Palfy

well that's the point - you can't just keep spending until you get it right these day. Clubs used to be able to do that to get to the top - Man City and Chelsea got away with it, I have little doubt if FFP rules where around when they both spend big, there would have be a decent change they would have ended up like we are now - hamstrung. 
It is going to be very interesting to see what situation the likes of Aston Villa and Newcastle are like in 3-4 seasons time. There are already 6 teams battling for top 4 places season on season - 8 does not go in to 4 and I don't see how teams like this revenues are going to allow them to compete financial with both the now global brands of the top six, plus there CL money. They are heading for a similar cliff to us as I don't see Villa or Newcastle having bona fida revenue streams any more greater than ours - they will get to a point when CL becomes a must to keep the moment going in transfer fees and wages.
 
 

I’m easily misled, why the fuck do people post shit like that wtf do they get out of it. 

I thought this was an interesting read -
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/jun/13/how-the-fa-banned-womens-football-in-1921-and-tried-to-justify-it

Whether you or I find this difficult to comprehend a big percentage of gambling addicts became addicted straight after their first bet, unfortunately that is a fact and I find it hard to comprehend because nothing like that has ever happened to me. This is why gambling shouldn’t be advertised we shouldn’t make it easy for companies to encourage first time gamblers to make their first bet, all first time gamblers have the potential to be the addicts of the future, so let’s do everything to stop the promotion of gambling. 

I started at around thirteen, could buy 10 No.6 for twenty pence in vending machines (10p-ish sized coins from my dad's foreign coin collection worked as well😂), then I went Marlboro and Rothmans. Stopped, with my wife, on Josh's 5th birthday when docs though he had asthma (he didn't as it turned out).
Around a year later wife started again and despite promising multiple times to give up, she never did.
"Funny" (looking back at it, wasn't funny at the time) story; June 2009 I did a tobacco run to Madrid for her, one night in a hotel, tour of Bernabau, 60x50g Golden Virginia pouches legally bought for way less than half it'd have cost at home. She then announces she's thinking about giving up again so, as an incentive, I tell her that if she gives up we'll sell it and she can spend the procedes on whatever she likes. Deal done, we sell it for probably around £600, don't remember the exact numbers but that's ball park; she then spend it on "house" stuff like blinds, curtains (which require work from me obviously) and other suchlike soft furnishings.
Week later she's smoking again

And all tobacco products need to be in closed cabinets, so you can't even see them.
Plus a government-commissioned review a few days back recommended raising the minimum age to buy by one year every year, effectively making it illegal for anyone currently (or when/if it happens) under eighteen to ever buy them.
https://www.reuters.com/business/retail-consumer/uk-tobacco-control-review-recommends-raising-age-sale-each-year-2022-06-09/
I gave up in 2001 after many smoking years, frankly I don't know how anyone can still afford the bloody things nowadays.

We have done it to tobacco companies wholesale in this country, even to the extent that we accept no tobacco advertising from other countries to be shown in this country. Gambling is what keeps our horse racing going without gambling it wouldn’t be what it is right now the gambling companies have bank rolled it for years because most wouldn’t exist without it. But as in Formula 1 Snooker and other sports who were bankrolled by the tobacco industry they had to find other streams of revenue support even though they said it would be the end of their sport if tobacco advertising was banned, it wasn’t, and that would be the same for sports and teams sponsored by gambling companies. 

I’m not saying ban gambling, drinking, smoking, or complicit over the correct age pornography but I would say ban all advertising that promotes these activities, for me that wouldn’t be restricting society, but banning advertising could help protect some of the vulnerable members of society. And those who want to participate still have the option to do so, but instead of them looking to hook you you have to look for them. Is that such a bad ideal or would you rather we become inundated with gambling companies advertising and trying to hook first time punters who could turn into the next addict, and without that encouragement from the advertising possibly may of not made that first bet that spiralled into an addiction. 

Hadn’t noticed 😉

I don’t have to much of a problem with Patterson I think he would fit well into a Lampard team based on good possession with an attacking mentality, he’s a young lad with a great first touch and an ability to keep possession in a tight spaces, I have a lot of belief in him he could be a great asset for us. 

I’m not going to rise to this bait. Nope, not doing it!

This is a multi-capped Scottish international we're talking about. He should need no period of bedding in: I'm sure he's just raring to go.

Sounds like a quote from when you offer Monopoly advice to younger members of your family.

I think they only thing hurt with the fan was his pride he fell over trying to get away, if you’re going to get in someone’s face at least have the bottle to back it up, fucking embarrassing 🙈 

He was offered a new contract but turned it down, made me think we aren’t good enough to keep JJK now 😂

He was offered a new contract but turned it down, made me think we aren’t good enough to keep JJK now 😂

I'll just have a quick look for the fucks I don't give.

Erikson was the player we should have taken the risk on over Alli back in January. We missed our opportunity as the club was pretty much in turmoil in that period.  Fair do's to Brentford - they took the risk and it certainly paid off for them. I think if we'd have got him in January, might have been a good chanced we'd have kept hold of him. Cracking player.
 

Delph , Sigurdson , JJK and Tosun all  confirmed as released

I mean we can only judge him on future actions to know if he'll be true to his word. 

Exactly I said the same thing with sport pesa, bought shirts for the grand kids and one said straight away it’s not the same as the players, they notice things like that and want to be the same as their heroes.  

Another negative of this is that kids shirts won't be able to have the sponsor on now, and kids care about things like that - a replica of what the players wear actually being a replica. Now it won't be. And when you're (their parents) paying a fortune for something you expect it to be the same.
Taking out the morals of it, it's just really short-sighted as well.
Also, we've actually gone and chased this deal to make a quick buck. We don't come out of this well at all but it is what it is.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/sport/football/football-news/everton-anthony-gordon-diving-pressure-24179389

I would stake a bet that the money were receiving was worth more to them than morals. Bloody Vampires I tell you.

Time will indeed tell. Just seemed lazy, like an afterthought. Can't doubt or criticise his financial commitment, never have. But his decision making is truly awful and its going to take a long time before we see if he's learnt.