Day 23 in the Chinese laundry washing money house

I agree that the so called fit and proper person test is a bit of a joke. The source of Abramovich’s billions is extremely questionable to say the least, likewise Thakin Shinawatra when he purchased Man City. The cynic in me thinks that the test only consists of two questions.

  1. Do you have lots of money?

  2. Can we have some of it?

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Already put on the “proper” transfer thread,

That’s the trouble when you get these spin-offs people get confused about the main characters…

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No, if we didn’t get the TV money we wouldn’t be the 18th richest club in England, that can change quickly, we won’t be in the top 20 next time, Bournemouth in there sort of makes my point.

I think it’s important not to jump on things Baz says just because Baz says them. There’s no need to shoot down everything he contributes, just the stuff that’s completely factually incorrect or demonstrably ridiculous (like, 90% of it)!

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we might if it included income from player sales, but I suspect it Does Not.

So you agree that we need to be cautious with our spending and not make kneejerk player purchases that we might not be able to afford in the future? That’s 2 u-turns in one thread Baz I’m struggling to keep up :stuck_out_tongue_closed_eyes:

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No because this was done a while ago, is boils down to either believing you want to gamble to keep us in the division? Are you happy with the strikeforce? If you are you don’t buy, players coming here will have massive release clauses if we get relegated, we wouldn’t lose much but we would lose out, not as much as £100-£120 million, how big are your balls?

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How do you feel about missing out on Aaron Lennon Barry? Gutted?

I would deffo buy someone pls. But only if I think they’re really good! I would buy 2 or 3!

I know what you mean about gamble though. I might go to the owners and say, I want to buy two players for £30m each and make them both our top earners. It should help us stay up, but if we do it and still go down we won’t be able to cover the additional cost, so you’ll have to stump up personally mate.

Would rather have him at £1.5 Million a good signing, Walcott at £20 Million and £100,000 a week is laughable, absolutely laughable.

He’ll be good at Burnley I reckon, who have we got, Redmond?

Sit down, be quiet.

I would buy a striker, so by that you agree I have big balls? Glad we can put that one to bed :lou_smiley:

You keep big balls and going to bed out of fooball.

So let me get this right. If you had woken up to the news that we had signed Aaron Lennon for £1.5m in a bid to stave off relegation you wouldnt have gone into instant meltdown?

:lou_facepalm_2:

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Let me get this straight, I’d wouldn’t but the bellends didn’t and were genuinely going for Walcott at that money, that says all you need to know about the x box, the scouts and Fat Les.

So you think we were wrong to go for Walcott rather than Lennon?

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I’ve heard it all now! Fkn hell.

I’m not a mega Walcott fan, but he’d have been a fuck load more use to us than Lennon.

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Really? For what, what hairdo not to get?

How not to cross a ball?

How to drift in a career for over 10 years?

1.5m…FFS all Lennon is good for is filling an empty space on a teamsheet. Give me a fuckin’ ballpoint and I’ll do it for nothing! :lou_eyes_to_sky:

Walcott? £20 Million?