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General Football and Sport / Re: Everton - The 777 Unflushables

« Last post by 4pool on Today at 02:07:39 am »

don't know whether to laugh or cry .......

Everton have received a delayed payment of £16m from prospective buyers 777 Partners for day-to-day operational costs, taking the amount loaned by the Miami-based investment fund to more than £200m.

777 agreed to buy owner Farhad Moshiri's 94% stake in the club in September, but the protracted deal is yet to be ratified by the Premier League.

A £158m loan repayment to MSP Sports Capital, taken out for the construction of the new stadium on Bramley Moore Dock, remains the main stumbling block.

The Toffees were supposed to receive the latest payment earlier this month but a 777 spokesperson told BBC Sport: "As of Tuesday, 777 has sent in a fresh loan to cover the working capitals needs of the club."
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cqqnkgv0k19o

It's good news. Staves off Administration for a month. Which means if they can't meet their financial obligations in June, they get points deduction for next season.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Arsenal: Top of the divers league

« Last post by The North Bank on Today at 01:42:01 am »

Are you really comparing Arteta to Lampard and Gerrard in this scenario. As far as I can remember, neither of the other two were assistant manager/on the coaching staff at City. Could be wrong.

You may be right and he’ll have no interest in moving to City, and I think you’re right that there’s bound to be a drop off when he leaves. In the way they’d struggle to string back to back seasons together before he arrived but it’s still a ropey comparison.

Lamps would be perfect, just the big name city need to get them out of league 2.

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News and Current Affairs / Re: India - deteriorating?

« Last post by itihasas on Today at 01:29:48 am »

And as for looking at the US or the west in general as the enemy of India who look down on India. There are other, non-western, nations too, who think they are the world and who look down on India. One of them borders India, and is regularly in conflict with India. They're also far more racist than the west. Goodness knows why Indian nationalists still look at the west as the principal enemy, and accuse the west of all sorts. Probably because this other nation doesn't give a toss what Indians accuse them of, and would actually take these accusations as a badge of honour.

How did you get that we look at the West as the enemy?

There are two components here (well many more) but for simplicity let's use two: The American establishment and the American people - the engines behind the West.

The American establishment is turning out to be our friend now, they are willing to help us build up our capabilities because as I said earlier the jungle is returning and we need them and they need us. We would be fools not to grasp this opportunity with both hands, this can help us turbo-charge everything we want to do.

It is time to overcome the hesitations of history - Modi

The conflict with the West is mainly soft-they think their culture is universal and everyone should be like them. Their manner of lecturing is grating and ridiculous. There is no risk of it escalating into a hard conflict outside of one particular scenario which won't happen till at least 75 years anyway.

The American people actively hate us or are indifferent to us. We don't have to do anything because American hegemony and American culture is on it's last legs anyway. They have made a lot of enemies in the world.

With all due respect, I think you have a poor grasp of India if you think we are ignoring our bordering nations. We know all about the Pakistanis and Chinese, don't worry. We know they are enemy #1 and #2 and we know how exactly how the Pakistani establishment has brainwashed Pakistan into hating India. Only after phase 1 is complete can we decisively shift the security equation in this region towards equilibrium.

We've already shed the old Congress pacifism and signalled to Pakistan there are 10,000 ways to skin a cat and they can't hide behind their nuclear umbrella forever:
https://thediplomat.com/2023/11/leaked-pakistani-documents-point-to-indian-assassination-program/

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News and Current Affairs / Re: India - deteriorating?

« Last post by itihasas on Today at 01:28:38 am »

It’s the usual right wing gibberish, everyone is out to get us mentality, a sort of siege mentality.

Yes, India has never had a problem with Islam domestically and internationally or with the West. It's all in our heads, talk about gas-lighting.

No Hinduphobia is a really strong stance my guy, this is the tip of the iceberg:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/apr/17/alabama-yoga-ban-public-schools-christian-groups

Most liberal folks take it as a compliment or do not care, however. But I prefer to use it for right wing folks because they definitely treat it as an insult.

Indeed they do, and then they wonder where their support has gone and whimsically wonder why their country has changed.

To be frank, we don't really care what you say anymore or what you perceive is insulting. We know how you operate, you love to talk and talk, talk more than the British and Americans combined but when it comes to doing you're always second-guessing yourself. 75 years of talking and we're still behind Brazil for gods sake. Living in a theoretical world rather than the real messy one : "this is the correct framework" - lol.  Now you just look for weaknesses in everything as a means to discredit people but most people have realized there will always be entropy, nothing can explain everything with perfection.
The communists we hate outright because we know how devious they can be.

