BlueStar

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.

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.