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Those players, bar Sulemana, are proven second tier/non-EPL players, Aribo starred in Rangers title win and Europa League run, scoring in the final. He has a market - perhaps Rangers again, bigger Turkish clubs, maybe Greece’s sides in European competitions. Bednarek’s release fee is only £6m - he is off. Jack has a broken wrist, AA scored 23 goals odd last time out and even Smallbone is a decent Champ midfielder in a central trio, if that’s the formation Still prefers. If he wants a two then Will probably leaves on a nominal fee but clubs at our level will want him. It’s the likes of Larios and Bazunu who will be harder to shift as they’ve been injured and/or had terrible loan spells. They’ll be wage write offs on loan I should think for the rest of their contracts. BBD is tricky to assess - three rank spells at his last three clubs, but has some track record at this level. I suspect Still wants to see him first and ideally fully fit, which he’s never looked for Saints nor his second loan spell at the Blades. Type of player who needs a WGS-style fitness regime pre-season to get the best from him I suspect, and the players didn’t seem very fit overall under Martin after the last pre-season.

The dodgy tweets are rather a problem when they are meant to be managing Leicestershire’s adult social care budget in one of the most diverse counties in the country. If you’re good enough, you’re old enough but these two are miles away from being good enough to run a bath https://basw.co.uk/about-social-work/psw-magazine/articles/reform-councillors-aged-19-and-22-charge-childrens-and It also has the serious outcome of probably being unable to scrutinise council officers properly. If you’re going to put lads that age in important positions, at least ensure they’ve got lived experience of being in care etc to draw upon. Just having a couple of random chavs with offensive posts from X isn’t good for anyone.

No beef with bringing in Boving, just hope we don’t get milked on the fee

Plenty of evidence of the chaos they’ve caused in local government already. Would you want IT people in their teens and early 20s accessing your personal information as they seemingly will be in Kent for Reform’s ‘DOGE’ programme?

The donations largely from tax havens hardly suggests Reform is interests in the working man (or woman) either https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/dark-money-investigations/reform-uk-funders-nigel-farage-5-million-donations-fossil-fuels-tax-havens/ A bit too reliant on David Sainsbury but otherwise rather cleaner https://donation.watch/en/unitedkingdom/party/LIBDEMS/donors

I’m not a fan of Reeves at all and she’s not using her abacus very well. But at least she’s got one, let’s hear your views on the following from Reform https://ifs.org.uk/news/response-mornings-reform-uk-policy-announcements Do you agree with Farage or is he even more economically incompetent than Truss? (Whom he praised last week). Do clarify for us how Reform make any economic sense, if you can. To most people, they look like they haven’t got a clue economically beyond hating on immigrants. And putting 19 year old racists in charge of Leicestershire adult social care. I’ve seen enough of MAGA US to know it’s a total disaster economically and pledging to delete to diversity officers which don’t exist in councils they now lead copying the flop that is DOGE isn’t going to cut the mustard I’m afraid. Let’s see your party step up to the plate now. The government are crap, let’s hear the alternative then, But judging on the resignations and back-tracks so far, I’m not confident. You want power, pressure is on to prove yourselves. Let’s see how you lot perform in local government. We are watching. Signs are not encouraging so far.

I’m pretty shore he isn’t. Will look up Donnell McNeilly.

Hope that he gets a red card for foul language to the fourth official so that we can shout ‘you filthy Trollope!’

She did some good things - trade Union reform - and some stupid things eg privatisation of utilities (not trains though, that was Major). Like most PMs. Her and Blair are miles ahead of what we have today in terms of leadership but they didn’t have to deal with Trump, pandemics etc, and both had reliable transatlantic partners.

I know, let’s put teenagers, OK one of them is the grand old age of 22, who denies depression exists, lauded Andrew Tate and has posted very racist content that the BNP would have thought twice about, in charge of Adult Social Care. That should get some different results….you can get MPs in their early 20s, but not in positions with this responsibility level still sounding like early teenage incels waiting for their parents to clean up their bedrooms. https://www.leicester.news/reforms-deputy-leader-in-leicestershire-shared-homophobic-sexist-and-islamophobic-content/

Fall-outs over the new owner’s AI-driven player recruitment policy https://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/sport/chris-wilder-on-brink-championship-10260063?utm_term=Autofeed&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook#Echobox=1749736133

The Katy Perry song would be worse. Benji said met a skate not kissed to be fair…maybe he did like it though?

