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Nor is Pardew a fucking Premier League manager! I think the two may be correlated. Somehow. Maybe.

Because he would be unwilling to work with the caveat that he's not allowed to question anything Mike Ashley says or does. He has: (1) A spine (2) A vision for development (3) Integrity (4) An understanding of the need to spend money All 4 things can't be achieved with Ashley in charge, and he will only appoint a yes man. This, in a nutshell, is why we hired Pardew, why we still have Pardew and why we will continue to have Pardew as long as he can keep us ticking over in the league.

I'd rather keep the money.

As a pretty much lifelong Londoner this is a really interesting conversation. I think London can be daunting, overwhelming and downright hostile when you don't know too many people down here and you come down on a "solo" venture, like working without having a contacts base. If you go to university or school here, or start a graduate job with others at the same time - just anything where you have people to talk to and spend time with - then London is a fantastic place where you can create so many good memories. It's an incredible city for music, film, art, literature and theatre; it's a brilliant place if you are interested in history and architecture just by walking around, it's got a world-class intellectual reputation and a beautify university quarter; it's one of the best places in the world for any kind of dining, but especially market food; and it's one of the greatest places on earth to get pissed in. And that's not mentioning things like the beautiful parks, the absolute mega range of people you might meet and places/cultures you might learn about or things you might try. But at the same time, the weather is just grim, for every lovely place there is an absolute dive just round the corner, there are far, far too many people, there are on obscene amount of pretentious people, hostile people, rude people, arrogant people and ignorant people. Lots of public infrastructure doesn't work and it's just expected as standard, especially parts of the tube which don't run sometimes for no reason and roadworks never end. Everything is stupidly expensive, especially rent which is obscene and council tax. It's really difficult to find a quiet moment for yourself or hear yourself think sometimes, and getting anywhere takes forever. On balance it isn't in my top 5 cities, but it's in my top ten. I don't think you can just say "it's shit", I think you've got to be fairly oblivious not to be able to find something to your taste in London.

100% true.

I've seen him play in Lyon's stadium once. I commented at the time that he was similar to Shola Ameobi but just better at the good parts of Shola (finishing, strength, control and occasional skill) and not as bad at the donkey parts of Shola (horrendous touch, shinning, running slower than a Soviet tank exhibition parade).

Promote this man to hyperbole detective

Riiiight. They're the hilarious ones. What are you rolling your eyes at then, Ralph Wiggum? You I got that part, cheers. So why did you ask? Was it just so you could insult Neesy for rightfully being tired of your repetitive patter? Neesy's a big lad. I'm sure he can talk for himself. Best stop now before I run into trouble with the hyperbole police.

Riiiight. They're the hilarious ones. What are you rolling your eyes at then, Ralph Wiggum? You I got that part, cheers. So why did you ask? Was it just so you could insult Neesy for rightfully being tired of your repetitive patter?

Riiiight. They're the hilarious ones. What are you rolling your eyes at then, Ralph Wiggum? You

People who think we are going to sign him are hilarious.

Or self-flatteringly moralistic for a bunch of people you don't know? Either way, I don't care. Ashley sucks, wahey.

Sigh

It's really not massively relevant to the plot

If you've seen the new Wolverine, that bit where he discovers the insect attached to his heart sapping his healing powers was the perfect reflection of what it feels like having him as owner. If he doesn't die within a decade social Darwinism has failed me.

Nixon on FB seems to think this is happening

I rate Brendan Rodgers as a manager.

Perish the thought we'd be doing something constructive to actively strengthen the squad. Let's just posture and play the game out. Not a pop at you btw. As Dave pointed out earlier, when his investment is in peril we are able to pull of five signings inside a week. Yet, despite all the bravado in early summer, here we are again on the eve of the start of our Premiership campaign with not a first team signing in sight trying to be clever to get the best possible deal financially. At best it is incompetence, at worst it is gross negligence. My fear is it's the latter. It's a completely deliberate financial ploy by the chairman to make as much with as little as he possibly can; so you're wrong.

It would be even mildly bearable if we did a 'moneyball' and actually searched for and signed lots of undervalued players based on overrated/ill-conceived notions. But it's just a gluttonous millionaire, with not an ounce of respect/feeling for the club/region, who wants as much as he can for as little as he can plausibly put in. I don't get how people can bat on about 'not getting ripped off', 'balancing the books' and being financially sound! It's for fuck all to do with a well thought-out economic model; it's a man who makes money by spending little, hoping to squeeze everything out of what he has, and then selling as soon as the most profit available at that point in time is available. We're just a business for the profit of Mike Ashley and whoever else invested/knows him and got a job. To think otherwise is ignorance on a level befitting Kinnear the Oxford Collins.

In the meantime, we#ll play th eopening 3/4 fixtures of the season with Shola Ameobi netting 0 goals and 2 injuries, giving a 6-12 point headstart to other teams. If anyone's surprised they only have themselves to blame.

Because they're skint

There is a problem: Joe Kinnear. Think of transfer activity as a clean pair of y-fronts and think of him as the skidmark which prevents you feeling free to take your trousers off.

That would require a level of intelligence he doesn't have.

Grand. We're still shit and haven't signed anybody, have social plankton running the club, a sub-par manager and a strikeforce consisting of this guy (I don't count Shola as a player) and a parasitic owner who has as much respect for this club as I do simultaneously for religion and Wonga's business principles. Fuck off.