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Fuck it, haven't had my hopes up for ages. Going to believe this is true and going to happen, and if it doesn't I'm going to climb up the Tyne Bridge and toss myself off. You heard me.

Mike Ashley "Has no comment to make at this stage" according to 5Live

http://www.bbc.co.uk/fivelive/ "Listen live" at the top right Stupid cow can't understand why people are dubious about Joe's statement

Maybe because he's the only person in football who would work for a club owned by Ashley?

If this was offered two weeks ago it doesn't bode well for any lingering hopes about this "Still about to be sold to a Dubai consortium in the next few days" story.

It's OK, he turned us down

WHAT?! Get. To. Fuck. Nowt on SSN yet, please be some kind of sick joke.

It will be availible to download off the 5live website about 9.30pm Can you not listen live on the net? Yes here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00m30b1 We're not back in the championship. we've never been in the Championship before

Just out of interest, what happens to the club is Ashley dies?

Ashley doesn't have a contingency plan, he doesn't have any fucking plans. All he does is watch inevitable things happen and act surprised, then make a half-cocked rushed reaction after the event. He's no more competent at selling the club than he was at running it.

Quote if im wrong but you have the same story running on this site?? Not sure what you mean - there are people talking about supposed ITK stuff on the forums here (to some derision), but there's nothing recent about the takeover on the news page that I can see.

How long do we get before we're allowed to say the information about the sale definitely happening in the next few days was wrong then?

I don't think they made it just up to gain traffic, just that it's a bunch of kids who are willing to believe anything and put it on their site.

Wow, an answer in 5 minutes

If it doesn't happen is the response going to be a hands-up "OK, my ITK was mistaken/talking bollocks and I put too much faith in him" or "It must have hit a snag and been called off at the last minute, it was definitely happening... Maybe it's just been delayed"

This has been the best page of the thread so far.

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I heard it was 4pm. That's the Beckford unveiling.

Didn't we have this "press conference tomorrow at 3pm" thing about 50 pages back as well?

Or maybe droopy's telling the truth when he says they didn't make a bid.

Oh noes, we had a sub 17,000 attendance one season when we were 11th in division two and when the third highest attendance in the country was Crystal Palace with 19,000. What terrible fans we are. Sheep fiddling leek squatting cockleg.

Please stop me registering to call that Cardiff fan a cunt and lecture him about where our worst season for attendances put us in relation to other clubs at the time.

Reckon Ipswich probably have more of a claim to that like.

Fucking hell, he'll be 40 by then.

I was talking about your prediction he might bring in a non-English speaking manager, the only thing I've heard about his choice of manager was the suggestion when the story first broke that he'd bring in Keegan. If Daei's a good coach and can speak or is willing to speak English and the manager (whoever he may be) wants him onboard, that's fine. If Mahjoob's for real and he brings in a load of free Iranian no-hopers on the basis that they're his Dad's mates nephew or something rather than investing in the team then it'll be bad. If he brings across the next Ali Karimi or Karim Bagheri to supplement a team sourced from a wide range of clubs and countries, it'll be excellent. In the position we're in at the moment there are few World Cup countries whose very best players we could turn our noses up now, even if they're hardly Brazil on the world stage.