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It’s not zero risk on a three year contract for a player turning 32 in January who is fresh off a horrific season even by the dreadful standards around him. Depends how much the weekly wages are to the extent of the risk. 32 year olds don’t tend to suddenly become top quality, bar Chris Marsden in tandem with Wayne Bridge.

Multi-year deal had to be the way with that Union. Thought Streeting would’ve had more sense. The only aspect I agree with him on is that the public won’t stand for it and they’re in for a shock. In their young and naive minds they have the same halo as the senior consultants - but that has to be earned. At least the RMT know the public doesn’t like them.

Ain’t that the truth

In most businesses, there would be a learning cycle where you learn and adapt from those mistakes or you go bust. Seemingly rarely applies to football clubs, disorganisation, complacency and insularity are the order of the day for most. You’ve only got to look at the mess the last two weeks are of the transfer window, no excuse for that much dysfunction when you’ve had from May to start of August.

Junior doctors are greedy sods - it’s always been the case that they start on decent wages but sharp increases as they establish themselves. If the country wasn’t obsessed with immigration, I’d replace them with better practitioners and attitudes from elsewhere, going by the so-so vs outstanding care my family members have received over the years. Our culture is not built on caring. BMA are up there with the RMT for the most self-serving union who don’t give a toss about the people who fund them.

For another 12 months at most on top of what he had left I could have seen the purpose of. But what is doing most people’s head in is it being until 2028. There’s neither a football or business rationale to it.

There’s been a lot of those from Reed, Semmens and SR over the last 8 years, rarely any of them progressive.

It has to be from Spors and probably Dragan, probably happened over 18 holes at Stoneham.

You are right though Chez, they’ve done it now so we just have to cross our fingers that it turns out ok. The club have put a lot of pressure on themselves though, the next couple of incomings need to be impressive XI starters and any key players going require high quality replacements for this level be it permanent or on loan. No more scope for ‘projects’ having put themselves on a yellow card.

It’s a pity as some credit had finally been built up a bit with the Sulemana and Onachu sales. Impressive work there repairing Rasmus’s disasters. It’s taken any shine off Downs signing, feel a bit sorry for him. Spors and his team need the best window since 2014 and 2015 now to restore some faith.

It’s nothing against Jack, although his behaviour on the pitch was totally unacceptable last season even when there were so many others stinking the place out, people are reacting to a piss poor business decision based on football logic. Year extension, fair enough. Three, seriously Spors?

☝️ and moreover he wouldn’t be good enough for the Championship by 2028 either, not even sure he would be by 2026 let alone a first choice and skipper.

Bear that in mind and refer back next time the club says ‘we have no money.

Hope not

He didn’t need to be given a 3 year deal though at his age and level of ability. An extra year I could’ve lived with but three is the same drunken common sense which influenced Forster’s mammoth extension, Carrillo, and Nathan Jones.

And that’s before Stephens is shoehorned in.

Astonishing that he ever thought that was acceptable in the first place at work https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cewgz0qw77lo Even more astonishing Shine/Banjay and BBC production and other managers thought it was alright.

Hope he thinks it through and doesn’t make a decision on the hoof.

Bruges would outbid Rangers I reckon. Plus Edozie turned them down last summer on loan, unless he fancies a Rustie reunion I can’t see it. Good to have a queue of clubs interested though.

Musk might actually regain a bit of respect from me if he blows MAGA apart and further discredits Bannon and Trump connecting them with Epstein conclusively, and showing them up as perverts.

The GOP in Texas itself has a medium-term history of racism as well https://www.texastribune.org/2020/06/04/texas-greg-abbott-bexar-GOP-conspiracy/

£6m and wages off the books. On top of what we got for Sulemana the outgoings are working out nicely.

Might be harder to fund post-earthquake damage though, not impossible.

It needs to be two countries - let the GOP loons have the south and Midwest, Dems the Rockies and north east/west coasts. California probably Dem as well. It’d make a great trading partner and lots of wonderful places to visit again post-Trump. Restore the relationship with Canada post-GOP knuckledraggers.

Had seen the bottom idiocy although frankly if Kelly is right, the residents of Kerr County get little sympathy, and they certainly won’t be getting help from a Trump Federal government. Casino politics sucks if you don’t win at the table, as the former miners of Pennsylvania have found out. The top part - so dense even Nic would read it and say ‘that’s a wind up surely?’. Congressional candidate for Georgia - for those with an IQ of 10 or less https://www.pennlive.com/nation-world/2025/07/ga-congressional-candidate-goes-full-conspiracy-on-texas-flooding-fake-fake-fake.html It clearly hasn’t occurred to her that putting ‘Jesus, Guns, Babies’ might be a contradiction.