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Don't think he's good enough. He didn't get a chance because he was so abysmally off the pace in training. Time to cut our losses.
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Left for Plymouth Argyle on a free.
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15 hours ago, London Blue said:
I would keep Schneiderlin, I think he will be the player we all want him to be under a proper manager like Silva.
I see very little chance that he leaves this summer.
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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
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3 hours ago, Louis said:
It doesn't look very good for Villa.
There are rumours that they need a multi-multi-million pound investment to stave off administration for this (2018/19) season.Wow. Shocking.
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3 hours ago, Bill said:
"a lot are no longer young" i like that quote, i think that would mean to offload Rooney, Jags, Williams and Baines for starters. I'd like to see Funes Mori, Holgate, Besic, Vlasic and a few others given a run out.
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.
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On 01/06/2018 at 18:19, Shukes said:If someone did attack his father, then I’m sorry but he is excused! Football is a sport and cones secondary to looking after your family.
Shows he is a human being and not just a cot in a machine. Much respect to him if that is the case.
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.
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On 01/06/2018 at 14:57, MikeO said:
Jags club captain and Seamus on the pitch would do me nicely.
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.
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Just now, Romey 1878 said:
Another one that’s likely to go spectacularly wrong.
You're so pessimistic Romey.
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3 minutes ago, MikeO said:
No trains?
Don't even tempt him.
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4 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said:
any else hoping we snag a couple brazilians now that we have a portuguese manager? cause i do
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
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1 hour ago, markjazzbassist said:
you misunderstood me, i have no issues with his agenda against russia, that is well founded. my issue is he was avoiding paying US taxes and denounced his US citizenship. then when he got in trouble in russia he came running back to the country he denounced looking for help. see below article and quote about leaving the US. if he felt bad about the rule of law here why did he come back? why not england after all that? he's shady.
http://www.newsweek.com/who-bill-browder-694598
You renounced your American citizenship in the ’90s and moved to London. Tell me about that decision?
My grandfather was an American Communist, and he married my grandmother, who was a Russian Communist. During the 1950s, the McCarthy era, my family was viciously persecuted. [When] my grandmother was dying of cancer…the U.S....wanted to deport her back to Russia. It just left a legacy of bad feeling about the rule of law. Things can swing wildly in the wrong direction from time to time. And in a certain way, we’re sort of seeing that right now.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?
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50 minutes ago, markjazzbassist said:
i understand, but he knew the laws and was trying not to pay his taxes, as a multi-millionaire who had plenty of money to pay them. shady in my book.
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.
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Just now, markjazzbassist said:
yeah i'm well aware of that guy. a note though, he is kinda a scumbag. he was being investigated in the US for tax fraud and when they finally caught up to him he left for russia. once he got in the same problem over there then he came back and was all "russia is bad now". ripped us off for years only to come back acting like he loved us all along.
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.
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1 hour ago, markjazzbassist said:
fixed it for you
i bet he will sell the team if they keep fucking with him, those russian oligarchs have some much pride and arrogance, he won't take it lightly
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.
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1 minute ago, Louis said:
Roman Abramovich's Chelsea have just announced the suspension of their stadium plans due to the "current unfavourable investment climate".
https://www.chelseafc.com/en/news/2018/5/31/stadium-plans-on-hold
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
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15 hours ago, Btay said:
I couldn’t understand selling Niasse, has definitely proven himself a player who can come on at the end and get goals. Isn’t costing us a packet and I’m not sure who we could get ( for same value ) that isn’t a gamble.
we need to find stability, I’d be all for clearing some of the older legs and unused players but I wouldn’t be added 6/7 again. I would also be loaning Sandro again before selling him.
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.
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45 minutes ago, Romey 1878 said:
Sounds like playing first-team football and not just playing for our U23s has done him a lot of good.
Who'd have thought it.
And somewhere, Conor McAleny weeps
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42 minutes ago, London Blue said:
Yep with half a seasons experience in the premier league under his belt, a full pre-season and a new manager I expect him to be a real force.
The potential is absolutely there - needs service and some pace around him to make up for his lack of pace.
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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.
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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.
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1 minute ago, markjazzbassist said:
The win 10-0 or lose 5-6 mentality is not your thing eh?
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.
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19 hours ago, markjazzbassist said:
No saying I want him here, but I wonder if brands is considering Peter Bosz.
God I hope not.
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If he had to scrap until the last day, he would've been a hero again instead of him being found out as a dinosaur.