2023 Summer transfer window - hopes, needs, expectations and rumours.

[PaulWinch again]

Good grief Ashton you don’t half spout some nonsense.

[malckennedy]

The state school system is so infested with leftists that I pay for my kids to be privately educated. Labour are already talking about lumping more cost on those fees to pay for a service I chose not to use. They have a lot of holidays, don’t work particularly long hours, took a long holiday during Covid whilst I worked all the way through it. Not the slightest bit interested in paying them more.

I don't think you're serious. You're the parody drunk down the pub or the golf club.

[Small Rodent]

With the team departing soon for the USA, I’m hoping to see some moves.

[Tom_Mc9?]

AshtonVilla, I’m sure your many years working in education have helped you form such an excellent opinion.

[LeeB]

Ashtonvilla, did you have your sense of empathy removed via the NHS or did you go private?

[Toronto Villa]

Bloody hell. That’s a hell of an ignorant position you’ve got there Ashton. I couldn’t disagree more with the entirety of your post. Good luck defending that.

[Percy McCarthy]

The state school system is so infested with leftists that I pay for my kids to be privately educated. Labour are already talking about lumping more cost on those fees to pay for a service I chose not to use. They have a lot of holidays, don’t work particularly long hours, took a long holiday during Covid whilst I worked all the way through it. Not the slightest bit interested in paying them more.

Quite right! I mean how important to a country's future are [checks notes] children?

But, as I'm sure you say, you get what you pay for.

#ToriesForDecline

Very important, they deserve better. They won’t get it until teachers spend more time teaching and less time being activists.

I suggest you spend a week shadowing my daughter or son-in-law who are both secondary teachers. Would you be in for a shock pal.

Of course he would, because he obviously hasn’t got a fucking clue what he’s talking about and he doesn’t give a shit about anybody else.

[N'ZMAV]

What a fucking tool.

[Sexual Ealing]

I hope we sign someone soon, so I don't have trawl through all the leftist word salad much longer and we can get back to discussing football.

“Leftist”? Wanting nurses and teachers to be paid more? I thought it would be a universal concern.

I think the artificial and spurious conflation with what footballers earn is the problem.

Thanks Risso, that is exactly what I mean.

I wasn't going to bite but teachers? I doubt many people are keen on giving in to their pay demands, certainly not if means their tax going up.

I'm not necessarily representative of the populace, but I want teachers' pay to go up. And my taxes, if need be.

Quite right. I'm happy for your taxes to go up too, for the greater good.

And I'll be laughing like a fucking drain when you correctly have to pay VAT on your private school fees, whilst also feeling very sorry for your children.

[john2710]

The state school system is so infested with leftists that I pay for my kids to be privately educated. Labour are already talking about lumping more cost on those fees to pay for a service I chose not to use. They have a lot of holidays, don’t work particularly long hours, took a long holiday during Covid whilst I worked all the way through it. Not the slightest bit interested in paying them more.

Teachers spend their day filling children's heads with LGBT rights & general wokery. They get all of the above & a guaranteed 'gold plated' pension your average shop worker would die for. Most have never been outside the education system & wouldn't last 5 minutes in the real world.

My Wife, on the other hand; a teacher of 30 years, would rip my throat out if she thought I believed such absolute bollocks.

[Percy McCarthy]

The state school system is so infested with leftists that I pay for my kids to be privately educated. Labour are already talking about lumping more cost on those fees to pay for a service I chose not to use. They have a lot of holidays, don’t work particularly long hours, took a long holiday during Covid whilst I worked all the way through it. Not the slightest bit interested in paying them more.

Teachers spend their day filling children's heads with LGBT rights & general wokery. They get all of the above & a guaranteed 'gold plated' pension your average shop worker would die for. Most have never been outside the education system & wouldn't last 5 minutes in the real world.

My Wife, on the other hand; a teacher of 30 years, would rip my throat out if she thought I believed such absolute bollocks.

I’m sure she knows that you haven’t donated your heart and brain to medical science recently.

[nigel]

The state school system is so infested with leftists that I pay for my kids to be privately educated. Labour are already talking about lumping more cost on those fees to pay for a service I chose not to use. They have a lot of holidays, don’t work particularly long hours, took a long holiday during Covid whilst I worked all the way through it. Not the slightest bit interested in paying them more.

What a load of shit you speak!!!
My lads a teacher, he worked all through Covid, during the 6 week holiday he works 4 of them preparing for the following term, the other breaks he works several days, again, in preparation for the following term and he also works several evenings a week, at home, on various things.

[eamonn]

Ferran Torres linked with us. Now that would be good 

I'm sure it's just AI-generated spin-the-wheel rumour bullshit, but honestly - I think that would be an incredibly good move.

The Ferran link doesn't seem to go away. Seems like he and Vlahović were sounded out a while back.
Ferran would be most likely and would be exciting move.
There is definitely a link and would fit Emery well

Please don't drag up stuff from 2 months back to comment on, particularly when there are so many more recent links to the same guy.

Footy's been away since then. Cut him slack and welcome your own sparring partner back. Plus, I bet he believes in nurses and teachers too.

[Sexual Ealing]

Well said Eamonn.

[charlatan]

The UK pays medical staff less than other countries where, I notice, footballers are also rich.

I mean I'm as confused as anybody.

NHS has massive monopsony power?

Cannot think of a single other major economy whose main sport is football where this is the case.

Apart from, you know, all of them.

Apparently more than half of the hospital beds in Germany, Belgium and the Netherlands are in private hospitals. Even though they will be mostly treating patients with public health insurance this presumably means private providers competing with each other to hire doctors to some extent.

Unclear why the criterion has changed from footballers being rich to football being the main sport? Perhaps because the US (standard disclaimer: not recommending their model) would have undermined your retort. So that's clearly another example where there isn't the same brand of monopsony.