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Aye but it’s not like the fat wank seems to pay attention to factors like that. Agree though I fucking hate seeing the players down tools like this, surprised a little as Rafa has made it clear he is more than comfortable with binning players off if they stop being useful for him so it’s a dodgy game for them to play iyam

Aye our lot are on the beach, like they have been for weeks tbh. Suppose at least it does show Ashley we aren’t some mint side and that we have to spend in the summer.

Fewmin

That is a good point, Stewart won’t even give away bottles of water so the free tickets will come to an end.

Aye not all of them as they do spend big now and again, like I say cast offs isn’t the right word as they’re always players that have been class elsewhere was more meaning that they get in blokes like Matuidi, Douglas Costa, Cuadrado, Morata etc for under market from the other European powerhouses and then end up getting a load out of them. They obviously Hoover up the Serie A talent on top of that, but they seem very adept at getting top level players for fees that seem surprisingly low.

Aye Fiorentina were good today, agree that Napoli were likely all over the place mentally. Simeones third was a brilliant run and finish btw. Aye I can’t see it being anything but 7 in a row for Juve now, despite the dominance they have over that league it’s really impressive. It’s interesting that Juve always seem to collect the other European powerhouses cast offs (slightly harsh but you know what I mean) and turn them into a side that not only dominates Italy but punch well above their weight (transfer fee wise) in the CL.

Juve have some amount of players with all of the part ownership, and first option deals they have all over Serie A, must be really difficult for teams to keep decent youth talent. Surprised we don’t see the top sides in England trying similar (I think part ownership is out but the whole feeder type thing that Juve have with Sassuolo might work).

It probably was aye. I’m fairly sure it’s also a mackem based Sunday league team that win everything as they pay a load of money to their players (for that level), they might be rivals for SAFC one day.

A picture of the main backer of the mysterious shadowy Spanish based consortium has emerged...

Oh it took about 2 posts after Spanish people were mentioned before that one. Still no idea if he’s still shit mind, so why would they want him?

Aye at the moment there’s no evidence to convince me that the international consortium aren’t Stewart’s mates who own the red lion in Benidorm. I’m going to say the reason for saying awab is racism, no evidence but it’s a fan base that racially abused the mother of their best player and since they love sweeping generalizations I’m going to go with that. They seem obsessed with wanting to it be Staveley, which is no shock, but she’s not going to go from bidding on two PL clubs to buying some League one rabble so there’s not even a bit of me thinks it’s plausible. They also miss the point that Staveley WAS the frontperson in our bid, theirs is a bloke who owns Eastleigh. They really have to stop trying to draw comparisons to us, we are in £200m-£300m bid territory, they’re in the owner literally paying to give them away territory.

Aye, think that about does it for that. Shame. Good use of VAR to turn the wrong pen and yellow decision to be a free kick and red. Diego Simeone’s son is a canny player mind.

Honestly it’s fucking gold on there, an itk thread saying it’s Staveley with a Spanish consortium now so itk but there wasn’t a whiff a bloke that owned Eastleigh would be buying them ffs. They’re all lapping it up as “that’ll wind the mags right up”, I can’t wait until it finally dawns on them that they’ve been bought by a bloke who has about £8m and a few of his mates.

The Lampard and Gerrard one’s are yet another example of them wanting a connection to successful clubs, so they can be a part of it. That’s exactly why they loved Roy Keane despite him being a pretty poor manager. It’s fucking pathetic, then again I’m being harsh they are a League One club so them being small time is exactly what they should be. The best part is they’re all bopping about going “where’s the mags now?” as if something really good has happened to them, while it’s a positive that they seem debt free the new owner puts them firmly in the lower league bracket. They all seem convinced that they’ll now be getting a big name manager in, and be in a position so spunk money. As 247 said any consortium fronted by the owner of Eastleigh is hardly going to be the Abu Dhabi United group is it

I know he’ll be linked, he has been since about 2 month after he walked into the club. My point was it seemed like a wind up attempt by you. I also don’t see how Newcastle are in any turmoil tbh, unless you’re classing Rafa trying to get funding from Ashley turmoil which imo it’s not. I would say Leicester are in far more turmoil as things stand, likely to fire their manager and the star player wants out so badly he bleached his hair so that he’d stand out even more on the pitch.

I’m assuming this is after the drawing didn’t win her over.

Fair one

Did you honestly need to draw that plan CT?

Cracking own goal by Declan Rice there to make it 0-2 Citeh

Agree tbh. He might be a nice bloke but I find it a little hard to believe that he’d write off £140m and hand the club away for nowt, that just basically guarantees this new bloke can earn a tidy sum. All he has to do is use the parachute payments and player sales to pay the balance of high earners contracts, bring in a League One manager, some league one experience, mix in the youth, hope to steady in League One and then put the club on the market. I can’t see a bloke like Short being willing to do that. That’s why there must be a catch, he must be owed the parachute payments, perhaps a percentage of future player sales for a set period, I’ve no idea but I can’t see him doing what it first seems.

They’ll be packing people’s bags at the super market to raise money to keep the 2nd team.

“Stewart, the clubs owner has a special message for the first team” ”How many fucking times have I told you lot to switch the lights off if you’re not in the room? In fact if there’s daylight you don’t need to even put them on! Also pack in filling your water bottles with the tap water, you can bring from home or buy from the vending machines okay?”

He had Eastleigh running at a profit (after sticking in likely half his net worth) apparently, so with what you’re saying there he’ll no doubt aim to do the same with SAFC. Imagine the fucking clip they’re going to be trying to turn a profit in League One, especially with Cattermole and Rodwell earning more than some clubs entire wage bills.

Recover to what though? They’re owned by a bloke who will put post it notes on the computers reminding people to switch them off when they’re not in use.

Probably his mate that lives on the Isle of Wight or Jersey lent him the quid that Short wanted, that’s about as international as SAFC will get now.