Window Cleaner

Gabriel Jesus was an Olympic Games gold medalist with Brazil in 2016. That's enough to get him a work permit I'd have thought. Richarlison didn't play in their Olympic side (or I don't think he did anyway) but he was in their Unders side that won the South American 2017 equivalent of the U21 Euro.

Is he any good at negociating?

Well yes, that's because the vote of some old gran who's fed up with the Polish corner shop and the vote of the Chairman of Jaguar or Rolls Royce had exactly the same value when the counting was done. Why Cameron ever agreed to a referendum is one of the great mysteries of the last 500 years or so. The UKIP were no real threat and he had a workable majority to do exactly nothing. Even then he only had to include all UK passport holding expats in Europe in the vote and he'd have walked over any opposition. Excluding those living overseas for over 15 years was just a dumb stunt. Most other countries allow their expats to vote in national elections and some even have specific representatives in their ruling bodies. the London French have their own Deputé in the Assembly.

All of this just points out that you should never ever let the people decide about anything of any importance. That just gets you Brexit and Trump. The French rejected the European Constitution but the then government imposed it upon them anyway.

So to sum it up: Those who want Brexit are throwing their toys out of the pram because they're getting a sort of Brexit and those who want no Brexit at all are throwing their toys out of the pram because they think that'll get them another referendum. In the meantime everything remains in complete limbo and nothing is getting done or is likely to get done. Oscar Wilde could have penned all this and got a barrel of laughs in the West End. No scotch that, it's more like Brian Rix, even bordering on Sid James and Hattie Jaques.

What? The night?

if you say so, I obviously know very little (bordering on absolutely nothing) about him. So this situation resembles those played out in Comedy Films. Send a duffer (who usually comes up trumps and gets the girl) to screw something you really don't want over.

I probably know more about the European Commission than he does, being a retired employee of theirs like.. There's always been a bit of contempt within the EC over the UK sending a procession of also rans to negociate with them. These people never stood a chance. Now if Cameron hadn't run away it might have been different. At least he held some sort of respect.

Why's that then? Is it when you get out of jail or something :-)

Must be a bit simple that Raab bloke. The EU don't want us to leave or if we do they want to leave a stark message to anyone else who fancies trying. They've known all along that the "Brexit" was in the hands of rank amateurs with limited top level experience and just let the Brits stymie themselves.

Looks like a fair recipe for relegation.

However if Chelsea get the 4 window ban that FIFA are trying to get imposed on them I doubt if anyone will be going anywhere from Chelsea FC.

Oh I think they've every reason to be scared actually. I really don't see any other outcome, this deal or no brexit because there is no way that the UK will just slam the door. May lost that option with her ill-advised General Election.

Don't see it making much difference really. They're all far too inexperienced to obtain a Brexit with any reasonable outcome anyway. The EU are just following their rules, there are 2 options really, in or out. If it's out then it has to be done cleanly and accept the consequences.

Still adds up to a total waste of money though doesn't it. Think Vestergaard turns up for free to sit on the bench every week since the first couple of games? Club has been disastrously run for several years now.

If only they'd let us long term European Expats vote none of this would have happened. Hope they correct that if there's another referendum. It affects us more than most and yet we had no say. Obviously for just UK issues it's nothing to do with us as a rule but in European Issues it is.

Probably. I can see no Brexit at all being the favourite from there on. Suits me. Think I can sue someone for the thousands that they've cost me with their nonsense and incompetence?

And yet we spent, what 18 million or so, on a supposed CB who can't get a game.

What hiring yet another manager who seems to have proved that the gulf between the Championship and the Premier League is far too wide for many. Fulham have spent a King's Ransom on a team that seemed the bee's nut at the lower level. So something must be basically wrong with the manager's ability in the PL surely.

But Watford missed chances as well. Particularly Delofeu. At the end of the day we did win but the ref said we didn't.

Probably explains the empty seats then.

Doubt if you'd notice the difference anyway. A total non-entity.

We don't have enough money nor enough status to be anything other than average. Today's 16 million £ player is yesterday's free transfer. We could change anything you like but until we can get better than average players we'll be scrubbing about with the win some, lose more also rans. That said, we'll not go down because there are 3 teams worse than us. Just as there were last season.

Simple, get Superman to turn the world back until February 2014 and take a different path in time.

But compared to the sums spent by Chelsea,Liverpool, City, United and Arsenal this is just peanuts really. Yesterday just showed the difference in class between what you get for 13 million and what you get for 80 million.