Rayvin

Have to say though, if the buyer has confirmed a £350m bid, I'm struggling to think what Ashley can possibly say. That's his asking price down to the penny. He's getting everything he wanted here.

Anyone get the feeling that if we do finally get rid of Ashley here, Trooper is still not going to be happy about anything

Getting the feeling Corbyn has jumped in two footed in his initial response and then been straightened out by Labour high command: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/27/jeremy-corbyn-signals-more-support-for-second-referendum-after-voter-exodus "Any Brexit deal must be put to a second vote" No longer just in the case of the Tory deal. So maybe we've got what we wanted after all. Although it's not just about his support for it, he needs to start fucking calling for it, loudly, and pushing the Tories as hard as possible.

Yeah no, the guy definitely wants to buy us. Whether Ashley wants to sell us is the issue IMO.

It's not beyond possibility that the Sheihk's interest is genuine and that Ashley has opportunistically seized on it with no intention of seeing it through, but honestly this one seems to have more fanfare than any of the previous ones and the whole media lit up with it.

Ashley fucked off the MSM before it was cool anyway, they know fuck all. Whether it goes through or not, no one in the standard media circles will know until about 1 hour before we do at best.

On this as well - I would love to see one of them come on here and start trying to give us a hard time about. They'd be crucified. Who cares if it falls through and we don't get it, for a day or so it's been brilliant to actually feel excited about the club, and I'm not letting judgment from those dismal cunts make me hesitant about anticipating it keenly. Even if they got half a day of enjoyment out of it, the crushing reality of the gulf between the clubs as it is now would come streaming back to them sharpish anyway. I see they're keeping Ross for another season. The good times just keep rolling on... Also, I'm on the sauce

I know man, but I just don't think that any reasonable businessman would pay £25m just to talk to the board of a club that doesn't actually want to sell.

Would you? £25m just to talk about buying the club? Especially one that has made clear it doesn't want to be sold.

I mean, presumably he intended to spend money at Liverpool as well. If he was going to drop £2bn just to BUY them, that's a pretty fucking good indication to me that we're in for a decent time of it, even if he was going to borrow a full 50% of that.

So you're saying he only has £1.25bn to spend on a football club himself? And we cost £350m. Leaving him...? £900m to spend from what he was prepared to throw at Liverpool.

Why would be start a process to buy a £2bn football club if he didn't have the money? I mean, maybe he is a total waste of space but I find it hard to believe.

If he was going to buy Liverpool for £2bn, then one assumes he has enough money to throw at football to make him worth our time.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/may/27/brexit-backing-remain-labour-referendum-general-election Gloria de Piero (Labour MP, Leaver) making the case that Labour can only win if it sticks to Brexit. The level of denial you would need to possess to still believe this is staggering.

I hope Ashley's been doing some cultural sensitivity training tbh, not sure how these fellas will take to his usual 'approach'.

I see they have Tranmere to look forward to from the newly promoted sides also. MK Dons, Lincoln city and Bury as well. They're now on par with Wimbledon's zombie.

September. When it's literally too late to do anything about it.

Very true. The Remain voters have been totally let down by the Remain parties. We've basically carried them kicking and screaming the whole way.

Clearly the strategists at Labour still think (or thought) they had a chance of picking up the non-voting disillusioned. And they can - but probably not this time out. This time is all going to be about Brexit no matter what Labour would prefer to talk about. And their only route to power is now to back Remaining (or the 2nd Ref at worst). Now is the time to kick the fuck out of the Tories for all they're worth. Farage, for all his support, can't rush in to save them and his standing should now diminish. Remain needs to be united and brutal.

Not saying you're wrong mate, you're odds on to be right in fact - but I dunno, at some point, one of these stories is going to be true, and I'd love it to be this one

Yeah that sounds very plausible. I mean they waited until right at the last minute to get him as well, which indicates it wasn't a comfortable decision. Maybe we'll see Adam Johnson return as they'll be desperate enough, I expect. I imagine he'd be content playing for buttons at this point. And let's be honest, it's certainly not beneath them.

It's another long grind ahead. Plus they'll have 3 newly relegated teams to deal with as rivals. Wastes their final season of parachute payments, now they'll have to get promoted and live very well within their means. I'm really glad it's not us tbh..

I mean he made a few other tweets and you've picked the most pessimistic one, but aye He also says the timing is right, that Ashley has been known to be in talks for some time with a number of potential buyers, and that he has a personal suspicion that between Debenhams and Rafa's contract being delayed, there might be some legs in this.

I don't think anything further has been said but yeah, I've certainly scaled back on it somewhat I mean you never know, but with this club, you kinda do know.

Aye, this. Just one trophy would make it all worthwhile.