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Best price is only 8/1 btw

Powerful move by the pilot.

Just make Neymar player-manager and be done with it.

Still fully expect to see Shelvey pushed 30 yards up the pitch and played at the central one of the 3 at some point in the season.

How much is every place worth in prize money this season? We know he's a cunt but he's also a gambler and he might think if he releases £30m for a striker/10 then the boost may mean he's paid for himself with the higher league position? Bit like he did with Cisse? Not saying I expect him to do so but it could be an option. Just thinking out loud really.

Rolls-Royce of a CM. Absolutely love him, slick as fuck.

Ridiculous way to go on like, nothing more than flimsy pr shite. The annoying thing is that it'll soon get trotted out as another example of Ashley backing his man/pulling money into the club etc. The fact it'll never get paid or is irrelevant. People will see the words: Ashely bonus £20m and add it to the little imaginary kitty they believe he's invested. Fully expect Merson to be one of the first to do so. "he's given 'em twenty million Jeff!" I can hear it now.

Absolutely not. If/when they implode I want to be in the front row.

Yeah, bet they haven't thought of that.

Do we know what's actually wrong with him? What's the injury? Anyone?

Bookies got us at 4/1 (7th favourites) to be relegated. I must admit I thought we'd be far smaller than that. They can certainly see something I'm really struggling to.

Genuinely hope one of the academy lads halfs him this week.

Yeah that's not true like, there's a lot of dross at the bottom of the PL. Getting up was a major achievement that had the potential to be career threatening for Rafa, he was expected to get us up, now he's working under an owner that has not backed him, a lot less pressure on him and a lot easier to play the style of counter attacking football he likes. We'll see.

Rafa keeping this squad up would be a better achievement than promoting us last season. Not that I'm sure he'll be around to see it through like...

Imagine sacrificing your (short and shit) career because you refused to work more than 30 mins from your house. What a fucking drip, the wettest, softest most insecure little cunt who ever pulled on the shirt. He's a fucking disgrace and I sincerely hope he reads this thread. The spineless little prick.

They'll have to be quick....

If/when Rafa walks then we'll finish bottom. Every single club we're competing with is looking to strengthen and get better, we were already one of the weakest and we've actively decided to regress. It's inevitable.

If there was an logic to the way this club is run then I'd try hard to see it and reason with it but there's no logical process to this. They've lucked out by having Benitez fall into their laps and still managed to completely fuck it up. There is no reason whatsoever not to back him, little Huddersfield have backed their boss with 4 times as much cash (net), Brighton not far behind them but we've deliberately and purposely decided that £11m is all Benitez is worth. I utterly despise the cunts running this club, they genuinely don't deserve a PL team and a large part of me hopes Rafa walks and we go down and keep going. Absolutely no point in struggling to get promoted only to make funds available to buy half of Demarai Gray. What was the point? Why were we all watching Brighton's games? Why did we bother worrying about Huddersfield's form or penchant for nicking late goals? Why did we worry? Absolutely no point or reason to continue to support this mess or a team or the utter wankers that run it. It's just futile,if ever there was a time to back someone and see us progress it was this window, right now, and we've actively refused to compete. If others want to take the piss then fair enough but I'm taking a step back after today, it's completely pointless to continue to back this lot. If others want to continue to pump money into the club then fair enough, sing your hearts out but I'm pretty much done with them. Fuck them.

They're so fucking thick man. They know that transfer fees are going through the roof and establishing the club in the PL is going to become more and more expensive as each year passes. Not willing to invest despite having a top manager in situ, when Rafa walks we'll go down and even if we do fluke promotion back it'll be under a poorer manager who will need to spend even more! They're thick as whale spunk. :lol:

Spot the scapegoat....... :lol:

How utterly predictable this is like? Not opposed to letting him go but to do so without replacing him with better is so monumentally idiotic that no other club apart from us would even consider. That's always assuming the bids are real and not just more spin from the hierarchy of the club to try and paint themselves as being strong and doing well to resist. This club is utterly fucked.

Don't like the sound of that.

That's exactly the type of thing I was after a few days ago. There's no defending or hiding behind those numbers now. He won them the league making £30m in the process and they've given him half a Nathan Ake to stay up. Small time cunts.

Perfectly capable of getting deals done as seen last summer. The willingness to do so simply isn't there. It's not "can't", it's "won't".

More cash in the till. Priorities gentlemen.