Unbelievable

We rule at this transfer business don't we?

£57m was to Sir John Hall, a working overdraft of some £36m i think, and £60m capital to keep the club running, then other liabiities. The Sir John Hall bit is true, the rest is open to debate, hence the 10 pages here That 57 mill was not to the Halls I don't think? It just came replayable when the Halls handed over their share in NUFC to somebody else (i.c. Ashley).

Not so. Our debt has doubled since June 2007. We are better off financially simply because of who we owe the debt to not because of the amount of the debt. See Everton for a current example of what I'm getting at. So, by your definition, what is the club's debt position atm?

Has the transfer window been extended just for us? How kind of FIFA!

It was a loan before he took over surely. Are you suggesting it was not on the balance sheet?

Our debts have quadrupled in 4 years. I'd say it's very arguable we're better off financially..

That just states he didn't know it was instantly repayable, as I argued, not that he didn't know the loan itself existed...

Are we in less debt now then we were before Genius?

Can you give me a source that specifically statez Ashley was unaware of any loans the club had when he purchased it. Find that very hard to believe.. Now, not reading the loan agreement smallprint stating it was instantly repayable I can imagine if you conclude a deal in such a short space of time, but not even checking its balance sheet!? Howay man.. He didn't do due diligence to find out what he was liable for, that was a stupid thing to do and as a business man he should have known better.

Is it true Ashley didn't know about the loan for the stadium extension as some seem to imply? It's always been my understanding he didn't know it was instantly repayable upon change of ownership, not that he wouldn't have known about it's very existence when he bought the club?

I'd be interested to know how our squad can be considered stronger than the one we had this time last year..?

How can you rate the transfer window a 6,5 when our squad is arguably weaker than it was a year ago and we have made a huge profit on transfers in that period?

We've acquired a good striker, we just needed another. Exactly, and the second striker only became our biggest priority after we secured a good fullback as well. Don't get me wrong, I wanted another striker, but it had to be one whose quality was way above the ones we've got. That always made it harder to achieve, especially under the frugal spending limits we've set ourselves. You said yourself a couple of weeks ago it would be an absolute shambles if we didn't get in another striker now... Do you want me to refresh your memory?

you should always look to improve in all positions, however, to me, with ba and bent, strikers weren't the most important position to stregthen. with merveaux and ben arfa i'd like to think we wont be playing 4-4-2 or 4-4-1-1. You think we have Bent playing for us..? It's not Darren Bent, it's fucking Leon Best.. No wonder you didn't think we needed another striker..

Evertonesque

Us in panic mode?

Give it a rest man. It's f***ing pathetic isn't it

Maybe because it's the capital? Maybe because we offered him a Mars bar..?

Just FO will you..?

Nu.nl is very reliable. Article says Twente chairman has confirmed it. Looks like this is a no-goer lads..

Reload the last save game and offer a higher wage ffs..

Rejected in favour of fucking Fulham..? Ouch!

Off topic, but my Twente supporting brother in law reckons their club have a pretty juicy selling on fee for Tiote. He was all excited when it was rumoured the likes of Chelsea and Arsenal were interested.