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It's not about wether Best is good or not it's really about the fact we didn't make a real effort to sign a top tier striker, unless of course one was available at end of contract or ready to jump ship for a signing on fee.

The intelligencia across the board with their free flights and free library cards and consulate cars on tap will play up till he is nailed.

Bits of the page are missing ie headers and graphics and so on.. What happnned?? Firefox

It's clear they had no intention of signing a top tier striker from the moment Carroll was sold to the closing of the window.

Presumably with Ashley's debt the club has a bit less control over when it gets paid off. For instance if there was 35 mill lying around in a bank account, Ashley could demand the cash rather than it being used say to buy a new striker. Assuming his debt was repayable on demand of course. Nope, a bank could take all of the money at any time it liked (as Barclays all but did once in the late 80's) if Ashley increases the debt in the club to pay himself back all he would be doing is creating losses which he himself would be liable for or at least have to cover. Your statement forgets that Ashley as the single owner with no shareholders, to all intents and purposes, is the club. If he's recovering money, it would be by reducing the debt the club owes to him from the operating subsidies he's put in, which based upon the lack of spend this window, may be exactly what he's doing. Recovery of the £130-odd Million would come when and if the club is sold again. As I've suspected for some time MA doesn't actually have that much 'paper money'.

If I've read it right, he (potentially) set up a company (SJH) to buy the club, then loaned the company in question the money in order to buy NUFC. SJH then directly owns the club but owes MA the money. By reducing costs and turning a profit NUFC / SJH can then repay Ashley the money over a period of time. The net result being that (if it goes to plan) MA will get back all the money he paid out to buy the club, in effect getting it for nowt. It's not so much selling off assets (although Carroll would fit into that) it's more that the overall operating costs are less than the money coming in over a long enough period of time. Aye, that's how I see it. But to think that he hopes to recover the full £138m is fanciful. In fact the only way he'll recover any significant amount of that loaned is if the club is sold. Bottom line is that he's one sneaky fucker.

Too wild and outlandish even for me to handle.

They don't like it up em apparently.

The new graphics has thrown me and mx mojo.

They can eat at sundown ffs!! Non-issue.

Had Blackburn at 3.8 for first goal. Missed two pens the cunts!!!

Nailed on home win. 2-0. Or maybe a fuck up last minute pen loss. /jinx insurance

What Nedem - does my arse look big in this Onuha?

Couple of Africans in the betting shop yesterday were misty eyed about their time living in Manchester and how much they miss the UK compared to Germany. One used to work on BR was going on about what good crack the locals were and there was never a hint of racism and so on... He's a street cleaner here and said that whites come in he trains them and they get promoted above him. Would be very rare if ever in the UK.

A fear ran down my spine as Williamson came on. Cabaye could be the find of this season.

Leazes sighted 4:05!!! http://www.youtube.com/user/RussiaToday#p/u/3/53XnvNOR5EU

Your moving me to tears with your old bill rhetoric.

Pnin is a hidden gem.

All this is the pressure that has built up from banning smoking in pubs I reckon.

Genius. Years supply. Agreed.

The saddest thing is people causing rucks to nick things made in China for $10 off each other.

Sony are evil though.

I find this site the most reliable.