Rayvin

To The Fish He had been suffering in silence over in the Yes Gemmill thread, but he makes a fair point - as is tradition, I will apologise on behalf of everyone for missing this auspicious day. Hope you had a good one mate

He's a kid with a toy. We're just something he can take an occasional interest in. Why anyone would think he's a focused and mature enough individual to properly run a football club against a backdrop of some of the shit he gets up to at SD is beyond me. When/if Benitez goes, it will be because Ashley woke up one morning and decided he wanted to 'have a say' on some random aspect of the club that he should be nowhere near being involved with.

Well played.

It's after tax though. They'd need to be paying him something close to £1m/week to match that.

I actually think a good case could be made for women running the world. Part of that case would be the realisation that they're no better at it than men, and that we could all finally move past fucking identity politics, but who knows - it might well be better. It can't get much worse I just don't want to pay reparations for things I've never been part of, to women who were never affected by them

Hard to imagine even City paying him that much...

Seriously? SJW marketing is a big selling point atm apparently. There's an article in the Guardian today about what the world would be like if women ruled it, and one of the cited authors mentions that men would pay reparations to women for centuries of historical abuse and undervaluation of female work at home. The world we live in

I probably am, I just recall reading something about the plight of Sunderland, and how their financial mismanagement over 3 years was going to make it very difficult for them to manoeuvre in the championship. I think FFP considers the loss made by the club over a three year period - so I guess it would depend how financially stable Everton have been for the past two years.

That is horrific.

He can't be enjoying it ffs. Also, he presumably does actually have dementia then? Even if it's mild.

Yeah but if the concern is FFP, don't they essentially have 3 years to sell them?

If they don't sell them they're going to be a force to be reckoned with. Albeit a financially unstable one.

Apparently we've bid 40m for Bas Dost, but have been turned down because Sporting want 60m As if.

Thing is, it won't even be that cordial. He'll just shuffle under the table while someone is midway through a presentation on the budget and start snoring.

The Tories are going to struggle on regardless man. They always fucking do. There is no chance in hell they're going to allow Corbyn a solid chance at winning.

I'm not changing sides at all What side have I changed from and to here? I'm just speculating that from a strategic point of view, such a move may be favourable. I've always been pro EU... As for the MSM ranting, there's a time and a place really. And I think there's been a shift in the discourse anyway - we need to give it some time to develop.

That's potentially a good thing though, isn't it? If they're turning to the Lib Dems, it must be to try and cancel out the hardline Brexiters. If that's the case, then actually, I'd support the Lib Dems being involved in some form. If only to give us a softer Brexit. Hard to see how the Dems could support anything that isn't the Tories turning around and saying they're going to cancel article 50 though, given what they campaigned on.

For what? I thought they had their arrangement in place?

Hope the kid manages to have a reasonably undamaged childhood at least...

We're finally signing someone, it's a start

This is what we're reduced to talking about in the transfer activity thread ffs

This man runs our football club...

I'm actually starting to think we should dispense with democracy altogether. It's not a strength, that much is clear.