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Does welfare include state pensions? I think it does you disingenuous tit. In fact unemployment benefits are roughly 1% of what we spend on state pensions. We can see what you're trying to do here. Wanker.

"Water companies are ruining our seaside — prison is the only deterrent." Cracking idea but here's the thing. The Environment Agency already has the power to bring prosecutions resulting in a maximum jail sentence of 5 years, unlimited fines, and under the Proceeds of Crime Act confiscation orders. How many water company executives do you think have ever been investigated never mind prosecuted by the EA? thetimes.com/travel/inspira…

@LewisDobbin @pnefc Great performance by yourself and the team

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Terry Hall should have been 67 today. Gone far too soon. This, written with Ian Broudie is one of his finest moments, and this version by far the most poignant: youtu.be/9pfHxJcztqM?si…

@DeborahMeaden When there was a massive Typhoon in Philippines they didn't help ,but a British warship went at full speed to help and was relieved by a carrier! They are illegally occupying parts of the South China Sea and building artificial islands for military bases!

Do we see what is shaping before our eyes…

@PNEDebates I've seen him play and he us a fiesty lad and his size and low centre of gravity doesn't seem to be a negative ! I've seen a lot of bullshit from fans that have never seen him play ! Should have been getting a loan sooner and getting league experience !

Felipe absolutely flying at afc Fylde this season. 8 goal contributions in 8 games. Question is, should north end offer Felipe a new contract ? I can already see a divided fan base on this question so what are your thoughts ? #pnefc

@Brownbilly77 @BestOfUKComedy Its on YouTube I think

@BestOfUKComedy One of the best, tried to find the live show, but can’t find it anywhere…..it’s a shame because I really really love circuses

Who was a fan of Early Doors? 🍻

@BestOfUKComedy To the regiment! I wish I was there!🍺

Our privatised water industry is not just dirty, not just toxic - it’s lethal. We need to take it back into public control. Decades long failures to invest what is needed, despite constantly rising bills - prioritising dividends to foreign shareholders instead - and now this. It's criminal neglect. Putting money before people - looks like this. Privatisation looks like this. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/m…

@TheLengthsman Its just finished quite a bit of maintenance so it was more important that everything was working correct .4 out of the 6 type 45 are in for major refit ! 28 ships are being built ,but there's no quick fix.

Not in any hurry then ?

@JohnSwindells52 @Matt_Pinner Hovercraft

@Matt_Pinner School shootings but the US perfected them while other countries took the guns away so they could not happen again

Without googling, name one thing the USA did NOT invent.

@TopLeaf9 @pnecommunity @pnefc @PNE_WFC Harsh ! but true !

@pnecommunity @pnefc @PNE_WFC When will the lads be back from the sleep out, it's been months now

🏠 Ahead of the Big PNE Sleep Out, Laura Walker and Caitlin Walker of @PNE_WFC visited Foxton Women’s Centre to learn more about the life-changing support being provided to women facing crisis, homelessness and extreme vulnerability in Preston. Read the full story by clicking the link below. 👇 🔗 bit.ly/PNEWFC-Visit-F… #PNECET | #pnefc

“I was saying to Roy that the elite like Richard Tice shouldn’t be expected to pay tax seeing as they are helping us. What did I say, Roy?” “You said he’s a greedy twat with no moral compass, who is treating the hardworking taxpayers in his constituency with absolute contempt.”

@israel_ajoje Very informative.

