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I think it's a reasonable theory, but I don't understand why it would stand in opposition to the statement in bold - Glasner may well have decided he'd try to get fired, and I think it is reasonable to speculate on that, but he can make that decision in the context of someone who has been...

No doubt we overpaid for Johnson and JSL, but I think having actual depth options like them and Guessand in the second half of the season is a big part of why we were able to achieve our goals. It's not that they particularly tore it up in their performances, but it allowed us to rest the likes...

Well to determine if something represents reasonable value you need comparables in the same market. Discussing what Guessand (or anyone) is worth in isolation is meaningless without context. Of course the fact there’s more money in the league will continue to push fees and salaries up...

I didn’t have you down as someone who needs an authority to tell them when something stinks, but there we are. I look forward to seeing that principle consistently applied. I’ve never claimed to be objective. But it is objectively hilarious that you have convinced yourself that you are.

A £5m personal gift is not normal, even in politics - that’s precisely the point. Conflating all political donors with an individual personal gift of that size is not sensible. I am sure you are not naive enough to think people ‘gift’ £5m for nothing. If you want to set your bar to ‘well no...

Honestly I thought I might have to cherry pick slightly to make my point, but that's a pretty exhaustive list of signings in that price range!

"No real backtracking", just a completely new and separate explanation after the first one was disbelieved... Mr. Objective over here. Why do you think an overseas billionaire would want to gift millions of pounds to a politician? Objectively, obviously... just speculate on it. I don't care if...

No, you're just conflating a load of wildly different things and presenting them as the same. Let's not for a second pretend that Corbyn and Farage have ever been held to anything like the same standards by the media. In relation to antisemitism, the evidence against Farage isn't at all weak -...

I don't think that is true, and I don't know why we would pretend that the conduct of the police in this case isn't a major cause for concern - I think it's a perfectly reasonable assumption that sensitivity around being perceived as racist impacted the police response to the situation, and that...

I think plenty of the criticism of Corbyn was reasonable at it's base, but the campaign against him clearly went well beyond that - if Farage was held to even 50% of that type of scrutiny... If there were multiple accusations of Corybn hissing at Jewish people and chanting antisemitic songs, I...

Farage hasn't offered a new explanation for why a foreign based billionaire felt impassioned to gift him more money than most people will earn in their lifetime - I'm sure you're not naive enough to think people pay out money like that for nothing. Farage claimed he bought the house, and it...

I don't disagree, but I also think the dial for what a £30/40m player is has changed quite drastically over the last year or two, even since the Olise/Eze/Wharton type signings. This is a list of players bought by Prem clubs last summer for transfer fees around that range: Milos Kerkez...

Sure, I did lots of stupid things at school, but neither I nor anyone I knew went round hissing at Jewish kids or racially abusing people. I don't think it's accurate pretending that is just par for the course behaviour for teenagers. 'Stupid things' is an enormously broad umbrella to try and...

So anything anyone does as a teenager should be ignored and forgotten..?

If you think the likely next Prime Minister getting a £5m 'gift' from an overseas billionaire is a smear, there is little value in discussing it further. Too far down the rabbit hole. Not even Farage still punts the security line FFS - even they worked out that no one was buying that. Rayner...

Compare Rayner's housing 'scandal' with Farage's. We can only imagine the fallout if a Corbyn or Starmer had accepted a £5m gift, but let's be serious... it would be a bloodbath. Polanski is labelled antisemitic for criticism of Israel, despite you know being Jewish... Farage has multiple...

Absolutely - Farage has survived multiple scandals that would end the career of any 'normal' politician. Imagine Polanski had accepted a £5m 'gift' from a foreign-based billionaire. Imagine Rayner's partner bought an £800k house in cash avoiding the appropriate stamp duty. Imagine Starmer...

This is simply you projecting your own biases. The idea that Polanski, Starmer, or even Corbyn are not smeared in the media is just objectively untrue. Farage gets the easiest ride of any politician in the country.

Thank heavens the club didn't have the same view as some on here.

Linked with AC Milan this morning - that seems a decent fit. Surprising this 'one trick pony, terrible manager' is linked with so many big jobs.