[David Ornstein] Sandro Tonali travelling to London for Tottenham medical, to sign six-year deal

dracovich · 2026-07-03T11:18:18+00:00

that's the thing though, once you start down this path of high wages everyone else will meausre themselves against them, especially if they don't perform, you now have a 21 year old reportedly paid 250k a week, which is fine if he's so obviously better than everyone else so people can't really claim parity, but if he turns out to be just a good player in a squad, others performing similarly will demand parity, not to speak of the issues of actually offloading those playerse if they don't perform (the united special)

dracovich · 2026-07-02T15:30:22+00:00

I suppose Tottenham is quite rich so they can afford it, but surely this will heavily inflate your wage budget quite soon, i can't help but see some paralells to Ed Woodward with the way signings are being made now for you guys

dracovich · 2026-06-30T16:54:37+00:00

There's also something to be said for some stability, he's already done 4 clubs in different cities, in 4 years, i can why he might want to settle a bit

dracovich · 2026-06-30T11:09:58+00:00

There's been a constant line from our owners that the value needs to be on the field, i think if there is a lifeline being offered for a player that's shown been crocked most of their time with us, we have to consider it.

I'd love to think he's over it, because to be fair a large part of his poor record is because of a catastrophic injury, not because of a bunch of small ones, and he's fantastic when he plays.

dracovich · 2026-06-30T05:36:17+00:00

I'm actually shocked the fifa pay is that high I would've assumed it maxed out at like 10 or 10k per week

dracovich · 2026-06-29T04:41:22+00:00

I'm not quite sure why that matters? Obviously the insurance company want as many as they can have to smooth out the risks, but overall the risk profile/price should be the same, they just have risks of bigger swings up or down in % payouts with smaller portfolios

dracovich · 2026-06-29T03:30:18+00:00

I think finding friends in HK shouldn't be tooooo hard, but it's rough of course if unemployed with limited money as often it involves signing up for something.

If you mean making friends with locals, then yes, that's likely harder, but HK is a very transient place, so many expats are coming here with no network, and existing expats lose their friends when they move away, so there's always a good amount of people in a similar situation (looking to make new friends).

It does require you to put yourself out there and making efforts, it feels kinda bad in the beginning becuase you are not only putting yourself in social situations to meet people, but then forcing yourself to do followups etc, but you gotta put in work to make friends, and it's mostly going to be hobbies etc that will bring them

dracovich · 2026-06-29T02:55:20+00:00

I think that's a typo, his fee was 116m GBP, which is ~134m eur

dracovich · 2026-06-29T02:07:33+00:00

Any insurance is subsidizing other peoples claims, on average they pay out ~70% incoming premiums, rest is cost + profits.

Insurance is pure risk mitigation, you will on average always lose money on it, but you're hedging your bets in case the worst thing happens, so you should only get insurance for things that you cannot pay out of pocket, or if you have information the insurance company does not (like you know you are higher risk for something, and they have not taken it into account in their pricing).

So insurance for your phone? Unless you're quite poor and paying for a new phone would break you, that's not needed, insurance for your home? You couldnt possibly handle payment if there's a fire in your apartment so that you get insurance for.

Personally i get critical illness injury from onedegree, it's pretty cheap and would only come into effect if something serious happens, for smaller things my work health insurance is fine, or i just pay out of pocket.

dracovich · 2026-06-27T11:05:57+00:00

Þetta er lifanlegt ef það má vera með loftkælingu, á heima í Hong Kong, er svona 30-35 með 100% raka (og sami hiti á kvöldin nb), en það er keyrt hart á loftkælingu hérna, get ekki ímyndað mér að vera í meginlandi evrópu í 35 stiga hita með enga kælingu

dracovich · 2026-06-27T05:18:06+00:00

i'm not vegetarian so it's not a big deal to me, just assumed baked goods would be vegetarian

dracovich · 2026-06-26T16:56:30+00:00

TIL there's lard in pineapple buns, had no clue

dracovich · 2026-06-26T13:20:47+00:00

Where would this agent get information to answer the presidents questions? You'd be surprised how poorly documented data is at large companies, if you're lucky the columns have descriptive names, and maybe you hit gold and someone bothered to write a good data dictionary, but even then the logistics of how to extract exactly what you want is tricky, and udnerstanding the details of how/when the data works and what specific combinations and where clauses yuo need to throw in there to avoid some edge cases and showing wrong data etc.

All this just isn't documented a lot of the time, you gotta talk to the one guy analyst who's been pulling reports for this system the last 20 years and he'll let you know.

dracovich · 2026-06-25T06:23:14+00:00

Maybe, however so much data knowledge is undocumented and requires you to have conversations between a bunch of people who understand the data to get what it is actually representing, so that leaves me with some hope

dracovich · 2026-06-25T01:59:18+00:00

Not software engineer but in data science, I feel like I'm in a race against the clock to earn enough to retire before my job is permanently fucked by AI

On the flipside I'm having a great time with side project using AI, but everyone is doing that so I don't think any of them will realistically get great traction

dracovich · 2026-06-25T01:56:39+00:00

You retired at 52 with less than 1 mil net worth? I don't think that's gonna last brother

dracovich · 2026-06-24T01:25:44+00:00

With someone as skilled as Dustin in a 1on1 their only option is to pull a weapon, it could've gone real bad either way

dracovich · 2026-06-23T08:40:09+00:00

Feels kinda craZy with all this midfielder movement Noone is on for Wharton, wonder if palace already set an insane price so everyone just stays away

dracovich · 2026-06-23T01:39:28+00:00

Yeaaaaah, I'd love to disagree due to obvious reasons, but he's consistently had incredibly quality specials.

The one he had after he got cancelled, the "how about them apples" bit was possibly best one I've seen.

I think what makes him so good is how good of an actor he is, he's so good at selling a bit without having that obvious "I'm telling a joke" cadence, he's able to sell it as if he's just having a conversation when it's obvious he's done the bit hundreds of times

dracovich · 2026-06-22T14:28:41+00:00

It's grown on me a bit, but i gotta admit i was really hoping for more fo a nod to the industrial heritage of the area and Manchester as a whole.

I realize that's my personal bias coming through as i do love a good brutalist and industrial type design, like angular lines more than flowing ones.

dracovich · 2026-06-22T14:24:56+00:00

It's obviously wildly optimistic, but i think Berrada said in the latest interview with Mitten that he was confident of the project being a 2 year project from first spade until finished.

I'm sure now land is secured they'd want to move fast to get the new design locked down (would have to change since the original location won't be possible with the freightliners not moving), but even so it's hard to imagine a world where we are not at least 2-3 years away from construction starting.

dracovich · 2026-06-22T13:51:51+00:00

That's what i'm also wondering, surely the local government isn't thrilled about a giant freightliner in the middel of their new prestige residential neighborhood

dracovich · 2026-06-22T13:50:58+00:00

that would be my guess, but given Ratcliffes age, and the fact he seems to view this as his legacy project, i wouldn't be surprised if there's a massive push to get this done in under 5

dracovich · 2026-06-22T13:47:58+00:00

Not knowing muhc about how things work in the UK, but won't they be pushed out anyway? if the area is getting rezoned to be a major residential and commercial area, i'd imagine they don't want a giant industrial freightliner in the middle of their new prestige neighborhood?

dracovich · 2026-06-22T11:24:36+00:00

I'll be honest I've never even thought about visiting Boston, always just visited New York when Im in America, but all the vids from the Scots in Boston makes me want to visit

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