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I'd prefer others, but before January, we had Wilson, Gayle and the tea lady as our top three striking options. If the window closes with Wilson, Wood and Nketiah, it's a better sight. Not perfect at all, but a much needed improvement.

Please elaborate? I hope that that wasn't a serious question. I love the circle of posts which goes on in this thread. 1. Someone pretends to be ITK 2. People react with hope 3. ITK gets called out 4. ITK proved to be talking bollocks 5. Someone else pretends to be ITK 6. People react with hope 7. etc etc That's just one page Yep, all the people pretending to be itk, while they think they are funny, it’s just not. Likewise, all these people who are believing them need to give their heads a shake. Slim’s shite even made it into the Positive Optimism thread ffs Why have a go at people for wanting/hoping that some of the takeover info might just have a semblance of truth....most probably not, but many of us live in a world of hope and thrive on anything that might just cheer them up for a brief time, be it ITK/bullshit/twitter bollocks or anything else.......i put Slim’s stuff onto “positive Optimism” thread......it amused me for the rest of the evening and that’s what the thread is for.....you never know, law of averages says eventually one of these titbits may well be correct. I do agree with your first statement of people trying to wind others up with their obvious bating....i agree it’s not funny, but I’m very happy with people who put up possible takeover info, if they believe there might be some substance with the truth.....After all we all want the same result and a bit of optimism, however blind, hurts no one. Because it gets people’s hopes up man. I’m all for it if there is a credible source but Slim et al are just on the wind up and I don’t want folk getting disappointed. We’ve had enough of that and don’t need our own playing a part in that. If you encourage it then you are gonna get a load of copycats and you’ll lose any real info among all the noise. Agree entirely but i don’t know Slim or HTT enough (even though I’ve been on this board for 10 years) to gather that they are complete windup merchants...i have always enjoyed HTT’s ramblings and didn’t realise that he is capable of outright bullshit......that’s perhaps the problem, some of us, me in particular, can’t differentiate between the wind up merchants and those who are genuinely trying to relay info......Is there a bullshit emoji to help us poor suckers? I spout shite, but I don’t bullshit about stuff I have genuinely been told that I personally hold credence with. The 3.00pm stuff, #soon, Mexicans etc. is windup lifting patter, this stuff isn’t. I maintain I am 100% confident this deal goes through by the end of this month or February and my post about positive legal news forthcoming, all I will say is watch this space. I’m no ITK and think the whole moniker is bollocks anyway, but it’s not out of the ordinary someone like me has a source or two in business/sport... Glad you enjoyed my ramblings though, when this takeover happens and my interest in all things NUFC resumes, I’ll be back to my tl;dr great with tactical posts, player ratings, maybe who the fuck are... etc. Might even start my own main site back up... Sorry HTT......don’t know who to believe here.....never thought you were a wind up merchant but there are obviously many out there who don’t believe your posts.....perhaps we should give you the benefit of the doubt and look forward to some good news in the near future.... No you’re right to question me Jinky Jim[/member] (and anything else/others). I can be a cunt/bullshitter but anyone who knows me off here who’ve met me/conversed with me in length privately or in real life knows I wouldn’t wind people up on here just for fucking kicks, this place and many on here are too dear to me and most of all our club which I desperately want all of us to have back, for my two boys to feel what I have/did/got under KK/Sir Bobby/Hughton/Rafa and to immerse them into their hometown club, their only club/team. It’s a dad’s duty and dream. If I do say some stuff (shite 3.00pm patter etc. aside) it’s posted because I’ve been told something and share it (whether right or not/bollocks or not/on here, in private groups/PMs/with friends) with an understanding that I’M NOT being misled. I reiterate, this will happen, and very soon hopefully and good things are coming our way, as the saying goes good things come to those who wait... I'm sold

The general idea of what they're saying is terrible. Ashley isn’t going to spend 80 some odd million each summer and we can’t build the team. The issue is that we all know that Mike Ashley lives. Corrected for you ? Appreciate it. That feels more right.

The general idea of what they're saying isn't terrible. If Ashley is going to spend 80 some odd million each summer and we can build the team that way like they seem to be implying, fine. The issue is that we all know that Mike Ashley lives in a house of lies and won't do that and there is nothing to suggest that he has changed.

I think this is going to be one of two scenarios: 1) McClaren Mk II, where we keep him all the way until the last 10 games of the season, once again not learning any lessons. 2) Ashley + Charnley have convinced themselves they're footballing geniuses and we keep him even after he takes us down, hoping we'll bounce straight back up again, totally ignoring Bruce's record in the Championship. And, of course, we won't come back straight up. Honestly, I think you might be right on. Looking at my initial prediction, it has a sort of "best case scenario" feel to it. Which is so incredibly depressing.

My prediction of how things will go - we'll lose the next 5 and then you'll think he'll be sacked to give a new manager (God only knows who would take the job) the two week break to prepare and get something out of the Villa game. Only he won't actually be sacked. Not yet. They'll give Bruce the Villa game as one last chance to turn things around, we'll lose that too and then he'll be sacked only for the new manager to walk into a game against Man City, destroying any sense of a new manager bounce.

Right, but once we hire a new manager that would be a huge sign that it’s not going through. As I can’t imagine BZG want Monk.

I'd add Palace in there too. Tough run of games and no Zaha. They're a much worse team without him

hoping we get at least 4 points from the next four games. Anything less is trouble. 6 or 7 would be incredible.

With the added attacking fret that Kenedy gives us down the left, wouldn't be the worst idea.

I'm at a 3. We've had 10 games where we drew or lost by a goal. In most of those we had numerous chances and couldn't put them away. If slimani can score like he did when he started at Leicester, 8 in 15 I think, we should hopefully be okay. Plus we have easily the best manager in the bottom 10.

From what I remember the script is real bad.

Depending on what happens with Giroud and Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang, I'd try and get Welbeck on loan. No chance of that happening, I know, but he'd improve us.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/fe/Glenn_Quagmire It's all a guy feeling right now.!

I've decided that this is happening. This is based on nothing more than a gut feeling, but for what it's worth, it's the same guy feeling I had when Rafa first signed and when he agreed to stay on.