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Didn't the same thing happen with Dele?
What a pair they would have been - I dread to think of the headlines - Samson and Dele-ilah?  😬

Amazing how Everton obliged and granted your wish so soon! 👍
Unfortunately, we won't be winning many of the remaining league fixtures with performances as abject as that.
File me under 'a trifle concerned'. 

I think you need to get Cornish Steve’s approval before you start asking for a full strength team and trying to win the game 😃

Didn't the same thing happen with Dele?
What a pair they would have been - I dread to think of the headlines - Samson and Dele-ilah?  😬

Didn't the same thing happen with Dele?
What a pair they would have been - I dread to think of the headlines - Samson and Dele-ilah?  😬

Didn't the same thing happen with Dele?
What a pair they would have been - I dread to think of the headlines - Samson and Dele-ilah?  😬

Do we have a holiday / weather thread? Maybe we should! 😀

Do we have a holiday / weather thread? Maybe we should! 😀

Jose Mourinho. 
Him, points deductions and 777, a chaos ready to happen. 

Since you're going to nit-pick, it's 'fewer' and not 'less'.
(Nods to Mike.)

I checked in on him myself because of that. Life is just busy at the moment. 

I confess that it's my natural inclination toward unnecessary and loquacious verbosity that may at times obscure a simple and straightforward message to the point of absurd or even confusing hyperbole.

We differ on this. I do NOT accept that we broke rules - because those rules were changed after the fact, after we'd committed to building a new stadium, after we invested in the community affected by the move, after interest rates soared, and after we lost some funding due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine. Do correct me if I'm wrong on this point.

1) The rules changed, and you can't undo a stadium project years after it's planned and begun. That's not about poor ownership.
2) We lost millions in funding when forced to break ties with Russian nationals.
3) As Mike mentioned, we lost millions because of the Gylfi fiasco, for which any reasonable body would make allowance.
Things haven't been perfect, for sure, but it's a cop-out to only blame the owners and executives. If it were me, I would be challenging everything and not accepting guilt at all. We tried to play nice by keeping the league informed of our finances and abiding by their restrictions during transfer windows. Playing nice these days counts for squat.

Palfy we get it, you want to ignore the changing of the rules and all of the mitigating factors, as did the PL and the so called ‘independent’ panel
However a lot of very intelligent and very qualified people believe this is grossly unfair and unjust so I do think people are right to be angry with how the PL have handled this
Nobody needs to get there head out of the sand because everyone is in agreement that rules were broken and that Moshiri and co have been negligent in their duties and are 100% to blame for getting us into this mess
But the irony is the years of profligacy are not in scope for these sanctions. Under Kevin Thellwell Everton have long been towing the party line and cutting their cloth accordingly. Over the past 5 years only Brighton have a lower net spend and the wage bill has been slashed. We have also been in constant dialogue with the PL over every deal we have made. These are all indicators of a club doing everything they can to play by the rules not a club flagrantly flouting them. 
The powers that be have even said they are satisfied that there was no deliberate breach and that no sporting advantage was gained yet in their infinite wisdom decided the greatest sporting sanction of the competitions  history was an appropriate punishment and that it’s fair to charge us twice for the same set of accounts
Now if you believe that is fair then fair enough you are entitled to your opinion but personally I think we have a case to get the entire case thrown out especially given the fact they are changing the rules again in the summer
 
 

That's very sad news. Condolences to @patto and all the family. RIP.

Sadly today I have to inform the good folk of ToffeeTalk that Bill, an active and constant TT member for more than twenty years, passed away on Wednesday.
In his time he contributed more than eighteen and a half thousand posts and spent many years as a valued moderator and admin, he was really part of the fabric of the site from virtually day one. He didn't always see eye to eye with everyone and was never shy of offering his opinions if he disagreed with something...no bad thing.
I was informed of the sad news yesterday by @patto, who revealed that he was Bill's brother, so condolences and sympathies to him and all Bill's family from all at ToffeeTalk, he'll be missed.
He's doubtless now somewhere telling The Golden Vision how he could've improved himself with a better work ethic!
Thanks Bill, aka Toffeelicker, RIP mate.

That's very sad news. Condolences to @patto and all the family. RIP.

Not really fair on my wife. 

Hey, Cornovaglia Stefano, you think-a all-a words-a end-a in-a a-a, huh-a? 

Hey, Cornovaglia Stefano, you think-a all-a words-a end-a in-a a-a, huh-a? 

I know there's been some conflict over the quality of the puns, but I wouldn't call it a war.

I hate this thread already. Hope he signs for Sevilla now. 

Come on, Steve, don't be modest - we all know Carthage paid Rome 3200 silver talents after The First Punic War. I thought it was an excellent pun! 👍

He left that to the elephants, I think.