Gemmill

Aye Chelsea getting Saudi money definitely hasn't helped us, but on the plus side Chelsea are gonna be absolutely fucking wrecked by Christmas. We could almost certainly up our bid as well btw. If we don't it'll be cos we don't agree with the valuation.

If he wants to go the Chelsea, there's nowt we can do about it. It sounds like his agent knew Chelsea were interested and the player was happy to wait until they came to the table. Us getting a bid accepted by Brighton would only have brought Chelsea in earlier. Although quite what "intensified talks" means, I don't know. Sounds like Romano being a tit again to me.

That's fairly standard for valuation of a business - to base it on the future revenue. They're looking at the growth of the women's game and coming up with £200m. On the plus side, that means we can do the same thing. It matters less that we're not currently a successful women's team if the accepted valuation by the PL is that you can base it on future growth of the women's sport. It's really frustrating that Chelsea are getting away with all this, and with every move they pull, they're undermining the whole idea of PSR to the point where changes HAVE to be coming. But the other thing to bear in mind is that they're gonna run out of things that they can sell. The hotels, the women's team, you can only sell these things once. Eventually reality will bite and they'll be just like every other team, albeit with a lot of playing assets that they can trade. But if they're overpaying for them, even that might not work out for them. I just hope they don't win anything significant in the interim.

Pleased to hear you're alright btw. The one stop shop stuff they do for bollock and tit scans these days are a brilliant change though, where you leave knowing the story. Instead of having to go home wondering what the lad on the ultrasound saw and wait for a letter, like it used to be. I reckon they just got one look at the captain of team handsome and thought fuck it I'm getting a look at his balls too.

Mine was an old @mac.com address from where I had a mac laptop in 2005 or something.

It's all just a distraction piece from how badly their bollocks are gonna get flicked next season. They've got another 8 weeks or so of "mag shirts" and "sunlun's global reach" to talk about before their fucking world falls apart.

"The player would prefer a move to London" apparently. If that's right, I hope he crashes and burns for those bellends.

I still think it's outrageous that he was jailed for something that happened on a football pitch. Probation or not.

When I had the finger up the arse just before Christmas, he kept pressing really hard and going "and that doesn't hurt?"...... "errr no, I mean it's not nice but it doesn't hurt" which he just seemed to take as a personal insult and tried again "..... That's not hurting?!" As close to being finger fucked as I've ever been.

Did the video from this week of Dan Burn on that High Performance Podcast get posted? He was saying Howe contacted people to try and determine whether Burn's mates could be a bad influence on him if he returned home. So I'd assume he will have done similar with Elanga, Pedro etc. Also on Pedro, people are worried about his attitude etc. If Howe is prepared to buy him, it's cos he thinks he can deal with that.

Fixed. 👍 Cheers Andrew.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2025/jun/27/keir-starmer-says-he-deeply-regrets-island-of-strangers-speech Here you go Renton, he regrets the immigration speech. Too busy trying to sound like an immigration hard lad to actually stop and think about the words that were coming out of his gob.

Nah it's the plant just like normal. It's illegal to smoke it but you use a vape.

I'm on medical grade baby. You haven't had a conversation with a doctor until you've heard them say the words "green kush" with a straight face.

I suspect we just need to check your washing line. White y-fronts, yellow map of Africa.

Agreed, I don't know what anyone is seeing in that piece of shit. It looks like a Sunday league top.

We're buying the players Howe wants, and I imagine he would prefer to get proven PL players in given the season we're about to have. Bringing players in from abroad means extra time and extra work to get them ready for the PL.

It might be the teams were buying from though. Bruno, Trips, Botman, Isak all came from clubs that the likes of Ornstein aren't plugged into. Trying to buy from other PL clubs turns up the noise.

Ah sorry, the way I read your post was as speculation / pure made up nonsense about no mark players at no mark clubs.

All of that was still happening when Staveley was here. All of the rumour and shit. Nowt has changed there.

I refuse to believe anyone on here was shitting themselves that we hadn't signed anyone at the beginning of June.

Nice tribute to County Durham.

They're fucking doolally. This season is gonna be fucking amazing.

I was on your estate the other day IN SHORTS. You're lucky you weren't out with your dog otherwise you'd have had a wet daydream.

I enjoyed the Geordie Journos episode where one of them branded Romano "a tit".