James

We've still got the quote from Llambias, which we believe was also told to the players from a reliable source close to the playing staff. Rumour looks like tyne-talk spreading shit again, but ultimately whether we are taken over this week is dependent on whether or not Llambias is a liar.

:no: :weep: I never trusted Obi anyway, he was always making shit up. I was more interested in our own sources. Keep the faith!

We still have quotes attributed to Llambias that it would be this week, and a reliable source told us that the players have been told the same by him. So I think what it essentially boils down to is whether or not Llambias is an evil malicious liar.

He never said it was DIC anyhow...

It'll probably happen on Thursday after half the forum has gone completely and unreversibly doolally.

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They would have posted if they thought a takeover was going to happen though. Not necessarily, they may have been told to expect something on Tuesday, and been promised some sort of exclusive in exchange for silence.

By the way, the Chronicle have submitted todays articles 12 hours early, it is very possible that they wrote them up and put them up in advance to leave room to report on any breaking news today.

It's 10am, and we can't even be sure its Tuesday FFS.

www.smouch.net/lol Expect to see a lot of the above today. Check link before click. Do not click on link.

Although tbf, he did say it was someone who has been at the club long before Llambias, so rather than a top-end club representative, it could be someone who worked closely with Sir Bobby every day for five years.

It wouldn't matter who the players were as long as Sir Bobby was manager.

Actually if the source is someone called Craig, it could be the same guy who passed the Leighton Baines stuff onto Stevie.

Like when it happens it'll be a two line club statement that doesn't tell us very much (as we are no longer on the stock exchange). Club statement We are pleased to confirm that on 4th August 2009 St James Holdings have transferred all assets to SJP Asset Management Ltd. Actually it is a shame we are not on the stock exchange these days, as we'd know who the genuine bidders were already.

You couldn't do a Sir Bobby tribute tournament and leave out Ipswich. Sir Bobby belongs to Ipswich as much as he does to us.

Should have got the train tbh.

Aye, press conference tomorrow at 3pm. We've signed Beckford

Fits in very well with MON's centre back at full back philosophy as well, as that is what he actually is, only he's much better in that position than any other converted CB that I can think of in the world. But thats not that difficult given that most converted CBs come from medium rated PL clubs.

By the way, the Beye story has reached the ears of Villa fans. Either news on here spreads further than we think, or its all coming from somewhere else.

Not entirely sure we can get the SBRF on the shirts, there is an issue of exclusitivity, so unless we get a Randy Lerner or a Barca it is unlikely that will happen. I'm fully behind the academy though.

Didn't see that. But regardless, I'm 75% sure we'll get taken over this weekend based on a multitude of evidence of which Thomo is just the tip of the iceberg.

Given the Bassong Man City link this morning, I'm starting to get more and more optimistic

The f***ing title is "Sir Bobby Robson 1933-2009: the bravest knight" man That could have been the editor to be fair.

My view is that if you want to be completely honest then you need to be honest about the good stuff too, but there is not much of that there. To be fair, the Sunday Times seems to have noticed this too as they got someone else to write nice stuff about what he did on the continent on the third page.