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  1. Robert Solow, a famous Nobel Prize-winning economist was once asked why he wouldn't publicly debate with some of his critics. Solow replied

     

    Suppose someone sits down where you are sitting right now and announces to me that he is Napoleon Bonaparte. The last thing I want to do with him is to get involved in a technical discussion of cavalry tactics at the Battle of Austerlitz. If I do that, I’m getting tacitly drawn into the game that he is Napoleon Bonaparte.

     

    Spurs fans: it doesn't matter if you think he's only worth 15m. Your technical discussions based on the first twenty minutes of some match do not matter. All the excuses in the world do not matter.

     

    Christian Benteke is contracted to our club and we value him at 25m. Have you got that?

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    Stan Collymore has tweeted some sense.

     

    "If Benteke wants to go, fine. Only on Villa's terms though, otherwise the substitutes bench for a season can clear the mind in WC year. Business sense? Villa left a 24 million pound striker on 100k a week out for a season. A rookie Belgian won't fuss Lambert /Lerner too much."

     

     

    Yeah real sense - How longs Darren Bent been on 100k a week?

     

    A rookie Belgian? The same rookie Belgian that kept us up last season?

     

     

    Change Bent's 100k to the actual 60k and the substantive point still stands. Let's not forget who kept us up the season before.

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    Did PL put a figure on his valuation a few months ago?

     

    he said (jokingly) on the footballers show  if someone offered him 20 million he would drive him there himself :)

     

     

    Wouldn't be surprised if he goes for 22m then. Crap.

     

    Darren Bent to the rescue? Have we been signing wingers for a reason?

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    Why make reasonable concessions to those who utterly refuse to make concessions themselves?

     

     

    Because many reasonable people become radicalised by the maltreatment of their "side".

     

    Same logic that while Guantanamo clearly incapacitates its inmates, the severity of the treatment could end up making the US less safe.

  5. So, convicted terrorists are pissed off about being strip searched in jail? Cry me a f**king river.

     

     

     

     

    "They're living in their own waste at this present time."

     

    Seems quite fitting really, but if it's a problem try using the khazi, you filthy animals.

     

     

    History has shown time and time again that dehumanising these people ("filthy animals") and not being willing to make reasonable concessions (e.g. not strip searching them if that BOSS chair actually does the trick) will only work against you.

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    He's going to be a star in the black hole of the left back position - and without paying an astronomical fee, either.

     

    Have heard a fee of £238k has been mentioned.

     

     

    Not able to pull high wages though. Heard it was £9.81k per week.

  7. I'm surprised the Russians didnt get him first.

     

    Heard they were looking at him for a good while, but never managed to land him.

     

    People talking about Benteke being on fire last year, well I reckon this lad might set-alite this season.

  8. I think he's looked terrible.

     

    Bennett, who has also performed awfully at least has a bit of pace, and has put some decent crosses in. There's something there.

     

    Stephens looks like a fan has won a competition.

     

    Terrible is very harsh on him. He had a baptism of fire against the likes of City and Arsenal (can't remember exactly who) and he did okay. Not sure he'll make it at this level and would be worried if he was a starter, but he's a million miles from "terrible".

     

    (And his crosses are deadly, btw.)

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    Oh wow! Welcome Leandro! What a fantastic day.

     

    "Campaigning for the removal of The Mirror as a valid source of anything"  Think you'll find the Mirror was the first English paper to mention Leandro as a Villa target.

     

    And Hitler built the Autobahns.

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