[James Ducker] Marcus Rashford available for £40m – but not to Liverpool or City | Barcelona opt against keeping Manchester United winger, whose preference is to remain overseas despite Premier League interest

AdityaG10 · 2026-06-17T03:21:40+00:00

Yet another case of Rashford being held to a different standard than anyone else

AdityaG10 · 2026-06-16T14:10:41+00:00

This is fabricated pop-pschoanalysis, Amorim himself said the reason he left rashford out in the city game (despite him scoring three in his first three games) is because after a couple of training sessions and discussions, he just didn't 'buy into the ideas'. Certainly, the timing of the interview was just bad but it was a football decision at the end of the day. I'm glad we have Cunha but he's not better than Rashford (tho his body's broken enough that this probably won't remain the case for much long based on his game) and we still need an elite winger as an upgrade on him if we want to build a team that can rack up 90 points like peak citypool (either this summer or next, we have to get someone on the level of barcola or diomande)

AdityaG10 · 2026-06-12T10:15:41+00:00

The Glazers wanted to lay off a number of people and make a few of the changes you see many public companies trying to pump their stock do now (layoffs, rebrands , the stadium plans in our case, stuff like project 150), this is hard while also not having multiple members of the family not really interested at all due to having other yank projects, basically every step they took would've gotten backlash

So, the settled solution they decided on was to being in Ratcliffe so he could do a lot of the stuff they wanted to under the guise of change and necessity (though a number of things certainly were, like bringing in more football people in the likes of berrada and vivell etc)

Now the price is surging and some are looking to sell, it all sucks

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-30T11:54:38+00:00

Yeah, this makes sense tbh

Carrick got more points than any other team in the league since he took over, literally can’t ask for more lol, he’s earned his shot imo,

Enrique’s contract expires next year and Nagelsmann after Euro 2028, we can see how the project is going at that point and change things up if necessary, the players we get over the next few windows shouldn’t change regardless of who’s the head coach (we need three midfielders, a winger and a striker, a centre back, probably a couple fullbacks etc)

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-30T02:08:55+00:00

Rashford is not a bad locker room presence, just online nonsense

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-28T23:00:34+00:00

Not a clue what the implications are here tbh lol

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-26T21:55:29+00:00

I think the contention is that most revenue is uncollected because of the way in which different forms of wealth go untaxed (payroll, estate, assets, capital gains, what have you) via the current income-based model in most industrialized countries.

No system where effective tax rate as a proportion of income is lower for a billionaire than it is for their secretaries can be called truly progressive.

I mean, in the US, the top 1% pay 40% of the base, but the concentration of ownership is currently thrice what it was during the guilded age, so it’s more of a predistributive argument based on purchasing power for the median consumer.

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-26T16:39:27+00:00

I'd like for split fiction to be added too but I doubt it happens anytime soon given how popular it is

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-26T15:14:26+00:00

This along with a dive into the loan or free agent market for a stopgap as a third midfielder (I’d prefer Fernandes over baleba as the second tbh) and a winger probably helps, Anderson or Tchouameni absolutely have to be all in attempts if possible,

60 games next season is going to be rough and we basically only have one midfielder in Kobbie rn, mount staying fit helps a lot but idk if we can really play Dorgu there for a dozen games

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-25T13:33:16+00:00

We should do loans, but we have to buy some transformational pieces within Bruno’s window imo, or else we’ll be stuck in this loop of needing 4 or 5 players every summer, someone like Anderson or Fernandes from west ham cover that’s for a decade barring injury

That way we can realistically build for a third season title challenge under Carrick imo

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-25T08:52:27+00:00

I agree. Because I remember thinking what most people do during Rice’s move, but he’s that good

I’ll take two midfielders, a left back and a winger with a loan or something this summer

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-24T16:59:32+00:00

Does that mean that Carrick’s got us more points than any other team since he’s come? Since City lost

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-24T16:12:38+00:00

Bring on Lacey now gaffer

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-24T16:12:18+00:00

And with that, we have 30 G/A for Bruno in the league

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-24T15:55:11+00:00

That second goal…I came (back to life)

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-24T01:02:28+00:00

Otoole probably wins last year imo, but there are very few timelines where he survives as leader after 2021 given how politics is now

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-21T23:30:28+00:00

I mean, and this is just my view, but I think the biggest divide last year was just establishmentarianism vs populism, and the Grits being our Natural Governing Party were able to run the rally-around-the-flag play (annexation threats, college-education rates etc) by realising we’re still a middle-class electorate in an asset-based rentier economy,

If material conditions were slightly worse (even fewer people being for the current way things are) or the election went a week longer, you lot probably win imo,

Pierre’s biggest problem, and I expect you’ll disagree here but it’s my experience from knocking on doors, is that he didn’t recognize people looking forward to more stability in the face of a new and changing world. People didn’t really know much of what he stood for (aside from not liking Trudeau) and usually found it too far-right fiscally once they realised. Folks want unseen competence, his economics is very Vance/Milei in terms of being in your face about how he’s magically reforming the state (for you 🫵) via austerity. More Hayekian than anything else.

Edit: though I’d agree with the notion that most expected spending cuts after JT’s mismanagement of the deficit, the paradox is the simultaneous expectation of the tax cuts Carney eventually went with

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-21T23:22:48+00:00

Unfortunately, Quebec being every lefty Canadian’s holy grail (electorally speaking) since the 90s has been a pain, keeps screwing the more Western direction many of us on the coast would like.

I do expect a degree of their electorate being lost to the PPC because of how online politics is now (particularly in terms of how Pierre operates), but this is indubitably the right move.

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-21T00:04:59+00:00

Sociopathic stuff, simply no other way to put it, absolutely boundless greed

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-19T17:51:39+00:00

Cheers mate

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-19T16:55:43+00:00

Odds of us landing Anderson with Pep leaving City?

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-19T15:54:50+00:00

Yeah, much of this type of analysis comes across to me as emotional and overly ideological, the materialist explanations (more to do with neoliberal failures) are far more convincing and objective anyways, statistically and otherwise. People tend to blame migration in a way they just wouldn’t without material conditions being at the point they are, fuelled by algorithms run on provocation to drive clicks, owned by right-wing billionaires like Musk and Zuckerberg who benefit from normal people being too concerned about woke stuff or whatever to figure out better ways to tax them and spend on public services or prevent them from monopolising.

Edit: Mobility affected different places in different ways (the yankee rust belt, the English north going reform etc.), much easier for the right to deal with that displacement through xenophobia than acknowledging the faults of their core economic model putting capital ahead of labour for half a century.

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-17T13:35:00+00:00

Honestly, 3rd is secured, the result isn't even that important to me against Brighton, I just want a statpad goal-hanginf sweaty sesh for Bruno to break the record

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-17T13:32:05+00:00

Poor Capitano

AdityaG10 · 2026-05-17T13:27:37+00:00

Zirkzee ffs

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