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  1. Doc

    Doc Well-Known Member

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    Coming from Baren Cross


    Leeds United hope to make between £50m and £55m on Kalvin Phillips’s transfer to Manchester City if a variety of clauses are reached in the deal. Advanced talks with the Premier League champions virtually reached an agreement on Friday afternoon and the transfer should go through in the near future.
     
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    More like it but now looks done. Makes it easier to take because we never had him last season…

     
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    All transfers are staged payments. It makes no difference because all our incoming transfers are staged payments.
     
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    So which of Jesse’s old boys is favourite to replace him… Adams or camara?

    or maybe sander berge?
     
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  5. Doc

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    YEP are saying that the total deal is worth £55m, so lets say thats true. That would mean so far we have spent £42m which means we are £13m ahead….. so spent zero yet
     
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    bucks_is_leeds Jonny big spuds
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    Kelvin was an absolute must in el locos set up. Maybe we wouldnt have seen the best of him again under Marsch

    Good luck to him. The fee is absolutely disgraceful and I'd like to see all of it put back into the first team.

    Also, if we are following the Leicester model then surely that's it for star men leaving ? So where does that leave Raf this term? Or is that a load of bollocks as well?
     
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    Phil Hay: Leeds United in hunt to sign Mohamed Camara after dramatic move by Red Bull Salzburg star

    If true going to cost at least £30m
     
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    It is going to be Adams because he is the cheapest one:emoticon-0148-yes:
     
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  9. Doc

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    Harry Gration: Ex-BBC Look North presenter dies, aged 71
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    Harry Gration, the former presenter of BBC Yorkshire's Look North news programme, has died suddenly, aged 71.

    Mr Gration joined the BBC in 1978 and Look North in 1982. He presented his last show in 2020.

    During his career, he won two Royal Television Society (RTS) awards for sports documentaries and he won the RTS Best Presenter award twice.

    Mr Gration's wife, Helen, paid tribute to her husband, saying: "He will forever be with us."

    She added: "Our three boys and I loved Harry totally. We had an awful lot of fun with him and our home was his life."

    'Loved everywhere'

    BBC Director-General Tim Davie said: "Harry Gration MBE was an outstanding broadcaster and commentator.

    "He had a real connection with the public who saw him as one of their own.

    "Loved everywhere, but especially in Yorkshire, he will be hugely missed by his many fans and friends. Our thoughts are with his family at this difficult time."

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    Mr Gration, who was born in Bradford, began filing match reports for the BBC while working as a history teacher in the mid-1970s.

    While at the corporation, he reported on Match of the Day and Grandstand and commentated on several Olympic and Commonwealth Games.

    When he left the BBC in October 2020, the day before his 70th birthday, he said he had "always lived the story".

    Events such as the death of Jo Cox, the Bradford riots, the Hillsborough disaster and recent flooding in Yorkshire had "always affected me", he said.

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    Mr Gration said his stand-out moments during his time at the BBC had been raising a total of over £800,000 for charity while on a tandem with fellow presenter Amy Garcia, pushing a sofa and tied to Look North colleague Paul Hudson.

    The latter challenge, in 2016, saw him spend nine days on a 121-mile (193 km) three-legged walk across North, South and West Yorkshire which raised more than £190,000 for Sport Relief.

    In 2013, his work in broadcasting was recognised when he was appointed MBE in the Queen's Birthday honours list.

    He said the MBE was "an overwhelming honour. Something I never thought would happen to me".

    "For a lad born in a back-to-back in Bradford, I know my mum and dad would have loved to have been around for this day," he added.

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    Jason Horton, Acting Director, BBC England, said Mr Gration was "one of the true broadcasting greats".

    "He was a natural on the television and on radio, adored by our audiences, especially as the trusted face of Look North and South Today.

    "He loved news, sport, his colleagues and fundraising for Children in Need and Comic Relief. Our thoughts are with his family, his friends and everyone across the BBC who he worked with."

    Aside from broadcasting, Mr Gration had been president of the Scarborough Cricket Festival, chairman of the Yorkshire Tourist Board Tourism Awards and was involved with numerous charities.

    He was also a deputy lieutenant of North Yorkshire.

    In July 2011, he was awarded an honorary degree by the faculty of arts at Leeds Metropolitan University, and in 2013 he was named Man of the Year at the Yorkshire Awards.
     
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    Only Leeds could turn down £50m in January, then accept£42m, five months later.
     
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    Back to the OP
    Tax in Spain, as Doc says, some players here pay 50%, but after a bit of digging it turns out that this varies where you live.
    In Spain 50% of tax goes to the central government and 50% to the local government, each local authority sets their own rates.
    A high earner in Cataluña would pay 50% but his counterpart in Madrid would only pay 45%.
    The difference for the mega earners can run into hundreds of thousands of euros.
     
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    Anyone earning more than £150k pa in the UK pays 50%.

    But let's face it, footballers are prolly paid offshore & pay zilch in tax.
     
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    I’m sure Phil Hay uses NewsNow you’d think with all his years in the job he’d have found at least one insider for info
     
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    Eireleeds1 Well-Known Member

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    I’m sure there are fans who will claim this as progress. Please explain to me. I’m dumb you see
     
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  18. Doc

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    As it stands now we are worseoff. This morning we were a better side having 3 new players but losing Phillips means the Phillips fee has paid for the 3 new players so on paper the club have made £13m profit plus 3 players. When Rapha goes we will be even worse off but richer. The club now need to spend big in the DM role to replace Phillips, then a striker and another top player to replace Raphinha and we should then be a better side
     
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  19. Doc

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    One of the favs to replace Phillips

     
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