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Yeah, that's a good point. I'd forgotten Martin would have known him - both played the same position as well. Always slightly concerned when you're linked with someone that was highly rated but for some reason never got that big move or really kicked on. You wonder whether their motivation is going to be great - he'd probably have been hoping for a move to the premier league considering the hype that was around him a couple of years ago. If Martin knows him though then you'd think he'll be able to assess that quite well.

Personally always thought KWP would move, the big question was whether we could keep hold of Tino. If we're looking at Aarons then I'd imagine both are leaving.

Anyone see him beat Spence last night? Utterly dominant performance and has to go down as one of the best. I managed to see him fight at Madison Square Garden in 2017 and feel quite lucky to watch him live. His speed is unreal.

I reckon Che is probably third or fourth choice target for a few clubs - they've probably got other options. I think that if he leaves then it'll probably be late in the window.

17M for Salisu is a bloody good deal. Fair play if that's true. As for Bobb - never even heard of him but we don't know if it's true, we don't know what basis he's signing on and we don't know if he's any good. I'm not getting worked up about it just yet and Wilcox would be the best person to know whether he can fit the role we have planned for him. Some hysterical tart reactions to something we don't even know is accurate or not on here. Seems to be a similar player to Sam AA so slight concern if it negatively affects him but otherwise I'll wait till the end of the window before making a judgement.

Yeah, Edozie won a lot of fouls but didn't beat the first man too often. We've seen him do it before so hopefully he gets his act together soon. Not sure I'd be starting him on Friday unless we've still got injuries. Would have liked to see Tella involved a bit more too. Generally thought we were OK and should have been a draw. Charles looked more comfortable as the right sided CB, Smallbone did well again particularly in first half with his passing and Alcaraz was the best of the lot. Looking forward to a competitive game now - friendlies are fine but light years away from a proper league game.

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Wouldn't surprise me if Grimes is one of the players we'd be hoping to sign. Also worth mentioning that we were linked to some wide players like Grady Diangara and Amad Diallo (on loan). I guess there's also the Ross Stewart rumour that seems to be fairly persistent.

Obviously I don't agree with you because it could be done incrementally but anyway, it's better to leave it here.

Why is it nuts? Rent control is used throughout the world and was here up till 1980. I appreciate you may not like the solution and you don't have to. It's one possible solution but I'm not sure you really want one. Anyway, if it's patronising then apologies for that.

OK, I'll have one last crack because you're struggling. I've imposed rent control which is obviously going to make it less attractive for landlords. If you're a landlord you might want to sell up but your house isn't worth as much because you can't make so much money renting it out. What do you do? You lower your asking price. Your house then becomes more affordable and the people who buy it will be a combination of existing homeowners, people who were renting or landlords who can accept they won't be making so much money. If they're existing homeowners then their previous property could be bought by people currently renting (or somewhere down the chain) - that's reducing the number of people who are only renting because they can't afford to buy. So what I've done is make the housing market more affordable. There's still a market for renters but it's smaller because there will be less of them. Now there's various ways you can impose rent control, you can have rent stabilisation, you can link rent to CPI, you can link it to council tax bands - all of it will result in BTL becoming less attractive and reducing the price of houses. You can also impose things that make it harder to obtain BTL credit. Whatever, as long as the end result is reducing the price of the housing market. Yes, landlords won't like it and, yes, some people will be in negative equity, that's the downside. Now obviously the better way is to simply build more houses. Anyway, honestly, it you don't understand the principle by now then you never will.

I've already explained it but those houses will either become owned by homeowners (which means fewer renters), or they'll remain within the rental pool but with landlords more prepared to accept less in profit and less at the whim of interest rates. BTL has been a factor in pushing up house prices, making BTL less attractive would mean some fall in house prices. I find it strange that this has become a discussion not about how the housing market can be fixed, but what can we do whilst still preserving the profit margin for landlords. If we're not going to build more houses then tackling the BTL market is the one way of improving the housing situation. Anyway, we're going round in circles so I'm out on this one now. Crack on the rest of you.

Well, if it is happening then I still think that's good for the market. The BTL system is part of the problem.

I think if landlords sell up then eventually that filters down to reduce the number of renters. Those houses will become either occupied by homeowners or they'll be put back out to rent by people prepared to get back less in profit. Also i think you'd be looking at relatively few landlords actually selling up - sure they'll be pissed at not making as much profit but, as I said, businesses were up in arms over the introduction of the minimum wage and none of those dire warnings came to pass . Anything that reduces the profit side of housing will be better in the long run. The obvious thing is to build more houses.

https://totalfootballanalysis.com/article/zach-awe-202223-scout-report-tactical-analysis-tactics Bit of detail on Zach Awe. Never heard of him so I can't really comment.

I would do but they always seem to be just out of reach.

Some landlords will sell up sure but others won't. If landlords are selling up then that's actually a good thing - it'll mean that there's more properties on the market and house prices will fall. TBH you'd expect landlords to complain as it's not in their interest but it reminds me of the dire warnings from business and the CBI when the national minimum wage was brought it. You can choose to look at it from the perspective of of vested interests like landlords but I'm more concerned with the people at the other end of the scale.

Disagree - landlords will get used to it. If current ones don't like it then others will take their place. They'll still be making a profit but less of it.

I'd definitely include JWP. Lavia hasn't featured so much and wasn't that good against Bournemouth - besides which we already have his replacement in Charles. Would need to play with one of Tino or KWP at right back too. So I'd only drop Lavia because he's the only one we can be pretty sure won't be here (and we don't want injured). Everyone else plays on merit regardless of rumours.

Rent control works in the rest of the world, why not here? Hell, they even have it in parts of the US. We're an outlier in that regard.

I dunno, if they're just giving that money away for nothing in return we should probably take it.

One thing you could do would be to implement rent control. You could also limit credit to people who are buying to let - landlords would own their properties outright and would be less subject to interest rate fluctuations.

Much better interviews than the ones he did for the official site and a lot more detail in there. Interesting that he's come out and said explicitly that Russell Martin is his hire. That does suggest that Ankerson has deferred to Wilcox (which is what he should be doing). I'm sure they're all "aligned" etc but good to know that Wilcox is making the decisions. As a fan it's hard to get enthused by "generating asset value" and I don't see it becoming a chant to rival "Up the football league we go" but I understand what they want to do and it's not a bad way to run a club. We're definitely in a better place having kids like Livramento and Lavia as asset values even if we don't hold onto them for as long as we'd like.

I think the gifts varied from person to person. Mine was fucking free holiday and a pair of Baz's gloves.

I'm actually not but unlike you I'm not blind to the limitations of the system we're using. You seem to think that anything bad that happens will be down to the individual qualities of the players rather than the fact that we'll be inviting pressure. Whilst that may happen at times, the system encourages it. It does it for a reason and I understand that reason but all the same - it's a risky strategy and will result in conceding goals regardless of the quality of the players. Here's a good example of that with Swansea playing West Brom last season. Watch the first 40 seconds. Ryan Manning gets caught in possession and plays an awful pass (he did the same against Bournemouth). That's not because of the quality of Ryan Manning - it's because he's playing how he's been told to. Russell Martin understands this, he's warned us mistakes will be made - it's about time you listened to him