Ashley17

I’m not positive but it was only a few days ago Staveley said everyone was still involved. I don’t think they will be keen to lose face as what’s to stop other things they try to buy into kicking up a fuss? I’m deflated and less confident of it going ahead but I don’t think it’ll be because PIF walk away

Wasn’t that the guy who took a strop at Saudis buying us and not MUFC?

If it wasn’t for Mr Amanda’s tweet I’d be all up for speculating but if he reflects the mood in camp I don’t see how this can be a positive

Yet we’ve given the mole a new contract

I know people are sick of hearing it but Kennedy clearly has a source involved with all of this but unfortunately they don’t know if it’s going to go in our favour. Nobody does. We are relying on De Marco’s strategy to get this through the courts and that has been the case since about October. It’s all been about getting things in the public eye and a series of power plays will culminate this week it seems.

Thought he was brilliant in a three with Schar and Lascelles but two cruciate injuries had taken their toll. Was never going to recover form under this idiot so not surprised he’s gone

I hate Bruce as much as anybody and I'm sure he will be replaced once this goes through but assuming everybody stays and Willock comes back as seems likely we'll not go down. It won't be pretty but once we had our best players available and Jones had them in a formation that got the best out of them we looked relatively competent. As long as the takeover is approved it can be anytime in the next few months as far as I'm concerned, obviously the sooner the better but I don't think we're in a race against time particularly. Mind you if Jones left tomorrow I'd feel a lot less relaxed about it!

I think that's a well put, eloquent summary. Good post.

Maybe, I just find the constant fishing for a fight tedious. I expect it from some of the newer posters who I’m convinced only signed up to wind people up but Shearergol has been here as long as I can remember. Our prospective new owner has done an interview and the first thought is “who can I score points off?” It’s silly.

Maybe just think what you want and don’t try and stir up more shite in here?

All of this will have been orchestrated to ramp the pressure up at just the right time. There was no point doing any of this months before anything was due to happen. Whether it works or not is anybody’s guess but I somehow doubt this has been a spur of the moment thing

The Whatsapp groups only raise more questions for me. Has someone had to remove Tony Khan and add Delia Smith?

All of these people who have built profiles from claiming to know this or that and getting one thing right out of about 200 predictions will fade into obscurity. This place will pull itself out of the doldrums and return to the good old days where rival fans of the team we're playing in Europe turn up to spam us about how badly they're going to beat us rather than the current state of affairs. Real discussion might happen again about the lineup, transfers, good things the owners have done. Things fans of normal football clubs can discuss. Best of all, Keith and his tweets can be consigned to the Twitter nonsense thread.

Massive irony of Ashley asking for transparency on anything. I assume this is part of De Marco’s strategy, he certainly tweeted it before even Joey and Fanny could put a negative spin on it so he knew it was coming. If the PL’s answer is no then I guess they can push the “what is there to hide argument?” but who knows. The wait goes on.

What is the difference between something being 5pm in the public domain today and it being available on Friday?

Had to laugh at him the other day when Hope tweeted about Murphy’s new contract. He’d tweeted it last month and spent the rest of the day retweeting himself, he’s clearly unhinged

Gone from 1/10 to 4/6. Apparently interviewing Favre now too. If they’ve looked at the fan backlash I wouldn’t be surprised if they go for someone else

I get it in terms of his location but he’s been through all this at Chelsea, why put yourself through it again? Judging from Twitter and their forum he’s going to be on the back foot immediately, a bad start and it’ll be very difficult to win them around

Nothing to see here, just the normal every day photo of a barrier knocked over

Back on at 3/1 now behind Nuno

It’s just the tweets from the previous page, it’s no more cans now than it was then

Not a sighting but my wife wrote to the club and asked him to sign a birthday card for my 30th

Did you hear this from someone who is usually right?

It wouldn’t make sense on any level. I would be very surprised if he goes to a red listed country with his family in England, even if it’s a potentially short term problem

You'd imagine Warnock would love him at Boro