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Left for Plymouth Argyle on a free.

I see very little chance that he leaves this summer.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2018/jun/06/premier-league-finances-club-guide-2016-17 10th richest club in the league for 2016-17 in terms of revenue, below Southampton, West Ham, and Leicester. Note the gap between us and Spurs

Wow. Shocking.

Jags was one of our better centerbacks and Baines was one of our better players still, imo. We can't be fooling around when trying to meet the 25 man squad limit. This isn'tt Besic and Funes Mori's level.

While I prefer our guys to keep a calm head, I can hardly blame him. The real question is why some fans feel the need to fight, throw flares at others, and behave in a manner dangerous to other fans. Seriously, we all are passionate about our football and want to get behind our team, but its a game that doesn't matter anywhere near enough to justify injuring others over.

This. We've had this discussion every year and I don't think Jags will be stripped of his captaincy. Think he should be club captain and Seamus vice captain.

You're so pessimistic Romey.

Lampard named manager of Derby County

Don't even tempt him.

Yes, but it doesn't always work that way. Really thought Big Sam would work his magic and use his English abilities to sign some stars from the Cook Islands, but it didn't work out

Shady would probably not be the term I would use to describe that behavior. I find that terminology to be particularly unnuanced and vague. As for the irony of running back to the U.S.? Yes, I see how you find that ironic and perhaps hypocritical. I will note though, that he has worked with several foreign governments, including his own (United Kingdom) in dealing with both his persecution/case in Russia and getting the Magnitsky Act/Sanctions on Russia passed (https://www.wsj.com/articles/u-k-to-pass-version-of-u-s-magnitsky-act-targeting-russia-after-poisoning-1521055353), so he is not relying exclusively on the U.S. to promote his case and agenda - though, I'd note that it would be logical to seek the U.S.' help in any foreign relations/sanctions matter, given how much greater the U.S.' ability to impact foreign relations is than just about any other nation. As for renouncing ("renounce", not "denounce") one's U.S. citizenship, I would have no issue doing such a thing if I worked and lived abroad with no intention of returning to the U.S. while simultaneously being subject to U.S. taxes. My loyalties are to my own interests before that of any nation state, including the U.S.. I'll note that, under current law, renouncing your U.S. citizenship does subject you to an exit tax I believe. I believe it's a 22%-24% or so rate on capital gains over $600,000 on your assets. Actually, funnily enough though a little off topic, Italy has very esoteric and one could say silly citizenship rules granting birthright citizenship to those who can claim Italian citizenship for having a relative that was an Italian citizen as far back as one's great grandparents or further. It turns out that I could very well be eligible for Italian citizenship if I can get the appropriate documentation for my ancestor and ancestry line as well as play the waiting game required by the Italian bureaucracy. Several other countries (Germany, Ireland) have similar set ups but do not go past the grandparents for birthright claims or other countries (Poland) are generous with the generational lines but are quite strict with documentation (much of which has been destroyed through war). Needless to say, I may attempt this which could gain me EU access. Question: Are you a Bernie voter?

I don't think you do. You realize that his fund was essentially investing in Russian companies, and to extract value for his investors, needed to expose corruption where government and company officials were essentially asset stripping the companies they were operating, engaging in dilutive share issuances, overall graft, etc... Are you saying in Russia? Because that's not the case. The initial controversy stemmed from Russian police staging a raid on his offices, reregistering companies that his firm owned, and then changing past financials in order to claim a $230 million tax rebate from the Russian government (People who wanted to take Browder out basically stripped him of his assets, and simultaneously took $230 million from the government coffers to pay themselves off as well as the police "investigators" doing their bidding. This was all after he was basically barred from entering the country to engage in business. Again, if you think the Russian government doesn't prop up phony charges against people who are enemies of the state, I suggest you google "Journalist Russia" or "Mikhail Khodorkovsky". Keep in mind that Russia has issues multiple arrest warrants for him through Interpol - no government, until yesterday (Spain), has acted upon any of these when he's transited through their countries. Why? The charges are clearly political, not based in fact, and Spain, after briefly detaining Browder yesterday, released him, acknowledging that Russia is abusing the Interpol system.

The tax issues he had in Russia were basically phony charges and a fraud in order to get him to leave the country because he had made himself an enemy of the nation's oligarchs and also Putin. As for him renouncing his U.S. citizenship for British citizenship, the U.S. taxes its citizens on income earned overseas (above an exemption number) where most other nations do not. For a man who built his entire career in Europe, it probably made sense for him from a financial perspective, especially when he was able to procure UK citizenship, which grants most of the same travel access as a U.S. passport with better tax effects for him. I work in finance, and don't particularly want to take this way off topic, so yeah, that's the short version.

Google the Magnitsky Act and also Bill Browder - I read Bill Browder's book "Red Notice", and its an amazing tale of corruption in Russia, Putin's abuse of power, and the oligarchs that make that country hell and profit off of their cronyist government. It certainly made me thankful to be born in America, while not a perfect land, does a better job than most at having rule of law.

That's due to 1) Abramovich's troubles and 2) Probably being unable to find a suitable site for the right price in West London

We have to fit into the 25 man squad requirements... I think a lot of us want another goalscorer besides Tosun, so naturally to bring in a forward, we have to move one on.

And somewhere, Conor McAleny weeps

The potential is absolutely there - needs service and some pace around him to make up for his lack of pace.

In the starting 11. Where the fuck did this come from? Guys in the lineup 21 or younger from Everton, PSG, Man City, Werder Bremen, Borussia Dortmund - Makes me hopeful with these young talents - even if they don't end up at that level and fall to lower level Ligue 1, PL, Bundesliga teams, it'll be a step up on a lot of the MLS guys we've been fielding.

Stoke appoint Gary Rowett, well done. Did a great job at both Birmingham and Derby. Think he's as likely as any to get them back up, and I think that if I were a manager, Peter Coates and that management would absolutely be somebody I'd like to work for given their track record (Not sacking the manager, willingness to spend some). Graham Potter rumored to Swansea as well as Chris Coleman. Even Frank De Boer and Jaap Stam's names are being mentioned. Much tougher club to jump into in its current state. WHU appoint Pellegrini. I would think he's a better pick than a lot of previous West Ham managers, but think his best days are in the past. Arsenal get Unai Emery - Think he's a good manager but sounds like he's not going to get much to spend for a squad that desperately needs bolstering at defensive mid and the back.

Haha, no. Though, I'd say Eddie Howe has some of that mentality, but I think is a better manager than Bosz and a better fit. My understanding, albeit completely from others, is also that Bosz was quickly shown out of his depth at Dortmund, hence getting quite an early sack.

God I hope not.

This. Gana is a grafter and needs to play alongside a deep lying playmaker who actually can unlock the defense with forward passing and a creative 10 who can dribble and flow deeper if he needs to to get the ball from Gana Problem is that Schneiderlin forgot how to play a forward pass last year and Sigurdsson/Rooney don't/didn't have the pace to flow more deep to retrieve the ball from Gana if he had won the ball and still get us up the pitch - Barkley would've been perfect for that.

I certainly don't see him getting a big six job in this country coming from Shaktar - maybe Chelsea if that job becomes less attractive. Probably in position to manage one of the big French or Italian clubs, maybe Atletico/Valencia