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Why don't you just stick anyone you construe to be negative on ignore?

Is there a way on this forum you can pin posts as reminders when voting for worst football poster in the yearly awards? I think we have a winner already.

FFS, nobody is trying to wind anyone up. It's a debate. The only wind up comment on the last two pages is the one that claims "the club was sold last summer".

With you on this one. I very nearly managed to give up this season. Stopped watching any games, then somehow starting watching when Jones came in, out of interest. If Bruce is still manager at the start of next season I couldn't bring myself to even care about results.

I didn't. I've never questioned that part. I questioned the line that the club was sold. And that's the problem here - I'm negative about the takeover happening, not because the buyers and sellers don't want it, but because I think it just won't get approved. However, because I question the use of phrases like "the club was sold" I'm immediately "being negative". I'm desperate for the takeover to happen, and quickly. I'm sure both AS and MA are desperate for it to happen too.

Nah, Ashley won't want to change manager whilst he's *actively trying to sell the club * Righto

So no then. Fair enough. I'll stop being negative and leave you to it.

It does when it's a quote.

Forgive me then, as you have more knowledge of this than me. Does all that equal " the club was sold well over a year ago" ?

Humour me then. Other than your "logic" what evidence is there that the club has already been sold? In case you need it: Any of those happened?

But one day someone else will buy it, have faith. It's sold.

Nope, it wasn't. An agreement was made to purchase the club on the basis that the Owners' and Directors' Test was passed. Other than that, we don't know anything about how long that agreement is in place, if it is, and whether or not the landscape has changed so much that the agreement can even still exist. What you're "hoping" for is that nothing has changed; that the agreement can still be honoured if and when the Premier league give the green light. You have absolutely no proof of this, only faith. I commend your faith, I truly do, but the way you spin this as fact is getting a bit like when Bruce claims 8 or 9 teams are still in the mix for relegation.

Yeah but, maybe a takeover by January, or next summer. Probably worth giving him a one year extension in case there's a takeover close the following January, or summer too.

Mahrez hat trick please

Yep, and mahrez, silva and zinchenko for me.

It's obviously a very personal thing, but for me when I think back to when I really used to enjoy football: All matches were at 3pm on a Saturday (I realise Covid has changed the landscape for kick off times). Because of this, match of the day was able to show all of the matches, rather than just extended highlights of 2/3 games. Used to love MOTD. Football was affordable. It now costs too much to get into games and too much to pay for sky/bt sport/amazon prime. I have absolutely no interest in european matches anymore. Go back to a proper knockout competition. The FA cup and league cup aren't special anymore either. Too many big clubs resting players to concentrate on league placings. Lower league clubs never used to loan young premiership players. They had more local players and if they managed to get someone from the top league it was a marquee signing. Stop top clubs signing every young player in the country.

They've just been tagged haven't they?

The rest of the forum is extremely quiet without those threads though. Whilst I agree a lot of what was said was pointless at least it generated traffic.

Bigger. 12/10.

Right dog, get yourself out there and run around a bit.

I have news about this, and when it finally comes out in the public I’ll be very smug.

I thought Potter might be a decent fit for Spurs. Even Eddie Howe but I guess he's going to end up at Celtic.

Every club has a Keith.

Nothing from either @Mimms or @Ando7 since the move the new forum?