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Sell BTA and develop Kone. Worth a punt I think

Id still be shocked if he didn’t go for £4m +

Agreed although if Isak goes for the cash being muted (£120m+) and Newcastle are genuinely interested I could see them paying over the odds as they’ll be desperate to get some decent new faces in.

Argentina is worth a look, been quite the turnaround recently although not convinced it will be sustained*. Didn’t Millei pick up an absolute mess from a long term left wing, high spending, high debt, high inflation government ? (they’re not all Mexico !) Both developing nations though, very...

so is right wing populism in Argentina, doesn’t mean I think it would work here Edit - will look into Mexico as don’t really know much about what’s gone on

We’ve allowed unis to be run totally inefficiently, chancellors being paid a fortune, spending loads on buildings etc but it’s all built on milking foreign students and kids that would probably be far better off not going to uni to start with. Like getting cheap foreign labour in rather than...

So we need to keep importing hundreds of thousands of students a year to keep unis afloat and hundreds of thousands of workers to pay the pensions of the elderly and increasing welfare bill How the fuck is this efficient or sustainable 🤷‍♂️ (not having a go at you Dave, just the logic of how...

No meltdowns from our fanbase either….honest

It’s obviously not BS. Whether we can get it done is a different matter. There will undoubtedly be outgoings in the coming days/weeks

Agreed. We’ll still rely on trading players, the difference is king appears willing to buy replacements or improvements in advance (KKH)

Talking of which I wonder if we could include him as part of the deal. Not knocking him, comes across as a good lad and a leader but he’s not likely to play regularly here

Agreed, although Rushworth ‘should’ be a higher level to recent keepers like Wilson, Collins etc though Westwood was quality ! The heady days of early sisu with Dann and Fox in front of him

Yeah, pretty much what I was saying yesterday Dave, with some shocking stats. Something like 55k currently in appeals process and it takes on average 54 weeks per appeal. 80k awaiting initial decision, loads will go into appeal process and new arrivals every day. Totally unsustainable Cooper...

There are definitely solutions to improve things, Cooper* sounds like she’s got the right idea on some stuff; changing/speeding up appeal process as mentioned yesterday and agreement with France (if it can be ramped up). I think we’ll also club together with those looking to amend (provide...

The EU things a myth. Check the returns under Dublin agreement, very few accepted returns (some years we were also net recipients) Agree about the challenges though and it ain’t gonna get any easier.

Is that purely processing cost or housing, benefits whilst waiting for appeals to be heard (currently 54 weeks) ? It’s as much to act as deterrent and as mentioned we had incurred a significant initial outlay already. That max capacity would probably cover a majority of single males waiting on...

Not sure I’m answering question or not but firstly, as mentioned, Coopers trying to change/accelerate the appeal process. That should relieve a lot of the pressure on the processing side, also the quicker the rejections/returns process, the more likely it will put off economic migrants I’ve...

Meant to put that in quotes, as in those human rights lawyers that have historically have used the ECHR as a backstop for removals of criminals etc. so you’ve got a load of people who’s claims have been validly rejected unable to be removed due to (for want of a better phase) ambulance chasing...

Not sure it’s a case of just throwing more people at it, the problem appears to be the system and that most individuals that get claims rejected are appealing and clogging up the process. There was an interesting article in the times yesterday about Coopers efforts to accelerate and streamline...

I hope not, it’s rejuvenated test cricket in this country. People forget we’d won 1 in 17 before Mccullum and stokes. Yes, plenty of fuck ups etc but also so many memorable moments and games, chasing down scores that was just unheard of before. There’s been a lot of senseless shots but people...