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As people have said it's all about the rental costs especially as the market moves so quick on London. The best places will only be on the market for a couple of days at the most, probably not even that.

Haha I like your examples ? I'm not saying that you have to become whatever culture you move into but you have to respect their culture. You shouldn't move to Spain and create a little England for example. In fact the more I think about it the more I think the rest of the EU will be glad to see us go!

Saha probably could have, but he was a superb player. He went to Utd for a decent fee but couldn't keep himself fit. Saha wasn't exactly the hardest working striker in the world either however he was brilliant from a technical perspective. I still think Lukaku would have scored more for Moyes because he was more physical. At times we play a bit like Moyes' Everton sides. Dogged and determined as opposed to skillful and adventurous.

And we bought some 20 goal a season strikers. Andy Johnson, Yak, Beattie, Saha , Beckford at a lower level but they haven't come close to Rom in any way shape or form. Rom was also far less experienced than them too and he had only had 1 bit part season with West Brom. I take your point about the players behind those strikers but the quality of the other teams in the league, the general quality of defending outside the top half dozen teams were also not to the same level they are today. You don't get a bad side in the Premier League anymore and every team has money. If those players mentioned, plus Cahill or Felli can score the goals they did then there is absolutely no doubt that Lukaku would have scored more and been at least bloody close to 20 goals each time. You are right, he isn't a gift to this club but you have to recognise but it won't be easy to simply fill his goals and assists and general contribution to the team. When he leaves he will leave a hole and if we don't fill it straight away we will be losing ground on the teams around us.

Re your and Holy's comments, you are right as Lukaku isn't the type of striker you want to play nice intricate build up to. He would be poor for Pep or for Barca etc but there are plenty of good teams that don't play that way. His style would suit Utd and Chelsea, I haven't seen either Madrid for a while but I suspect it would suit Real pretty well, maybe less so with Atletico.

Tactically it is right for her but I'm not sure it's in the best interests of the country. It will be good for Labour too because once they have been beaten hopefully it will be the end of Corbyn.

Sorry I went completely off tangent there. Only the start was replying to you Matt! ?

I agree that if you do live in a foreign country then you should adopt their culture. The problem is that it hasn't happened here and unfortunately plenty of Brits abroad don't do the same thing. In my opinion the result of the referendum comes down to the failure of previous governments to effectively plan ahead on immigration, the effects on the local communities (such as integration, infrastructure etc) on top of the aging demographic (older people loving longer, driving cars for longer, needing more care etc). I don't think there is any doubt that this country needs to redress thr balance between emigrants and immigrants and that by having this open door policy (EU), by allowing too many foreign students into unimportant uni courses and not being strict enough on the non-EU immigrants we allow into the country we have let things get to a point whereby local counsels can't deal with the population and the strain it is placing on the services they offer. This immigration has had a dramatic effect on our towns and cities. I don't know how much everyone around the country has experienced is bit having spent my childhood in a very white UK community, oblivious to the issues, and then spending my adult life in Birmingham and Portsmouth it has shocked me by how unintegrated areas of the country are and how the systems in place simply can't cope. Governments should have addressed this in previous years. They should have been prioritising doctors, teachers, dentists, enginners etc for decades knowing what would happen. Councils should have been planning housing and road layouts, schooling, hospitals, policing etc years ago knowing that the numbers would go up. The question is, will brexit actually help this? Theoretically it could but it requires the right government and I don't see one on either side of the spectrum.

The problem with the papers is you can read both sides of the story and neither of them will be true!

The difference is that these kingdoms were largely invaded and therefore weren't joined in union like we are with the EU and that the kingdoms all had similar beliefs, culture, language etc. We don't share the same culture as any other European nation. It's not a bad thing. I like going to Spain or France etc for that exact reason but they shouldn't be imposing their values on us and we shouldn't be imposing our values on them. Some people won't agree with this but one of the EU regs means that workers are meant to have a break every 4 hours or something like that. That may be more prectical in Spain where they have siestas or in France where they typically make the most of their lunch break however in my line of work I quite often need to work through lunch or work late however I need a "break" before I can keep working. It's not enforced but it does mean I won't get paid for the extra work I do.

I wouldn't get hung up on stats. There isn't a stat that shows which saves he should have made and which saves he made but had no right to.

He has done a good enough job but we are talking about a player who basically just brings energy, movement and good close control who isn't a particularly good passer and can't cross and will only score once a blue moon. Son costs Spurs 22mil. For just 8mil extra the gulf in class is huge. We should be buying players that mean Kev drops to the bench and not buying a bench player who isn't good enough to play every week.

Can we really afford to pay that much for a player that should never be starting a game?

I get your point and fundamentally don't disagree we can't chose what is right for the whole world. We can do what we like for humanity but if x amount of member states don't agree it doesn't matter, we are all left in a worse position. Furthermore what is right for one country isn't right for another and there is nothing wrong with that. The width of pavements, on what items we pay VAT, the limit on working hours are all cultural or relative to the country writing the law. They don't effect every country and are only relative to the country the rule is required.

I thought he got caught out a couple of times against Leicester but today he hardly put a foot wrong.

He is a modern day Sam Allardyce, which isn't meant as a criticism. He sets his teams up to stop the opposition and then knick a goal where possible. Fair play to him.

That penalty wasn't just a mistake, it showed how silly and to some extent, how over excitable he can be. He is a solid enough keeper, he offers us a solution this season but we need a better keeper moving forward.

Solid win. Really ground it out against a team that in previous years we would have lost to. I don't think anyone stood out as that far ahead of anyone else but Ross always gave the impression that he was controlling things.

Did Keane like a kipper.

Get in and great celebration. Just sign the contract now Ross.

Oh Kev... got to bury one on those chances.

I still can't believe that penalty. Absolute madness. Worthy of Stek coming back in. Oh Mirallas, big chance. Great play Ross.

Clear dive, the burnley lad is trailing his leg but wtf is Joel doing. Stupidity. It's things like that which mean he shouldn't be our long term number 1.

Bloody missed the goal, what happened?

Davies will drop back, Barkley inside I presume?