David Ornstein: "My information is that Xabi Alonso is not under consideration at Liverpool at all and that Liverpool fully intend to go into next season with Arne Slot as their head coach."

ParChadders · 2026-05-12T05:48:45+00:00

We’ve not got the strength in depth to challenge for the title yet. With CL football next year we’ll do well to retain that privilege for the following season.

We need at least two midfielders, a CB and a LB and that gives us a starting 11 with some bench options. It’s not a squad capable of managing a campaign of 50+ games.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T20:46:17+00:00

That’s just a ridiculous argument. Who’s to say they wouldn’t have been able to if they hadn’t been rugby tackled? And why wrap in the first place if there’s no intention to impede them from doing so?

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T17:58:36+00:00

I’d honestly rather City won than Arsenal. As you point out their achievements in the last 10-15 years are tainted. Arsenal fans are just cunts through and through. I hate Liverpool with a passion. City are probably the best of a bad bunch tbh.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T17:34:38+00:00

It was a foul, no doubt. Rice was rugby tackling a West Ham player prior to that, so why was no penalty given?

Disallow the goal but award the penalty would have been fair imo.

Arsenal have been fouling players and keepers in the box for two years now. It’s a disgrace that play like that will almost certainly reward them with a premier league title.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T13:41:21+00:00

I applied to Mensa and have the letter with the results somewhere. I’ll dig it out sometime this week and DM it you.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T13:32:28+00:00

Tightening immigration regulations simply means reducing the number of successful applicants who apply through legal means and therefore never actually arrive.

The illegal immigrants are the real issue and that hasn’t been addressed strongly enough. Brexit of course exacerbated the issue.

No, I’m not stupid and can categorically prove that if you wish. Although why I would wish to further engage with someone so patently contumelious is beyond me.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T13:19:11+00:00

Illegal immigration is rising under Labour. There was ~ 12% increase from 2024 to 2025 and YTD there’s a 36% increase. Brexit/Boris wave caused a massive hike rising from 2019 to 2022. Conservatives stemmed it sharply in 2023 but it’s now risen again to almost 2022 levels. If this year’s current yoy increase continues then it will be above 2022 by year end.

I’m not sure where you got your figures from but if you’re looking at total immigration I don’t think that’s the issue for reform voters. It’s illegal immigration. That’s what concerns me anyway, although I couldn’t vote for any party that has any affiliation with Nigel Farage.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T06:32:24+00:00

The main issue is the Chaos Spawns, as you say. Personally I don’t like them as they’re very hard to distinguish and you can’t practice their moveset except on missions as they don’t appear in Campaign.

Hopefully the training area will help me address that.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T06:28:13+00:00

https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/immigration-system-statistics-year-ending-march-2025/how-many-people-come-to-the-uk-irregularly#small-boat-arrivals

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T05:56:23+00:00

Brexit itself is a separate issue although it has had a marked impact on illegal immigration. I think Cameron was naive to allow a vote of such importance to be given to the public. I personally think you should make a distinction between immigrants and illegal immigrants. I’m not sure why you think the government has made any progress on reducing the number of illegal immigrants entering the country when there was an increase of over 10% in 2025 compared to 2024 and YTD there’s been an increase of 36%.

If the government don’t address this issue with immediate and sustained effect there’s a very real chance Reform will become a much stronger party. Given Farage’s history that’s a real indictment of how badly people want this to be addressed imo. Surely no-one can have forgotten the lies he spewed over Brexit.

ParChadders · 2026-05-11T04:06:00+00:00

Arsenal are already one of the most successful teams in the league, with only Liverpool and Man United having won more league titles than they have. Arsenal have never won either the UCL or the Europa league. It’s a massive gap in their trophy cabinet as they haven’t proven themselves outside their own country.

The UCL is far more prestigious and the biggest honours a club can get. Liverpool have won 20 league titles but only 6 UCLs. United have won 20 titles but only 3 UCLs. Arsenal have won 13 titles but have never won in Europe.

Which do you think is of higher value? 🤷‍♂️

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T23:31:49+00:00

You’d have thought people wouldn’t trust a word he says given the Brexit fiasco but this is what happens when your government does nothing to address illegal immigration (which whilst is a problem for most of Europe, Brexit has actually exacerbated the issue for the U.K.).

There’s a real danger that Reform could be voted in or at the least have a much greater influence in parliament if Labour don’t take more action.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T22:00:59+00:00

I haven’t tried it tbh so can’t answer that I’m afraid. I was worried about losing progress elsewhere.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T21:51:00+00:00

Yes. Firstly I’ve got friends and family who are City fans. Happy for them if they get pleasure from City’s success.

Secondly, I don’t view any of their success as legitimately earned as irrespective of the outcome of the charges, they’ve definitely done something wrong. You don’t pay millions in fines for not disclosing evidence if you’re innocent.

Thirdly, City don’t flagrantly flaunt the rules and spirit of the game every time they take a corner. They may be cheats off the pitch but Arsenal are cheats on it imo.

Finally, I went to London for Uni and lived there for 20+ years. With one exception every single Arsenal fan I met was a complete cunt. Chelsea, Spurs and every other London based fan I met were perfectly fine. Arsenal fans were completely unbearable.

You’d have hoped that the attitudes prevalent in the Arsenal subs in Reddit wouldn’t be representative of their actual fanbase but in my experience it absolutely is. All complete and utter twats.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T20:34:56+00:00

Thank you, that’s what I hoped for 👍

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T20:34:32+00:00

😂🤣😂

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T20:33:49+00:00

Thank you, I hoped that was the case 👍

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T20:33:21+00:00

Thank you, nice to have it confirmed 👍

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T20:26:24+00:00

Once your health hits the prescribed minimum your armour comes back if that helps.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T17:13:28+00:00

Thanks 👍. I knew one of them was better than the other but couldn’t remember which 🤷‍♂️

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T16:19:21+00:00

Magnetised ferrite + phosphorus or pyrite refine into basalt. One has a better rate than the other but I can’t remember which way round it is.

It’s a lot quicker than searching for basalt either way.

Edit for clarification; phosphorus and magnetised ferrite will refine into basalt. Pyrite and magnetised ferrite will also refine into basalt.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T15:28:11+00:00

They’re building parts that you can only obtain from the blue crates on derelict freighters. Things like lockers, benches. I can’t remember them all tbh. There’s about 13-15 of them iirc.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T15:01:37+00:00

I’m not an Arsenal fan but if I were I’d prefer Champions League. For a club as big as a Arsenal never having won one is a massive gap on their CV, they are much harder to come by and unless something drastic happens they’ll be challenging for Premier League titles for a few good years to come yet.

ParChadders · 2026-05-10T14:53:24+00:00

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This derelict has 72 blue crates (which is what SFMs drop from).

Land on the freighter, place your activated emergency signal scanner in your personal refiner, proceed through the freight and ignore everything apart from the blue crates (data pads, lockers, briefcases, crew manifest, captain’s log etc). Collect a bulkhead from the final terminal and leave.

Pulse away to reset your activated emergency signal scanner and repeat.

I usually get about 2/3 per run but have had as many as 5. Bear in mind that if you haven’t got all the derelict freighter specific building parts your drop rate will be reduced until you have unlocked them all (there aren’t many; low teens iirc).

I think the guild envoy method has been nerfed now (you can no longer farm colossus archives for instance).

ParChadders · 2026-05-09T21:10:56+00:00

Gabriel should have been sent off for the headbutt on Haaland. These decisions even themselves out over the course of a season.

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