Wasn't Welbeck struggling at Watford before we bought him?
I know the situations were different in that Welbeck played a position we were badly in need of help at.
Fits the bill as one of the older, mentor types in the squad like Lallana and Welbeck. Talented, bags of experience at a high level & injury prone.
As long as the wages aren't ridiculous this looks like a nice bit of business to me.
A very large majority of the UK media needed to stop congratulating themselves on a job well done for helping Johnson get elected first and by the time some of them actually started doing their job it was already too late.
And I suspect they now find that a bit embarrassing.
And I guess to...
Well surprised it took this thread so long to find Squid, I was banging on about them in 2018, at that time as much as I loved Porridge Radio, I thought Squid were the better bet at the time.
It took about 30 seconds of soundcheck to see the obvious talent. I do wish Ollie would do less vocals...
I really like that Sault record. It reminds me of this record in spirit, though nowhere near as out there. I reckon you will dig this if you haven't heard it Machiavelli
https://standingonthecorner.bandcamp.com/album/red-burns
Care homes are a big problem still.
The government took care homes seriously way too late (until recently they were discharging patients with Covid-19 into care homes!) - they were more concerned about avoiding the PR nightmare of young, healthy people being turned away from hospitals, hence...
If it's insinuation or half-truth that you're after, yes. Dealing with facts - not so good.
I think the mid-March 'crisis, what crisis' stage (13 March - 23 March) actually demonstrated a glaring weakness of his in communicating unpopular messages clearly.
Unless he was trying to get people...