Rayvin

Nice. Really good move for the Switch as well.

I'm encouraged that HF seems to think we will net spend £70m this summer.

...well that's me sold. EDIT - wait - is it done well?

This is my view on it as well. And I really think that's what the other teams in the league did last summer when the crazy money was flying around.

Aye, as amusing as it is to think about, we're not ready for it even if we did sneak in by some miracle If we finish 8th I'll be delighted. If we finish where we are now I'll be delighted tbf.

The internet 'right' believes this to be a false flag. The left as well. Interesting times - the centrists are widely considered untrustworthy it seems. Anyway, I suppose it's encouraging that the situation hasn't yet unravelled.

A lot of the Arsenal fans commenting under the several Guardian articles we've had written about us seem to want him. I don't actually think he would go there though, unless Ashley does shaft him. At best with Arsenal he might win a couple of cups and I guess rejoin the 'elite' of managers in the CL... But with us, he wins one trophy and becomes an instant legend. From how he has acted since being here, I want to believe that he is more likely to value the latter.

I prefer it to actual kids dying.

What would you have him say?

Just caught up with this - I think I saw an article about 'online violence' that made similar points. While it's easy to dismiss (and usually you can skip death animations anyway) I can see why it bothers some people. Not that I play a lot of shooters, but you hardly ever see people do this anyway.

Nope. The Tories seem fine with having hard right fuckwits, so I'm fine with the overenthusiastic leftists. Sorry.

What makes you think that this was Corbynistas? The far right, as I recall, are anti-interventionist.

I think if the Syrians used Chemweps then we should take out their facilities for doing so, but we should absolutely not get dragged into a wider conflict. We will though, because the Tories are fucking insane. Can see Corbyn's point if this inadvertently triggers WW3 as well though. Or if the Russians respond by annihilating civilians.

Been away for a few days, has anyone brought up this^

I hope we end up centrist but now isnt the time. Theyre only going to split the left and entrench the Tories. Which is the only reason they exist.

Snowflaking

So it seems an assortment of millionaire fuckheads are establishing a new party of 'the centre' in the latest bid by the rich to do anything they possibly can to prevent a left wing victory. I predict this new party will get far more coverage than it deserves.

Fucking get in!

You have at least been around for a while. Although its unusual to see Dan in an argument with another poster tbh.

If Spurs go in for him, we should be asking for at least £50m.

Was thinking the loan market tbf. They could still arguably pull decent players based on the fact they were a PL outfit 2 years ago. I suspect the drop off in standard from the Championship to League One is significant but I've never had to pay attention to League One before. So I could be wrong.

I think the size of the club will start to be significant in League One. They're a bigger club than Blackburn and Wigan, and will require far less spending to win L1 than they would have to stay up in the Championship. But sure, they could fail. I hope they do. But I'm not counting on it.

Right but, that sounds like a medium to long term strategy. I do get that they would make more money if they were to do the same sorts of things, but that has to be at least a 3-5 year pay off. They're in financial peril way before anything like that comes in to save them. I honestly think they'd need to be back in the PL in order to be financially sustainable enough to make that strategy feasible. And again, how much money would that take? If Short doesn't think they're going back to the PL any time soon, I don't think League One or the Championship makes any difference to him. Especially when you consider that they probably will be promoted from L1 at first time of asking, and that they will be less burdened by their PL era wages. And like I said, Short might well be a billionaire, but it's unlikely he has spare tens of millions kicking around in bank accounts. It'll all be tied up in businesses. Those businesses might be performing well - why pull out of successful ventures to free up funding for Sunderland?

Which players could the mackems sell for large profits, exactly? Have you considered as well that Short simply might not have the liquid assets to do this? Same as Ashley. He will have made the best decision possible with the information at his disposal.