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saw this in another place, some fair points... Hold the fuckin bus here. Southampton sell 80% of their shares at £210m. With a £30m training complex and a conveyer belt of huge player sales? Latest being Van dijk (75m). Everton sell 50% of their shares at £85.5m making them worth £171m. Everton a premier league ever present. So how are Nufc worth £300m+? Relegation twice in 6 years and a squad of championship players. Hrmc case hanging over the club. Our transfer record sits in 2005 while every other club has broken theirs numerous times. The club is and has been shambolic under Ashley’s ownership. Why would anyone regardless of funds overpay to pay for the previous owners mistakes. Doesn’t make sense.

Reported.

It'll work ok, it's whether you feel it's required or not. The offside rule says "player", not foot, forearm or nose. People have been brainwashed by media replays for the past 40 years into thinking that this is the correct interpretation of the rule, it's not, it's fuckin nonsense. If a player is a yard in front he's offside, if he's level but his foot is in front or something (like tonight's goal) he's not. So flag should've stayed down and no need for VAR. Leicester fans get a tiny moment of instant ecstasy on a cold Tuesday night and everyone's happy

Hmmmm....from that article... Ashley’s appointed legal representative, Andrew Henderson of Dentons. seems to be different info to what Caulkin claims... No fucker knows anything, nothing to see here

keep troops away from the sharps for fucks sakes!

Jesus All basically some sort of construction ponzi scheme according to the FT https://amp.ft.com/content/a4dd80be-f9f1-11e7-a492-2c9be7f3120a?__twitter_impression=true

I have misgivings about personnel to say the least, but I agree with a lot of what they intend to do. A Carillion situation (the dictionary definition of neo liberalism should just be their logo and a pic of the currently MIA Chris Grayling) won't be allowed that's for sure.

Yeah that's why I think it's not happening, it's largely irrelevant to a potential sale. Tbf it's very similar to what Gloom was saying before Christmas i.e. "it'll be after the new tv deal is announced".

This has come from the Stavely camp, she's known to be friends with Richard Desmond the publisher of the star & express. If Ashleys not taken her hand off he's not selling. I think if we were being sold it would've happened by now. Someone hide the scissors in Troops house

https://amp.theguardian.com/football/2018/jan/15/cyrille-regis-pioneer-on-the-pitch-leader-of-a-generation?__twitter_impression=true

3rd or 4th choice?? Turned down by MoN and Bilic. Pardew similar at WBA. Managers getting sacked without the club's having much of a clue what to do next it would seem...

Still not working?? Am surprised your sparkling personality hasn't worked well for you tbh

I think the banks are in a large way to blame. They lent money for new goverment contracts expecting the taxpayer to back them up. Not fuckin this time, although a lot of the vital services Carillion (used to be Tarmac as recently as the 90s) will be picked up by us e.g. hospital maintenance, school dinners etc. I happen to work for one of their major competitors on an nhs contract and it could end up being good for our lot...

Yeah, shit way to lose a final but spurs had put us out that year (If my memory serves me well :D ) Hillsborough type crush was only narrowly averted at WHL that day?

31 year ago man! At least I didn't say he scored one of the all time great cup final goals with a diving header in that final blah blah blah...

Only 5 caps. Christ knows how many the likes of Mark Hateley got. Played like Drogbas older, quieter, harder brother. Tony Adams talks about marking him during TAs early days at arsenal, just a phenomenal athlete he says (CR and Olympic sprinter John Regis were cousins) with the touch and pace of a very good inside forward. Cup winner at the last truly romantic cup final in 87 with Coventry, pretty sure he scored that day. Saw him rip us to bits in Willie McFaul's last game as our manager. Rip Cyrille.

I understand knee jerk doom and gloom after a poor result but we're really no better and no worse than the rest of the shit surrounding us. Ashley in all likelyhood knows this too and is maybe gambling on Rafa being the difference, with the kicker of him being able to say " fackin champions league winner should've kept us up!", should the worst come to the worst. As it stands, it's a toss up whether we go down or not. Fairly plain if you ask me Rafas got to deal with the deck he's got and with PCP playing hardball on the price for the club then I can't see anything changing till we know which division we'll be playing in next season. Have a pleasant Monday everyone

Didn't Southampton put 6 past Manu the week after we beat them 5 nil? ....

Liverpools front 5 cost £170million

Theres literally been nothing that gives me any sense that we''re even prepared to do that this month Strange thing is am not that worried. A relegation this season hurts Ashley a lot more than it hurts the supporters. There's a buyer out there with a fair offer on the table. That offer disappears if we're relegated. Another gamble, another possible loss of millions of pounds, for MASH Holdimgs Ltd and Newcastle United FC. Not me. The supporters don't get to "enjoy" the visits of Manu, Chelsea, Arsenal etc. Big fuckin deal. The rest, as we're proving this season, isn't much different to the top of the championship. Loss of prestige? and this is basically the key to all of the above, for the third time in a decade am becoming immune to it.

Nah, he and us are being strung along by Charnley. As I said in the week "Rafa doesn't know his transfer budget " is code for "it doesn't exist". If someone was knowingly taking the piss out if me that much at work I'd jack. Same as when KK left. Rafa appears to be a bit more tolerant and less emotional than Keegan but he's about to be shafted in precisely the same way.

I don't know why you're all torturing yourselves If we bring anyone in, treat it as a mildly diverting surprise. But I personally don't expect anything to happen. If that is the case then whether Rafa can be arsed to try to keep us up after January 31st am not too sure...

Barney Ronay... In the end a lot of this boils down to what you think sport is for. If it is to be a distantly consumed third person spectacle, a series of coloured blobs moving on a screen, just one part of the digital leisure experience, than perhaps it does make sense to analyse endlessly the precise, elusive mechanics of why a man has fallen over https://www.theguardian.com/football/blog/2018/jan/13/var-football-referees-emotional-game?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Troops you're still sounding a tiny bit surprised by all this

Aye, and a player from a team threatened with relegation, a situation neither of them have experience of. Fuckin gobshites