@Joshkh06@AliJones9 Because it could soon lead to him being first choice keeper in The Championship. He's only 23 and if he continues to improve who knows what his level could be? He could be a Premier League keeper one day.
@WBA Max O'Leary is a decent Championship keeper who did well for us last season. Surely a young, up and coming keeper who'll act as understudy until he's ready to replace Max is the way to go?
They called it a conspiracy theory.
For years, anyone who suggested that powerful people protected each other from accountability, that money bought actual political outcomes rather than merely access, that both parties served the same donor class at the expense of their voters, was dismissed as a conspiracy theorist.
Tinfoil hats.
Paranoid populism from people who couldn't accept complexity.
Then the Epstein case happened.
And the Panama Papers happened.
And the Pandora Papers happened.
And the bank bailouts happened while the people who caused the crisis got bonuses.
And the pharmaceutical executives sold their stock before announcing failed trials.
And the senators traded options on companies affected by legislation they were about to pass.
And the revolving door between regulatory agencies and the industries they regulated kept spinning.
And the lobbyists kept writing the legislation.
And the media kept being owned by fewer and fewer people, all of whom had extensive financial ties to the industries the media was supposed to scrutinize.
At what point does a "conspiracy theory" become a "description of observable reality"?
They took the question away from the conspiracy theorists by proving it in front of everyone.
Now the problem isn't that people don't believe it.
The problem is that the people who confirmed it are still in charge, and accountability is still a concept that applies to the people below them but not to themselves.
That's not a conspiracy. That's a structure.
And structures can be changed.
@WBATheInsideMan O'Leary is a decent goalie, I'm happy with him as our no1 in The Championship.
I'd like to see us go for a young, upcoming keeper from L1 who can start as understudy to Max and eventually replace him.
@bob_trooper I'm glad he's got a new contract but I'd try to find him a season long loan somewhere local (Walsall? Port Vale?).
He needs to play lots of games, then he can comeback and have his breakthrough season.
@CJHall83 I'm not expecting to get Imray back but would like someone who's similar and will bomb forward whenever he gets the chance.
Every other position we've already got options and new signing are an improvement.
We don't have a starting right back. We need one.
@talkwba I like the players we've been signing but this is clearly a long term project and I'm willing to give them time. This season's minimum, comfortably mid-table. Next season, playoff contenders. Season after, serious promotion push. If they can do it quicker - great!
@CJHall83 He's raw and it's a big step up. I hope the fans appreciate that and make allowances. There'll be mistakes, he'll miss sitters but he's the kind of signing we need to make. Young, lots of potential. Start him on the bench. If he makes an impact, great! If not, loan him out in Jan
@grantshapps I find it flabbergasting that you lot could try to package a completely bollocks story about "The Evil Putin", Starmer and some Ukrainian rent boys and then you get your panties in a twist when we don't believe you.
@EthanLevins2 ..was a section on a possible nuclear weapons program and the view was that a nuke would have a certain deterrence but it wasn't a weapon they could actually use or what was the point? Instead they went along the underground missile/drone facilities route.
@EthanLevins2 If Iran can win this without building a nuke, they will. It wasn't just the fatwa that stopped them, there were other political and military reasons not to. Even The IRGC weren't that keen. In 2009, Rand Corp did a report for The USAF on The IRGC's military capabilities and there