Alex

Guehi’s cost would’ve been spread over the length of his contract. Kelly is on loan until the summer so that money is not incoming until then. Not sure how the Almiron deal is structured but we might not want the first instalment or the bulk of the money until the summer for PSR reasons. Also the winter window is only a month so a properly run outfit would know if any potential targets could leave in January before the window even opened. There’s a bit of speculation in all that but what I am trying to say is buying Guehi last summer doesn’t mean we’d have had to sell a blue chip player this past window. And just because we didn’t intend buying anyone doesn’t mean that either.

Of course he is. Just like how he was harder than Covid

They’re great 👍🏻

Not necessarily on here but I’ve seen lots of stuff suggesting the investment has dried up etc. I don’t really see it, unless the new stadium and the state of the art training ground aren’t happening. I’m pretty sure that’s not the case, and I don’t see why the owners would be pressing ahead with that if investment wasn’t going to keep happening. The PSR discussions have been done to death but a few things to remember are the woeful inward revenue that was inherited, the massive squad overhaul that was needed (and has lead to position we didn’t really want to be in - selling two young assets in the summer to avoid repercussions). We’re clearly not the only ones feeling the need to tread carefully, just look at the lack of transfer activity in the January window compared to what it used to be like. All that means is we’re reliant on getting players we’re pretty sure about investing in. Players who’ll be here for years. There’s no point in looking at short term fixes in the Saudi league. There’s no guarantee they’d be sanctioned anyway as they’ve clearly been bought to raise the profile of the league with the World Cup in mind. What would be the point in signing a 37 year old Benzema for 6 months in any case? That’s an extreme example but it just doesn’t fit in with the way Howe or the hierarchy seem to want to do things. And if we start getting ‘creative’ it’ll just get outlawed the next time the cartel get together. I’d also say selling Kelly for £20m after getting him on a free is an incredible bit of business. It obviously needs to be a big summer but I don’t think there’s anything about the way we acted in January to suggest it won’t be.

At least

It’s like something Alan Patridge might’ve eventually came up with if you extended the Monkey Tennis / Youth Hostelling with Chris Eubank scene by an hour or 3

I don’t know how you would go about fertilising one of those. But I suppose mouse-proportioned genitalia can have its advantages

It’s worth noting the panel of experts work for her defence team

Big fan of white chocolate Cadbury’s crème eggs too

Gemmill does subscribe to the Ha’way version of the spelling iirc

Modelled his onscreen look on CT on his wedding day iirc RIP and all that but I seem to remember the show being absolutely shite

AI, AI, AI, OH….

Labour leave it wide open for him to fill the vacuum of their non movement on closer EU ties as well. They can’t leave that until the end of the parliament or there will be no tangible benefits. They need to be bolder but they take fucking forever to act on their words. I’ve literally seen this at work. I think they thought the election would give them a minimum two terms but I also think the time out of government has created a very steep learning curve due to the lack of experience

I wonder if the impartial Times brings that up

Aye, he should be sold on the basis of that outfit alone

Also on mixcloud (and soundcloud) Greg Wilson is worth a follow. Been DJ-ing for about 50 years and also is a master of the re-edit. But for the pop crazed youngsters of a certain age, if you go on his mixcloud profile, go to ’Shows’ and scroll down, there’s some ‘time capsule’ shows which are all funk and soul type stuff from a certain month in the mid/late 70s like the one below:

Vegan pastie eating beardy sleeve-tattooed hipster cunts

In my mind I can hear John Peel saying it

@Dr Gloom you heard this btw?

https://www.thetimes.com/article/0bb82207-346a-4a10-b54d-70467bf61be2?shareToken=7eb6ab69dabb33b7ec969fd722a94a7b

Assistant to the manager

Quite an unedifying end to Henderson’s career. I had a lot of time for him as a player but he’s pissed on his chips in terms of the moral role model image he tried to project before going to Saudi Arabia. And the mackems have disowned him. So it’s not all bad news for him

I don’t recall having heard LT speak but it sounds she talks like she writes

At least that much I reckon