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We'll probably find out she has shares in a dairy

You still haven't told us what you personally have gained by the UK withdrawing from the EU. Put your money where your mouth is you coward.

Sorry Sonyc, it's clearly the Liechtenstein cheese export opportunities that's going to be a game changer, and turn a disastrous brexit deal into a triumph.

Willy Burns sounds like a condition you might pick up if you hang around outside the Cobbold dogging stand at night. Whether it takes you to the promised land will depend on who else is there (I wouldn't hold out much hope).

Who said no one is interested in buying the club? Delia made it very public many years ago that she was willing to sell if an appropriate buyer came along. No one appropriate has. I'm sure there have been many interested in buying the club given our ownership of significant quantities of prime real estate. If you want to see examples of clubs stupid enough to sell to asset strippers there are plenty of examples littering the lower leagues.

No, I mean't very instead of "ver" (best to get your spelling right if you're correcting a typo) You still haven't given us an example of how you have PERSONALLY benefitted from brexit. I can only conclude you can't think of a single example. No surprise, because it's a pile of crap!

I think them's the rules for the Cobbold couplings (hence the TWTD obsession).

Nebulous tosh! Now tell us how you PERSONALLY have benefited (That's what you asked of us).

Yep! He's a dogger too!

As soon as they have confirmed that George Best cannot be resurrected.

Do you think either of those clubs would turn down £100m if it was offered? It's simply a matter of price.

Tell that to the expats who have been turfed out you buffoon. As ever you clearly haven't understood any of the actual consequences of brexit, such as rights to residency. BTW it's ver apparent that you haven't offered any examples of personal benefits resulting from brexit.

Of course the club always comes before an individual player but that doesn't tell us very much about the complex dynamic of that particular relationship. Just as each club has a right to act in its best interest so does each player have the right to act in his own best interest. At best those interests coincide, but quite often there exists a tension between the two. Thus the overall best interest of player and club combined will always be difficult to negotiate or determine. Clearly Webber thinks the trade off here involves recognising the opportunity for Buendia to double (at least) his wages and play for a top team, and the club's opportunity to realise significant money to secure its financial future and release funds for squad enhancement. That is exactly what happened with the sales of Maddison and Godfrey. Would I have loved it if we had been able to keep both those players, of course I would, but at some point fan fantasy football has to give way to football business reality. I thank God that we have one of the most astute management teams in English football at the present time capable of navigating these issues with skill and integrity.

Of course, we don't have any evidence that Brentford have sold off their best players pretty much every end of season. Remind me who they sold last year, while we managed to hold on to Aarons, Buendia, Cantwell. Both clubs deserve respect for the fact that, sans beneficent billionaires, they have developed a business model that keeps them financially secure AND enabled them to achieve promotion. It would be extraordinarily naive to think that richer clubs are not aware that Brentford have a bottom line transfer fee for ALL of their players.

"It's a fantastic stadium, massive club with great history" I'm sure I saw this graffiti inscribed in Latin somewhere:

Sorry but that is both patronising and tosh. Feel free to identify the beneficent billionaire who is going to pump hundreds of millions into the club, no strings attached, so that we can compete at the "highest" level in the way you suggest. For every Leicester (who got very lucky with their billionaire owner) there are many more clubs who entertained your fantasy and who are now languishing in serious debt, assets stripped, and in the lower leagues . I very much doubt you know the name of a beneficent billionaire so please explain how NCFC might employ a better strategy than the present one, both to ensure they can remain finacially viable and provide a genuine opportunity to establish the club in the PL. That lot down the road bagged themselves a billionaire, didn't go too well did it!

Erm! I think you'll find price rises by definition effect everyone personally. Also my plans to live in the EU at some point are now gone. I have European friends who have now returned to their countries because of brexit. I now live in a country that is more politically divided than ever. I now live in a country that is more xenophobic than ever. I work for a University that will be depleted of the international students that make it such a vibrant and diverse culture. I could go on, but it's too bloody depressing. ps. I see your punctuation is continuing to decline by the minute under brexit.

I have, my 15kg bag of sunflower seed cost me a quid more yesterday. I could list various other products, or you could just follow the inflation figures.

Well, this is what the British Retail Consortium claims: "The British Retail Consortium said shoppers should brace for possible high:er price tags on EU foods this year, saying "with the additional Brexit red-tape this autumn, retailers may be forced to pass on some of these costs onto their customers.” https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1444661/brexit-news-eu-foods-uk-price-increase-warning-boris-johnson-uk-politics-news I also guess you haven't followed news about inflation rate increases and forecasts: https://www.statista.com/statistics/374890/rpi-rate-forecast-uk/ Inflation is an important measure of any country’s economy, and the Retail Price Index (RPI) is one of the most widely used indicators in the United Kingdom, with the rate expected to rise to 2.5 percent in 2021. The forecasted inflation rate for this index is estimated to increase further in upcoming years, to three percent by 2025.

It seems to have made your spelling and punctuation worse than ever. Come on then, if your life has improved tell me why.

I merely raised the possibility that Ancelotti might be interested in Aarons as Everton were clearly keen. However, you clearly have inside access to all that goes on at Real so I bow to that superior knowledge.

So you're saying he cares about existing players but not future ones? That he will have no say whatsoever regarding the purchase of players identified by his director of football? I get the feeling he will soon follow Zidane out of the door if that is true. Is it not more likely that their model is similar to City's, that the DOF identifies players then discusses them with the coach? Is it not more likely that Zidane's departure was because they couldn't agree on certain player purchases, rather than a policy that the coach has no role in that aspect at all?

So you're claiming they said the actual words "we want to be put up in a posh hotel"?

insofar as you criticise addiction to a low-wage economy I am in agreement with you. Where I depart from your analysis quite quickly is your view that brexit and the ending of free movement is any kind of solution to this. This problem could have been addressed quite easily while we were members of the EU and single market through the mechanisms of taxation policy and minimum wage legislation. Brexit is causing a major financial hit on many traditionally low-paid industries like farming, so the idea that they will have the resources to fund big pay increases to encourage workers into their industries is plain fantasy. Couple that with the fact (among many others) that the government is crammed with ministers with a long record of calling for a radical reduction in workers rights, suggests that "freedom" from EU working standards is more likely to result in these low-paid jobs not only remaining low-paid but also becoming a lot less attractive. The simple truth is that brexit has done nothing to raise wages and shows not the slightest evidence that it will do so. Given the massive financial hit to GDP that even the government acknowledges is inevitable, the idea that brexit will see the "losers" pre-brexit" suddenly become beneficiaries of the brexit deal is without any foundation whatsoever. Indeed, all the evidence points in the very opposite direction.