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This is the most likely scenario I'm afraid

I'd be shocked if anything other than option 1

50m man that's 1/3 of the TV revenue and doesn't get you much at all in the market these days This Takeover has to happen or we are fucked as a club imo

with some fuckwit at the helm and first 10 games being horrific there's no way that will happen To be fair you've told us throughout the last two seasons we were dead certs to go down even with Rafa at the helm knee jerk reactions after horrific starts but this season if it happens without him i think ill be spot on Rafa has tactical nous and under his tenure we've been spanked once contrast that to the amount of times we got subbed under Pardew. The same will happen with our next manager whoever the fuck it is

I honestly think Uruguay or Colombia are the best sides in South America at the moment they certainly are to watch

Anyone who thinks that a Benitez-less NUFC with Ashley still at the helm will be able to move on from this takeover saga as if nothing has happened is utterly deluded and kidding themselves. The club will cease to be a cash cow for Ashley and will become an iron-clad albatross around his neck as it plummets into the Championship. It doesn't matter if SJP is still packed next season and played to a zombie atmosphere for games. The slightest bad turn will expose the anger and bitterness, the media will feast on it and everything will quickly snowball into an unstoppable negative force. And with no Benitez to turn water into wine and no time to buy players for the new yes-man manager the first bad turn will happen very early in the season. I'm guessing a lot of people aren't old enough to know what NUFC is like when there is real doom, gloom and hostility towards the powers-that-be. In short, it's not pleasant, and next season will make the 88/89 season look like a picnic in comaprison. When NUFC are relegated next season under Ashley he will be spending all of his time, money and energy in keeping the club away from the Championship trapdoor. There will be no coming back this time. The fanbase is a completely different one to what it was in 1988. Most of the people who turn up now aren't capable of showing the hostility the crowd of 30 years ago could. 88/89 was an utter horrorshow from the moment cottee smashed in a hat trick at Goodison. We did win at Anfield though Next season will be worse without Rafa i can see a season like Huddersfield have just had

with some fuckwit at the helm and first 10 games being horrific there's no way that will happen

Without Rafa we go down though, make no mistake. Agree. Then he gambles on coming straight back up. It's not what you want to say as a supporter but 3+ years of Championship football is ultimately what this club needs in its present form. I don't see any other realistic scenario where Ashley leaves. Whst this club needs is a Sunderland style plummet infact I'd take that now if it meant Ashley leaving tomorrow In 11 days time we will know if this coming season is a write off a write off that will end in relegation if nothing positive happens If that's the case I'm done with football for a few years as I'm not going to watch 9 months of us slowly dying

Assuming Ashley's gone and I get a kit, looking forward to not being asked why I'm dressed like a referee over here I get that all the time even though I only have the 95-96 outstanding Adidas effort It's all to do with the mono centric attitude over here i mean many people in UK would recognise an NFL or NHL or MLB Jersey yet over here peoples sporting general knowledge is horrific infect all general knowledge is horrific. I've got a girl who works for my team who has a masters yet didn't know who Nelson Mandela was....scary shit

11 days

300 pages of nothingness only thing we are now just 11 days away from having no manager or coaching team

We not got a gold cup thread yet??

Can you imagine the uproar if as we suspect this proves to be true. How can this utter cunt get away with purposefully laughing st people and pissing people off. If he was doing this with on the high street there would be a public enquiry and government investigation Saying that the government investigation has already happened at his Victorian sweatshop and his way of laughing was to pull about 25 grand out of his pocket during a metal detector another way of him stocking his fingers up to people just like he did us outside the pizza shop

Another one of the 4 stooges that deserves to be stoned to death. You just have to look at the 4 of them together and it brings over an irrational hatred in you

Isn't Cavani going there too??. I think hed be perfect fit for Atleti

This place will be interesting the 29th june we will all know in 24hrs the club is totally rudderless Who will then be taking 1st day of pre season will be anyones guess 12 days and counting lads

As much as Rafa is key atm I do agree with this. New owners could come in and appoint Mourinho he goes on to win the FA Cup or league people would forget about Rafa quickly Sacked while 16th with Chelsea Then wasted £400million at Man Utd sounds the perfect man for a Sheikh investment. He still won things with both. Let's be honest Mickey mouse could win us a trophy and hed be a legend we are all craving us just winning something

I'd like to see what the odds are on relegation if takeover fails and Rafa leaves as I think I'll lob every penny I have on it

As much as Rafa is key atm I do agree with this. New owners could come in and appoint Mourinho he goes on to win the FA Cup or league people would forget about Rafa quickly

This will be an interesting day. The squad turn up no manager no coaches no one to start pre season This is the key date

No wins in our first ten games then gets sacked and fat man brings in Sherwood with Wise for the rest of the season. The team manage to scramble some points together but get relegated by a point or two. The process of rebuilding starts all over again in the championship. Ashley has 3 relegations to his name in just 12 years. This is scarily accurate

Without wanting to hit him in the face with a sledgehsmmer

If the takeover fails and Rafa leaves I'd be throwing in a transfer request if I was him

Stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. Absolutely shite writing, catering for the thickos. It's written terribly but the points that are brought up are what we all know Its says Rafa is gone and that hes too good for us, in virtually the first line. Its absolute tosh. Most of us are resigned to the likelihood he is gone and how our club has been ran and who oversees it all with his minions he is too good for all that bullshit and nonsense The fella deserves a professional ambitious setup not our shambles man

Stopped reading after the first couple of paragraphs. Absolutely shite writing, catering for the thickos. It's written terribly but the points that are brought up are what we all know