Rayvin

Appreciated but if it came to that they'd aim to start a bidding war with involvement from at least one newly flush PL team, not a team that are going to be competing with them for promotion next year. I don't like being a pessimist but I can't see this one happening. Reckon Carrick is more likely.

Derby will know how good he is though - how much would he cost? £15m? He wouldn't be cheap.

Surely we have no chance of getting Hughes though... He is a good player, and one we should have been looking at prior to going down though.

Think we might be getting a bit ahead of ourselves here...

Is grand wazoo your imaginary friend? Who is this guy even talking about?

This happened to me too except that my adblock took them out as I went along. That said, I still couldn't access the site. Weird. Seems to happen to forums randomly though, much as its tempting to think it's just them. Guess they've been compromised.

This place has been good today.

Agreed there - I've had him on ignore for the past couple of days anyway, but I did quite enjoy this afternoon's developments. As I said, cathartic.

I think under normal circumstances we wouldn't have but, to be fair, did you see essemmbee take him on It was worth the whole thing for that. The thing with this guy is he's really shit at this, and engaging with him seems to have been quite cathartic for a lot of posters. He's having the opposite effect to that he intended.

Aye he's bound to be back tomorrow to tell us how obsessed we are.

Fair point. Though this kid might be running him close...

He's surpassed himself today like. To think his obsession with Sunderland would finally be put to good use. essemmbee is the WUM-slayer. That said, I cannot believe this guy is still here considering the utter howking he's getting in every thread. It's one of the longest sustained continual failures I think I've ever seen.

He said he was an 'intelligent student'. Make of that ridiculous statement what you will.

essemmbee of all people is destroying this guy.

It's 100m per season like... Probably quite a bit when a 5 year plan is considered.

I'm going to assume that twat posted and had his post deleted between our posts there, and you've not just decided I'm a mackem...

True enough, but tbf this guy stalking us presently is a self proclaimed 'intelligent student' so, y'know, he's not worth spending any time on whatsoever.

Yep, best appointment we've made in years. We had that thread a few weeks ago which was trying to measure whether people would prefer staying in the PL without Rafa, or going down with him. I think most people preferred the latter, so this could still be a silver lining. If he doesn't stay, then I guess we have to put it down to another bit of mismanagement from those running the club.

It's not quite the same now is it?

Rafa after today's game: Rafa Benitez speaking to Match of the Day: "I said before the game that I am really pleased with the fans, the staff, and people here. "My heart is telling me yes (to stay), it is a great opportunity, city and club but my brain is saying to analyse what is going on. "I am really open to talking and see what happens. I have been in football all this time you want to be sure people love you and if you work hard that they recognise that you are trying your best and I have this here. "I knew that every day when I walk in the streets. Everyone is so positive and the atmosphere today doesn’t surprise me too much. They were supporting for 90 minutes, I knew it would be like this and that is why I am so open to keep on talking."

Not a bad way to exit the division anyway - as close as can be gotten to sticking the middle finger up at everyone laughing at us. Let's see where we go from here.

Wonder if that Spurs knacker will be on here again any time soon Doubtful...

We must be the only team in PL history to go down after beating a top 4 team 5-1 after drawing with the bottom of the league team the previous weekend when it actually mattered. Fucking hell

Oh fuck off Newcastle Why, just fucking why?