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When he firtst cvame he did spend, barton, smith, coloccini, I'd like to see us spend on players to benefit the team (buy some players at their value rather than just a "we can sell them for more" attitude). What's your alternative beyond sell us to a sheikh ? He signed Coloccini in the same summer he sold Milner and signed Xisco/Nacho. Fancy trying again, do another post that adds up? It's quite easy to debate he had nothing to do whatsoever with the names but just supplied the funds when necessary at a time when he misplaced his trust in some absolute cretins.

I give up, some people are so dense

You're a 'f***cking tool' for not entertaining the significance of Mike Ashley doing a media interview with Sky Sports, regardless of what was said.

Why does the thread title say he's sacked when he hasn't been? Not renewing a contract and being sacked are two different things.

How can you sack that, which has no contract?

Well, he's self-admittedly completely clueless about football and running a football club. For him to want to defer to people who should know better is not that bad. The problem is he hasn't surrounded him with a host of good football people.

Actually choking back tears, Jonas man.

You don't for one moment give any of the s*** he spouted credence, please tell me you don't... I know better than most the history Mike Ashley has with this club having written an article for themag.co.uk about how he has completely taken us to the cleaners. What cannot be denied is that: a) He's emotional and is easily persuaded by those around him that he trusts b) He cares more for his brand (SD) than he does for the club c) Initially he wanted to do it the 'right' way - bring in Keegan, bring in Shearer, spend some money d) After the relegation following the tribunal findings, he's had it in for the club and the fans and has milked us for every penny He has NEVER come out and spoken to the fans directly, this is a change in approach and character. What I said was that this COULD be an indication in change of his overall approach to the running of this club, or simply a new tactic to string people along further. People shouldn't disregard this interview out of hand, it's completely unprecedented by Mike Ashley's standards and it's new ground we're on now, where he's actually opened a dialogue with the fans directly via the media. So either he's decided we've 'served our punishment' post-Keegangate tribunal, or that the old cloak and dagger is not working as the AO.com is gaining more support than the dimwits who lap up the Sports Direct FC that has been servered up for the past 8 years and is changing his strategy of attack. I'd LIKEto think it's the former, nothing wrong with that.

I'd like to think that maybe he's seen the light. AO.com seems to have had the desired effect at any rate and he has responded. Whether he's on his way, or decides to go back to how he was when he first joined and want us to do well I don't really mind. If it's a genuine change of pace and he wants us to do well again, can we wish for worse than a English billionaire? If it's a new tactic, and same old s***, fair enough. But if we stay up and we do invest in the summer and we do try to hire a good manager then lets see how it goes. If not, all bets are off and the knives will be sharpened.

Keegan/Shearer-led consortium..

Not emphasis on the second syllable then; Ca-BE-lla? Like Mon-TE-lla for example? That's the English pronunciation of the word. French : CabellAH Spanish: Cab-ey-yah Itallian: CAH-bella English: Ca-BELL-ah Kinnear: Cableguy

JC..

If he was ever going to score a goal, it was that goal. Falls over, mishits it with his right into his left, then flukes it over the keeper with the ricochet.

Lineup:

You just know it is going to happen. I want to see Williamson up front. See how he likes receiving 800 long balls a game and not being able to just head it back the way it came. I want him to cry and beg to be subbed. Then I want to see HBA watching this on TV and seeing a grin start to form on his face. Then the centre circle falls away to become a cavernous entrance to hell and he starts to melt into the hole, screaming, as thousands of footballs are cannoned into his degenerating body at 100s of miles an hour, kicked by (more) evil clones of himself. The centre circle goes back to normal and Carver brings Armstrong on for the last 9 minutes and tells everyone not to pass to him.

Would have been good to see, but we were so much better in every department at that time - a player like Perez wouldn't have got in front of Al or Bellamy. It was pretty rare to actually see them play too many games together due to them being complete crocks for a lot of the time iirc

In De Jong's cameo the other game I thought straight away we had a player who can actually get into the box from midfield. Looking forward to see him play.

After his first season, especially playing in THIS team, I'd say he's probably one of the brightest prospects, if not THE brightest prospect we've ever signed in the PL era. Imagine him in SBR's team.

Anita couldn't have done too much more than he has either tbh.

We've actually looked reasonably effective, completely different to the past 10-15 games.

An aberration of editing though.

Found this old PNG I made lol The lengths I had to go to back then to convince people (Ian? ) that Mike Ashley was bad for our club.

I just thought he was in Axel's sig.

Still trying to work out what the angle is with Steve Davis being in this one