This one is a football accounting gem. I promise you will love it. In January 2023, Chelsea signed Mykhailo Mudryk from Shakhtar Donetsk for £88.5 million. The deal was jaw dropping on its own. But what really made the football world stop and stare was not the fee. It was the contract length. Eight and a half years. The longest contract in Premier League history at the time. Journalists questioned it. Rival clubs complained about it. And most fans had absolutely no idea what Chelsea were actually doing. But let me tell you. They were not being reckless. They were doing math. Very clever, very deliberate, very legal math. And the tool they were using is called amortisation. This is part of what football insiders consider during transfers. Are you with me? Good. Here is the simplest way to understand amortization. When a club signs a player, they spread the accounting of the cost of the transfer fee over the period of the contract signed by the player. So for example, when Harry Maguire signed for Manchester United in 2019 for £80 million on a six year deal, that did not show up as an £80 million expense in year one. It worked out as an annual amortisation cost of £13.3 million per year. That is the entire concept. Think of it the same way you think of a mortgage. You do not pay the full value of a house on the day you move in. You spread it. Football clubs do the exact same thing with players, and it is not a trick or a cheat. It is standard accounting practice used across every industry in the world. Check it. It's International Standard 38- used for accounting for intangible assets. The reason it matters so much in football is because of Financial Fair Play and Profitability and Sustainability Rules, which regulate how much clubs can lose in any given period. Amortisation costs are added to the profit and loss account each year, so the lower your annual amortisation figure, the healthier your books look. And here is where contract length becomes a weapon. Now let us do the math together. By using amortisation to complete Mudryk's transfer, Chelsea were able to record his £80 million fee as just £9.41 million per year for UEFA's FFP calculation. Had they signed Mudryk to a four year deal instead, his fee would have been recorded as £20 million per year. Same player. Same fee. More than double the annual accounting cost just by changing the contract length. That is the power of what Chelsea figured out. They did the same with Enzo Fernandez, signed for a then-British record of £106.8 million on an eight and a half year deal, which translated to an annual amortisation expense of approximately £13.4 million. And Moises Caicedo for £115 million on eight and a half years. And Wesley Fofana for £70 million on seven years. Repeat this across an entire squad and a billion pounds of spending starts to look manageable on paper. Did you get that? Now let's look at another part of amortization- the book value piece, because this changes how you think about every transfer you have ever watched. Book value is the difference between the transfer fee spent on a player minus what has already been amortised. For example, after two years, a £50 million player signed on a five year deal has a book value of £30 million. Any sale above £30 million is recorded as a profit. Anything below is a loss. This is why clubs can sell a player for what looks like a loss and still report a gain in their accounts. Take this example: a player is signed for £40 million on a five year contract. He is not a success and is sold two years later for £26 million. At the point of sale, his book value is £24 million, meaning the club actually books a £2 million profit on the deal. Fans see terrible business. The accountants see a gain. Same transaction, completely different reality. Manchester City lived this with Robinho. He was bought for £32.5 million on a four year deal in 2008, with annual amortisation of £8.1 million. He was sold after two years, leaving a book value of £16.3 million. City sold him for £18 million and claimed a £1.7 million profit on the sale. Supporters spent years calling it a disaster. The finance department called it a profit. There is one more trick worth knowing: contract extensions. If a player signs a new contract during their existing deal, the remaining unamortised value is spread over the length of the new contract. So if you bought a player for £60 million on a five year deal and after two years you extend his contract by three more years, the remaining £36 million book value is now spread across five new years instead of three. That reduces the annual amortisation cost and can reduce FFP losses by millions per year. Extending a contract is not always about keeping a player happy. Sometimes it is purely a financial decision dressed up as a vote of confidence. Back to Chelsea. Other clubs eventually complained loudly enough that UEFA had to act. UEFA amended its Financial Sustainability Regulations in July 2023, introducing a rule that limits the amortisation of player registrations to a maximum of five years, regardless of how long the contract actually runs. The Premier League followed in December 2023, when shareholders voted to apply the same five year maximum to all new or extended player contracts going forward. The loophole was closed. But crucially, the rule could not be applied retrospectively, meaning every player Chelsea signed on those long contracts before December 2023 continues to be amortised over the full contract length. Chelsea were already finished with their biggest spending windows by the time the door was shut. The timing was not a coincidence. As I conclude, always remember this- the contract is never just a contract. It is an accounting instrument. And the clubs that understand that are always three moves ahead of the ones that do not. I hope you enjoyed this. Tomorrow, by 7AM WAT, We get into the wage bill, and why a £50 million transfer can quietly become a £150 million commitment before you have blinked. Thanks for reading. My name is Ajoje. I am a FIFA Licensed Agent and International Sports Lawyer. I write on the Law and Business of Football, a lot. Repost and Follow if you want to read more posts like this.

In an attempt to explain just why it is that some 77 million Americans voted for the dumbest man alive to be their president for a second time, I’m absolutely delighted to present you with the expanded list of US food that you cannot legally sell in Europe!🧵

@Jonatha76748992 please please please can we have Just Can’t Get Enough as walkout music for Friday I’m begging 🙏🏻🤣

@louise_pne @Joshua694206969 You are right ! Sucks the life out of Deepdale!

@Joshua694206969 Well we gotta try something 😂 it’s slow and uninspiring maybe they need a boost 😂

I think we should give playing Just Can’t Get Enough a go as walk out for Stoke…out of ideas at this point… what have we got to lose?! 😂

@Johnnyproudlove A bad transfer window and looks like manager has lost the dressing room ! I just can't believe hiw poor we have looked ! Just need to get to safety, but it's like groundhog day !

If you think the way the club is run is acceptable, if you think £420,000 a year Peter the Pensioner is too meek for abuse, if you are not worried about relegation, if you think January window was good then block me as i’m not interested in a counter view! #pnefc #selltheclub

@nepdailypod He needed an operation ,we knew ,but failed to get anyone in .I think they knew before Christmas, but it's a long time ago .

@SimonmcbrideP What month did he get injured? I was wondering why I don’t have much recollection of seeing him in that kit.

🚨This season reminds me a little of the 2006–07 season at North End under Paul Simpson in some ways. North End were pushing for the automatic places and looking like we had a genuine chance of promotion before falling off a cliff after January, losing 9 of the final 16 games, eventually finishing 7th. 🔵 In January, instead of properly strengthening, we signed Michael Ricketts, Frank Songo’o, Seyfo Soley and Pavel Pergl (RIP). Results started to take a turn for the worse when we lost goalkeeper Carlo Nash. It was a season where our last draw came in November, so slightly different, and we were still 3rd in March, but there are a lot of similarities. North End eventually sacked Simpson in November the following season after entering the bottom three of the division. #pnefc

@DanielJHannan You wouldn't want fracking on your doorstep! Not to mention the contaminated water table! Shove your fracking where the sun don't shine!

You ban North Sea drilling. You ban fracking. You tax customers at the pump. You hit producers with retrospective taxes. And now you have the nerve to turn around and blame rising costs on the fuel companies.