hypochondriac

You'd be forgiven for wondering if some of the players had difficulty last season.

The only risk attached is the importance of him hitting the ground running and not taking toopng to find his feet. With Stewart being uncertain and Archer and Armstrong not necessarily staying, we really need him to perform if we want to go back up.

Martin trying to pass his way out from the back against the likes of Madrid and PSG is going to be fucking funny.

Of course it's not a bad thing. I was only challenging the notion that it was big money for this league. It's really not.

So more than double what we've paid here then.

Quite a short statement on our OS. Can we read anything into that?

You'd only need one incident with a bodycam of a minority being tasered though and there would be riots.

Particularly given how much we spent on Shea Charles last time.

You see whelk, part of the trouble these days is hyperbole and need to dramatise for all those with v short attention spans.

And yet Starmer trumpets a big welfare reform and can't even get it passed in any meaningful form. Hardly a projection of strength or demonstration of his majority.

Fair amount of anecdotal evidence from past MPs that this goes on. I used to know a civil servant (I had to be interviewed as part of his security clearance to get the job.) He said it wasn't really a thing in his department but there were a couple of activists types in more recent times as things got more heated.

Add in the civil servants who seem to just ignore their duty to carry our policy if it's something they don't like, the OBR who seem to dictate what can and can't be done more than the actual government and backbenchers who can just derail government agenda and you're not too wrong. A lame duck government totally incapable of doing anything meaningfully transformative and essentially rearranging the deckchairs on the titanic.

Weirdly I'm in the odd position where I feel a tiny bit sorry for Reeves. Clearly out of her depth but she's tried to do the right thing here and the rest of the labour party has prevented her from doing it. This is clearly going to lead to reasonable tax rises and she will probably get booted out. A depressing state of affairs tbh.

The positives here are that we've got him in quickly and also that he's clearly the main one we want. Should be a good one to judge the new scouting and transfer group on given that on the face of it he doesn't seem like an incredible signing. Lets hope he smashes it.