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I bet you end up with a Which Best Buy.

Whenever I'm doing owt like this, I sign up for the free trial at Which and pick one of their Best Buys. Might be worth a look on there if you haven't already.

He's talking about you two as some sort of partnership arrangement. If he goes down, he takes you with him, unless you wish to publicly disavow "The King".

"I'M JUST BIG BONED MUTHAFUCKA!"

They even gave evidence on behalf of Man City. A case that called out the fact that not including shareholder loans (of which they have more than anyone at £450m) was unlawful, and they turned up to support it.

Toontastic's Huntley and Carr. What could go wrong.

We know that, but he's gonna get the equivalent of being carried around on a sedan chair for the next 4 years by the majority of the press in this country. Treated like the man who would be king.

If you assume most of Tommy Tit's lot break to Cleverly, he might have enough votes to decide who he'd rather face in the final two. Which, given Jenrick's shit showing at their conference and Badenoch's popularity with the membership, you'd pick him, and lend some of your votes to get him over the line.

I think it's this lad. He's got his own Fender signature model if so.

Aye mine is absolutely spot on, whatever I watch on it. There are so many different picture profiles to pick from (and obvs you can create your own) though, some of which are dark, but I just don't use those ones. I'm not using ones that are super garish and bright either - you can basically set it however you want, from eyeball meltingly bright to barely see what's going on dark. Just pick one of the standard profiles though, and you'll be fine.

@Christmas Tree I've got an LG OLED 48 incher. No issues with burn-in. If you're not watching it for a short period, the screen goes black anyway with a white text screen saver thing. So you'd have to really try to get an image burnt in to it. If you want specific model, let me know. It's class like. It's the 2021 version so might have a slightly different name now.

Have you got a burnt in Ben Dover O-Face on the current one?

He's a vegan and he rides an e-scooter. They're his second team.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sport/football/article-13936107/Manchester-City-write-19-Premier-League-clubs-RUBBISH-misleading-claims-victory-civil-war-sponsorship.html More quotes from the email Craig mentions above.

Marjorie Taylor Greene says that this is being done by malign forces with an intent to interfere with the election. Makes you think. Specifically it makes you think that she is a fucking smoothbrained arsehole, thoroughly unfit for the role that the similarly smoothbrained US electorate has handed to her.

We could have done with this information before we allowed you to start last Saturday's match thread. You've got to be a stone cold killer in this game, you can't go into these things feeling sorry for the opposition.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/oct/08/manchester-city-tribunal-premier-league-football Decent summary of who won, in what area, and what it might mean. They make it sound like it's probably more bad news for clubs with shareholder loans than it is good news for the likes of us. Which I'd probably take to be fair. I have no idea how Everton either refinance their existing loans (impossible, no bank would go near them) or pass any future PSR assessments if shareholder loans are included. If they're charged 8 to 10% annually on £450m of loans, thats £36m to £45 p.a. £108m to £135m over a 3 year PSR window. So this could end up being the best news for anyone who's predicted Everton's demise. So if you know anyone, let them know.

Nobody knows. They're gonna have to have new rules and those rules are going to have to include shareholder loans as it's been deemed unlawful to exclude them. Or possibly more likely they'll now have to come up with some generally more lax rules to appease the big lads who have been getting through PSR unscathed because of their shareholder loans. Any ideas of quickly spinning up some insane sponsorship deals in the meantime are probably fantasy - they'll just go unapproved until the new rules are in place. We'll just have to wait and see.

Unfortunately we'll have to wait to get the other side of the story because three red flags means that mag caught a coma. Hopefully he makes a full recovery.

Cant speak with your mouth full.

The ruling states that the APT rules are unlawful because they exclude shareholder loans. So I don't see how the PL can just go "Aye but that's how we like them. We're keeping the interest free loans out of the rules". They've got themselves in a right fucking mess. And yet they'll still insist that they can self-regulate.

Is this right that they're now gonna be included? Cos it's gonna cause significant bother for some teams if so. And the rule should be applied retrospectively back to the point that these initial rules were cooked up by a bunch of clubs that knew they were taking the piss.

It's shit man. It's why I just wanted us to spend all the cash on Guehi in the summer if that's who Howe wanted, cos I'm sick of worrying about stupid rules.

Basically.... If PIF loaned us £500m to spend on players, nothing about our PSR situation would be improved. Loans dont get offset against your PSR profits or anything. Getting the money at zero interest is nice, but if we spent that money on players, everything about those transactions would be the same as before. Same amortisation costs, same player wages, and same impact on PSR. Where the clubs with the interest free loans are benefiting is that there is an insistence that all of our sponsorship deals are at market value/on market terms. But their loans aren't. If they're already sailing close to the wind on PSR, then having those loans on normal commercial terms would kill them. Which is why it's ridiculous that they aren't a part of the rules. Even if the rules stated that you can have your interest free loans, but for the purposes of PSR, the PL will apply a notional market rate of interest to those loans and that figure will be used in your calculation. That would be a fair treatment.