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Nah that can't be right is it? When a player first arrives, I can see them putting a player up for 3 months until they work out where they want to live, but the club isn't responsible for the long term housing of grown adults, surely?

The way the age verification was presented to me on Bluesky, I think most people will just click through it without even thinking twice, honestly. People are fucking thick man, and most people just think "I'm not doing anything wrong so who cares what they do with my data."

You say that, but look at the data creep at places like Facebook, and for most people there is zero curiosity whatsoever about what is being held by these people and what they're doing with it. As long as they can post pictures of their dinner and like their grandkids' photos, most people don't give a fuck.

In my case, it would be pretty fucking stupid because the company I work for intentionally doesn't have the office space for all of the staff cos they're happy that we mostly work remotely. They've probably got 50 desks for 250 people. I doubt it would come to that though, they'd likely find a way to come for "retail" VPNs (Nord, Ipvanish, Surfshark, etc) instead of corporate ones. Or just make retail VPNs 18+ if the concern really is children and not just data harvesting. I suspect this backbencher comment will just go nowhere though. Absolutely unreal that they didn't consider this though.

People will continue to find their way around these things. Doesn't matter what they come up with next. They'd be sensible to just leave it alone now. Making a VPN illegal ffs. Just get fucked, Labour.

Sounds to me like Rayvin is on the side of extreme pornographers.

Exactly, and if we do end the window signing only Ramsdale, it won't be BECAUSE we signed Ramsdale.

https://www.nytimes.com/athletic/6516756/2025/07/28/benjamin-sesko-newcastle-alexander-isak-analysis/ Just in case we actually get this deal done, here's a bit on what to expect.

"the lad that got Southampton relegated". You're right though Craig, I'd put them all on a level with Steve Bruce.

Yeah, we should check if Allison is available on loan with an option to buy. Good shout.

Watkins has to be the more attractive option for them surely. They don't want another raw prospect after the Hojlund experiment.

You want to get it on the big telly man.

The Man United rumours as well. That Laurie Whitwell who works for the Athletic and is as clued up as anyone on what those pricks are up to.... he reckons their business for the summer is done, so hopefully the rumours about them sniffing around Sesko are just agent talk.

We don't though. We have a keeper of 33 and another of 36 and then no one any of us would ever want to see start a game. We're sigining a 27 year old to address that. Total no brainer.

There's been too much noise from multiple sources for the Sesko stuff not to be true. That cunt Romano was on yesterday saying that we've made a very strong presentation to the player about the project etc. I think he's a prick and I think he's an agent of chaos on behalf of big clubs/agents, but I also think there's clear evidence that we are in talks with player and club. And at the same time sorting the Ramsdale thing.

Honestly, one of Australia's finest. You've come a long way since Joseph, although I still wouldn't trust you around knives.

That's when it was at its absolute worst.

Aye it has and they're trying to make some effort to come up with a solution for the fact that we missed out on one of those expensive targets, and people are just moaning about it because that's the default for everything that happens now.

Exactly. Aye we've got loads of keepers but you wouldn't want any of them to start a game other than Pope or Dubravka. Dubravka is 36 and approaching the end of his career. It's a perfectly sensible move to replace him this window for minimal cash outlay and with no obligation to even buy the replacement if it doesn't work out. What were seeing here is the CLEAR evidence of tbd's excessive drug use in the 90s. And it's very worrying.

And what if Dubravka has indicated he wants to leave? Honestly people are just hoying wobblers for the sake of it with some of this stuff.

We're clearly simultaneously in talks with Leipzig and Sesko though. There's no suggestion that we've put our best men on Ramsdale and everything else will have to wait.

So we don't replace the keeper that turns 37 during the season unless the replacement is also better than Pope? There's fucking loads to moan about at the minute but getting Ramsdale in on loan is WAY down the list.

Today's sensible UK political discourse is that Labour are saying Farage is taking the side of "extreme pornographers" over children.

I don't know, who knows who's right. It's not like anyone has spoken to or heard from Eales in months.

Waugh says Eales is still working for the club btw.