James

The plus side to all this is that Rafa can legitimately be used as Danaerys Targaryen in an NUFC / Game of Thrones Analogy Perez as Oberyn Martell

Could be the end of Charnley this signing off on a minimum release clause and stopping us holding out for every single penny. Like the Cabaye £/€ debacle ended Kinnear

Doubt you will get too much more from him, he’ll have to adhere to the club’s NDA whereas the club will probably continuously smear him through Keith Bishop

All the best Rafa hope you can find a Way back for yourself someday

Worth reminding ourselves that post-Keegan the only manager to be appointed that: Wasn’t on a short term contract Wasn’t a caretaker We didn’t have to wait several months for him to be sacked Or didn’t approach the club directly to ask for a job Was Pardew

Doping in Italy, Chelsea and Leicester

Ranieri is probably the worst appointment we could make, a very dishonest man if Channel 4 and the Sunday Times are to be believed. He could do more damage to the club’s integrity and stability in 3 months than Ashley could in 12 years.

Fingers crossed it's ticking along. “How’s it going Lee?” “Good, I’ve just a bout got the hang of Minesweeper at Intermediate, ready to try Expert. Justin is out there applying Sports Direct stickers to the lawnmowers” “

Feel like we need this thread to deviate and move on from this low point. Did you know I’ve never seen the appeal of anal sex, there are two other perfectly good holes that haven’t been in contact with faeces, plus hands and feet, why should I feel the need to contemplate bum sex with a woman?

Just one pesky coach allowed

Unless the takeover it is going to happen it will be hard for me to accept someone competent and likeable. To be honest people laugh at Holloway but my reasons for not wanting him would be that he is too good a person for us

The huge irony now is that whoever the new guy is will probably get McClaren level money to spend, something Rafa never got. Of course it will have to be U26 players from France, Belgium or Holland that are recommended by the database the club subscribes to.

Suspected as such no one had the inkling that today was the day.

Any new owners would be off to a bad start if the new manager wasn’t Rafa. Obviously if it was someone phenomenal, fine but they’d seriously underestimate us if they thought that Mourinho is the dream ticket.

Thing is until we appoint a new manager or Rafa takes a new job or we play our first game of the season I can’t bring myself to face the truth that there isn’t a way back. He’s still relatively young I hope we can find a way back for him some day

Personally I’m hopeful that Rafa will stay but we may not know for sure until 4th July. But if the players show up on 4th to find no senior coaching team they need to show some solidarity with the fans and strike

Hughton wasn’t unpaid he was just the most senior coach whose contract was still ongoing. Which in this case is probably Redfearn

Steve Harper sacked

Takeover confirmed new owner is Yildiz - Turkish billionaire https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/business/2014/nov/03/united-biscuits-jaffa-cakes-mcvities-yildiz-two-billion-deal

Should just go down the Football Manager route of rolling weekly contracts, do a few weeks of pre season and then reassess

This is all getting a bit Lee Stewart. Can we class ourselves up a bit and move on to afflictions such as sinusitis, varicose veins or ingrown toenails

Get it in your head, the takeover’s happening, you thin runt

Hope you’ve had your breakfast

4th July either Rafa and his staff will take on pre season training or they won’t be there that at the very latest would be enough for us to see where this is headed.

No, they just have no idea what's happening. They’ve been like that since the dawn of time and it never stopped them posting shit before. Agreed. They must’ve had hundreds of requests for comment today and not one of them has made mention of anything. Just seems odd tis all. Not beyond the realms of possibility that they’ve agreed to embargo themselves in exchange for access to a big story. If all is silent tomorrow too we know something is up