Gemmill

What was the brief? "Just make it as ugly as fuck."

His free kick routine is nauseating too. The superman stance and the clenched jaw. Retire, you bellend.

Another one. What the fuck party did they think they were signing up to btw.

It's still not clear to me whether they've actually got away with that. Am I right in thinking that it'll fall into the PSR calc for the June 30 that's just passed? So we'll find out around Jan or so next year whether it's been accepted by the PL.

The PL wrote to all clubs after the dodgy swap deals were going through last week, to say that the deals would be investigated for fair market value transgressions. Nowt will come of it, I'm sure. They just couldn't be seen to not do anything whilst clubs were openly taking the piss out of their rules.

Imagine having to send that out with two days of campaigning to go btw. It's why I think Sunak should just fuck off on Friday. He's utterly shit but his party has completely deserted him.

Pat Sharpe having to be corrected and shamed for blatant lies on Sky News. They're fucking horrible this lot. I hope she's one that's about to lose her seat.

Can you explain what you would have done differently, bearing in mind they had tried to make the sales in earlier windows?

The Gordon stuff is regrettable, but even that I think was necessary as a last resort. As it turned out though, I actually think they've done a pretty excellent job of getting us out of the situation with minimal impact to the first team squad.

Agreed. And btw the only way for us to not have got into this situation is by not buying the likes of Gordon, Isak and Tonali. In other words, by staying shit for a lot longer. I like the way they've done it better. And we'd have been hearing fucking plenty from the twitter experts if transfer window after transfer window had gone by without us buying anyone of note. I'm sure they'd have wanted "answers from the club" for that scenario too.

They can't argue the toss. Those are arms length transactions with clubs that we have no affiliation with. They are, by definition, market value - in fact for Minteh we accepted less than Lyon offered us because the player didn't want to go there. And I completely disagree that it was mismanagement. They wanted to sell Anderson in January but he was injured. They tried to sell Miggy in January but he refused to go. Think something similar happened with Wilson. In the end, they sold two peripheral players and got £8m for a bloke who we were paying to sit around the house. He's now off the payroll now too. It all happened at the last minute because it was in the buying clubs' interests to make us wait til the last minute. Same reason a load of transfer window business happens on the last day, cos it's the point of maximum leverage. I honestly don't see the problem with it. We had a messy situation and we got out of it without any of our big stars going. Shame about Anderson but I suspect he was never going to be good enough for where we want to go. I don't know why there's so much fuss being kicked up about it. Fans on twitter saying "we need answers from the club". Answers to what? We had a PSR hole and we sorted it. There's your fucking answer.

Be fucking tremendous if he just blew Mar A Lago up. Broadcast live from the situation room with Biden in his aviators, eating an ice cream. The Democrats still haven't woken up to the fact that this lot are completely serious about installing Trump as the King of America.

READ: Justice Sotomayor's warning in her dissent: "When [the president] uses his official powers in any way, under the majority's reasoning, he now will be insulated from criminal prosecution. Orders the Navy's Seal Team 6 to assassinate a political rival? Immune. Organizes a military coup to hold onto power? Immune. Takes a bribe in exchange for a pardon? Immune. Immune, immune, immune. Let the President violate the law, let him exploit the trappings of his office for personal gain, let him use his official power for evil ends. Because if he knew that he may one day face liability for breaking the law, he might not be as bold and fearless as we would like him to be. That is the majority's message today. Even if these nightmare scenarios never play out, and I pray they never do, the damage has been done. The relationship between the President and the people he serves has shifted irrevocably. In every use of official power, the President is now a king above the law."

Nice little setup for Project 2025. Trump can now do whatever he wants while in power. And meanwhile the Democrats are banking on people ignoring the fact that Biden is cognitively impaired, and voting for him because he tells the truth a bit more than Trump.

God knows what official vs unofficial acts means, but this doesn't sound good. Why the Democrats didn't just pack the Supreme Court is beyond me. Some of the shit that these crackerjacks are pulling off is mental.

First off, I like how he starts his piece with (a paraphrased): "There will be clever people that agree with me that these questions need to be asked, but there will also be thick cunt fan boys of the new ownership who can't even tie their own shoes and are happy to go through life with their eyes closed." Always a great way to get people to read the rest of your article. He then immediately reveals that he doesn't know the difference between transfer fees and profit on sale of a player. A bad start. The rest of it is just a typical Michael Martin misery fest. Most of what I assume he thinks are really challenging unexplained questions, are nothing of the sort. Running a football club is hard. Trying to get a completely stagnant football club to compete at the top level is even harder. Trying to do all of that whilst remaining in compliance with crazy PSR rules is harder still. Gambles needed to be taken, and were. And at the end of it all, we've managed to meet our PSR requirements by selling two peripheral players, and getting compensation for a bloke who we were paying a pretty penny to sit around his house. A pretty successful outcome all things considered. And all this bloke wants to do is piss and moan about it. Gordon and Isak are still here, but he wants to fucking moan about the fact that they might not have been. We've had our pants pulled down cos Man United only paid a reported £8m for Ashworth. What a misery.

This is from chatgpt. I've no idea how this goes to the tune of Seven Nation Army. (To the tune of "Seven Nation Army" by The White Stripes) 🎶 Ohhh, Odysseas, our mighty wall, With you in goal, we’ll never fall, Vlachodimos, you’re our pride, With every save, we stand and rise! 🎶 🎶 Ohhh, Odysseas, our number one, With you in net, the battle’s won, Vlachodimos, strong and true, We're cheering loud, just for you! 🎶

Man United have just announced their new $75m a year shirt sponsorship deal with Snapdragon. The woman who negotiated the deal has been rewarded for her efforts by being told that she's surplus to requirements by Jim Ratcliffe. Who knows, she might have quite wanted to go, we don't have the details, but it all just smells very Ashley-like.

Whatever, it wasn't me spunking in my pants at the astronomy chat in GC the other day, fucking Gamesmaster.

Twitter is the absolute dregs. If you're ever stupid enough, and I am often am, to click beyond the top level tweet into the replies, it is invariably an absolute bin-fire of the worst of humanity. I can well believe that some absolutely terrible things are being said about Miggy, but at the same time, the lad could, at the very least, read the dishwasher manual.