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Very professional from the Ashley camp to claim that they are not aware of the £250m up front bid Like they've just missed that e-mail coming in or something. Nothing stopping Staveley and PCP to just submit the bid again if they've missed it, forcing them to actually reject it, making them look really stupid again.

If the club is in such financial stable condition, how come Rafa hasn't got a pot to piss in? Also, time to stop calling SSN when you're pissed Mike and get an actual statement out.

If I'm Rafa, I'm calling Fatty up first thing in the morning and tell him to accept the offer or I'm walking, and see how much the club is worth when it's crashing in the Championship with half the crowd gone.

Time to start setting fire to his precious Sports Direct shops up and down the country. Hurt him where he actually cares.

Nah mate, Dokko had Staveley and PCP sussed ut months ago, they've just been taking the piss. No reason to doubt Ashley's side of the story here, it's not like he's got previous for this sort of thing.

Can't say that those offers aren't fair like. Fuck off and die you fat prick.

PR teams for each side seem to be in full swing Fuck off

I'm fucking skint like unfortunately

Surely you can?

So did you think the whole sale was a lie from day one? Not at all. It's not an 'I told you so' post at all because I did and do believe that the club was for sale with the obvious caveat that it was always possible that Ashley would fuck it all up, but surely there comes a point after he's once again fucked it all up where you disregard the entirety of Ashley's side of the story as lies by default, stop questioning other parties, and stop hanging onto any further hope of anything happening. I'm seeing people take the whole story as a given and questioning this that and the other within that story, without any perception that the entire story - a Mike Ashley story - is more than likely complete lies. For all we know what has actually happened is nothing like the story that's been put out. It could just as easily be the case that PCP met the asking price then kept trying to contact him, yet I've read 'they submitted a bid and just left it for 10 weeks?' and posts about PCP being just as much to blame posts all over the place. There's no scrutiny of the very basics imo. He lies all the fucking time and has been caught lying time and time again, but I feel like the whole story is just being accepted as a given. It's really frustrating to see. PCP are completely blameless in the mess we're in. They have looked at the books, valued our playing squad (and Rafa) and come up with a bid that they think reflects that. The fact that nee other fucker is interested at even anything close to what Ashley wants says an awful lot about his valuation of the club. We don't even know if Ashley is intending to keep the interest free loan that he's got against the club or if that's included in the asking price. It'll take a massive investment in our squad to make us competitive, and bar Lascelles, we have absolutely no one to sell to bring funds in either. On top of that, there's a desperate need for a complete re-work of the academy and the training facilities needs modernised as well. These are just the things we know about, there are probably a million other things that would need looking over and that would be costly. Basically, despite the huge TV money that the club will receive as long as we stay up, the club really isn't worth all that much right now.

We're nowhere near favourites for relegation are we? Have you seen the table? We are in the mix along with several teams who you can see trying to strengthen their squad. Will we? I know all that, but we're not favourites. We're definitely not. Odds on Swansea, West Brom, Stoke, Huddersfield and Brighton to go down are all lower than ours, only Southampton from the bottom 6 have higher odds than us.

Really have to wonder what the fuck his plan is here? We've got a championship squad and a world class manager that will most likely leave in the summer. Does he not realise just how fucked he is if he doesn't sell? Even if it is for a cut price, it'd be better for him to just cut his ties with us because things are going to get worse from here.

Yes, that's definitely comparable to bidding on a football club. Almost as daft as spending weeks doing due diligence, going to the trouble of getting a NDA then putting together a complicated clause ridden multi million pound offer, presenting it and then just leaving it on the table for ten weeks during a critical point in the season and having no contact what so ever ....fucking frauds the lot of them. Beggars belief, you haven't learned a fucking thing from us having Ashley as owner. Ashley has been doing this exact same thing for ten fucking years here.

Exact same bullshit as the last time the club was up for sale, right?

Why are some people still believing Ashley's bullshit?

That's just fucking weird tbh. While I do believe that the deal is probably off, shite like this and the no bid made just absolutely stinks of the typical Ashley bullshit and I've no idea why anyone would believe any of it.

I can't believe he's not been given a job after watching that

Couldn't make it up

Would love for Aubameyang to leave Dortmund though. Step up, Big Isak.

Really do think the club should come out with some sort of statement. I know the fat mess doesn't care about the fans and that, but the Christmas deadline is almost a month gone now, the fans deserves an update on where things are.

Liverpool have been fantastic like

Liverpool needs to get closer to De Bruyne like. Giving him too much space at the moment.

KI clearly meant going to the red part of Manchester rather than the blue one, not about leaving Arsenal