Dokko

but hes not really doing it as a good will thing, if he wants to sell the club he HAS to write it off , as i said above no one will buy a championship club which needs 15-20m spent on the team to have a chance of promotion for 80m + 100m of debt, he asks for that price he wont sell it and his loss will keep growing, hes just taking the loss now as will only get worse for him. You are probably right I just feel that the there would be parties interested even with the debt, but by scrapping it he's doing us a huge favour. In fact say it does happen, and we get all the high earners off the wage bill financially the club will probably be stronger in the Championship than it has been limping on in the Premiership. Wiping out all of Freddies financial mistakes, now the next owner just has to wipe out Ashley's emotional/naive decision making. yeah it does us both a favor, Ashley cant afford/wont spend any more money on the club so stick with him we are going no where fast, at least the club is now available at a fair price and has no debt so anyone coming in who has a fair amount of cash and is willing to spend it has the chance to take the club forward alot faster. £100m for us debt free is an excellent price and just in sight of the Euro's when its rolled over its maximum.

but hes not really doing it as a good will thing, if he wants to sell the club he HAS to write it off , as i said above no one will buy a championship club which needs 15-20m spent on the team to have a chance of promotion for 80m + 100m of debt, he asks for that price he wont sell it and his loss will keep growing, hes just taking the loss now as will only get worse for him. You are probably right I just feel that the there would be parties interested even with the debt, but by scrapping it he's doing us a huge favour. In fact say it does happen, and we get all the high earners off the wage bill financially the club will probably be stronger in the Championship than it has been limping on in the Premiership. Wiping out all of Freddies financial mistakes, now the next owner just has to wipe out Ashley's emotional/naive decision making. Only applies if we return to the Premier League some time soon; ie within the next two years at the absolute maximum. If we bounce straight back up with Shearer/a good manager in charge, a young, hungry squad on the pitch and stable finances off it, then all this MIGHT just have been worth it. Depending on where you saw the club headed under Shepherd of course. Huge, huge 'if' though. So much so that it's not really worth considering until it happens IMO. I personally think we'd have gone in to administration under Shepherd, which would mean 10pts deduction and near enough relegation. I think we'd have a better squad with a highish profile manager and players still wanting to come for silly money but the bubble would have burst sooner or later. I think we'll come straight back up, we've got a great defence for a championship side, lots of young talent ready to go, and hopefully some decent funds once the club get rid of the crap. PS: Anyone heard out about Spurs wanting Duff? A fee would be great but just giving him away would be canny as well.

It's a tough call. If he came back with a consortium with him having very little financial clout then yes, i probably would think it would be a good move for us currently. What i wouldn't want is him coming back with big power and big money invested as he'd just try and screw the club out of money so he can buy a bigger % of us like he did last time. He's a better Chairman than Mike Ashley/Lambarse, though i do not trust him at all.

but hes not really doing it as a good will thing, if he wants to sell the club he HAS to write it off , as i said above no one will buy a championship club which needs 15-20m spent on the team to have a chance of promotion for 80m + 100m of debt, he asks for that price he wont sell it and his loss will keep growing, hes just taking the loss now as will only get worse for him. You are probably right I just feel that the there would be parties interested even with the debt, but by scrapping it he's doing us a huge favour. In fact say it does happen, and we get all the high earners off the wage bill financially the club will probably be stronger in the Championship than it has been limping on in the Premiership. Wiping out all of Freddies financial mistakes, now the next owner just has to wipe out Ashley's emotional/naive decision making.

I'm going down this route.

If Ashley is willing to write off the £100m loan as an apology to the fans then i'd want him to stay. Can't see anyone else wanting to buy us doing something like that. One hell of an apology if true. Still hasn't sunk in for me that were playing Championship football next season, it probably won't until i see the table with us in it or the 1st game of the season.

I'll either get my 1st season ticket or give up on football completely, just depends who's leading the charge next season. If its JFK that's me done.

Fuk off, he's been untouchable until this last month or so.

Manu fan in glory hunting being a cunt shocker.

Time to get some Manu players in my dream team.

Ashley really has shown this season how to break a football club in half. It wasn't difficult to do tbf to him, but he really has done it.

Disgusting.

Turning in to a load of shite quickly.

still 8, touch and go. See where we are after the Stoke game, me thinks in the zone.

For all his running, Jonas is fuking terrible in the final part of his game.

Gay, depressing and shite. Nice one.

Deffo pen, hope the ref crashes his car on the way home to bolton.

Why are you excluding them?

@ our next 3 games. We've just got to pray for other teams drawing below us.

Sweet.

Too much pressure for him here, couldn't handle it. He's got a nice environment to settle in now though. Good defenders around him playing well along with a team with focus and drive. To top it off an ex-world class CB in Steve Bruce to help coach him, all of these things were missing here, and still are...same reason Taylor struggles. Send him off to a decent football club and he'd improve just like Bramble Though it wasn't instant as some are saying, it took him all of last season making mistakes to get to where he is, been solid this season and looks like a £5m defender for the 1st time in his life. 28 this summer, a long time coming guess it will be a late show for Bramble after early promise.

Right now the best we can do, as said, at least they know the squad. Hoping (without much reason) that Calderwood is what the backroom staff have been missing, especially when KK departed and Hughton had the team himself.

WTF are Liverpool playing at? I mean its all great them bottling the title yet again, but FFS, do it against a team worthy of 3pts, not Boro.

Player manager yes.

So the £4m settlement has just been pulled out of someone's arse to suit their argument? Crikey, new low in this thread, and there's a few lows to be had.