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Easy to see why he makes a difference IMO. He works hard to win the ball and moves it forwards quickly, he almost never goes backwards.

I don't think you can depend on one player to score goals. When he's not playing it's still the same story. Ritchie, Shelvey and Atsu need to be chipping in with more as well. Its not about depending on one player, we don't often create a lot of chances but today we did create quite a few, he was the striker up front today and should have capitalised on those chances.

He should absolutely have scored man, not probably.

Basically had Gayle not been a total donkey we'd have walked that game.

Ref apparently thinks Joselu's neck is his hand..

Joselu DEADLY!

Fuck me Gayle thats a bit of a sitter..

No option to buy and we pay loads of his wages eh? All for the privileged of not having him as a option in the squad, well where do we sign?

Ashley likes this logic He must be joking like

Problem is Hernandez record this season is shite, no better than Gayle's. Obviously we've got to trust Benitez if that's what he wanted to do but I'd be worried personally that Hernandez would offer us little more than we already have. Plus we'd have lost the option of Shelvey in tight games.

Fucking bring it!!! Tottenham with their mental season ticket prices and bigger branding. All we will have is player trading. Get players to play well and sell them on. Nothing different to what Ashley had been trying to do for a decade. We won’t try and build something like a successful football team, just a profitable one. Sorry, I should have realised that you know everything about everything and can see into the future. Your boring and uneducated posts are getting a bit tedious now, you don’t know any of that for certain but bang on like you have a clue. My uneducated guess will be closer to the truth than you care to admit. It’s why you are spitting the dummy, deep down you know I’ll be right. Unfortunately. But please, continue to act like a twat when an opinion doesn’t match up to your own. You're throwing around guesses based on fuck all and stating them as fact, you deserve any shit you get to be honest.

We were getting parachute payments in the Championship so the increase won't be that much. Revenue will certainly be up significantly though, then again the wage bill will also have increased (surely players will have had wage increases in their contracts). Also if you sell a club on the basis its in the Premier League you can't then increase your asking price when you get the inevitable payment from being in that league. Well I mean logically, obviously Ashley logic may be different.

I doubt that Ashley is pitching the club as "A Premier League side that possibly might go down this season". So improving our chances of survival shouldn't change his asking price at all.

You'd have thought investment firms like this would do their homework on how Football works... They've paid £110m for a 60% share of the club, and they seem to believe they can make a profit by selling players and doing nothing to stop relegation. But of the £97m revenue 82% is from Premier League TV money and sponsorship/gate receipts would also drop from relegation. Its reasonable to assume that income would drop to about 10% of its current level after a couple of years in the Football league. The clubs value would drop similarly. They just aren't going to make a profit by leeching from the club as it drops into the Championship.

If Ashley is preventing pre-takeover investment against the wishes of potential new owners there just won't be a takeover at all.

Nah silly lad should have scored better, don't care if its a goal unless its clean as fuck, has to be unstoppable quite frankly or it doesn't count IMO.

IMO its a silly fee for a lad who has scored a goal every 4 games for the last one and a half seasons and barely plays at all for a side 3 points above us. Then again why would Watford want to sell to a club 3 points below them for a reasonable fee? Better just to spend that money elsewhere if we have it anyway.

Who's the other seven pawns in Ashley's global Machiavellian chess game?

Strange aint it https://mobile.twitter.com/TomBenbow/status/948989917450899456/photo/1 doesnt that mean its 1065 millions... thats how i read it as the column is in £m as it states above so they actually have £106,500,000 Aye these kind of financial reports are always in millions, so net assets are actually £1,065,800,000. They seem to have fuck all reserve cash.

Worst name on earth, next.

Once his confidence is up he's got a great ability to beat players. Just need to get him in that mood more often.

Stoke the worst home side I can remember seeing in this league. Basically everything went there way decision wise and they still couldn't do anything.

Just saying that's what people are thinking. The only thing that seems certain is that unless we get a takeover in time we won't be spending more money than we bring in from sales, its always been that way under this cunt. We also need a decent striker more than we'd need a replacement for Shelvey.

Because people think it may be the only way we can buy and he's been shite.

Might as well try something different, our last performance was Footballing AIDS.