Parky

I'm probably being too cynical (one wonders why), but if there is interest they should be looking to make a bid much less than the asking price. A serious bidder at 100m would have purchased the club by now, it shouldn't take accountants and lawyers more than a week to get transparency. This gives rise to concerns regarding the state of the club financially or the actual intent of MA behind announcing the sale as it may be just a ruse not to put any money in and also sidestep responsibility for ongoing issues. Rational thinking suggests that if there are some 'interested parties' they realise they hold all the cards as they can just sit back till things get worse and pay even less. If I was buying the club I'd wait a few more weeks.

Even 100m is cloud cuckoo land. Is it though? if thats true he would have had no interest at all. You have the ans.

Even 100m is cloud cuckoo land.

It isn't.

Agreed. A new low?

We're going to get mullared for the first half a dozen games, every side against us will be totally up for it and our lot will still be arguing amongst themselves/feeling sorry/looking for a move.

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I'm trying to think what can be worse than that cause that's what will happen.

I doubt they are interested as neither have been at SJP for about 3 weeks.

Which way we going Are we saying defcon 5 (peacetime) is when we are at peace because we are sold or are we saying that nothing is happening I propose DefCon 5 - We are sold 4 - Official bids for the club have been made, and shearer has been installed as manager 3 - Still speculation on the takeover, no word on manager 2 - Bidders put off by terms on the table, Shearer declares himself out of the running 1 - Ashley still in charge, Hughton caretaker manager Whatdya reckon parky? The other way round. 4. Fictitious bidders and perhaps FFS looked at summink in some room somewhere, before running for the hills. 5. Ashley stays till the receivers are called. We are all I'm sure praying for some kind of lucky break.

Threat title should be changed. Defcon 4?

Utter bollocks. mate, we know you disaprove of the ashley regime, we know its been a disaster, we know you prefer freddy. you dont have to just be negative all the time you know, you're becoming a bit of a pantomime figure now, NE5 did it so much better. False hopes Newspaper reports in recent days had led to renewed optimism that the SJP log jam was set to clear and new owners would be announced - along with a permanent managerial appointment. However we're now given to understand that talk of an early conclusion to the sale is premature and that the claims of Alan Shearer meeting Ashley etc. are false. As things stand, pre-season training will begin next Wednesday with Chris Hughton at the helm. And as to who will be deciding which players are present - your guess is as good as ours... From .com

Utter bollocks. mate, we know you disaprove of the ashley regime, we know its been a disaster, we know you prefer freddy. you dont have to just be negative all the time you know, you're becoming a bit of a pantomime figure now, NE5 did it so much better. I love a bit of panto.

He won't be here come Sept. [Threadclosed\]

Utter bollocks.

Yeah but that wouldn't fit with Parky's agenda of having a bloody argument about anything no matter how irrelevant his stance is. See what you have to say when the next sale deadline passes ringo. IMO 100m is too high and it seriously hampers the sale. He's got people biting at 100 million. The final sale could be 100m it maybe less. But so f***ing what, as long as the club is selling. The first day we've had some remotely positive vibes in weeks and you are pratittling on about how the club's not worth 100 million, you're a f***ing loon. Again who the hell cares ? Lets just hope we get some good news by the end of the month, worry more about that than whether you are proved right that the club is not worth 100mill. thats wrong, things arent worth what people are willing to pay for them. case and point stock market. one day a stock of a company could be 100 dollars. the next day with the company absolutely nothing changed, the stock price could be 60 because of stupid investors. The companies true value does not change at all, only peoples perception. the key is to be able to estimate or know the true value of something, then you can know whether the market price is high or low. its called value investing. Again who gives a shit ? All I care about and so should you is that we get this ownership crap sorted out before the end of the month. I couldn't give a monkeys how much Ashley makes off the sale. Ha ha afaroffthebeatentrack reckons it'll be sorted by the end of the month.

Why? He's not exactly loaded (relatively speaking). I feel it in da bones Dave. In a weird way fatty loves the club.

It's got to be FFS in the driving seat on this.

FYP for the accepted wisdom of 2007 I agree though, it's a different situation now, we're pretty much guaranteed to lose £30-£50m this coming year IMO, with a very low chance of bouncing straight back up without substantial investment next year on top of what would be paid to Ashley. There are 2 options for the coming season as I see it, whoever the owner is : 1) Maintain the majority of the current squad and hope that though they are inadequate for the PL they are still good enough to do well in the Championship. This gives some chance of promotion (50/50 maybe), but is high risk financially as it's costly not only next season, but for several seasons after if we don't get promoted. 2) Decimate the squad and replace with cheaper players. Will still be an expensive season (with the paying up of contracts, loyalty bonuses, paying part of loanee's wages, etc) and will have absolutely no chance of promotion (the disruption could easily be so severe we might see another relegation, I think it would be touch and go). This is high risk for the success of the club, but lower financial risk. If I was looking at buying a club as a toy or a status symbol, I wouldn't care less about the ground or it's potential support in the region, and I'd just buy a ready made Premiership club, and spend money on the team to expand it's global popularity. If I was looking at buying a club as an investment, there's no way I'd buy NUFC now unless it was going for peanuts. I'd wait for at least another year, probably 2, until the outgoings from wages had stabilised, taking the risk that we wont be promoted (and thus miss my chance to buy cheaply) and that no other mug will buy it off Ashley in this mess. Just let Ashley absorb the losses for the next couple of years, then when the average crowd is down to around 30k and everyone hates Ashley even more than they do now, buy the club for under £50m all-in if we're still in the Championship, or even less if we've gone down to League 1. The last para summarises my argument. The only quick sale I can see is if it is a money object buyer.

Yeah but that wouldn't fit with Parky's agenda of having a bloody argument about anything no matter how irrelevant his stance is. See what you have to say when the next sale deadline passes ringo. IMO 100m is too high and it seriously hampers the sale.

Well quite. It would be the default plan for any buyer, but market factors are very strained now with high player wages and excessive cost to attract talent. Without serious mind bending money, we might have to settle in for a 3 yr return plan of some kind.

But if you are buying the club you would only do so in the expectation that you can deliver success on the pitch - hard as it is to believe I think even Ashley assumed that he would get there eventually. To have the infrastructure already in place for a successful club is a big plus. I didn't say it did. Read my post - I said if you buy the club you would do so expecting to deliver success on the pitch. And to have the stadium already in place when that success occurs is a big plus. A lot of football clubs have stadiums in place. Who knew?! Really can't be arsed Yes it's an asset. But means little without owners prepared to buy for 100m and then invest another 100m as I'm sure you realise.

Yeah but it's come as a shock to me, I can normally find summat to be positive about.

But if you are buying the club you would only do so in the expectation that you can deliver success on the pitch - hard as it is to believe I think even Ashley assumed that he would get there eventually. To have the infrastructure already in place for a successful club is a big plus. I didn't say it did. Read my post - I said if you buy the club you would do so expecting to deliver success on the pitch. And to have the stadium already in place when that success occurs is a big plus. A lot of football clubs have stadiums in place. Who knew?! But some are having to look at building new ones, clubs such as Liverpool, Tottenham and Everton for example. And that will cost lost of money. Good thing we don't have to do that. Eh? Yes I got that 20 pages ago.

What a cock end. Just fed up with it all.