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You are wrong. You can't just buy a team to get promoted and then buy a whole new team to stay up because the current lot aren't good enough. You have to assess players on whether they have a long term future in the top division. We have a group of players who are clearly not good enough for the top flight, correct? In that case, most of them, must leave for players who are good enough to get us back into the top flight i.e the best the championship has to offer. If there are players of premiership quality who want to play us then fine, but i suspect there are not many. There's nothing wrong with speculating as to which of our squad could cut it in the premierleague but i'm saying that it's a more worthwhile topic when we are promoted. So you would prefer us to be like West Brom of last season and not the West Ham, Manchester City or NUFC teams that last got promoted? Forgive me if I find that impossible to understand. None of them sides consisted of good premiership players, some of them simply had good first seasons in the premier league and invested heavily. West Ham for example nearly got relegated the season after, with the same players. Who ever mentioned being like West Brom? They never invested, when the got promoted. I'm saying that we should invest in premiership players when/if we get promoted in order to stay in the league. Not spending money we don't have, on premiership players who won't come to us. How many Chamionship clubs do you see signing "a pile" of premiership players?

You are wrong. You can't just buy a team to get promoted and then buy a whole new team to stay up because the current lot aren't good enough. You have to assess players on whether they have a long term future in the top division. Agree. We could go buy a pile of championship players, but what do you do when you get promoted? It's not a when though, it's an IF. Noones saying to go out and buy "a pile" of championship players but realistically most of the players in promoted sides are not good enough for the premiership anyway.

You are wrong. You can't just buy a team to get promoted and then buy a whole new team to stay up because the current lot aren't good enough. You have to assess players on whether they have a long term future in the top division. We have a group of players who are clearly not good enough for the top flight, correct? In that case, most of them, must leave for players who are good enough to get us back into the top flight i.e the best the championship has to offer. If there are players of premiership quality who want to play us then fine, but i suspect there are not many. There's nothing wrong with speculating as to which of our squad could cut it in the premierleague but i'm saying that it's a more worthwhile topic when we are promoted.

Irrelevant anyway really, we are a championship club and need to start thinking like one. If we start to think we are better than the rest of the teams in this league, i think we will get a nasty shock. IF we sign Beckford and he scores 25 goals in the chamionship and we get promoted.... then we can start thinking about how they would perform in the premierleague. Before that point i think we should remind ourselves of where we are.

Is "data room" some sort of technical jargon for a computer room? Seems a strange phrase, why can't he just say, "they are allowed to look at the books"? I know, i know because he's a cretin.

Anyone want to have a guess at the next country to be linked with a takeover. I'll go for Russian.

As you well know Dave, they deliberately write different things so they have different stories. When they do things like this it normally indicates that they haven't got alot to write about at the moment. You will notice when there is "real" news that they start writing the same things again.

Tripe, tbh. Can you say 'dividends'? I know Freddy could. He could also say stuff like... I didn't want to be known as the man who shot Bambi. Newcastle girls are all dogs. England is full of them. You should only say good things when somebody leaves. Robert has gone - good! When we have got 52,000 fans at each home game, the last thing we are worried about is clubs in the third division." Yep all of that and he is still FAR better than Mike Ashley.

The truth of the matter is that we all want Ashley gone, regardless of who comes in. Unless we are the unluckiest club on the planet, we are bound to get someone in charge who has more brains than the current crop. Then we are trying to decide between people who we know nothing about (if in fact their interest is actually true) and someone who we know everything about (freddy) who is about as popular as a sloppy shit. Right now i'm settling for the club being sold, i will critisise and compliment the new regime accordingly. If they have the money and have the correct desire, then that's a start.

If any potential buyer has even thought about the idea of a stadium expansion i will be flabbergasted. It does not make any sense that within two weeks of thought, anyone would be even thinking along these lines. It's for this reason that i am dismissing this as speculation from the chronicle. They must be struggling for stories, i thought that yesterday with the "chronicle gets behind Shearer" bollocks.

Can't believe people are buying this, why would something remotely positive happen to this club? Personally, i think we will be bought by some like Ken Bates or Freddy will return. Sad really because even those two are better than Ashley.

Don't believe a word of it. *please be true*

Don't trust anything these days but i did sense honesty in his words. I think he knows he'd look a right prat if he lied, then again he will have learned off the master. When he says "not just interest from abroad", i can't help feeling that he's reffering to Freddy.

After this shit, i'd take Shepard back. Not because i like him but because he's a step up.

Wigan and Dave Whelan showing more intelligence than Ashley and Co... again. As someone said Martinez could be an upgrade for Wigan, with a profit.

He has had too many chances and earns too much money.

Someone will take Owen on a pay-as-you-play basis, i'd imagine, he's still got enough of a reputation to get that at the very least. Pay as you play are a thing of fiction, it will never happen. Especially when you consider that Owen will have well paid agents looking for their share. I think he'd prefer a wage cut than take that sort of deal. As for Martins, if those clubs are interested in him then all that matters is £££. Sell him to the highest bidder, regardless of the debate of how talented he is. If we get more than 6m, then this club will benefit massively from his departure.

I think it's a case of Shearer "hanging around" to see what happens with regards to takeovers and the future of the club. If the club don't make a quick sale then i think Shearer will be appointed on a low contract.

I seriously doubt anyone's in Dubai.

Anyone think that Ashley may have made that statement on saturday knowing full well that there are interested parties? Seems the most likely scenario to me. It's more likely that their interest has has made him want to make a sharp exit.

Why can't we get the bloke with the biggest yacht; it's always second-best for us... We will. He's obviously buying the club to set St. James' Park afloat. Then he'll notice he bought a club with Nicky Butt being the main engine in midfield. Yes but without a manager we are ruderless. We have also just sank into the second tier of english football.

Lita is a great shout. Always thought he's a canny player.

David Craig..."my sources inform me" That one often does it for me. Or when Alan Oliver had his "finger on the pulse".

There's two things wrong with your statement. Firstly, David Craig is NEVER on any ball. Secondly, this is very probably all bullshit.

Why can't we get the bloke with the biggest yacht; it's always second-best for us... Abrahmovich already has a club.