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So we get offered “silly money” for several players on deadline day. Do we still sell?

Is this Stewart or his agent? If you were his agent, wouldn’t you wait until you had what you considered to be all of the offers in before you sat down with him to make a decision? Yes, it is a pain in the arse for us, but it is his career.

Playing Devil’s advocate, but if you break the speed limit and are fined by the police, do the council then come along and charge and fine you for bringing driving into disrepute? Ok, overly simplistic, but there has been a breach of the rules which has been dealt with and the punishment meted out. This is another bite of the cherry or double jeopardy. The original punishment deals with the offence and the club (being everyone associated with SFC) has paid the penalty. Why just draw the line at the coach? Why not charge the actual individuals who were involved in the physical act of spying with bringing the game into disrepute too? Alternatively, if the buck stops with Eckert, why wasn’t the initial punishment his alone without the whole club taking the fall? How many more bloody football authorities are entitled to their pound of flesh? FIFA too? Would it be a shock to hear that Infanti is currently looking at ways that they can impose fines on domestic clubs for bringing the game into disrepute internationally as another money making stream. 🤪

They have been dragging their heels in dealing with it haven’t they?

We could start with his needless sending off for hair pulling. There are many other reasons but it is too hot to get into it now As for certain players and their feelings that they might be entitled to a crack at the EPL after last seasons efforts. I wonder if they would feel equally entitled if we had failed to make the play offs? You can’t blame players for wanting to better themselves but at the same time you can’t blame clubs for expecting players to honour more than one year of their contracts.

The lad is certainly a bit of an enigma. Someone at the club clearly thought that it was worth splashing out £7m on him. Pochettino has said a lot of complimentary things about him. Capped 6 times at full international level. Although the words “cow’s arse” and “banjo” usually spring to mind when he plays he has taken the two goals he has scored for us in friendlies like a proper striker. He could go out on loan again but if Tonda is some kind of footballer whisperer perhaps he should hang around and see what the coaching team can do for him here? We are allowed to play some over aged players in the U21’s aren’t we?

It has been said that it is widespread, whether it is or not, who knows? It could be that it goes on and isn’t a big deal amongst the clubs generally so perhaps he thought it wasn’t a major problem? Given that it is widespread abroad, it isn’t unreasonable for him not to worry about the consequences here. I think we can be absolutely certain that he wouldn’t have done it if he knew the end result here!

There is indeed. It is just as well that they don’t add an appropriate smell to their paint. We have Elephant’s Breath on our kitchen table legs.

We have that on our lounge ceiling.

Perhaps they should make Tonda stand behind the nearest tree and communicate with the coaching staff via an old iPhone on match days for the length of his ban?

At least it is not as poncy as something from the Farrow & Ball colour chart, like Badger Spunk.

Every country should, but go for it Norway!

Putting Eckert’s integrity,or lack of, to one side, if you banned everyone in professional football who lacks integrity there wouldn’t be much football being played each week.

Perhaps they chose not to sack him because, like a great many people, they didn’t feel that this was a big deal and has been blown out of all proportion?

He did, a lot, and defended his actions strongly in public. Spying wasn’t against the EFL rules at the time but he was still in breach of the rules of proper conduct.