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2 years left on the contract is plenty. We are not in a position where we need to sell or risk losing out altogether. If we were unable to secure a good replacement, you’d be better off keeping him for the season in the hope we get promoted. £10-15m is more than reasonable and frankly, there’s...

I can’t see a situation where we buy KKH and keep MVE. Frankly, KKH would’ve been signed on a smaller fee than MVE and a healthy profit on MVE would make total sense. There isn’t much between them statistically. To summarise, MVE seems a better attacking fullback and KKH seems to be the better...

You don’t share starting positions. The season is 50+ games and players get injured so Sakamoto is never going to exiled. Besides, he’s too good to be sidelined completely. If we intend to play 1 striker, we need both wingers to get close to 7-13 goals at least. Sakamoto’s xG has been...

Honestly, Sakamoto has all the hallmarks to be a top role player. He isn’t a player who gives enough offensively imo. Dolan gives you more direct dribbling, chance creation, goalscoring, tackling, interceptions and recoveries. Sakamoto is generally a better crosser of the ball and had a...

For Dolan? He’s a free agent now. I’m happy to take their best player and a few million off of them. Dolan wouldn’t be signed for competition. He’s a better player than Sakamoto with more potential at only 23 years old. Looking at the stats, 7 goals and 6 assists (plus underlying data), you...

We looked at Dolan last season too, iirc! It wouldn’t surprise me if we went back in for him. Shows continuity with the recruitment strategy which is a good sign too.

The problem is that the operative word there is ‘if’. IF he’d stayed fit from 2021, he’d have probably left Everton to a bigger team for 10s of millions. As a physical striker, if your body is no longer up to it, you’re cooked at the top level.

He’s a yesterday man imo. For the wages he’d want, it’d be an expensive signing for us and he’s been plagued by injuries. Hard pass. Could be a good signing for a parachute payment team though.

He was good too. Post-World Cup, or even if Tuchel packs it in early, we should back him to do the job on a permanent basis. We shit the bed after losing to Greece.

Oh brother… Politics and economics isn’t a game that can be min-maxed, then copied and pasted across all countries. There isn’t a right or wrong answer and there’ll be time and place when ‘centrist’, ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’ policies are correct. The Laffer curve is not an instruction manual...

The tax system ought to be optimised for revenue and the mistake the left often makes is that increasing tax % = more receipts. Labour is finding this lesson the hard way because their non-dom clamp down and private school VAT raids have backfired (3 or 4 x more students left than projected)...

Generally, we risk over diagnosing and potentially over medicating now. I hear a lot of anecdotes that children with behavioural issues are effectively allowed to run riot in the same of empathy.

Jonathan Haidt has done some good work on this. iPads/iPhones (and so on) are hugely effective pacifiers. They are genuinely terrible for child development!

11% on incapacity benefits is no longer a minority underclass that can be ignored. The approvals for sickness benefit has surpassed 3,000 per day. The system entraps people into dependency, below, I’ll link an interesting Twitter thread (same guy has done a documentary with more detail, C4)...

Austerity effectively ended in 2017. The left needs to get out of its head that all evils go back to austerity. Fraser Nelson did a documentary on the welfare state and there are specific things where the UK is an outlier. Close to 90% of people in receipt of welfare will not leave the system...

Exactly, my mum remortgaged in 2008 at 6 or 8%. When interest rates spiked under Truss to historically normal levels, there was mass panic and rightly so. It just demonstrates how dysfunctional the economy is. There were even calls for government to step in and support with people’s mortgages...

It was pumped into the economy and did two things primarily: 1) a record transfer of wealth to the ‘wealthy’, be it individuals or corporations, AND; 2) introduced the welfare state to many young and able people It’s a twofold issue and 2 obviously unintended consequences.

Yep and ironically as a result of quantitative easing and generous hand outs of COVID grants/loans and more. Quantitative easing is credited with pushing up asset prices (i.e. property). Cheap credit hasn’t helped because there’s a generation of new homeowners that has increased the % of their...

How do you definite wealth? Someone like Elon Musk is a billionaire on paper, if Tesla’s share price went to zero, we’d all be richer than Elon Musk. On physical assets, like homes for example, if they continued growing in value at the same rate as the last 20-30 years, we’d all be...

This doesn’t include NI and student loan repayments btw. 14% is a hell of a lot of people for tax that was designed with the ‘Top 1%’ in mind. I’ve maxed out my own pension contributions to reduce my tax bill (for now). In my view, it’s cutting off your nose to spite your face because people’s...