James

Perhaps for every letter Skirge should send the PL a pic of his dog in a tea towel

‘Shell’ sounded like an unofficial spokesman for the deal in her latest thread.

probs aye, plus CRB requests or whatever they're called don't come next day i suppose You would hope the CRB checks aren’t going through the standard route, my wife is involved in temporary NHS recruitment and says that CRB checks are running about a month behind due to demand

Reckon that’s come direct from Charnley

Ok maybe not

Eurosport have been spot on to date. It will happen

Let the Dirk Kuyt monitoring recommence

There is no need for Charnley to have a physical presence for any handover, he can do it all working from home I’d imagine unless he is the only one with keys

Fuck, I felt something. Following a takeover is a lot like making love to a beautiful woman You think it's going to happen and then ultimately it never does? Thinking you are about to pull out then splurging all those millions

I don’t think Never go Back applies for us with Rafa cos we never went forward.

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Wraith probably thinks he’ll be made chairman and has to be central to any meeting

Welcome back. I’m sure it will all be OK until Dave comes back.

Trinity Mirror are going to have to do something about Ryder if we become one of the elite clubs, they can’t have him representing them and us on the world stage!

With Raf you can expect rigidity and discipline. That doesn’t mean defensive football but it does mean that defence is prioritised, scorelines are quite narrow, a few too many draws, and some players having offensive instinct curtailed. I’m fine with that.

I like the model of having the best available players at the start of their prime years

Why not Where do you think Bruce would take Newcastle, even with financial backing? Not very far! If you read my post properly I did say until the end of the season. Of course I want him out after then!

Good thing you weren’t on last week or they would have to X-rate the radio

Why pay £8,5M for Bentaleb and let M.Longstaff go on a free? Give Matty what he wants and don't sign Bentaleb. That would save us £8,5M plus wages. Can't see Matty demanding more than Bentaleb is earning. Do we know what Matty wants in terms of wages? Rumour has it that he is currently on £850 a week, that equates to £45k a year which isn't too shabby. I earn more than Longstaff. Digest that for a second...

I know a few have spoken about public beheadings of Charnley and things but what I’d like to see is some sort of more cathartic apology match. I’d like to see Jonas bring a testimonial team to SJP, managed by KK, with Enrique there too and all of the other players Ashley screwed over. All proceeds to SBR foundation.

You missed the bit about Ashley’s son in law arranging a loan to PCP from Mike Ashley’s holding company.

Why not

Im going to give him some credit, he has somehow, inexplicably managed to get enough points on the board to give buyers confidence to buy mid-season. I don’t think Rafa’s late bloomers approach tempted investors previously, and by the end of the season it’s always been too late to try and negotiate. For that reason he just about deserves to see out the season.

This is literally the best tome in football history to be taken over by Arab billionaires. Every other club in the world are going to be looking at their squad and thinking about how they might be able to raise an extra £20-£50m and in we come. It will be like the world’s most expensive sweet shop.

Thing is with Dalian, Rafa could probably hand pick a great successor, and develop some sort of feeder club partnership where he acts as a club consultant for them whilst managing us