Palfy

He hasn’t been seen at the club in the last few days and won’t be in the squad tomorrow he is self isolating.

Rafa told him he needs to look for another club, he may have to pick him out of necessity, but I don’t believe he will have done a complete U-turn he will be gone soon as an offer comes in.

What should be capped is players wages then there would maybe be no need for agents, when you get Messi reportedly being paid 25 million a season, you have to blame the clubs they helped create the super agents to get them what they wanted. I wouldn’t want anyone dictating what I can earn and how much I can charge for my services, when I first worked in my industry in mid to late seventies I was on the cards on Union rates self employed construction workers didn’t exist in them days, then a lot of the national house builders found a loophole that suited them to encourage us to give up our employment status and go self employed, thus saving them money and the hassle of making sure they had plenty of work to keep us busy, now in my early years I struggled but I built a business up that I control what I earn which suits the companies I contract to, because I am doing all the leg work for them and supplying what they require, if they don’t like my costs I don’t get the contract, usually they don’t like my costs and I still get the contract, they created the likes of me in their industry because it suited them as did clubs help create agents because it was easier and suited them. What has transpired is the same in my industry and many industries, it’s called capitalism people including myself who are self employed will always push the boundaries of what they and in some cases there clients can earn, you call it greed I call it supply and demand created by the end user who benefits from the service, because if they didn’t want it they wouldn’t use it. Don’t go feeling sorry for the clubs and condemning the agents they are providing a service, Riola is self employed and good at what he does for his clients and himself, when I meet successful civil engineering companies bricklaying companies ect ect who’s owners are multi millionaires, I don’t think greedy bastards I think fair play to them.

The player doesn’t negotiate with the club he has signed up with the agent to do that, the players happy if the deal goes through and he’s doubled his wages and he’s playing for a decent club, if the agent and club can’t strike a deal the club don’t get the player, and the next club in-line get their opportunity to do the deal, what you seem to forget agents thrived in the game because clubs encouraged the agent player set up it suited and still does the way they want to do business. The clubs and players aren’t complaining about agents, it’s HMRC and some fans who seem to have a problem with the way it operates.

To think not so long ago he was playing for us, where has it all gone wrong?

It has always been the club who pick up the agents fee, it’s what the clubs want to do, it’s there way of getting the better agent’s with the better players to deal with them, what difference does it make to any of us who pick up the tab, if the player picked the tab up his agent would negotiate a deal with the club that they would have to give the player an enhanced deal to cover any costs incurred by the player having to pay the agents fee, no matter how you dress it up the club will always pay the costs if they want the player recruitment.

I think you’re right it will be the new version of the flu shot. It never seems to amaze me how as humans we constantly seem to mess up and cause havoc with the world we live in.

They have been planning for the 3rd jab for sometime in the UK but as yet haven’t released a time frame of when and how.

It’s strange and effects people in different ways, like you hospital was the last place I wanted to be, for a couple of reasons one being I’m bloody minded and secondly 3 kids 8 grandchildren it would have sent the family into meltdown. You wearing your mask is the right and sensible thing to do you are helping to protect others, those who don’t wear a mask are helping to infect others. I hope you the recovery is going to plan and you are all well.

I’m fully vaccinated yet still caught Covid, I was advised by my local health authority to go to hospital on 4-5 days in a row, after the Covid call centre reported me as a risk to my local health authority, they sent me by a courier equipment to test my Oxygen levels and heart rate. The recommendation at rest is 95% plus oxygen in your blood below 93% they want you in hospital mine was 88%, they want your heart rate at rest to be between 50-90 bpm mine was between 118-130, please don’t think you’re safe because you’ve been double jabbed.

Agreed just as many maybe catching it, but far less are falling seriously ill going to hospital and most importantly dying. Get the vaccine and save someone else.

I was reading an article which was saying the State’s are heading for another wave of infections.

The club said he wasn’t ready but they insisted he had to go, like I said we are talking completely different circumstances McCarthy was injured Richarlison isn’t, he’s just won the Olympics he’s buzzing to play there’s no reason he shouldn’t if he’s fit and wants it.

That was more what Martin O’Neil and Roy Keane thought. And Richarlison isn’t injured or coming back from an injury.

He knows his own body better than anyone else, so if he says he’s ready to play who are we to disagree.

Playing off 11 I’ve never had the pleasure of playing off a handicap that low in my life and I’ve had Covid, fair play mate that’s very good golf

I’m not going to try and guess the starting line up with injuries and players missing it’s anyone’s guess, but if James starts I hope he has worldie for many reasons.

I don’t know about that Pete corporate accountants at the top of their game don’t get paid 6 or 7 figure salaries because their knowledge of tax avoidance and how to create loopholes, is equivalent to those who work in HMRC on 50-60 thousand a year. Globally countries especially the G7 were meant to work together to stop companies avoiding taxes in the countries that they made their profits in, we haven’t seen any signs of that happening and probably won’t because there’s always some who are making and won’t want changes.

We will have to see how it pans out, but the big clubs will just put the agent’s with the best players on their books on some sort of contract, but the original complaint was that agents get paid by the club, that will not stop the clubs who want first refusal on the better players will find away round any tax rules that the HMRC implement, when it comes to tax avoidance the best brains don’t work for HMRC they work in the private sector.

The tax implications are quite separate from the role an agent has with a club, whether the new HMRC rules change that I very much doubt it, the HMRC will struggle to try and dictate what an agent charges for his services and what a club is prepared to pay an agent who gets them what they want. All the HMRC are concerned about is that clubs are using their agent fees to pay less taxes by reducing profits, that’s not going to deter clubs from using agents to make sure they get the best players available.

What would he offer us even playing for Utd with all their possession he does very little to impress, stay well clear I say, it’s at times like this I’m pleased we have no money when players like him are in the mix.

The agent club thing is very complicated some of the richer clubs will pay agents a decent fee just so they have first refusal at any players that agent represents. An agent like Riola as made a successful career with the help and backing of the clubs he works for, as for the players they know he has the contacts and the ear of many big clubs so they want to sign for him to further their careers and bank balances.

How sweet

Covid good for slowing your golf swing down you can always find a positive in a negative if you look hard enough. Pleased to hear you came through relatively unscathed mate, how many have you been cut by