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Chambers can **** off.

I'm looking forward to Fonte's testimonial. As a player, who has done more for the club other than him and MLT?

That's a cracking speech.

I don't think it is, actually - it's a pretty facile point. The Swiss tax rate benefits her personally, not the football club. Katharina Liebherr presumably grew up in Switzerland and has lived there for ages. Now, her family may have moved there originally for financial reasons but she hasn't gone to the trouble of setting up a network of overseas ownership vehicles to minimise the tax liabilities of SFC. The Swiss tax rate is only relevant on her personal income. The club's corporate group is in England and the companies will pay UK corporation tax on their profits in accordance with UK law. Swiss personal tax rate will apply to any money she takes out as a dividend (which, so far, is £0, I think). Now, I'm sure we will structure shareholder loans, intra-group debt and various other things to minimise group corporate tax burden and it may be that Spurs are not doing anything which gives them much of an additional advantage at all - and I'm sure they are legally compliant - but drawing an equivalence between the country of residence of a personal shareholder and the establishment of a corporate structure in a completely unrelated country which benefits from low corporation tax is not the same thing at all. As I say, it's facile.

Actually, it might not be paid off at all. I doubt we do actually pay it back, it just sits there and will probably one day be written off like the initial Liebherr debt was (converted to equity which is the same thing when there's only one owner).

I hadn't actually looked at the price. I agree, that's silly. OK - Skates to be relegated.

Leicester to be relegated.

I urge him to return and vanquish our foes, with us, Insha'Allah. #pray Taider

Have you never heard of Neil Moss?

I suppose the reason a lot of the campaigning is so pathetic and fear-laden is that this tactic was perceived to be successful viz. the Scotland referendum.

Nice to read this. Good on you. Hope you make it over one day!

Yeah, I heard some whispers as well. Coincidentally they match what has been said in public. I never say anything on here but when I do it's right and when it isn't it's because something else happened so that's not really my fault. It was still right when I said it. #ITK

I think we could do with another wide attacker regardless of whether Mane stays or leaves. Jay Rod, sadly, has to be assumed as useless until he proves otherwise, Juanmi hasn't shown any signs of pushing for match time and Long is preferred centrally now. It didn't really matter when we played 352 but if we want a default 433/4231 we need another wide player.

Watch out!

This forum used to be much better.

Townsend, Sissoko. Both of those are worth signing irrespective of whether Mane/Wanyama leaves. That's it really. I know we were linked with Gueye before but I haven't seen enough of him to have a view on that. No one from Norwich and no one else from Villa. I think Ayew is a decent player but he's not better than Tadic or Mane, or Townsend.

I got thrown out of Kaos for telling the DJ he looked like Keith from The Office. They used to sell half-bottles of Lambrini for £1.60.

See how they do next year and whether another team full of average players gets remotely close to winning the league. Not going to happen. At some point in the next 30, 40 years it might happen again but it's pretty useless using it as a reference point. "Hey, if we get loads of refereeing decisions in our favour, hardly any injuries, and everyone in the usual top 6 or 7 is weaker than they've ever been, we might win the league". Well, yes, but that won't happen more than once in a blue moon.

The Leicester situation is a complete freak and utterly useless as a comparator for anything.

59 goals. 5th or 6th place. Right as usual.

I thought the same watching Burnley recently. Very basic and low quality.

Arrival of a king, departure of a legend, haircut of a ***.

Plymouth just gifted them a goal. The quality from both sides has been absolutely dire so far!

Apart from free-kicks Payet doesn't affect matches much IMO. We kept him quiet easily enough and he is unlikely to maintain this season's free-kick success rate over a sustained period. Let's see how Mahrez does next season as well. Tadic is one of the best at what he does in the league. I don't think he and Lallana are direct comparators; although both are attacking midfielders, Lallana likes to drift all over the midfield more than Tadic and is often involved in play in deeper positions. Tadic is more of a "winger", although he has shown his ability to take up good positions inside as well. People who complain about his consistency, frankly don't have a clue. Who has performed more consistently as an attacking wide player for Saints in the last 20 years? Bale only played for a season; Ox and Walcott barely much longer; Fernandes - contributed less than Tadic; Telfer, Marsden - steady Eddies but not attacking threats against decent team. Neil McCann?! Guly, perhaps - but not at this level of competition. Oh, for the days of David Lee, Neil Heaney, Stuart Ripley! They would tear down the wing and get about 6 assists every match.

He was fine and made a few really good clearances. Fonte made a mistake as bad as anything Cuco did when he let Kane get round him. Fonte also played a really overhit, bobbling pass into Wanyama which prompted a dangerous turnover. Martina is improving. He's not Clyne, Shaw or Bertrand but he's a decent option for the squad.