One of them missed by the lord himself apparently

Cometh the hour, cometh the man.

I just realised Spurs sold Yedlin to Newcastle

5m according to Wikipedia

God Damn ,had this turned on but three minutes I was like nah

royalblue

How is Bentaleb doing in Der Bundesliga?

Scoring all the goals

He's been playing a box to box role in a 3-5-2 and looking really good. Lots of spectacular stuff in there (which is why everyone wants to activate the option to make it permanent immediately) but also a bunch of needless giveaways. Having another midfielder behind him helps.

Sounds like Bentaleb. The needless giveaways were something that crept into his game, which is the opposite of what you'd expect for a young player, but were worrying nonetheless.

Was surprised he never scored a few more at Spurs, even from the deeper role he was playing - was clearly a good striker of the ball.

TSO is involved too. I can't find anyone accusing it of being illegal (or saying that it isn't).

Caley should stick to NBA with his pointless stats.

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Dgaf about Ronaldo's or anyone else's personal tax problems, what would be more interesting to know is which clubs have knowingly taken part of said tax scams.

If this is all the agents doing then it won't affect anything but I'd imagine any clubs involved should be very worried.

I agree.

Also if it's legal, like the Jimmy Carr one a few years ago, who cares?

Also with all the tax that's missed wth huge corps and mega rich people, sports stars and what not. Why not just reduce the tax over all to 10% regardless of income/profit w/e. Everyone/company would pay it. Id like to see the maths on that and see if that'd bring in more revenue for the treasure. Rather than missing out massive amounts due to tax avoidance.

the state of kansas tried a less extreme version of that, the idea being that super low simplified tax rate would encourage avoiders to pay, and encourage people & business to move to kansas

and then one year later the state of kansas had -9999999999 money and had to auction sex toys in a failed attempt to make ends meet

yeah kw, that's an awful, awful idea. It's basically the "you can't catch everybody, why not just eliminate all the laws" approach.

Nothing wrong with a simplified tax. Estonia is doing fine with a flat tax. No reason for it not to be bracketed tho. Problem is deductions, diff rates on diff types of income, etc etc

El clasico follows el plastico so those 3pm games can be avoided

EL Plastico is goat oat name tho

I vividly dreamt of spurs beating Swansea 3-2 today . Get ya monies on lads

lol, ElPlastico. Very good.

Re tax, if you are PAYE then you might as well prepare your anus as you gonna get raped.

El ****ico

I'm not suggesting, no tax. I'm suggesting following the same structure of tax havens. Where income tax is a flat rate. There has been loads of reports saying the vast majority of sportsmen are involved in these deals to avoid tax.

I personally don't think it's fair if you earn >43k per year you get 40% where as under it it's only 20%. It's like you're getting punished for being a high earner.

Like I say, I'd like to see the maths in it. If everyone is paying 10%. Rather than the 50% bracket people avoiding it at all cost. Or companies being registered elsewhere to avoid tax but being taxed in their tax havens.

You'll have people/companies fiddling the books so that they don't appear to be making as much, again to avoid tax.

Apple has that deal with Ireland for example, that's worth billions per year.

Yah, be interesting too see if it'd make a difference.

No Matic, Fabregas starts.

el taxfraudico

Comeback starts today Nic.

I am a member of a tax avoidance scheme. I got sent the list of other investors, it included a handful of very high profile golfers and one top four tennis player.

Who did he have Fabregas vs for score points?

erm I can't remember which order because it totally doesn't matter at this stage, but he has Mane and Cou and I have Silva and Fab.