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The former Reading reserves player will no doubt have special insights that wont have occurred to a current England international who has been coached for the past year by three other former internationals.
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Before or after being roadkill?
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Agree, we don't need another rb who mostly won't play and will block young players coming through
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Zero Brains? The designer must be having a chuckle at the models / critics.
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Im assuming its some kind of planning gain process - they will renovate Mayflower Park in exchange for being able to build hundreds of flats somewhere. The acid test is the balance between number of flats and amount of public space.
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But its a 25% fall from a level which was artificially inflated by borrowed money - it was never real sustainable GDP generated by production. The Greeks GDP per capita nearly tripled from $11,900 in 2000 to $31,700 in 2008. It was just a debt fuelled consumption bubble. Now the flow of new money has stopped they're getting huge withdrawal symptoms. EU policies aren't the cause.
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You dont believe that ...someone paid you to say it.
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VIDEO: Koeman on pre-season, transfers and Europa League
buctootim replied to SuperSAINT's topic in The Saints
Maybe we have to sell before we can buy. It seems pretty likely the club are planning for MS to go and £25m to come in. -
Thanks. Looks quite good. Very little on funding though.
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Meh. There have been endless plans to revamp Mayflower Park but very little has happened apart from taking away its best feature, the big slide. Have they actually got the money and a main contractor?
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Thats no different to what we are doing - Britain hasnt eliminated the budget deficit yet so we are borrowing to pay the debt interest. The expectation is that cuts and growth will close the gap. Greece is actually slightly ahead of us - they have a slight budget surplus before debt repayments - the problem is Syrizia is reneging on previous commitments and reversing some of them so this years surplus is less than last years. Its the trend which is important.
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Where have I moaned about people moving for work within the EU? I agree about debt, but its a problem of politicians and globalisation not capitalism. Debt has been used by politicians in many countries to convince people they are richer than they really are, and so get themselves re-elected. Greece is just the worst example.
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Basically for the past few decades they've elected whichever government promised them the most and ignored the fact it was all borrowed money. Combine that with very generous pensions for public employees and lax tax collection and you've got a perfect storm.
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Not even. Southampton is closer.
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The Greeks have had 20 years of a lifestyle they couldnt afford, paid for with borrowed money. They've gone bust and defaulted on their debts 5 times in the past 200 years. Its a myth its money generated on a computer screen - its real cash lent from other peoples pension funds and taxes. Britain paid back a debt of 240% of GDP after WW2. The current Irish debt reached 123% but has now fallen to 109%. The Greek debt is 170%. They could do it, they just don't want to, again. I feel sorry for individuals but as a nation, **** em. Why should they walk away and Spain, Portugal, Italy etc pay? Why not let them default too, and the African nations. Then we can try to bail the banks out, except they would have with such massive debts we couldnt. Global trading in beads and cowrie shells anyone?
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Nice lino (no euphemism) tho
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What you doing here? I thought the good posters didn't post anymore
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Ha! what a fashion miss.Socks pulled up to the knee ffs Goaty
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What a wondrous story
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Which is plenty. Targett is a good enough left back to get in a PL side in his own right. Yoshida may not be great there, but then which team's second reserve is?
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Schneiderlin Joins Manchester United (Official)
buctootim replied to Bewildered's topic in The Saints
Agree he has to be free or very cheap for it to make sense. -
Transfer update on Clyne, Schneiderlin and transfer priorities
buctootim replied to Saint-Armstrong's topic in The Saints
Wonder what his agent has done to upset Arsenal. -
DONE DEAL: Saints sign Maarten Stekelenburg on season-long loan
buctootim replied to supersonic's topic in The Saints
thats a physical attribute