United Thread - 2023/24

[Mr Kobayashi]

@BrianW whilst it's a reasonable argument you haven't thought it through. Your final paragraph asks why would Jesus go to arsenal and lose 100k a week cash. Clearly the answer is because we are still paying him. An Arab man visits his Aunt every week in Sao Paulo and drops the dosh off.

At the current exchange rate to the Real, he might need a few suitcases.

 

[manimanc]

What exactly is TeamViewer?

It's a shite sponsor on a shite kit worn by a shite team.

 

[dario2739]

What exactly is TeamViewer?

I have it on my work computer - it allows IT to remotely access my computer to trouble-shoot any issues

 

[horlock_was_super]

Cash Generator would work as a shirt sponsor.

UMS would have a constant reminder of why they love nytid so much.

 

[dario2739]

Totally agree mate, let’s park this on The Dark Side of the Moon ..!

...you're on The Thin Ice fella

 

[SebastianBlue]

 

[Holcombe bloo]

Pretty sure Chevrolet fired the person who signed off on the Rags deal As paid far too much.
I still have no idea what Team Viewer is as never bothered to look them up.

Teamviewer is like a kaleidoscope. You look through it and point it at the rags players and it makes them look like a good team

 

[Blue_Lightsaber]

Just been on rag cafe. Where on earth has this idea that somehow we are paying players salaries off the books come from. How do they think we are doing this?

Goebbels Nazi Propaganda 101:

- Demonize your opponents
- Accuse them of everything you're guilty of
- Use language a 4th grader can understand as most people are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.

Used by Sky, BT as well to increase their ratings.

 

[SebastianBlue]

I have it on my work computer - it allows IT to remotely access my computer to trouble-shoot any issues

Yeah… to “troubleshoot issues”…

 

[Blue Mist]

They're still getting paid by TeamViewer. They just both agreed that the deal will end when they find a suitable new sponsor rather than in 2026. They're presumably waiting for the takeover to go through first. Either that or no one is willing to even match what TeamViewer have been paying.

I'm not having that. What incentive do the rags have to find a new sponsor? They can just sit tight until 2026 and all the while, whilst Team Viewer continue to pay simply say 'nope not found one yet".
If you are right Team Viewer are even thicker than I thought.

 

[Holcombe bloo]

I was in a taxi recently, and the driver was telling me how, someone who had a kid with one of our players (about ten years ago), was given child support in cash.

This apparently proves that Haaland is getting a million pound salary, and most of it is paid cash, off the books.

There was also some conspiracy about Andy Burnham and traffic too, but I'd tuned out by then.

Did you pay him cash? Hmmmmn

 

[dave_blue12]

Goebbels Nazi Propaganda 101:

- Demonize your opponents
- Accuse them of everything you're guilty of
- Use language a 4th grader can understand as most people are ruled by sentiment rather than by sober reasoning.

Used by Sky, BT as well to increase their ratings.

Like

'Get Brexit Done'

'Get Rwanda Done'

Shit sorry, wrong thread.

Same moronic lack of thinking though.

 

[Grassland Blue]

Hahahahahahaha
Sky ( Dharmesh Sheth) saying Rags will walk away from buying someone called Hojlund from Atalanta is they feel asking price is too high.
Yep, that worked well for them in their pursuit for Mount didn’t it.

The hill they died on.....

 

[Colin Bells Boots]

Teamviewer is like a kaleidoscope. You look through it and point it at the rags players and it makes them look like a good team

Anything which could do that would be a truly remarkable piece of kit !

 

[foggy1974]

Yes, it's not like bunging a doorman an extra fifty quid in a brown envelope, is it?

For the guys we are talking about it would need to be 100k a week to make it worthwhile. Maybe more. And it would have to be in cash, because any form of cheque or bank transfer would leave traces that can be detected by, among others, HMRC.

So this would involve obtaining around a million a week in cash, splitting it between the players (a suitcase each perhaps?) and them taking it away in their cars. I mean, no one would notice, would they? Who does the actual paying out? Khaldoon? Because if it's the equivalent of a wages clerk, that's an obvious security risk. A huge temptation to talk to someone about it.

Then the player gets his £100k home. What does he do with it? It can't be taken down to the bank, as again, the transaction would show. Anyone who pays in huge amounts of cash into a bank at regular intervals had better have a good explanation because someone is going to be asking questions. Heard of the Money Laundering Regulations?

Spend it? 100k a week? Really? You can't even put it on at Belle Vue Dogs these days. Shove it in a cupboard and leave it?

The sheer impracticality is obvious. What happens when someone leaves? Why would Jesus, for example, move to Arsenal and lose his £100k a week in readies? That's without thinking of the obvious legal issues.

Could we get round this by being registered in the Caymen Islands

 

[Blue Mist]

Teamviewer is like a kaleidoscope. You look through it and point it at the rags players and it makes them look like a good team

A bit like 6 pints in the Bishops Blaize.

 

[Holcombe bloo]

A bit like 6 pints in the Bishops Blaize.

9 minimum I’d think these days!

 

[foggy1974]

So you mean the greatest / biggest / most famous club in the world has had 7 months to find a new sponsor. And haven't?

Bet they regret giving Woodward the boot as this was his area of expertise

Hahahahaha

 

[jrb]

How is the new shirt protest going?

Not a pair of Zebra pants insight.

 

[Kinkybyname]

How is the new shirt protest going?

Not a pair of Zebra pants insight.

they're not 'proper top reds' - where are the bucket hats?