Dokko

Their strip already looks like a hazardous waste container without the skull and crossbones!

Just tried yours, it works, so will look for something smaller. Good thinking batman. Edit: The office one is actually smaller.

I just put the image address in the I have my own pic box and it loaded it up. Tried that. It moves in the profile settings just not in here.

Cheers bud http://i110.photobucket.com/albums/n112/kittenzmewmewmew/YoureAwesome.gif Just how do i make it work in my profile? :-[

The whole height thing was Alan Oliver speculation which may or may not be true. The only full back of any description Sam has signed is Geremi and he's small. True. I couldn't remember where it came from, so aye, total shite then.

Smaller than Baines, and that is the supposed reason why SA is looking elsewhere. Dunno how true that is though.

i'd go for Everton first, but those 3 would be a decent buy for someone who'll invest properly. Imaging trying to buy Everton off them? You: "So i want to buy your club, invest in new players, and build a new stadium that the fans have been wanting for ages. Now NUFC went for £133m, but they've got a better squad and a much better stadium, how about a reasonable £90m for a quick sale?" Everton: "No, we are the greatest club thats ever existed, we are the mighty Everton, once champions of everything. Our defense alone is worth £100m, even though we want a better stadium, this once is located on holy land in the holy city, that alone is worth more than the new Wembley. How about £8 billion and we have a deal?" Moyes gets excited by the news and tries to buy Messi & Ronaldinho for £4m plus Arteta.

Why do you say that? I would however like to see Sheff Wed & Forest back in the EPL, and Leeds when they've suffered a bit more humiliation.

I was just pulling ya plonker.

I take it your a mackem or something as its nowhere near the quality of our new home top and thats not even that brilliant.

Bearing in mind he flashed his arse once already to supporters, (I never saw it, and assuming it was deliberate), what effect could the entire City support screaming abuse at him have, up his game or lose it completely ala Cantona? Unfortunately for Citeh fans they care more about him than he does about them, thats been the main problem he's had, and its allowed him to get away with blue murder throughout his career. He's took the living piss out of them, he can't continue to do that now in his career, because if he does, this is his tidemark as no club bigger than us will take him no matter how much of a talent he could possibly become. But i'm confident he knows this.

Almost 2 months in the making. Been madness all the way. Once the fat one has left, it will properly feel like a new era has begun, like people have said, lets hope the signals an improvement in spending, as its been a piss poor effort so far.

If you had £100 in your bank and were getting 50p extra back per year and you owed somebody £100 and that cost you £10, what would you do? Agh, that's where i've been going wrong all this time...

Ashley owns the club so he owns the debt, I really can't see him holding the levels of debt that we probably have and paying interest to service them. The interest rate on savings is usually less than the rate for borrowing although that isn't always the case as you can get a fixed rate while low and get more back when the interest rate is high. So you think he's got, or will get rid of it? Its beneficial for all that it goes, even it its an interest free loan to himself.

I reckon it'll be something like this (but you can never tell with Keane): Ward Halford Collins/Wallace Nosworthy/Varga Anderson Edwards Richardson Whitehead Etuhu Chopra Murphy Obviously not Premiership class, but team spirit may see us at least beat 19 points. And who knows, especially with how poor the bottom half does look, may be even enough to get 17th if we get in another striker, centre back and left back. Not asking much is it? Luckly we have a sort of strength in depth in midfield, with some decent-ish players. Whitehead, Kavanagh, Yorke, Liam Miller, Richardson, Leadbitter, Edwards, Hysen, Wallace and Etuhu, all fighting for 4/5 places. Just everywhere else on the we're shite tbh. With Gordon in nets i believe you'll gain another 8-11pts from him compared to Ward, puts you closer to the points tally. I think you personally need two more £5m players after that to ensure survival. PS: What the fuk is that in your AV?

Sunderlands offers haven't even matched £6m so far. Baines is there for the taking at £6m imo, i just don't think to us since Ashley cost the Wigan owner nearly £7m when he grassed him up in shirt price fixing according to net reports. ( i can sort of remember it as well but neither parties had any relevance at the time) "One story that has been reported is that in 2000, he turned whistle-blower on his sports retailer rivals - passing over evidence of price-fixing on England and Manchester United shirts - to the Office of Fair Trading. Because of this JJB Sports, owned by the Wigan chairman, Dave Whelan, was fined £6.7m. We see nothing wrong with this - at least the guy seems ethical and above board." http://nufcblog.com/mike-ashley-divorced-with-three-kids/

