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I'm not saying he's the next Haaland, but when what you've got isn't working, and you can't sign anyone else for a couple of months, there's no harm in rolling the dice imo.

Chantenay? Re Dobbin, I think the fee was £10.5 m, but I'm not sure how an inflated fee helped us given that we got fair money for THB. That said, Villa have paid and received a lot of questionable fees over recent windows. £37.5m for that Maatsen lad from Chelsea, and Kellyman to Chelsea for £19m were eyebrow raising. Rogers going to Chelsea for £120m, and paying £50m for Jackson, equally so.

Yep. 2 assists as well.

He made 2 starts for them in the league. That was last season, and he'll have developed since then. Mubama offers nothing whatsoever. The kid is in form and will be confident. I'd rather throw him on in the last 10 mins when we need something than Mubama.

Yep. There's enough experience out there to work it out and sort it out.

If we can keep it to 1-0 at half time, yep. If not I think we're fecked.

Only surprise is it took that long. We need half time to re group and sort ourselves out.

This start is something else. I think my optimism was a tad too optimistic.

We're so bad we're almost looking 3rd best.

Dancefloor

Realistic is believing we'll beat this lot. Anything else is negative. Bizarre to look at the past 40 years. It's completely irrelevant to how we're doing under Tonda. We should win this. Comfortably.

Grind

On that we do agree!!

Whilst I get that, the (other) geriatric wasn't a crook or obvious loon. Trump was always a car crash in waiting. That much should have been obvious to the Americans.

You've shifted from Somalia, to Somalia and Sudan, now a whole bloody continent. I'll end the discussion here as you'll be dragging Asia into it next.

I thought you wanted them to build a society. Pick a lane mate.

Digwa had his sentence increased on appeal. Quite right too. He went tooled up so it never made sense that he was sentenced at the lower tariff.

Sorry to hear that mate. I know a few people who have it. All of them have been really impacted by it. All the best for your daughter.

The market honeymoon period didn't last. Absolute carnage today.

Jeez, what an idiot. Nothing to do with Brand then, just the "elites", whoever the hell they are supposed to be.

And there's the case for international aid.

To a large extent it is. Ask someone who's arrived here from Afghanistan, for example, if they'd have come if we weren't smashing up and meddling on their country. The answer, and it's honest, is nearly always no. Everyone wants stability and hope.

You've got to be pretty stupid to not be able to comprehend that there are domestic politics, global politics, geo politics, and occasions where 2 or more of those things overlap.

Yep, and 10 year gilt yields have fallen by a fair chunk too. Burnham has been slow and steady, and made sensible noises re the EU, and that's what we've needed.

I'll reprise pies with only a lid. That's not a pie, just a casserole with a bit of pastry on top. I want my questionable /unhealthy filling fully encased in unhealthy pastry.