Ultimately, you will win a few more elections for sure, maybe under the umbrella of populist schemes or coalition governments but the long term trajectory is clearly in our favor for now. The civilizational re-build continues -  full.speed.ahead.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Champions League, Europa, Conference League & PL fixtures 30th April - 2nd May

« Last post by Ray K on Today at 01:15:54 am »

Musiala is a real talent. Was really good tonight. I’ve watched Bellingham now against City and Bayern. Nothing special at all. The english media would let u believe hes the second coming of Messi. I wonder if he’ll cut it in the PL or just become another Sancho.

Bellingham is a good player, you don't score 21 goals in your first season in Spanish football before your 21st birthday without having something about you. But he might just be a really good no. 10/ attacking midfielder.

But Toni Kroos was on a different fucking level to him and every other player out there this evening. He gave an exhibition on how to play central mid.

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: The Men in Suits behind the scenes

« Last post by Dim Glas on Today at 01:11:15 am »

Where is this from?

there were some of those ‘according to sources’ type articles that made the rounds a little while ago about Darwin, and then the Salah stuff is just from the other day I presume? That the club aren’t looking to sell.

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The Boozer / Re: Wordle - Word Game - Guess a different word each day

« Last post by Ray K on Today at 01:05:25 am »

Wordle 1,047 3/6

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: Darwin Núñez (Darwin Gabriel Núñez Ribeiro)

« Last post by PEG2K on Today at 12:45:45 am »

Who is the Darwin Nunez who we have used on the left then?

Nobody lol. Nunez played LW 3 times in the league this season as listed by fbref, but when you check the actual heat map, only once has he actually played LW (the 4-0 at Bournemouth when Jota played striker).

You're implying that he also does the other jobs (building up play, picking up the ball from deep, pressing, defending etc.) as much as our other forwards do. No he doesn't.

Since you like stats here are some to disprove your above implication: Nunez has the lowest per90 numbers in the entire team (excluding the kids) in terms of passes, completed passes, progressive passes, touches, carries, recoveries, and tackles + interceptions (actually the last one one is second lowest, higher than Salah).

He's also lowest in take-ons, shot-creating actions and fouls drawn among our forwards, and second lowest in fouls commited, yet highest in yellow cards (probably due to his reactions).
He's lowest in the team in passes received, but at the same time 3rd highest in progressive passes received (meaning he doesn't drop deep to be involved in build up much, but receives the final balls more often).
He's obviously highest in the team in shots taken, and of course, offside (by a fucking mile, in fact almost equals the next 3 combined lol).

All of those numbers point to a forward who is involved the least in the general play of his team, and only focuses on one job: making runs and scoring goals. And it fits the eye test. So of course he is judged mostly by his end products while the other forwards get some leeway.

This also highlights how ludicrous it is that I saw in some pages ago when you or someone posted Mane and Firmino's GA numbers and be like: "oh look, Nunez's output is as good as these guys". Yeah. No shit. He has one job to do while Firmino and Mane had ten.

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General Football and Sport / Re: Everton - The 777 Unflushables

« Last post by SamLad on Today at 12:42:09 am »

don't know whether to laugh or cry .......

Everton have received a delayed payment of £16m from prospective buyers 777 Partners for day-to-day operational costs, taking the amount loaned by the Miami-based investment fund to more than £200m.

777 agreed to buy owner Farhad Moshiri's 94% stake in the club in September, but the protracted deal is yet to be ratified by the Premier League.

A £158m loan repayment to MSP Sports Capital, taken out for the construction of the new stadium on Bramley Moore Dock, remains the main stumbling block.

The Toffees were supposed to receive the latest payment earlier this month but a 777 spokesperson told BBC Sport: "As of Tuesday, 777 has sent in a fresh loan to cover the working capitals needs of the club."
https://www.bbc.com/sport/articles/cqqnkgv0k19o

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Liverpool FC Forum / Re: LFC's next manager - chat and informed speculation

« Last post by SamLad on Today at 12:38:07 am »

Learnings for Slott (he won't have encountered):

The number of games we play 60+ v 40
Crazy scheduling -  Christmas and Saturday noon kick-offs after South American games on Thursday
The League cup
The Everton (and to an extent Man United) games that define their season.
Man City, Arsenal; 2 of the beat teams in Europe. And the rest of the top half probably superior to all the the Dutch League.
Different premier league rules regarding what constitutes a foul
Referees determined to be unbowed by the Pressure of Anfield
Typically xenophobic pundits, the Koeman and Ten Haag experience in the premier league hasn't done him any favours
The CL format means no dead rubbers so we could run out of steam at the business end of the season.

You'd advise him to start the players slow and keep a bit in the tank - but of course if we draw a few games early on or god forbid lose a couple he'll be under a lot of pressure - it's hard to navigate. Good luck Arne 

interesting list. not to mention a tad worrying. do these concerns ring true to those who are familiar with him / the Dutch league?