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They'll be employing E&Y transactions team right up to completion, nowt strange in that one

Quill Pens Rule

Personally I blame Phil Neville for costing us the league. If he hadn't crippled Gillespie at OT I'm 100% convinced that we would have gathered at least naother 6 points that season

Is he going to be asked to crash into the hoardings?

i've always quite liked their home strip. They once had a great number 9 (going back to the mid 90s). Not sure where his career went after he left them. Did Trevor Sinclair still play for them when he scored his overhead kick from outside the box (FA Cup I think), or had he moved on by then? Aye think it was for them in the championship. Just checked Wiki - 1997 FA Cup vs Barnsley

My Granda worked with Jackie Milburn

i've always quite liked their home strip. They once had a great number 9 (going back to the mid 90s). Not sure where his career went after he left them. Did Trevor Sinclair still play for them when he scored his overhead kick from outside the box (FA Cup I think), or had he moved on by then?

Didn't David Kelly get sent off in that game?

Its definitely STalyor. He's got a distinctive 'crouching picture' pose

To put another spin on it, my boss has been made redundant but has brought up a number of grievances. Most of these are wrong, a FACT I know as he has quoted me in them and what he is saying is at best a grossly warped view of events and at worst complete lies. He will end up getting a settlement higher than he should - it should be basic redundancy but he'll walk away with about £20k on top. Doen't mean he is right and the company wrong This one? If so you should present this as proof he's a congenital liar. Nope, he got given the heave ho last summer! Last man standing here now

The Goomba Goal Machine will hit double figures

To put another spin on it, my boss has been made redundant but has brought up a number of grievances. Most of these are wrong, a FACT I know as he has quoted me in them and what he is saying is at best a grossly warped view of events and at worst complete lies. He will end up getting a settlement higher than he should - it should be basic redundancy but he'll walk away with about £20k on top. Doen't mean he is right and the company wrong

I want both, promotion and then European Football to look forward to next season. Lovely.

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Its a non starter as within 5 years the 'top 4' will be in a European Super League (4 quarters a game, rolling subs, 100 sponsors per shirt, limitless budgets,topless cheerleaders (hopefully) - basically commercialised shite - and the rest of the country can get on with having a competitive league again

In reality nothing much has changed, Ashley is still asking more for the club than anyone is willing to pay when you take the debt into account. Or perhaps there are people willing to pay what he's asking, but the stumbling block is Barclays and the overdraft. It seems quite a reasonable conclusion to draw that Mort et al can meet the asking price, but are reticent to have to pay off an extra £25m to reduce the overdraft down to Barclays's standard £10m for a Championship club. That money could represent all and more of what they had put aside for transfers and I'd have thought they'd have been very wary indeed of the public reaction should they take over and then have nothing to spend on bringing new players in. Given the general mood of the fans, I'd suggest that any takeover without the means to significantly improve the playing staff would be doomed from the start as the fans simply wouldn't accept it, rightly or wrongly. The overdraft is still a debt, Barclays aren't obliged to loan money to anyone so they have every right to be a stumbling block if Moat or any other buyer is relying on their money to buy the club. Your point? How many times do you want me to make it? So you're trying to say that the actions of Barclays bank are Ashley's responsibility? If you buy a business then you take on its debts as well as its assets, anyone with a brain knows this. It's hardly Ashley's fault that the person who wants to buy his business and with whom he has agreed a price is struggling to prove that he can run it once it's his. Moat would have been aware of the level of the overdraft having done due diligence and it doesn't appear to be a secret that Barclays's standard overdraft for a Championship club is £10m, yet he seems to not have made allowances for that, perhaps he assumed that "We're Newcastle Utd "Big Club"TM, that won't apply to us!". Whatever he thought, it's not Ashley's fault, yet despite that he seems to have done what he can to resolve the issue, firstly by reducing the overdraft and secondly seemingly negotiating a deal with Barclays to let us keep it at £25m, which is two and a half times the amount that they would give to any other club in the same division. It seems to me that if anyone should be getting shit over this it's Moat (just realised I called him Mort before ), but don't let that stop you from believing Ashley is the root of all evil. My calf is hurting today for no apparent reason, perhaps that is Mike Ashley's fault and all, the bastard!!! You don't HAVE to acquire the liabilities of a business when you buy it. Depends on how the sale is structured

Lua Lua - Guthrie - Smith - Jonas Thats the way forward, Luax2 is never going to get the chance to prove himself sitting on the bench, he's got pace and can't be any worse than Barton or Nolan in that position. Stick Lovelyhands and one of Carroll/Shola/Ranger up top and the goals for column will markedly increase

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This is like bloody Nostradamus. Or the X-Files. I hope the smoking man's in this one.

Hang on, over the course of this evening he's been compared to Shola and Carroll, and now he's the new Martins.

If UEFA push this through all that will happen is the likes of Real Madrid and Man U will form a breakaway Super League outside of UEFA's family. Games will have 4 quarters, the pitch will be full of sponsorship painted on it and music will be blaring after every goal. Time outs will be allowed, along with rolling substitutes. I can't wait personally, get rid of the monsters and let the rest of us get back to enjoying football with all of its flaws

23k Great effort that. I think its the highest of the round. Nah, its a disgrace that 29k stayed a home. Best fans in the world yadda yadda

They're in £500 million pounds of debt. Aye and it shows on the pitch like Well i'm not too good on finance but surely being in that much debt cannot be sustainable. IUt can if your income is high enough, which Manures is. They'll have to refinance it in about two years. There's no way they can pay back the interest + principal on the 14% shit they've got. It'll be an interest only agreement. Principle will only be settled on sale of the club. It's like printing money for the bank, guaranteed income for as long as the loan exists. The perfect win win for bank and owner

What's in it for the Yanks/Canadian's though? Non-stop sex with Cheryl Cole.

I think Redheugh is bridging the divide between the club and the fans right now.