Farmer Saint

Was it Mohammed by any chance? Outside of that, how many of the other top names were Muslim? I'd guess a lot because otherwise it would just point to a lot of Muslims naming their boys after their prophet, rather than us becoming a Muslim state. Also, how many Muslim girls names were there in the top 100?

An apology would be fine.

You asked, I answered. I think we just disagree on the above then? There's no victory lap here, what I said was going to happen, has happened. You can keep arguing, spinning lies of what I supposedly said without any evidence, it really doesn't matter to me. You do you.

BBD utterly failed at Villarreal, he wasn't going to any other PL team apart from promoted teams, and that is with one eye to a relegation to a division in which he has previously done well. Yep, Delap, another young Championship striker and a bit of an unknown. Potential to get better and grow with the club irrespective of the division. Sounds like the same kind of player. This isn't hindsight by the way, I was saying this last year, hence why all the animosity towards me from the usual suspects.

Does he live on a sub?

Thank you - he's been spinning this lie for ages.

- Archer (only ever played well in the Championship) - BBD (only ever played well in the Championship) - Edwards (only played in L1 and below) - Wood (only played in Championship) - Fernandes (young but forced himself into the first team and now he's going to get a move - and good for him). Downes and THB we had to sign to stand still and provide that core strength. Ramsdale was effectively a loan as we know he's re-sellable for a similar amount.

Here is one of my responses from last year for you, but yes, those players (apart from Ramsdale who was needed to at least give us a chance - not that it helped): Secondly, you're thinking about this too simplisticly - yes it is a trait of yours - but even you should be able to see that we invested in players who we thought could do a job in the Premier League BUT would be unlikely to leave us next season if we went back down. The club probably knew that the likelihood was we'd get relegated, so why not build a strong core of players that we can use next season in the Championship - they will have played together for a season and will obviously know each others games far better. It would make us far stronger for when we come back up (not definite, but you would certainly aspire to judging by Ankersen's philosophy). They are for the most part young, and one thing we tend to know about young players is (a) they tend to be on smaller wages and (b) they tend to get better as their careers evolve. If we stayed up then great, but also if we went down we'd still be within PSR guidelines and we'd have an as strong, or stronger team than the one we got promoted with last time. Ramsdale was an exception, but we know (as does he) if we go down we will sell him and get our money back. I probably don't need to remind you that purchases are amortised over the contract years, but sales count against that year of PSR, giving us greater headroom next season when he is sold.

Here's a relevant part of one of my posts from last November: "Secondly, you're thinking about this too simplisticly - yes it is a trait of yours - but even you should be able to see that we invested in players who we thought could do a job in the Premier League BUT would be unlikely to leave us next season if we went back down. The club knew that the likelihood was we'd get relegated, so why not build a strong core of players that we can use next season in the Championship - they will have played together for a season and will obviously know each others games far better. It would make us far stronger for when we come back up (not definite, but you would certainly aspire to judging by Ankersen's philosophy). They are for the most part young, and one thing we tend to know about young players is (a) they tend to be on smaller wages and (b) they tend to get better as their careers evolve. If we stayed up then great, but also if we went down we'd still be within PSR guidelines and we'd have an as strong, or stronger team than the one we got promoted with last time. Ramsdale was an exception, but we know (as does he) if we go down we will sell him and get our money back. I probably don't need to remind you that purchases are amortised over the contract years, but sales count against that year of PSR, giving us greater headroom next season when he is sold."

Literally never said that. Find those posts and I will relent, but otherwise I'm calling bullshit.

But I didn't say that.

I know you like to think you're clever, but you're clearly not as clever as you like to think you are. I have explained all this before to you in the simplest way I possible could - go back and read it and stop trying to be the forum enforcer that you think you are 😂

Literally never said that once. What I said was that they knew we couldn't compete due to the financial situation from the previous season and the effect from PSR, and that fed into the transfer strategy last Summer for us to sign the majority of players who would stay with us and enable us for 2025/2026. You didn't understand it then, and you still don't seem to understand it now.

The funniest thing is, this isn't really up for debate. I KNOW this was part of the strategy last year.

Glad to see people are finally coming around to what I widely told people last Summer - a lot of our signings were based on the fact that we thought we were going down. Shame it just took so long for everyone else to catch up.

£39bn over 10 years to increase the building of Social and Affordable housing. Good start, but will it be enough? We are in need of so much social housing.

Should move them to the UK then - we are apparently (according to people on the right) turning into a Muslim state anyway.

Still a bit young for you isn't she?

Absolutely - they will sack him very early on this season.

Is this not just the removal of zero hour contracts?

Not sure how much help £300 really is though - my energy bill from beginning of Nov to end of Feb was £2200...not sure £300 really touches the sides.

Honestly, I don't know enough about Will Still and his tactics to judge.

I disagree. He is a system player IMO.

They sold Gray and Rutter for a combined £80m, but you'd prefer Will Smallbone and Che Adams. Fair enough.

I'm indeed looking at it - ta!