our way has been largely jealousy. This is different, it’s gaming to gain an advantage in the transfer market. All that being said, if we end up with one of the best young attacking talents on the planet in kvaratskhelia my principles will very likely be out the fucking window the moment I’m in a football ground and see him in a black and white shirt

Are ve ze goodies?

WTF is Parkin? (Usual anti-CT comment about Google but fuck it)

I'll answer this even though I don't like to get into controversial topics too much, but I'm just going to give information that I think is important for people to understand in order to understand the situation and make their own judgement. It is very difficult to seal a man guilty of rape. Only 1.3% of world cases end with the man as the culprit. Because? Because they are usually just testimonials, one against the other. In the case of Mendy, the court has charged him 'Not Guilty', which is not the same as 'Innocent'. Innocent means that you have done nothing and that there is evidence to prove it. 'Not Guilty' means that there are indications that you are guilty and there are indications that you have done something wrong, but they cannot really be proven or the evidence has been presented after the deadline, or in a wrong way in court or simply they are not strong enough. (To get an idea, Greenwood has also been declared a 'Not Guilty' free man and I think we've all seen the videos where he beats up her wife and the audios where he threatens to kill her). Or we have seen how Robinho has a final sentence to go to jail in Italy for raping a woman, but he has fled to Brazil, how Santi Mina has a sentence to go to jail for raping another woman, and has not entered. Fooball Leaks revealed many years ago the contract that Cristiano Ronaldo made to a woman for raping her in the US and the money he paid her to drop the accusation. Are they innocent men? No. But they have not served their sentence for different reasons. (In fact, CR cannot enter the US today for fear of going to jail). For example, Derrick Rose (NBA Player) was accused of rape many years ago by two women and, after many trials, he was able to prove his innocence and be found 'Not Guilty'. I have not followed Mendy's case too closely, and here I am going to give my opinion (which is useless, but it is my position and what I believe without having any evidence) but it seems very strange to me that 8-10 or 12 women on different dates and who do not know each other have denounced the player. I think that in a while, something will happen to him again (in fact, he went to prison because when he was being investigated, he invited women to his home despite the fact that he was prohibited from doing so by the UK court).

https://www.perthnow.com.au/news/offbeat/us-food-and-drug-administration-report-revealed-mri-dislodged-butt-plug-into-patients-abdomen--c-11302673

Luk as-Ramsa-u-Er was probably first to break the story. Just after reporting about LIV approved golf courses.

Yeah, on reflection I guess that was an inevitable series of follow up posts

I think I saw that the club gave him a media pass and suddenly he thinks he’s Henry Winter.