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That was last year. Back then tax hikes may have helped but it wasn't done and we're now where we are. Tax hikes now won't break the inflationary cycle that we're in. Recession is now almost inevitable.

Away days at Bournemouth and Brighton, and perpetual defeats at spurs, city, Liverpool, etc may float your boat mate, but I'll be quite happy to go to games where people who only want that are elsewhere.

I can't believe any football fan whines about home games to Norwich, QPR, Leicester, Ipswich and Leeds in the first 5 home games. All recent or recent ish PL clubs, and all proper football clubs.

Ha!! It's an old mate of mine. Strong anti vaxer who thinks he'll make another fortune from his unvaxed sperm, bangs on about 5 minute cities, chem trails, now this nonsense.

It won't work is the point he makes. Stopping the wealthy buying less tellies and cars will not reduce inflation.

West Ham were the obvious pick for me until I heard of Villa interest, but that appears to have gone quiet. If it's Fulham or here, you'd hope he'd stay.

In your opinion...if he wants PL football (and wages) next season, and Fulham are the biggest bidder, he's either going there or staying here.

There's a link only in so far as Israel is a predominantly Jewish state. It's Zionism which regards Judaism as a nationality as well as a religion, and that Jews deserve their own state in their ancestral homeland.

Those August and September fixtures are cracking. 5 proper clubs at home, and some brilliant away days. Nice.

I CBA to read what he's said previously, but on this thread his words seem clumsy to me, and he's not run down Jewish or even Israeli people. Benefit of the doubt from me.

Inflation is rampant. Interest rates need to go up to quell it. The squeeze from that will inevitably force recession. Borrowing is through the roof, but few people or businesses will put their hands up to pay more tax to help, and nobody wants to see more cuts. It's a proper mess, and there is no magic solution unfortunately.

No blame for labour, but the point Weston makes is that that labour approach would probably have been even more inflationary. He's probably right. For what it's worth, I'd rather see labour fuck it up than this lot though - enough is enough.

Some on here have interpreted SoG's words that way. For what it's worth I think he was more clumsy than anything.

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To be fair, that appears to be the way it is. If I'm anti the behaviour of the Nigerian government (for example) I'm not branded racist, but if I'm anti the behaviour of the Israeli government then in some quarters I'm branded anti Semitic. However, criticism to the Israeli people, or Jewish people, plainly crosses the line - there's no grey area there.

And accuse people of being thick because of it. Ridiculous.

SoG, a position that you consider the behaviour of the Israeli government towards the Palestinian people to be unacceptable is understandable (I agree with that by the way). Quite how you manage to fuck up saying something so simple is a mystery.

I'll give him a chance, but that doesn't change that his track record is pretty shit. It's hard to be optimistic based on what he's done before.

Yep. Clueless all round. As hard as it is, wage inflation has to be below actual inflation otherwise the cycle won't get broken. We'll now see a 0.5% base rate rise today in an attempt to curb it, probably the same next month, then a big slowdown on property deals,l/economy generally, then recession. Earlier rate hikes, sensible pay deals, and we probably could have avoided it.

The conspiracy theorists are at work on this - saw this nonsense this morning. Posted by a successful/academically intelligent bloke.

You're overthinking this big time.

There's apparently a buyback which normally means that they could buy him back for x amount when the trigger date arrives. Others on here seem to believe that the buyback can be outbid by other clubs. No idea what's correct.

That assumes that the buyback clause isn't a straight buyback

Yes, £40m from City = £32m to us. £48m from someone else = £40m to us. Etc. What's baffling is the suggestion that any club knowing that city need only give us £40m (£32m after sell on) would come in and offer £60m or whatever. All anyone has to do is outbid the buy back clause and they know it's more attractive to us. On the buy back, the assumption is that City can be outbid, rather than they can have him back for £40m less 20% regardless of any other interest or bid. What the correct position is, I don't think has been reported or confirmed.

There's no misunderstanding - I said £38m in our pockets, ie after any sell on so £6m more than we'd see if we sold him to City next year for £40m so £32m in our pockets. Why wouldn't we take that if that was the best offer? As Fabrice has said, why would anyone bid mega money knowing the likely reality that we'll only net £32m next year? Too much fantasy football thinking on here.