bluebruce

Does it not? They're doing that because of impropriety in the accounts for when they sent money here to buy Neville's house. They've no particular reason to stop us doing transfer business.

Mostly agree, but it isn't unheard of at all. However it's pretty close to it for players of his age, who were on a longer deal at their existing club. It was a very odd deal. I can only think we weren't willing to pay a wage he wanted unless he proved himself, and he took the gamble for a chance to put himself in the Championship shop window. But I also suspect we must have bought out his existing contract, in which case why not just give him a longer deal here with that money and gain security. Very strange.

Is this a rumour or confirmed?

Where has this figure come from?

That's an incredibly generous interpretation.

Talking about online.

I've never once seen Dolan brag about his ability. Actually he seems quite a grounded and humble lad. A higher pay deal and getting out of this circus, as well as escaping certain sections of the fans who give him an undue amount of stick, is bound to appeal. That doesn't make him arrogant.

That deposit has to be carrying a lot of the weight there, surely. Lease costs might have come down too, I dunno, but that's a huge difference in vehicle value for you to be paying a smaller monthly. Either way I expect you'll really like your new car. One thing Polestar and Volvo will do together is help Volvo avoid the fines for not producing enough EVs as a percent of their sales in the UK. Any petrol/diesel car sold above the allowance means a hefty fine, and companies who sell more than enough EVs can sell their credits to other companies to avoid those fines. Or in the case of Volvo and Polestar, probably just give them to Volvo. If Volvo are already selling enough EVs as a proportion (I've no idea if they are), then the credits can just be sold to other companies like Ford who probably aren't meeting the requirements. Other countries have similar schemes.

Good, he's better than that and needs rest if he's not playing at a higher level than u21.

You might not, but he very obviously does. The quote is clear.

Exactly, he wants to go back to the model of over 2000 minutes. It's very clear. Not sure how you're reading this and not seeing that he's saying that's the target.

What I'm saying is, we aren't really benefiting from this system. Yes we took Eze and Tyjon for peanuts and now they're probably both leaving for peanuts not long later. The ones benefiting are the ones at the top table, who already have all the money, and hoover up superb prospects for sod all, especially relative to their wealth. Then they loan them out, to the likes of us, not cheaply either, and once they've proven themselves at Championship or above they end up selling for millions. The system doesn't work. IMO, it would at least discourage them a bit if wage contributions and loan fees weren't allowed for players of 21 or under. But ideally, the compensation system should be thoroughly overhauled. Including to the benefit of your Rochdales and Accy Stanleys.

They are the ones being linked to big clubs.

You mean the ones we are likely to subsequently lose for peanuts? Not sure we are actually gaining much from it. Last one I can remember benefiting us was Raya, and that was from abroad.

Right well I don't believe that's a persistent problem for him, and half the post I was replying to was essentially claiming he doesn't win headers.

Disagree, and there's a big difference between competing with the good headers from the past like RSC and Gestede, and being amongst the poorest headers. If I were to guess I'd probably say he scored 3 headers, and wasn't always given much aerial supply. Seems a fairly normal amount. There were games where he was winning everything in the air. He appears to be in the top 1 percent of players in the league for winning aerial duels, with 6.31 per game.

Well he's nowhere near the poorest header of a ball I can remember. In fact he's nowhere near the poorest header of the ball in this team.

Gueye or Ohashi?

Well it's irrelevant when you first said it, I was quoting you from today, don't be pedantic for no reason. The point is you can't say he is doing what GB did when you're also describing him doing half the job GB did.

Well even by what you've just said, Gestede is doing half of what GB was doing as the role has been split into two.

I'm surprised the Polestar is cheaper than the MG5, they're usually more expensive by a fair bit. Is it used and the MG was new? From what I've seen, you're getting a better car.

And they've all been mixed bags. At fairly low expense.

I think it's mostly people who don't drive EVs, yes, but I think there are also people who had a bad experience with them a few years ago and think it's the same now. A friend of mine says he'll never get an EV again (I think he will in time when their reputations improve), because although he found his previous one a very enjoyable drive, he found charging to be a nightmare at times, especially when he went to Wales, which he does fairly often. Not sure he gets that even there the infrastructure is probably better than it was a few years ago. Polestars look like fine EVs. I know you've already got one, but if you're an MG fan you could have had a look at the MG Cyberster. Not that everybody is into that style of car, and it may not be practical to your purposes, but I think they look pretty sick, and the specs are all good.

20 minutes charging is a very good outcome, what are you driving again? Doesn't sound like you need an upgrade yet! The main limiting factor with cars like that at the moment is of course the speed of the chargers, as you showed the potential difference there. We don't just need more chargers, we need more of the fast ones. And take this new 1+MW charging capability, you want to be installing as many 1MW chargers as you can now for future proofing. Imagine if you have a car that can charge in 5 minutes, but you have to spend 45 minutes waiting for it to charge because the charger is too shit. It's the sort of thing that could slow adoption. It will definitely be because it's a specific model. BYD have numerous cars available over here, and whilst they're growing fast and don't have loads of presence here, have been selling cars in the UK for a few years. They'll be a household name here pretty soon. They make cars for China first, and China has very different safety standards that are also geared more to the conditions over there. Their initial designs are sometimes short of NCAP standards, and they usually need to do a bit of a redesign to get them ready for the European markets, that plus the left hand drive they start with means we usually get their cars a bit later and at higher costs than the Chinese and other Asian markets do. They're setting up factories in Europe though.

Upside Down is, I think, in New Zealand. I had thought Australia until he said Nelson to Queenstown just now...though both those are also places in Australia. Either way, we can't really comment on the state of charging infrastructure there, he'll know better. Assuming it's NZ, last I knew it was a fairly left wing government there, but I see now it's not Ardern's lot anymore. The ruling party are described as centre-right rather than far-right from what I see, but by NZ standards they may be pretty far-right. If it's Australia, you're fucked, from what I gather both parties are nearly as bad as each other there, and are doing what they can to cement the two-party system in shady ways. Anyway, politics is of course a segue we're not supposed to go into, but good luck for your country in getting back on the right path to bring down pollution etc.