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1 hour ago, Btay said:

But if he gets injured tomorrow and sits out for a year is he still a great signing? 

He didn’t cost 25m so it wouldn’t be a big hit.  He was what 2m or 5m?

16 minutes ago, Palfy said:

What are your thoughts on South Korea and Americans as a whole about the money you have been spending there for over 70 years, it makes what you have spent in Afghanistan look like a spit in the ocean, only ask you because you are more concerned about the cost of the Afghan war to America than the what happens to the people and country after the failed withdrawal, and please don’t take this as a personal attack I just want to know why Korea doesn’t get a mention when talking about spending money on US military in other countries. 

south korea is one of our largest trading partners and allies.  they have a robust economy and produce a lot of electronics and tech.  the only thing Afghanistan was exporting to the US was heroin.  My wife taught English in South Korea and lived there, she loved the country and the people.  We eat their cuisine regularly as my wife prepares it or we go to a Korean restaurant.  I would say most americans think very favorably of South Korea just like they do Japan.  Products made in Japan or South Korea are thought of highly in terms of quality.

edit:  there are a lot of immigrants from south korea as well, in LA there is koreatown which is a massive area which a lot of them live.  i used to live near there and it was wild, for blocks and blocks of the city, signs, billboards, everythign was in korean, you all of a sudden were transported to another country.  wild.  great food.  had some wonderful korean friends when we lived in LA.  

20 minutes ago, Ghoat said:

Most of the stuff in that bill will takes years to see the fruits of - lots of very needed things - but they are not things that are quick projects or immediate fixes. And it may quickly get "lost" in the noise of the brawl in the form of $3.5T that the democrats are trying to get pushed thru. 

Gold, Jerry, gold! 

there was a so called "brawl" when trump was in with him battling mitch and co to pass the budget as well, no one cared once it was passed.  win is a win.

1 hour ago, Gwlad all over said:

People aren't fooled and assuming Demarai is here for the long haul he'll give everything I hope.

i think he was humbled being sold to the german league.  getting a chance with us he's hungry and ready to prove he is up to this level.  it was a great signing.

3 hours ago, dunlopp9987 said:

If Arsenal are about to sign Odegaard for £30m, no fucking way does Anguissa go for 15-20

i didn't notice odegaard much last year, was he good in the premier league?  im kinda confused why they signed him but maybe he was good

1 hour ago, MikeO said:

He actually said he was, "one of the best" shortly after Silva had described Digne as the best lest back in the league, bit of mutual back-scratching I think; and beside, no player is ever going to say their manager is shite or average are they?

yes most don't answer the question, they do a swerve and say something else so they are still being positive but not lying.  like benitiez when asked if ronaldo was best player in the world "he's the best player i've managed".  was still complementary but didn't agree with the question of best in the world, just said best he managed.

37 minutes ago, patto said:

MikeO you are a doubting Thomas on most subjects

that's his thing around here, whether he believes it or not he just devil's advocate everything.

digne said in an interview Silva was the most tactical manager he ever had, he said the sessions on tactics Marco went the deepest.  Digne played at PSG and Barca BTW.  I liked Marco.  I wished he had done better.  I hope he does with Fulham.  The players all seemed to like him.

just announced if you got pfizer or moderna there is a booster shot 8 months after your second dose.  available next month.  J&J shot will offer one as well.

12 minutes ago, patto said:

Do you think he will fail at Fulham then,I think he will bring them up they have just won 2 away games and the attacking football looked very good. 
When looking for a new manager in the summer it was said Coleman wanted Silver back. 

yeah and mitrovic is healthy again and scoring.  they have a decent squad and didn't lose much when they dropped.  

once that 1 trillion infrastructure bill gets passed and the potholes/broken bridges are repaired, and people get their free internet, no one will care about afghanistan (rightly or wrongly).  he's done this stratigically so it will be erased in a news cycle by that passing, and the budget which includes a ton of money for other stuff (child tax credit permanence being one) as well.  those will dwarf this.  every president has a military fuckup, sadly it's part of the US makeup to play GI-Joe.  it won't define him.  

thing is palfy polls show majority of americans want us out of there, even after this fiasco.  they don't care, they think we need to fix the issues in our country first.  he is doing the will of the people.  might not be pretty, but it's what WE want.

4 hours ago, patto said:

Marco has them playing some good stuff I think they will be back up easy. 
Marco is a good coach but our players let him down big time. 

agreed i'm rooting for them, have always had a soft spot for fulham

https://www.espn.com/soccer/english-premier-league/story/4455852/can-evertons-rafa-benitez-win-over-the-fans-despite-his-liverpool-past
 

I didn’t know he was so generous with his money or that he’d donated to Rhys mum.  Nice to see that, it definitely fits the fabric of our club.  He’s got some more proving to do on the pitch but this was nice to read.

4 minutes ago, Palfy said:

Mind you let’s be honest he does look good  in an Everton shirt blue definitely suits him.

Classy backtrack

if i found him underneath my christmas tree, i wouldn't be mad

23 minutes ago, Zoo 2.0 said:

No, it's one time compensation and that's all. He's literally a free agent, so nothing to do with us anymore.

