BlueStar

Just missed it, what did he have to say?

I think you're missing my point. This guy(if he exists) would like to bring in an Iranian coach and Iranian players which in my opinion would not help our team on a skill and ability level which has nothing to do with race. The fact is thier league is Shite and if you want to make your team better you need better players. Plus if they bring in a manager who dosn't speak English the players will suffer end of. Mike Ashley brought in an English manager and English players who didn't help our team on a skill or ability level. What's the alternative meant to be again, Americans? Cracking league they've got over there like. Where's he said he's going to bring in an Iranian manager? All I've heard is something about Keegan. Have Man City got an Arab manager now? If he brings the very best young players from iran over do you not think they'll be good enough for the Championship or better than the likes of Kevin Nolan we've got now? I don't think we can predict if someone's going to be a success here or not based on where they come from, we've had an English billionaire owner who seemed like a dream come true and it was an absolute clusterfuck. Man U thought Glazer was going to turn them into some god-awful American franchise and it's turned out fine. No matter who buys the club we're rolling the dice again, but we don't have a choice. I don't care if they come from Timbuktu to be honest.

RIP, true legend of the game who no-one, not even the mackems, ever had a bad word to say about.

Oh no, this might mean foreign players start playing for English clubs, with their diving and not speaking English and not caring about the fans and stopping young english players coming through and stealing our women. 2009, the year the English game died.

You'd think he'd look happier if he was a multi-millionaire. http://www.ilna.ir/uploads/1388-3-3/47.jpg Why so Sirous?

http://forums.iransportspress.com/showthread.php?t=60491 Is this some kind of Steve McClaren thing where you start speaking broken English to foreigners?

What's the odds on it being this guy? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mazher_Mahmood

Uh huh. You're going to bring in Keegan and then dictate who his coach and players are going to be. Let me know how that works out.

Fuck me :lol: FUCK! If these guys are taking over it would be class!

Only this club could have such a small gap between the odds on us being promoted and on us being relegated. On paddy power we're favourites at 9/2 to finish top and 12/1 to get relegated. West Brom are 11/2 to finish top and 40/1 to get relegated.

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Thing is, all the papers are using the same spelling and they've obviously all got that spelling from somewhere so it's been used before. Even if it wasn't the most common spelling, you should be able to find an instance of it on English language sites considering business deals with rich middle-easterners get into the financial press. You'd think alternative spellings would be close enough for a "did you mean" suggestion if there's results for something like Sirrus Marjoob

Ranger's a muckle lad and not much seems to phase him, reckon he could cope with playing against cloggers better than some prem strikers.

I know him. Dum dum dah... He is friends with the Maktooum family and certain big time property boys in Dubai and Hong Kong. Between them they have 5 yachts. I can't say whether he will buy the club, but he exists, sky have probably spelt the name Englishstylee... Well, you can only spell it Englishstylee really, when you're translating a name from a language which uses a different alphabet all you can do is spell it phonetically. That's why there's so many inconsistencies in western spellings of Arab names and things like Taliban/Taleban. Is there a more common spelling of it we could search for though? Or do you know how to spell it in Farsi or whatever?

Apparently he now has his own fruit and veg business in his native Belguim. Could get him and Bernard to do the catering, if nothing else.

Roll the dice with Shearer every time. Preferably a Shearer-Rob Lee dream team if we're going for untested idols.

Am scared to ask how you know ;D Rule 34 of the internet - if it exists, there's porn of it. Google "dolphin fuck it does exist" if you want to double check EDIT: Reading this in reply mode without the smilies changes the meaning a bit "The internet, where you can find photos of people f***ing dolphins" "Am scared to ask how you know :kasper :"

Right so this is all there is on the net about this supposed billionaire. The internet, where you can find photos of people fucking dolphins, and there's no reference at all to a supposed high-flying rich Dubai businessman? I don't fucking think so. Third result is someone asking who the fuck he is! http://img55.imageshack.us/img55/5286/captureo.png Surely if you were writing an article in a paper you'd at least look up this guy to check he existed? What's wrong with these incompetents?

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to have him still playing for us in the championship if he wasn't going to be on a crippling wage and was going to get stuck in for the cause rather than moping round the pitch wondering when he's going to be allowed to leave, but as that's not going to happen I'd rather have someone upfront who's glad to have the opportunity to play for Newcastle even at Championship level.

Odds that at least one of these "serious bidders" Ashley thinks he's got is some doil from Ready to Go who's sent them an email?

220 pages of this morbidly depressing abomination. Can we please float this thread off into the North Sea and sink it so it becomes a coral reef or something?

End of the transfer window? I can't see how this is going to be resolved before the end of time.

.com's take

Where are our nutters? I don't mean the fuckwits who shout at Sky cameras, I mean our proper unhinged organised criminal nutters. Surely there must be some mental gangsters or old-style hoolies who are NUFC fans, why haven't they arranged for a horses head in Ashley's bed or something? Well nothing that extreme, a pony's head maybe. Come on lads, sort it out. We buy your pikey DVDs and foreign fags, give something back to the community.