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I know it sounds bad but hopefully it's in our favour. Our poor form means that Ashley will be losing money by the day, he can either decide to cut his losses ASAP and recoup as much money as possible, or he can accept his fate and own us as a championship club for at least a few more years...

Some good words, I like this kid. Seems to be less forced than it was initially, I reckon he's slowly becoming a proper captain like.

You have to think that Rafa is looking at who we're playing and trying to intelligently make the team up as some kind of matchup, whilst also rotating the players. I'm not saying it's right, but really, the one thing we know Rafa isn't is scattergun. I think it's to the detriment of the team though, someone needs to play themselves into some form. Some partnerships need to be ground out.

Thought he made our defence look a lot more steady, instantly. I know Everton are shite but still, we've been making shite teams look like Barcelona for weeks.

Was that a yellow? Seemed fucking harsh. Hard to care though.

Where is the team of the first half? Confidence in absolute tatters, don’t know how to apply pressure, despite having done it for the entire first half. Maddening.

Get in

if a star arrived in the city wed all be burnt to a crisp

Do actually feel a bit better after reading that. Crucial that we get something tonight though. Aye, Thanks Ed.

Pretty much how I see it.

Not playing against Huddersfield. What's going on here? Rested? FFS

Corbyn's in for us!

There's been two or three weak attempts at puns and they haven't taken off so far. God willing it stays that way. Needless pun jab. That's choice.

He's mates with both of them Fucking hell. Does no one read?

Despite the ridicuous nature of the article, it sounds fucking great. A pissed up Desmond punching the air as they left has me tentatively excited. Could be back on like...Ashley loves a deal over food or drink.

"This is a list of mains the pair would have chosen from" :lol:

Something, ANYTHING!

:lol: That is so fucking Pardew

Seen the quotes. The man has a disease Bring them in

Aye, I thought that was a great one personally.

'arry, can you not tell by the bag?

There was an informative if not particularly decisive article by some football analyst who use the sale of Southampton as one of the several barometers by which he valued our club. If you were to use them, though, I'd say an offer of 250-300m seems to be where we should be looking, although with the threat of HMRC and Relegation, I'd not be surprised if a bidder might be offering less than that. I think it would be a fairly reasonable stance as well. Fuck knows if Southampton were value for money though .

This. Entitlement is not the right word mind Agree, but I’m feeling lazy. The general point is right — they owe us nothing and their offers are not indicative of anything that would happen if they did own us in the future. This is a business transaction. Here, it's the right word for what I'm trying to say... I feel like statements like: Are pretty entitled, like they owe us something. Entitlement is feeling like you have a 'right' to something or that you are owed, right? Seems the right word to me. Ashley, in buying a club of our stature, owes us (the fans, the city, the region) a competitively run club. His time here has, in terms of progress made, been a disaster. A takeover from someone willing to run the club in the right way would be a corrective to the penny-pinching, corrosive, and at times downright offensive (changing the name of the stadium, the huge SD advert on the Gallowgate roof, etc.) way the club has been run in recent years. We *are* owed more than we're getting - for the continued level of support under his manky stewardship if nothing else. Aye fair enough, totally irrelevant seen as we're discussing PCP and what they owe us...which is obviously the sum total of fuck all. In what way can a failed bid do us more harm than good? If there are other people willing to buy us, they'll buy us. In all other situations, Mike Ashley still controls the club and he still doesn't give us money to spend in Jan. PCP owe us nothing they can take as long as they like. Should they just spunk an extra 50 million over the odds, to Mike Ashley of all people, because a business they have no investment in might go under/get relegated? I hope we get sold in time for the transfer window too, it's just not their fault their valuation of the club is different to Ashley's.

This. Entitlement is not the right word mind Agree, but I’m feeling lazy. The general point is right — they owe us nothing and their offers are not indicative of anything that would happen if they did own us in the future. This is a business transaction. Here, it's the right word for what I'm trying to say... I feel like statements like: Are pretty entitled, like they owe us something. Entitlement is feeling like you have a 'right' to something or that you are owed, right? Seems the right word to me.

There's a canny amount of entitlement in this tread. Why should they just stump up another 50m if they don't think it's worth it? What if the investment group don't want to invest that extra vast amount of money in the club due to the fact we've a decent chance of getting relegated? Until they buy the club, they don't owe us anything and they have no responsibility. Ashley, as ever, is the person in the position to fuck us over.