17 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:

We'll first try negotiating compensation with the club he signs for, and if we can't agree a fee then it'll go to a compensation panel.

We could end up with a decent fee through that or we could end up getting shafted for fuck all. It's hard to tell.

gotcha thanks to the both of you!

2 hours ago, Matt said:

Our compensation is going to be small change though. 

wanted to ask on this, i realize you were going for a pun there but do we get a pittance from this or if United get him and sell him for big bucks do we get a decent wedge?

1 hour ago, Romey 1878 said:

Yes. But they're both Usmanov's men.

i thought sasha was moshiri's man he put in on day 1.  or do i have that wrong?

1 hour ago, Formby said:

Those 'rebels in the desert' have just humbled the US. It's the kind of disparaging terminology that results in military overconfidence and ultimate failure. The British, the Russians never succeeded in holding Afghanistan. There's a lesson there. I am very sure the US, the UK and EU troops, by the end of their tours, would have realised what they were really up against - forbidding terrain, forbidding heat and a determined and resourceful enemy.  

they didn't humble us!  we left and they defeated the afghans.  we defeated them and controlled the country comfortably for 20 years with a couple thousand troops that's it.

1 hour ago, Ghoat said:

But when The Orange Man did exactly that he was accused of xenophobia, and of wrecking all of our alliances. That was literally the policies behind Make American Great Again - balancing out trade tariffs/imbalances, and leaning more on regional allies to hand regional issues. I'm not saying he was totally successful, or not a bull in a china shop in his approach, but he had a some wins for sure, despite all his MANY failings and fucked up demeanor. He was the one that actually pulled almost all of the combat troops out of Afghanistan, leaving the contingent of special forces and advisors, instead of infantry and armor.

 

"Speak Softly and Carry a Big Stick" is about the only way you can deal, IMO, with the Taliban and such - but it only works if they know good and damn well you will wield said Big Stick. Point in case, look at what's happening today. The Taliban has zero fear of Biden wacking them with a stick. What should have been a long overdue tactical withdrawal has turned into a dumpster fire. This could be our worst foreign policy disaster in years. And regardless of who is in the White House, NO ONE should be happy that we have created in International shitshow.

i am not a big trump fan, but i am not some partisan all good or all bad politico.  i liked some of the things trump did or stood for.  i'm ok saying that. i would hope some repubs could say the same about biden or obama. i liked his isolationism and his claims he would "end all the wars".  he didn't do that (he didn't completely end them, so technically he didn't fulfill that promise) but he got the ball rolling.  i don't like team america world police thing.  people often don't realize (not saying this is you, you seem intelligent) that the far left and far right actually have some things they agree on, Bernie Sanders and Trump were both anti-china and pro-isolationism.  both were pro-US manufacturing and jobs and anti-amazon.

10 minutes ago, Formby said:

Do you mean the UK or Europe? The last time I checked American military spend was greater than all the other countries in the world combined! Our military capability is insignificant compared to yours. Just look at the deployments in Iraq and Afghanistan. The British could barely hold Basra or Helmand. Our weapons didn't even work in the desert.

i understand we are massive compared to others, but surely the Uk gov (you're not in eu so i don't think you get access to their military anymore?) has enough to beat some rebels in the desert.  it wasn't an actual war, it was an excuse for economic production and defense spending.

i'm laughing at these republicans "why end this, look what happened".  fact of the matter is they don't care one iota about the people there, they just care about the defense spending and wanting another war for the economy.  don't for one second think the outcry is about the people, it's not.

Realized I’m missing this one as well, signed up to do a charity event.  

4 hours ago, Romey 1878 said:

 

 

After all the fuck ups with ticketing and basic running of the business I am not surprised at all.

7 minutes ago, Formby said:

Because the US is the only country capable of doing so? We are pissed at out our government. but it is completely ineffectual. Europe is completely incapable of defending itself within its own borders (see Bosnia), never mind somewhere further afield. America will limp out of Afghanistan the way the British and the Russians did before. 

You are capable you have a ton of money and military as well.  I’m not sure why we need to be the global police.  I’m all for isolationism, let’s worry about fixing the ills in our own country first before we try and mess with other countries.  We have mass poverty, violence, crime, etc, let’s work on righting those wrongs first in America.

I understand you are upset palfy, I just don’t think we had any business there in the first place.  In america  schools they love to talk about how we were tops in the world post WWII because that war gave generated so much money and helped establish the middle class.  Ever since then politicians think the best way to solve the failing economy is to just have another war!  Seriously.  They do it for the economic production, it’s sickening.  We shouldn’t have been there, or Iraq; or Kuwait, it’s not our place.  Those people have customs and history that have nothing to do with us.  Team america world police is not needed.  They need to work those things out themselves, else we get this current situation where we tried to change it and help and 20 years later it reverts back overnight because our way just isn’t the way.
 

lastly, why aren’t you pissed at your government?  Shouldn’t you be petitioning them to help and intervene?  Why us?