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Need to loan keepers out though otherwise they'll never develop. The alternative to Rushworth being loaned out over the last 3 seasons, where he made over 130 senior-level appearances, would be to have had him as 2nd-choice keeper playing 4-5 cup games but otherwise waiting for the rare...

We can still sign players though; we just can’t register them. But yes, it is still early days, especially with most European domestic competition only finishing last week.

I’m genuinely impressed with how accurately the exit polls manage to extrapolate from those marginals. They’ve been accurate to within a handful of seats last couple of GEs, haven’t they? Will be interesting to see how Opinium’s new methodology plays out, as they have generally been an outlier...

Worth checking the records on this, because for 2017 the Tory vote gradually declined throughout the campaign. For 2019 it did increase a bit after Brexit Partyy implicitly endorsed Johnson by not running a candidate in Tory-held seats, but after this point it held firm in the 42-45% range.

I disagree. Pollsters continuously adapt their analysis of raw data to improve accuracy account for stuff like shy-Tory effect. That article you linked to is 7 years old, so is a bit out-of-date and doesn’t include the most recent U.K. GEs - 2017 and 2019 - where Tory percentage was very...

Early days, but they seem to be running quite a good campaign as so far as getting themselves noticed in amongst the noise of the two main parties. Not much of an effect on national polling numbers yet so far, but their support seems to be more concentrated this time. Would be ironic if they did...

Capacity of Dick’s is about 200, isn’t it? So 1000 is quite a step up from that.

Fees for my solicitor who acted for me in getting financial consent order when divorcing my ex 18 years ago.

Apparently Kinnock was well aware towards the business end of the ‘92 campaign that the Tories had edged ahead and were likely to win. Major had an outstanding campaign with that soap box stuff he did.

So we’re all Olympiakos tonight then?

To be fair, I’ve just re-read the first 2-3 pages and there’s a bit more dissapointment than I remember. I still think it could be a mistake to think that he’ll thrive in the PL in the same way he has this season, particularly as he seems keen to stay there.

He certainly showed that there was a player in there and had a good goal/min ratio, but let’s be honest, we were all fairly ambivalent about him going on loan for the season last summer, weren’t we?

Unpopular opinion, but isn’t there a good chance that PL Deniz Undav will be nowhere near as effective as Bundesliga Deniz Undav? Getting circa £20m for a player that wasn’t even in our squad in the season just finished could be a very nice boost to the transfer kitty.

He's worth more than 10m even with only 1 year left on contract. I imagine that wages would be an issue given that there probably won't be a shortage of clubs preparing to pay that transfer fee.

Dunno, but I wouldn't mind the Fiorentina manager, Vincenzo Italiano, being on Tony Bloom's short list. Probably waiting until after tonight's final to make a move.

He's currently second favourite on Betfair exchange at 6.4 on Betfair exchange! There's literally nothing about his record that suggests he's a legitimate candodate. Would still prefer him over Potter though.

I do get annoyed when I hear the 'they're all the same' trope, because they clearly aren't. This current bunch have overseen the most corrupt and self-serving parliament that I've experienced in my life. Whilst I may not have been supportive of their policies, there's no way that previous...

The ban on transfer business while both BHA and USG were in the Europa made sense, but does anyone know the rationale behind the ban lasting until after this summer's window? We've not qualified for Europe, so why the restriction on inter-club business in July/Aug??

I didn't know that, and that is an interesting scenario. I don't know Wycombe well at all, but I can't imagine that it'd be a hot bed for the workers party. It was also a remain voting town, so I expect that the self-styled hard man of Brexit wouldn't have been that popular.

Yes he has. Would take less than a 4% swing to Labour, and in a constituency well the Lib Dems are a clear 3rd place so an obvious choice for any tactical voters avoiding splitting the anti-tory vote.