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Or even well over. We were at around 95% in the last published figures. We’ve only gone and added a lot of quality players on top of that, without being able to get rid of many. New sponsors will help, of course, but I reckon we’re still right up there.

Whilst ordering UberEats, and munching on bowls of wotsits, ice cream and full fat coke…?

Shea Charles has just gone for £15m having made one appearance!

Yeah, they do have that option, but then he could’ve forced her to attend court and give evidence (or else the court could’ve wanted her to themselves) and it would’ve gone to ratshit- that scenario is just not worth the bother.

I reckon so. We needed a CM last Jan but the club spent on Gordon instead and seemingly hedged their bets on leaving the midfield signing for the summer. If we can’t get signings we want, it seems like the club will wait rather than go too far down the wanted lists. Think they’ve decided Lascelles will be fine as backup until at least the winter window now.

Too simplistic a view of what ‘evidence’ consists of. It’s not always pictures etc, but ANYthing which can relate and either add or take away weight of argument to the case. In this instance I presume that the ‘new evidence’ is literally the fact that the lass is no longer willing to attend court and support the prosecution (and a statement to that effect- literally a few lines of writing is all that’s required). Given the audio and video evidence that was released, the only ‘KEY witnesses’ in the matter are Greenwood and the lass. If she decides she doesn’t want to pursue the matter or doesn’t want to go to court etc, then the CPS will not want to either drag her there and make her give evidence against her wishes, or be able to pursue the prosecution without her being there, hence the matter being dropped with the ‘new evidence’ and lack of ‘key witness’ given as reasons.

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Of course you would- you’re a fan. Would you go and do your job for free though? I know I wouldn’t. Nor would I move jobs and lose millions of £’s unless I had to, especially if I only had a few more years left to work and hopefully a long time to live after that.

Don’t think they should get involved personally. Their role is to support our club by helping to create a cracking atmosphere for our fans and players - they’re nothing to do with international games (don’t think any flags have been done previously for England etc?).

I can see your point. But those stats can imply Chelsea rely on Hall in the PL more than Maatsen. (Which yes, I’m twisting the meaning a little). As I said, the stats can be misleading.

Yes, they would be better off. However, it’s not conclusive that Hall has signed a new deal. And it’s also been reported that we have potentially turned his head and he might want a move, which is why the loan to Palace hasn’t occurred.

And Hall as been good in every PL game he’s played in- a clear step up from the championship.

“Proven” is a hard one to quantify- Maatsen has played 1 PL game compared to Halls 9. Does that mean Chelsea rate Hall higher? Stats like that are meaningless.

Maatsen has shown “much more” purely because he’s three years older and had more opportunity to. You’re comparing them as if Hall was loaned out at 15.

Maatsen is 21, Hall is 18, and like you say, Maatsen went on loan last year for playing time (and it’s now rumoured they want to do the same for Hall this year)- it’s be daft to think Hall would be over him in development terms at the moment. Hall hasn’t played a ton as he’s had senior internationals in his way, yet still managed to get 11 appearances last year.

It’s the great Mackem diaspora, the dispersal of their people fleeing the magedia and the hewman rights abewsers down the road

Also equally annoying (to me!) is the old “well, it’s in the first 5 minutes of the game/it’s the first bad foul, so the ref can’t give a booking”.

Because we’ve chosen to buy a CM, LW and RB with our FFP limited funds instead? If we were able and wanted to buy a £35m RW then I guess we probably would’ve at least enquired. Seems the club has other priorities for now though.

Fraser is on £70k per week I read. It’s Hayden that’s on 42-50.

That’s the difficulty though. Who wants him for the wages he’s on, and why would he leave for less given there’s two years (I think?) left to go?

Cool. I couldn’t get a ticket to the game so it’s interesting to hear what went on- obviously the majority say we smashed Villa and should’ve had more goals, so thanks for clarifying 👍

He went off in the first half though. So was it one way traffic after the injury, or an even game til the last 20? 🤷‍♂️

Outrageous VAR.

Yeah. He’ll be on the tiramisu now.