Main options are all still open. Heinze Bridge Twiao Baines Shorey All still at their clubs. When one or two of these options are ruled out i'd start panicking slightly. Heinze is going abroad, but its not 100% dead in the water until he says no to us. Bridge is injured, but an approach while he's injured might just speak volumes to him how much we want him, and Chelsea might just allow the deal to go ahead quicker with him missing the start of the season. Baines & Shorey are the ones most likely to be snapped up by rival clubs in the EPL, but the longer it goes on without an approach the more their value will hike and the more difficult it becomes to negotiate with them and their clubs. I'm hoping we tie up a LB in the coming week, one of these would be great, but anything less right now would be a disaster in terms of the direction and statement of intent this club is trying to achieve. Owen & Martins staying on and with our current squad and manager shows we have a good steup bar defenders, we should go as high as possible, spend £20-30m on 4 defenders, pay a little over the odds, but then have a solid defense for the 1st time in my lifetime and build on that and shake off our dodgy defending tag.

best LB on FM that'll be good enough for some of the 'tards on here. Can we have any post that refers to FM as any kind of reliable source of a player's ability struck out? Luque is apparently a world beater on it.

Most of it will come from season ticket sales and the increased TV money. I've not worked it out, but that's probably at least £25m without increasing the debt. He may even put an initial extra amount in himself. However I don't for a second believe that in the long run he will continue to put his own money into the club. In the future we will have no visibility of how much he is putting into or taking out of the club though so who knows. Let me ask you this - Ashley has built his money with a "pile it high, sell it cheap" philosophy, and a permanent "closing down sale, everything must go" marketing strategy. What makes everyone so confident that with NUFC he will adopt a risky strategy of spending big on high quality players in the hope of large rewards (ie top end of the market) rather than spending just enough on decent players to maintain premiership status and occasionally getting into Europe (ie trying to be the best of the mid range market)? What makes you think he's going to be straight up and honest with us supporters when he treats his current customers as mugs? thats what he done with soccer world etc but not his strategy at lillywhites and slazenger,karrimor etc. he has shops which are aimed at a lower market and he knows how to sell in that market but you shouldn't try and make out this is his whole strategy as it isn't. Exactly, to presume he treats every business this way is ridiculous. As for how he's going to run the club, nobody knows how he's going to do it at this point in time, I think it's unrealistic to expect him to continuously pile his own money into the club so I think he'll initially invest money on players with the aim of raising the profile of the club, the raised profile will hopefully lead to a larger income for the club which will eventually lead to it being self sufficient like Spurs have. Our Turnover is greater than that of "Spurs" - always has been in modern times, most of the time FAR greater!! I know that, but Spurs make more profit than us because they have less going out. Us having a greater turnover means nothing when we're still losing money. Erm, they certainly don't have less outgoings then us this summer.. I really don't think thats the point he's making though. He's talking about general day to day costs, turnover to wage ratio etc...Not layouts on transfer fees. Exactly, the money they have splashed out on transfers is mostly what they've made through profit anyway. Do we know if our debt has been written off by Ashley? That alone should see us make up the deficit (not paying the loan fees) nevermind the extra cash from the TV deal. Get a few more wasters off the wage bill and get back into Europe and we could have a profitable club like Spuds, only greater, bigger and better. i doubt it. if the figure above is true he's not going to pay for that plus 50million in transfers. that would be 250million spend at the club in 2 months. he's only (only ha) got 1.9billion, that would be over 10% of his wealth. i believe the quote is that he's "seeing to" the debt. i doubt he'll pay it personally, more over find ways to pay it back. We need to be turned into a business that makes a profit, we need the people who came here only because we payed them more (Duff, Emre and Owen) sold if that is not possible with them on their current wage. The club was only worth £133m because of its debt, scrap that and we'd be selling for £200m+. Getting rid of the debt only allows us to grow, he'd be a fool not to get rid of it, and he'd be a fool to rack up some more. Even if its a loan towards his own wealth, meaning we pay no interest and it stays until sold.

Don't consider what we spent or what they spent, its what we made to what we cost (same for spurs) that were talking about. Their ability to spend is in direct link to what their turnover is, but thats the end result, we borrow to spend (or have done) and then owe more. If its to be believed, Dyer & Owens wages alone pay for nearly 6 of Spurs best players wages. I don't believe it tbh, but its what they say.

