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What he said is he stopped playing "for the last few matches" in order to get move. I don't blame him tbh, considered that he has been overlooked for nearly half a year and clearly he isn't going to get any matches in the coming year.

to look in an optimistic point of view, this means Ashley did want to sell the club to Moat --- and probably Moat do have a chance to secure his finance, or else Ashley would simply take the club off the market.

It's very silly to think that the money will be re-invested, Kaka. Never going to happen under Ashley.

Kazenga/Vukcic gotta step up now....

Even though he is able to set up plays for other players, I'd prefer him to stand near to the goal and make direct header attempt.

I've definitely never seen him play. Or heard his name before. Just because you didn't pay attention enough. Brazil's 2nd best U-21 striker after Pato.

WFC TBH.

Fair play. Let him stay. At least he is totally a waste of his wages. There are lots of mother fuckers that need to be boot out from the team prior to Martins.

Well....put it straight, we should realize that nowadays only clubs with Abrahimovich-like owner can survive and success. Ashley's idea that the club can balance its own income and expense is fucking naive --- which I agree to be honest. Parky, not saying that your idea is wrong. However just think --- the club needs large amount of debt to survive in EPL, and unless you have an excellent run in UEFA competition you will definitely make a loss every year. Then who's going to pay the debt? In the end it's not the debt that matters, it's the owner's willingness to sacrifice his own money for the club.

Same here. That's a reason why Ashley transferred all the debt into "shareholder's loan". I couldn't figure out how Shepherd can sort out that mess too. Would that be related to the casino expansion plan?

M Diarra is a more consistent player. L Diarra, though more speculative, sometimes commits silly mistakes. Anyway both players are excellent cover for those stars upfront. Real Madrid don't need to sign any players here --- just kick away Gago.

Higuain has been the best player for Real Madrid last season.

Is that some fans got too bored that they hack the official site? I still couldn't believe they make such a silly statement tbh. Newcastle United, a club which never make you bored, no matter how good or bad it is.

So actually there're no interest buyers at the moment right? or they dun need to publish this kinda shit...

seconded.

He is a bastard but not an idiot. Ashley is an idiot.

A bit OTT as some issues are actually "best of the worst" that they have no choice. But frankly I agree with you, I prefer other owners than Omani.

The painful truth is Ashley cannot sell the club because of his silly quoting price. Still remember the 400m he'd asked for last year? He is too stubborn to understand that the later he sold the club the less he can get back, while he's stilling drilling at something like "I will not accept any loss more than 15-20m." Of course it would be good news that he finally make such declaration, but from his past record we all know that he is just too stubborn. Actually if he's wise enough he would inject more money in January to prevent us from relegation which will be a devastating blow to the club's value. And instead what we have was a January with balancing figures and shitty players. "I want to sell it as soon as I can, but I don't want to make a loss" is what the true statement is.

It is for the long term borrowings. Overdraft is another thing, a short term working capital, just like your credit card account.

We do have liquidity problem for a long time and I am not surprised that we have a 40m overdraft. What's really worrying is that it seems like Ashley really doesn't have any money left --- and the only way to finance the 20m needed is by bank borrowings, which I doubt whether there's any banking willing to do so provided that our club is free falling and the owner's wealth is under question. Now probably we must pray that Ashley can find a new owner asap or we are finished.

Well, ok, they better sell the club and fuck off asap. Appointing Shearer is the last chance they could get the things back to the right track, and now they still hesitate to do so / couldn't provide what Shearer wants. Mother fuckers.

they are obviously playing brinkmanship with AS, saying, well alan if you Don't want the job, with no transfer budget, we will just get joe back. also,...if they had offered alan a reasonable budget, it would have been done and dusted by now, its the keegan crisis Talks all over again,. Just f*** off Ashley. Not this time. I mean, not when the club's desperately praying for season tickets' renewal.

Spot on.

Yes for this time only. I mean I couldn't see Ashley wanna be the owner in long term and probably what he is thinking now is just to lower his loss - probably the selling the club after promotion. As such I don't think it's really a long term stability and in addition, I doubt how much fund will be available from Ashley. He is really stubborn enough to think like this "hmmm may be i can just inject 5-6m and after promotion the value of the club may go up by 30m...sounds like good business" FFS. Another owner please. Times up for Ashley.