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Post by itsonlyagame on Jul 12, 2023 14:47:41 GMT
Everyone doing it, probably buying own ones back!😀 Off the point but son of an old boss was at university back in the day. Every so often he used to nick two fridges from rooms and sell each one to the other. Several times before he got rumbled. I bet he got well and truly frozen out when he finally got caught. |
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Post by Tarbie on Jul 12, 2023 14:49:31 GMT
I'd have given him the cold shoulder.
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Post by alanwycombe on Jul 12, 2023 15:37:36 GMT
Very good chaps…..
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Post by Tarbie on Jul 12, 2023 15:46:29 GMT
The police apparently are making fresh enquiries......cold case!
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 20, 2023 16:41:11 GMT
People moaning about how they can buy who they want and it’s just about the money.
Er excuse me. Premier League been doing same for years, but don’t like it now it happens to them
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Post by The General on Jul 20, 2023 16:59:58 GMT
Al Ettifac my second team actually. 🤣
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Post by The General on Jul 20, 2023 17:00:35 GMT
Hope they buy Dykes
50 million 300k a week
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Post by 2Loftus on Jul 20, 2023 17:18:33 GMT
People moaning about how they can buy who they want and it’s just about the money. Er excuse me. Premier League been doing same for years, but don’t like it now it happens to them Well, to a point. But the Premier League has monetised a game born in the UK, which has a long and rich history and heritage, of developing home-grown players. It was a working class game (the nobs had cricket and rugby), the 'people's game'. To my mind it's all got out of hand to the point where the money involved is frankly obscene. But for the Saudis to come in and hoover up top players, usually ageing, is infinitely worse. No FFP for them - I mean, is offering the Fulham manager a two-year £40m contract financially viable? Of course not. Saudi football is a billionaires' plaything. Worse, it is sportswashing at its most cynical. I fucking hate it, and everything about it. |
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Post by awin on Jul 20, 2023 17:45:26 GMT
Reminds me of when the Chinese league offered silly money for anybody they could.
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Post by West Acton on Jul 20, 2023 17:51:26 GMT
People moaning about how they can buy who they want and it’s just about the money. Er excuse me. Premier League been doing same for years, but don’t like it now it happens to them this. Exactly what I thought no one moaning when prem buying everything. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 20, 2023 18:28:07 GMT
People moaning about how they can buy who they want and it’s just about the money. Er excuse me. Premier League been doing same for years, but don’t like it now it happens to them this. Exactly what I thought no one moaning when prem buying everything. Great minds😙 |
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Post by alanwycombe on Jul 20, 2023 19:03:39 GMT
There’s a lot wrong with the Prem ( and Sky) but at least we got modernised and new stadia out of it, plus better football in the traditional home of the game. The Saudis are just sportwashing their evil regime. Apart from players getting rich in the short term there is no comparison.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 20, 2023 19:11:05 GMT
It’s all buying power, up till now pretty much prem and English clubs could buy who they wanted as got the most money. Now a new boy on the block who can buy everybody they getting pissy. Politics should not come into this. On a pure sport basis it’s exactly want prem done forever. Saudi chucking better wages and a fee at joe bloggs is no different to what say a top 6 prem club do to lesser side’s. They just worried their cash cow set up is not the be and end all
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Post by 2Loftus on Jul 21, 2023 10:26:31 GMT
It’s all buying power, up till now pretty much prem and English clubs could buy who they wanted as got the most money. Now a new boy on the block who can buy everybody they getting pissy. Politics should not come into this. On a pure sport basis it’s exactly want prem done forever. Saudi chucking better wages and a fee at joe bloggs is no different to what say a top 6 prem club do to lesser side’s. They just worried their cash cow set up is not the be and end all In an ideal world, perhaps. But this is far from an ideal world. And the Saudi interest in sport generally, and football in particular, is all about sportswashing their international reputation - and it's something for the bored 15,000 members of the Saudi royal family to play with. Their family wealth alone runs into TRILLIONS. So spending a few million here and there on ageing footballers is like spending cash found down the back of the sofa. Meanwhile, 'ethical' players like Jordan Henderson, who openly criticised the Qataris before the World Cup, have been lured by the blood money of the arguably far more oppressive, brutal and murderous Saudi regime. Or make up spurious excuses to justify their going - like Gerrard claiming he's going for 'footballing reasons'. Fucking laughable. As Groucho Marx said, "Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others." Thing is, what really drives football is the fans. Take them away and the game is little more than a kick around in the park. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 21, 2023 11:14:49 GMT
Everyone knows money talks, that’s why they going, but are u going to go to a club in Europe on 100k a week or a club in prem on say 150-200. It no different. Prem not the big boys anymore and don’t like it
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Post by 2Loftus on Jul 21, 2023 12:08:23 GMT
Everyone knows money talks, that’s why they going, but are u going to go to a club in Europe on 100k a week or a club in prem on say 150-200. It no different. Prem not the big boys anymore and don’t like it Money talks, of course. But go play for Brentford, Spuds or Arsenal on £100-200k a week, you're not endorsing a despotic, murderous, misogynistic and homophobic regime which butchers journalists for writing articles they don't like. It is VERY different. |
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 21, 2023 13:58:50 GMT
Principle’s don’t keep the mrs in Gucci and her defender though😀
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Post by West Acton on Jul 22, 2023 7:55:56 GMT
Think we’re in danger of saying everything Saudi is bad or everyone has the same views as the regime.
There is good snd bad everywhere.
If a Saudi came into buy us I’m pretty sure majority of fans would be doing back flips and quickly forget the moral arguments.
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Post by Ginger Ninja on Jul 22, 2023 10:12:48 GMT
Think we’re in danger of saying everything Saudi is bad or everyone has the same views as the regime. There is good snd bad everywhere. If a Saudi came into buy us I’m pretty sure majority of fans would be doing back flips and quickly forget the moral arguments. I'd certainly be happy. Not that new owners would be able or allowed to spend anything. |
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Post by MattyRangers on Jul 24, 2023 11:16:10 GMT
The supposed offer in for Mbappe today (from Al Hilal) is fcuking eyewatering.....
€300m transfer fee to PSG (noting he would be leaving for free next summer)
€700m salary for his 1 year there (€13.4m a week)
Next summer he would get his move to Madrid
LOL
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Post by Tarbie on Jul 25, 2023 15:15:32 GMT
Rumour is Mbappe's sexuality maybe a factor in why he's gonna knock back all that money to go to Saudi.
Only found out today that he was dating a transexual. Did anyone else on here know that?
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 25, 2023 15:16:51 GMT
Mate he could fuck a donkey they won’t care if they get him, massive coup
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Post by Tarbie on Jul 25, 2023 15:23:29 GMT
I think it's more a matter of principles. If he feels connected to the LGBTQ+ community (or whatever they call it these days), he probably has a few qualms at moving somewhere where they lynch people for being exactly that.
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Post by gtleighsr3 on Jul 25, 2023 15:27:50 GMT
If they was paying me that a week she he can suck itself
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