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Enjoyed that end. Lets be honest no club that has fans sitting down at away games during a title challenge can be allowed to win the league.

Probs worst Porto and Benfica line-ups i've seen on paper for a while. Kinda like selling their whole teams every summer has finally caught up with them.

Dzeko's first goal in just under 12 hours of football. He's been proper shite this season.

Spalletti has got Roma right back on track.

Tend to agree. Really no reason for somebody like him to actively hunt out a lass like that on Facebook unless he has an actual kink for young, underage lasses. Proper rank hearing about the actual details.

Quoted for crimes against Geography.

Still laughing at Klaus' mutant half nonce baby post.

Hans just sees the line, the line not to be crossed, and gleefully skips over it.

I'd be surprised if she still wants the bairn as harsh as it is It's not like the bairn is going to be a mutant half normal, half nonce baby ffs :lol:

Wtf is this fucking hans

Hope all the people calling her a slag, saying she seduced him, knew what she was doing etc based of some nonsense nightclub story feel like the absolute wankers that they are. Probably not.

Partnership with Hasselbaink was one of the best in the history of the Prem. In terms of two players having an understanding.

Stifler is proper mental, man.

If they have been together for 5 years then she's automatically entitled to 50% of his assets if they break up. That's obviously not even close to being true. :lol:

Benteke has been hopeless this season like. Really been shown up as a bit shite.

Well I find the continental use of commas for decimalisation annoying.

But for somebody like Jackson Martinez. He's 30 this year, had his big move to a top side like Atletico and it didn't work out. The Copa America has gone and the next World Cup is a few years off. The transfer window has closed and he's not getting games. If a team wants to treble his wages and make him the star player of the best team on a continent its a very difficult to offer to turn down.

Agree, personally. Plus, there's all this argument about testing yourself at the best level - but it's not totally beyond the realms of possibility that playing in China as a star player for a top of the table side might be more personally fulfilling than playing for some PL dinosaur manager in a side that will never win anything. Especially if you're in your late 20s/early 30s and the chance of a breakthrough at a top club is running low. I mean the big sides there can play in front of 50k+. It's not such an awful opportunity to some players.

TCD doesn't deserve stick here. He's just pointing out that its a league full of mercenaries carried by agents, both of which are seeking financial fulfillment. The money is the main driving force bringing them here and that's what would take them to foreign soils too.

If it was one of us playing for the Toon the argument of foregoing riches for personal pride and fulfillment would make sense. But to some foreigner like Payet playing for some mid-table club in a rainy country he has no connection to, the argument holds no weight. He moved from Marseille to West Ham for the money and if he does the same again for China its barely any different, in my opinion.

Payet wouldn't go from West Ham to China if they weren't offering him mental money, but he wouldn't go from Marseille to West Ham either if it wasn't for the fact his wage was being doubled. That's the fire you're playing with by signing mercenaries. Can't enjoy the advantages that globalisation as brought to the PL and then also whinge when that same globalisation plucks a player away.

I think he's a very solid, know-what-you-are-gonna-get kind of signing. He's never going to be a worldbeater but he'll always be involved because of his physical attributes and general positive attitude. You couldn't say about Cabella and Thauvin (particularly the latter). It's very much a shift from signing long term potential for profit and signing a safe domestic player for the level we're at and the needs of the team. In the situation we are in, that's a very welcome shift in the short term IMO.