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    Bale. Could we? Would we? Should we?

    I think he knows his body can't cope and is unwilling to give up on his current contract and China is his only option. I am being generous I know.
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    Bale. Could we? Would we? Should we?

    He has won 3 CL, vital in two finals... Amazing goal in their cup to beat barca and until recently very good when fit. Hardly a wasted career, perhaps he knows he's broken so won't take a pay cut.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    how does that work when we are importing from all over the globe? American Chicken competing with EU drug free chicken, Mexican beef etc.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    NI in the customs Union was the Tories first policy, its only when May failed to win a decent majority that they shifted their policy. But the EU is evil so they probably stopped May getting the majority.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    No -If we were confident there was a solution the backstop would be irrelevant. We are threatening No deal / WTO - that involves building a border.
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    Paulo Dybala

    year before Ronaldo got there was his best stats wise - not many players get 20+ league goals in Italy.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    You know why, we are promising that there are other solutions. The government and the EU know its bollox, they are calling our bluff.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The auditors take their valuation techniques from the market and the majority were triple A and considered safe, they didn't have the tools to do much different. Any one he got in would have said the same thing that they were legit and safe, at the time no one realised the risk, everything else...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    At the time more or less every expert were saying that they were sound. Both ABS/MBS and CDS which were the main cause - rule based or principle would not change that. They used 50 years of historical evidence without realising shifting risk from the issuer meant it was obsolete. You can...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Accept what was safe? It was not a dodgy system at the time the vast majority were comfortable it was low risk. I personally spoke to some major bankers at the time and attended a lot of conferences with market leaders, it's an instance where the market didn't know best At a stretch CLOs would...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    The vast majority of the "really clever people" in the top banking positions were not worried about the MBS/CLO/CDO/ABS due to past default rates and rating agencies, there were some but they were in the fringes. All that has come after is hindsight - there was no will political or from the...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Again at the time there was no fear of systemic risk, all the major players (apart from very few fringe) were unaware of the risk, all the models were based on old data and the new financial instruments meant they were no longer valid. The governor would not be wiser than the market, especially...
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    Paulo Dybala

    We think he is worth £45M if you say he is worth £70M that means we may as well buy a better player for that sort of price. We are not pleading poverty but valuation. Betis really need to sell to us or elsewhere, even the €20M+ initial outlay on him was a little beyond their limits, let alone...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    higher level bankers at the time were insisting that governments should not really be regulating the markets at all. They were insisting that their was a new paradigm and CLO / MBS / CDS etc were a new / safe way to increase profit. Under a judgement based system the same would have happened -...
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    Paulo Dybala

    Season before last was his most productive... Ronaldo coming in changed focus and it was pretty poor last year. This is either a tactic to get Lo Celso lower or the increased cost of Lo Celso (and potential Dybalal going down) meant there was not much in it price wise and we could upgrade on...
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Corbyn has strong ideas? He's been pushing back against remain for past few years because of his desire to nationalise. Some one is driving Boris, I have no doubt about that, but his overriding impulse is Boris.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    Maybe but history shows he does whats best for Boris and his mates rather than the electorate, if they coincide great but i don't think they do.
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    Politics, politics, politics (so long and thanks for all the fish)

    He was a terrible London mayor, wasted so much giving handouts and back handers to his mates. See no reason to think his PM would be any different.
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    Dani Ceballos

    I can understand this move if its about cash flow - if they feel they can afford a midfielder next year and / or a player needs another year in development before being ready its a half decent idea. If its just desperation to build up the numbers its such a bad deal, no forward thinking...
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    *** Official TV Thread ***

    I thought stranger things is going to be 5? I didn't mention the twist in dark just incase people were not aware of it... I wasn't so when it happened was completely blown away.... Then again I watched 3 episodes of bloodline before I realised it wasn't about vampires.
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