The inverse would be: You can never win with right-leaning people. Even if left-leaning parties brokered peace in Northern Ireland, funded huge breakthroughs in cancer research, and introduced a national minimum wage lasting 28 years to date, right wingers and their press would never give them any acknowledgement. It is a childish and myopic outlook. See, easy to write one-eyed crap isn’t it?

Their bowling attack is still top drawer though, even if they’re mid-30s and older.

Absolutely, we’ve seen where buying strikers too cheap for the division the club has been in ever since Ings left has gotten us, and we’ve bought plenty of them too. Quantity but desperate lack of quality. We will have an advantage next season but can’t assume AA will get 20+ goals again or that Stewart will be fit for 25+ starts. There’s a serious lack of a striker who can link play as well since Che.

Stewart was £8m rising to £10m, Charles was £10m rising to £15m. THB was loan with obligation to buy at £20m. Manning free. Rest were loans and some good ones.

Agree on those four, Wrexham could, they certainly seem to be focused on paying bigger wages than all bar Brum (not sure I’d adopt that policy but it answers your point) Coventry I’ve heard have given Lampard a good budget and have the ability/ownership to go north of £10m on at least one player. Norwich could if they sell Sargent, Manning won’t have left Bristol City for the same budget as he had there. Boro have in the recent past for a standout player and Carrick just got the sack for 7th. I’m not suggesting £10m for all signings, we will be boxed into a corner if we go up again, but we cannot get the centre forward position wrong again. Stewart will be a Connolly, good cameos, BBD sell if we can, Archer and AA keep, Onachu go. That leaves scope for someone with a bit extra.

Some illustration of the changes in pattern of the welfare budget. The UK is not yet an outlier within the G7 or across the EU but the projections by 2030 could make us so, hence the previous and current government trying to tame it. https://www.independent.co.uk/politics/benefits-pip-welfare-numbers-reeves-spring-statement-b2721711.html There needs to be more carrot though and less cliff edges to get people with disabilities/neurodiversities and mental health conditions back into sustained and decent work/careers. More coaching for interviews and the NI increases tapered for charities, SMEs, Education providers.

Unless we keep all of Ramsdale, Fernandes, and Dibling, just selling THB, Aribo, Onachu etc, that won’t cut the mustard. That’s Pompey, Blackburn, QPR’s market. There’s at least 7-8 clubs that will break that mark.

20m Euros if you’re pushing the boat out and we sell a couple. Maybe nearer the £13-15m mark but look at what Brum paid for Stansfield last year in the division below. SR either want to win the title or they don’t. Better sticking with what we have if that’s the standard we are targeting, Che cost £15m remember. AA ditto. Strikers win you trophies.

£5.40-6 a pint here, and not a cheap area. A bit more in Cheltenham or Gloucester. I don’t mind if it’s really well kept ale or standout choice of wines but takes the piss when it’s common garden and £7+ a pint outside of central London.

Supermarkets have killed the ok pubs a bit and should be taxed more on alcohol and pubs less. You need to offer ranges of drinks the supermarkets can’t. Keg Guinness is keg Guinness, 4 cans of that for £6 in the supermarkets. The really good ones are still doing well around here but the tied ones, the Stonegates and Star pubs etc are closing or struggling unless they’ve got a landlord/lady who pushes back vs the reps and area managers by offering choice.

10m Euros is a dirt cheap price, but even so, not that impressed. Don’t need any more squad players. Leave that type of signing for QPR, Pompey, Charlton or Oxford. Our main new striker needs to be in the bracket best in division and will cost twice that price bracket. We’ve already got AA, Archer and BBD who are proven Champ scorers, any new striker has to be able to link up play and finish which makes them cut above what we have. I reckon he’d be good for what Pompey need, staying up and nicking a dozen goals with Bishop. What we need is 25-30 goals and he ain’t getting us that.