Most of it will come from season ticket sales and the increased TV money. I've not worked it out, but that's probably at least £25m without increasing the debt. He may even put an initial extra amount in himself. However I don't for a second believe that in the long run he will continue to put his own money into the club. In the future we will have no visibility of how much he is putting into or taking out of the club though so who knows. Let me ask you this - Ashley has built his money with a "pile it high, sell it cheap" philosophy, and a permanent "closing down sale, everything must go" marketing strategy. What makes everyone so confident that with NUFC he will adopt a risky strategy of spending big on high quality players in the hope of large rewards (ie top end of the market) rather than spending just enough on decent players to maintain premiership status and occasionally getting into Europe (ie trying to be the best of the mid range market)? What makes you think he's going to be straight up and honest with us supporters when he treats his current customers as mugs? thats what he done with soccer world etc but not his strategy at lillywhites and slazenger,karrimor etc. he has shops which are aimed at a lower market and he knows how to sell in that market but you shouldn't try and make out this is his whole strategy as it isn't. Exactly, to presume he treats every business this way is ridiculous. As for how he's going to run the club, nobody knows how he's going to do it at this point in time, I think it's unrealistic to expect him to continuously pile his own money into the club so I think he'll initially invest money on players with the aim of raising the profile of the club, the raised profile will hopefully lead to a larger income for the club which will eventually lead to it being self sufficient like Spurs have. Our Turnover is greater than that of "Spurs" - always has been in modern times, most of the time FAR greater!! I know that, but Spurs make more profit than us because they have less going out. Us having a greater turnover means nothing when we're still losing money. Erm, they certainly don't have less outgoings then us this summer.. I really don't think thats the point he's making though. He's talking about general day to day costs, turnover to wage ratio etc...Not layouts on transfer fees. Exactly, the money they have splashed out on transfers is mostly what they've made through profit anyway. Do we know if our debt has been written off by Ashley? That alone should see us make up the deficit (not paying the loan fees, and getting the full whack from tickets) nevermind the extra cash from the TV deal. Get a few more wasters off the wage bill and get back into Europe and we could have a profitable club like Spuds, only greater, bigger and better.

Hopefully he has a great start to the season and keeps injury free, where we can then offload him in the jan window for a massive fee. That's my hope for Dyer this season.

Most of it will come from season ticket sales and the increased TV money. I've not worked it out, but that's probably at least £25m without increasing the debt. He may even put an initial extra amount in himself. However I don't for a second believe that in the long run he will continue to put his own money into the club. In the future we will have no visibility of how much he is putting into or taking out of the club though so who knows. Let me ask you this - Ashley has built his money with a "pile it high, sell it cheap" philosophy, and a permanent "closing down sale, everything must go" marketing strategy. What makes everyone so confident that with NUFC he will adopt a risky strategy of spending big on high quality players in the hope of large rewards (ie top end of the market) rather than spending just enough on decent players to maintain premiership status and occasionally getting into Europe (ie trying to be the best of the mid range market)? What makes you think he's going to be straight up and honest with us supporters when he treats his current customers as mugs? thats what he done with soccer world etc but not his strategy at lillywhites and slazenger,karrimor etc. he has shops which are aimed at a lower market and he knows how to sell in that market but you shouldn't try and make out this is his whole strategy as it isn't. Exactly, to presume he treats every business this way is ridiculous. As for how he's going to run the club, nobody knows how he's going to do it at this point in time, I think it's unrealistic to expect him to continuously pile his own money into the club so I think he'll initially invest money on players with the aim of raising the profile of the club, the raised profile will hopefully lead to a larger income for the club which will eventually lead to it being self sufficient like Spurs have. Our Turnover is greater than that of "Spurs" - always has been in modern times, most of the time FAR greater!! I know that, but Spurs make more profit than us because they have less going out. Us having a greater turnover means nothing when we're still losing money. Erm, they certainly don't have less outgoings then us this summer.. I really don't think thats the point he's making though. He's talking about general day to day costs, turnover to wage ratio etc...Not layouts on transfer fees.

Only if it's true. Which given the usual reliability of the Express, it's probably not. New to posting on here (though been lurking) so go easy on me at first lads yeah? Also in the Mail but then again that's just as unreliable if not more so. If this is true then I would think Owens decision to stay (for whatever reason) may well have swung Oba's own decision. That our two main strikers (arguably) have made a loyalty pledge to the club may have a good effect on any prospective signings, sending out a signal that it is a good place to be. Could benefit us in the next few weeks till deadline day. Welcome to the boards mate. Class AV like. Do it yourself?

Sheff Wed, Forest & Leeds are the prime clubs for a takeover right now. If i were a billionaire i'd be going for one of those 3.