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BBC and Sky now saying he’s not going anywhere

A big bid will come in for Lascelles before the end of the window. A proper club wouldn't sell for less than £60m imo but I'd imagine Ashley will accept £30m and think he's won the daft fucking cunt. Nah. We may sell him (which is a disgrace) but it won’t be for £30m. We always seem to get decent fees, which makes our derisory offers the other way all the more infuriating. We'll see. Sissoko was obviously insane money at the time. For me you don't let Lascelles go for more than say Stones but I think Ashley has lost the plot myself. He'll take sub £40m for him imo. Carroll was insane money at the time (whether we should have sold or not is another debate, I still say we shouldn’t have sold him) as well. Imagine if we sold lascelles man? Jesus. It’s asking for relegation that.

A big bid will come in for Lascelles before the end of the window. A proper club wouldn't sell for less than £60m imo but I'd imagine Ashley will accept £30m and think he's won the daft fucking cunt. Nah. We may sell him (which is a disgrace) but it won’t be for £30m. We always seem to get decent fees, which makes our derisory offers the other way all the more infuriating.

Yep.

Rafa wanted to keep Thauvin didn't he? Wonder how he'd have turned out with the right manager Did he? That's news to me, my impression was that Thauvin didn't want to be here and pretty much made that obvious. Eh?

Think if all the journos stopped praising him eventhough he's s***, the fun will stop actually. What we need is just a couple of these high-profile pundits, especially those who are exposed to the media on a daily basis, to say he's s*** and one of his loyal supporter say he isn't. Get that debate rolling on forever and at least some people will understand how pathetic he is as a manager. But to be honest, his last two jobs have really hit his reputation bad. Fair enough at Palace, it was the winless run that caught up with him. But at West Brom, everything is falling apart. Taxi-gate, the Chris Brunt row, the handshake snub he had after substituting his best player and the cringe interview he had following up to that incident. Ultimately, a relegation on his CV would be the icing on the cake but won't be the end of him. It’ll be the second relegation on his cv at that.

give us 6

he worked for nufc, and was sacked by ashley for not toeing the party line, other than that, you're spot on. Like i say, I think I got him confused with someone else. I still think its rubbish mind. i agree on the story.

No he isn't. He's one of the better journos out there and hates Ashley and co. Can't remember that but I will take your word for it. Wonder if I'm getting him confused with another? Is Hope the one who used to blatantly come on here for stories? he used to post on here i think aye, cant remember his name though, others probably will. Hope called Mclaren out as well, can't see him toeing the ashley line, he was banned from the club for a while like luke edwards wasn't he?

he worked for nufc, and was sacked by ashley for not toeing the party line, other than that, you're spot on.

The publicity claim is laughable. Staveley is a deal maker, the worst publicity she could possibly have is failing to complete a deal.

and going to ....liverpool?

Shaw and ings linked again in the back pages of a few papers tomorrow

not a chance. we've proven time and time again we'll accept being shat on from a great height. we wont be forcing anyone out.

Both him and Nolan had no facts, just a clear desire to put Rafa down there. nolan was weirdly clueless about us.

I’m not surprised in the slightest Allardyce keeps getting work, off the back of the Sunderland and palace jobs especially. Pardew however.

also, if that was the case I cant think of worse publicity for a deal maker like her, she wouldn't be doing a deal and would be pissing someone about, how can that benefit her in any way?

nah. it'll have cost a fortune to get the process to this point. she could have just appointed a pr firm and saved a load of money.

CHRIST. Amazing isn’t it! It started something like ‘the top 6 in the premier league should be straight on to pulis, get him in as a defensive coach, he’s the best around at organising a defence. Man City or Liverpool should have him in’. Dowie said it, others agreed!

the morons on sky tonight were on about pulls and how man city and liverpool should be straight onto pulis to employ him as a defensive coach.

probably already posted but its the firm chris mort works for doing the legals for staveley.

There’s no way Barkley will come here, takeover or no takeover. He’ll have far better options.

agreed, it's totally barmy!

Not after what he said about Scottish Football! i've clearly missed that, maybe not then!