Rayvin

It sounds as if Rafa himself doesn't get involved in the transfers though. All he seems to do is identify targets and then leave it to Charnley. Seems a bit illogical, because surely there is a need to triage resources a bit, and you would think only Rafa can judge that, but who knows. Him not knowing the budget doesn't necessarily mean nothing is happening...

I'd settle for that tbh. It's a foundation to build on properly.

I reckon it'd put us into touching distance of Liverpool tbh.

As for FFP, I thought the deal was to assess losses over a rolling 3 year period...? So we could spend like crazy in one season as long as we made it back in the next two, I guess.

I didn't realise you guys were actually fighting tbh, I actually think you both have a certain comedic chemistry. I think you both have each other's numbers tbh, quite possibly literally

I thought Sunderlands issue was as much about financing their external debt as it was about FFP. And didn't the football league punish QPR for overspending?

Genuinely don't think Ashley needs to 'force Rafa out' at this point. He could quite happily just wait for his contract to run down at the end of the year and close things down then.

Tbh mate, I was just poking fun.

Realistically, I think Fish wants them to implode as much as we do, but his RTG commitments have compromised him to a degree. He's being watched, so he has to behave here as he would there. Deep down, he knows they're staring death in the face, and he's fucking loving it

I can recall Chez making a reasonable argument in favour of privatisation actually. I can't remember much about it now, but I think it hung on the notion that it would still be universally accessible, but just cheaper.

I don't think anybody can hold up to their standards. It really is like religious people 100 years ago. Posturing for morality points.

The thing that gets me is that his apology was actually really good. He held his hands up, said he had changed hugely - and I think you can see that. He's dedicated his life to running that news channel to support progressive causes. But they've turned on him anyway because once you've made a mistake, you are forever guilty, it would seem.

Oh dear... http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/justice-democrats-ousts-cenk-uygur_us_5a3eb4d1e4b025f99e178181 Cenk Uygur has been taken down by the SJWs... and the progressive movement within the Democratic Party may die with his resignation. So he apparently wrote some sexist stuff 18 years ago, has formally and fully apologised for it, but they've taken him out back and shot him anyway. I'm not a big fan of Cenk, but he runs a YouTube news channel that has 3.5m subscribers and exclusively promotes SJW views (albeit with a degree of rationality). Moral purity test failed though...

I'm trying to get my head around how happy Essembee is going to be if they do actually go down...

If they go down, they're really fucked. Financially, I just don't see how they can sustain it. Would they still be getting parachute payments from the PL? I guess they would. Maybe that would be enough. Selling NDong surely isn't going to make a lot of difference unless they can get back something close to what they bought him for, since they will still owe money on the guy. Personally would be surprised if they get more than £7-8m. Kone probably around the same. If Grabban goes they'll replace him of course, but they must be concerned now...

Hit Champ again briefly yesterday only to lose it once again in a spell of overconfidence. It's really pissing me off now because the season will end soon...

Interesting we're now 1 point behind Brighton and 2 behind Huddersfield. Another win and we could be ahead of both depending how their games go. We're not doing that fucking badly this season tbf. I'm sure there's another horror run around the corner but plenty of teams are struggling this year.

It's interesting that they're still not turning it around actually. I mean they could do, quite easily - two wins on the bounce at any point for the rest of the season would probably revilatise them, but it's still not working. Don't think they'll go down but am starting to be a little stunned that they're still staring relegation in the face. Their club is the very definition of a slow motion car crash though, so maybe they actually will sleepwalk into League One.

#drama

He did? For real?

In that case it's changed since the beta. I'm not criticising the gameplay at all btw, not that I went back to it after winning 4 out of 7. What I'm saying is that each time you've won once, I'm not sure about the incentive to keep winning. Largely because I didn't go back to it. In fairness I played it longer than For Honor. I'm just not seeing what other people seem to in its lasting appeal. If they've sorted the ranking system into banding and maybe added a competitive system, than I'll admit that it's basically the same setup as RL though.

Happy New Year all

Why are we selling Shelvey, and to who?

RL has a ranking system which actually makes you want to play. The last time I checked PUBG, it was just game after game with no real sense of skill progression through leaderboards. I would also suggest that you need more technical skill in RL, and that even after 1000 hours you can be learning new things or improving aspects of your game. How do you improve your ability to shoot someone? It's point and click.