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City didn't look all that comfortable, mind you with that Ukrainian bloke they were down to 10 men. JWP had a pretty good game but what was Hojbjerg thinking?

Ah right. Run that through the Football Manager speak to Basic English translator then. Comes up with "Being sold next week".

Who'll be signing for Arsenal pretty shortly...or so the press tells me. Cahill wouldn't touch Saints with a bargepole.

He really isn't...

But what we realy need to do is aquire players who are of some utility to us and stop buying players who are no better than we already have. We signed players who cost us about what 70 million or so last summer and we're still no better than we already were.

Why would not knowing the name of the partner (or Gran or whatever) of a bloke who doesn't ever seem to play in the first team be a reason for pîssing off a player of the standard of Cedric then. I really just don't get some of these antics by managers who've been in the place less than 5 minutes. In Saint's current predicament we need to get our best 11 players onto the pitch whenever possible. If he's fit Cedric needs to play aganst City and Chelsea, never mind whether he knows anything about the lesser members of the squad or not.

Ings wasn't really doing much anyway. Why save him for City when you'd think we'd have a much better chance of a positive result against West Ham? City won't lose 3 in a row.

Well sounds like a really, really good reason to deprive the team of a good player. Sort of managerial tomfoolery that gets you results like last night's. Still banning all phones during training hours is laudable.

I see we've got a new first team manager then. South African bloke.

Rabiot doesn't play a lot in important games. Don't know why they'd need to replace him. Think you can put this one down as paper bolloaks.

Well without a sufficient majority in Parliament anyway. Probably why May tried to get a decent one and sort of failed. If she had say a majority of 50 or so the whole process would have been different and the EU would have had less leverage.

Well tbh Saints sacking their manager is pretty routine these days.

Saudi Arabia's defence budget is higher than either that of France or of German by some way. France's total defence budget runs at about 55 billion dollars, and a fair old chunk of that is attributed to it's far flung colonies, Germany about 10 billion less than that. Italy comes next I think with about 22 million. So a total for the "big 3" of some 125 billion dollars. The rest are fairly inconsequent . Compared to the US at 610 billion or so they've a lot of money to find to have anything vaguely comparable.

I'd not worry about it at all. Wait until they start argueing about who's going to pay for it.

From what I remember he was no great shakes at Nantes. Then again that's a pretty rubbishy side these days. They still live in the past from their glory days of the 80s when money didn't count for much in football.

Perhaps not. As Harold Wilson once said, a week is a long time in politics. Those whips are going to be overheating, suggestions of losing jobs after a GE will be bandied about. Perhaps a virulent opponent will be stuck by a falling piano.. Who knows what will happen. The there's those Sinn Feiners...

What deal ? The accord is currently subject of so much discussion is just to avoid a totally disorderly exit. It is not a deal on future trade in the long term. We can slam the door, pay them nothing and walk away or accept what is on offer to be allowed to try to reach some sort of permanent agreement at a later date.

Well I'm supposing they think that they can bully the EC into changing their view of things. Don't see it myself unless they've got some leverage over Macron and Merkel that no-one has yet used or discovered. The E.C has no reason whatsover to change it's stance.

Still can't see what they think they'll achieve by changing their leader and thus P.M. Well just a hard Brexit I suppose and I'm really not sure that that'll be allowed to come to pass.

Sounds reasonable. Anyway having money doesn't always guarantee that we'd do anything vaguely useful with it anyway. How much did we spend last summer, 60 million or so (including what we'll have to pay for Ings which they'll just knock off of what the owe us anyway) and I don't see that we're really any better for it.

Probably, just needs a couple of big titted, porno actresses to start spreading stories about him and he'll be a shoe-in.

Well as long as it doesn't get to the ridiculous red and yellow hanky throwing of the NFL or free kicks and the like getting moved forward or back 10 yards if a player dares to make any comment (as in Rugby Union) then I'm all for it. Far too many crass reffing errors and instead of cancelling themselves out over a season they seem to aways favour the big teams now.

If you've got 20£ to throw away I guess it is. What are his credentials? Has he held any serious office or is he just another Big Mouthed chancer?

Would that be the case if they could get Sinn Fein to actually turn up and vote for them? Are there not 7 who never turn up or vote? That would give them 322 if there are no Conservative defections so they'd need to get 3 of the independants . Don't know how they lean though.

Ah I see now that some bright spark Conservative MP has come up with a great idea. Get a new P.M and simply jettison the parts of the "accord" that they don't like. Not worth any trouble there my friend, even I can tell you the eventual response of the E.C which would be "If you want to leave just leave but it's on our terms or nothing at all". That's why 2 years or so of negociations have got the accord that's on offer and nothing else. The only other solution is to throw N.I under the bus.