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Confirmed: Mohammed Salisu Signs!

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  1. Lovelocum

    Lovelocum Well-Known Member

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    What’s Ratners?
     
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  2. saintrichie123

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  3. Che’s Godlike Thighs

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    I don’t mind if Salisu just slips in the door quietly.

    Apparently Hjobjerg plans to arrive at Spurs riding a quadriga, holding a battle-axe above his head, and shouting “Champions League!!!”
     
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  4. fatletiss

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    I was told* that Pierre has a medical today.


    * by a bloke in the village shop :)
     
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  5. Archers Road

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    Gerald Ratner owned a chain of High Street jewellery shops. At the company’s AGM one year, he described some of his own product as “crap”. It got leaked to the press, and for a while “Ratners” became a slang term for crap.
     
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  6. fran-MLs little camera

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    Ironically, he is now a motivational speaker. :)
     
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  7. shoot_spiderman

    shoot_spiderman Power to the People

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    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/53722994

    Its on the BBC ...
    The question is did this story come from the same bloke and is he ITK? :emoticon-0126-nerd:
     
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  8. Lovelocum

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    I vaguely remember this.
     
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  9. fran-MLs little camera

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    Wiped 500 mill off the shares overnight.
     
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  10. Le Tissier's Laces

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    There’s a film or series about Ratner on Netflix at the moment. Can’t remember what it’s called. Think it has Adam Sandler in?
     
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  11. fatletiss

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    Not the “Gem” one? It’s a film.

    edit: Uncut Gems?
     
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  12. Ronnie Hotdog (MLsfc)

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    Salisu getting announced is going to be so underwhelming now we have known about it for month. They may as well just slip it in the programme notes for the next game
     
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    At this point, it would be awkward to announce him at all. Just let him play a full season without anyone ever remarking on his presence.
     
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  14. Archers Road

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    That’s a great movie. Nothing to do with Gerald Ratner though.
     
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  15. fatletiss

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    Correct. I was wondering if that is what Laces was referring too. To my knowledge it is nothing to do with Ratner. Couldn't think of anything else with Sandler in that fit.
     
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  16. fran-MLs little camera

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    Is a film about a jeweller called Ratner....but strangely not Gerald.
     
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    Based on the description of Ratner on here (Id never heard of him before) Billy Maddison seems to fit the bill
     
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  18. Archers Road

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    <laugh> Didn’t notice that.
     
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  19. Le Tissier's Laces

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    I'm getting confused. Are we comparing Salisu to cheap jewellery?
     
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