Dr Venkman

phil, what makes you think we have any say in who buys the club?

cant see any reason that taylor should be playing in the centre ahead of him like

i actually think shearer would be a great choice, he's got massive experience at every level, commands respect from players, would be a big draw for players to come here, much like kk the first time around, openly praises attacking football, and would get a lot of time from the fans. give him a couple of good coaches to work with and i'm confident he could do it.

a MONTH, of problems?

......we'll say we have beye,enrique,gutierrez to come back. Only Jonas would be making a difference tonight of that three. One man team. i think beye makes a massive difference, he would especially tonight when duff's playing on the right, at least with beye we'd have an attacking threat down that side

duff, fucking hell man, words fail me

Let's hope he really is a toon fan because if he is, what's an extra hundred million or so to a fella with his cash? My gut feeling is still (as I said in the original Ambani thread) that it will be Ambani who buys us. but it wont be for ages yet because ashley still needs to make more of a mess of the club to get back at us for the protests?

they lost me at 'we dont hate cockneys or any other nationality'. i suggest they employ someone who knows the difference between national and regional to do their PR.

So much for the manager being in charge of who comes in and out, eh? I have doubts about whether this bid is genuine, but if it is, these investors might well want to bring in Nigerian players to make the club more popular in Nigeria, and to add some extra excitement and interest for themselves. "Might" being the operative word. The Nigerian investors are likely to be no different than their European or Arabian counterparts. The only reason why the majority of people on here are anxious is because their understanding of global business is limited to Europe and The Gulf. What strikes me as different about this story is that it's not about a single owner or a pre-existing investment group. It sounds like a consortium of businessmen are being put together specifically for the purpose of buying the club. It's a bit like the Magpie group that Sir John Hall put together many years ago, only with Nigerians instead of Geordies. Now what is actually attracting these businessmen to the idea? I doubt if it's about making money. It's more likely the emotional idea about having a team in the English Premiership with a Nigerian identity. You occasionally hear of these attempts at putting a coalition of smaller businessmen together and they don't seem to come off. I suspect this is actually a very tentative idea at the moment which will struggle when people really have to hand their money over. That's if the story has any substance in the first place. we all doubted that last time and look where that got us, we'll be sold for 800 million in two seasons when we're in the championship. i'll be amazed if he gets 400 million, utterly amazed.

that is fucking hilarious, he's creating variations on a theme now. i wonder how wide the marks are going to get, and if any reports will manage to get in between the marks any time soon

was that in fhm?

joe cole is having an absolute stinker

i dont even know if i can bring myself to watch it on the tv, we're gonna get our asses handed to us by a bad spurs team, at home

that video is fucking hilarious

has been our best attacking threat since the day he signed, worked his socks off every time he's played for us and scored some crucial goals. was never given a chance by the fans because of injuries, even though his goal record for us is superb. they'll get what they deserve when he fucks off for nothing.

whats next then? shearer in and if he's no good we just set the whole place on fire?

this. it was a stupid starting line up and i said it as soon as they came on the pitch. how can anyone with eyes start ameobi? as an old jackie said to me on the metro on the way up 'we'd be better off starting with ten'. we really missed beye and jonas today, and the 4-3-3 without martins and viduka is really struggling, add ameobi and a debut youngster and its just not gonna work, owen cant play three positions at once. incidentally i heard quite a lot of praise for owen on the way out 'at least he was trying' etc. seriously, fuck off man, he gives his all week in week out. gonzalez looked promising, just what we need, nice to see a midfielder run with the ball and pass forwards. as others have said, get a good man manager in, someone who's tactically good and i think we're still in for a decent season, providing we can keep most of the first team fit, if we cant i think we're comfortably bottom half.

job for solicitors that one surely ? you would have thought so, and even if it is an out of court settlement. on a friday night? cant see it

I'm surprised we haven't made him an offer if that's the case. If he's reluctant to commit in case he gets the French job, we should probably move on. He might get it, he might not assuming it even becomes available in the next month or so. Too mayne if's and buts if you ask me. Maybe we have and we are just waiting to get the weekend, with all the abuse and protests out the way. Wouldnt have been an ideal game for a new manager yeah its possible we could have given him until monday to decide imo Would be nice to think so, but the suggestion that Hughton has been told he might be in charge for 3 weeks doesn't really tie in with that. oh i didnt hear about that. i wonder if that means they've given someone (i.e deschamps) that long to decide, or they're just not doing anything in a hurry. would make sense i suppose, i imagine there's a lot of things to be agreed on before anyone takes the job.

I'm surprised we haven't made him an offer if that's the case. If he's reluctant to commit in case he gets the French job, we should probably move on. He might get it, he might not assuming it even becomes available in the next month or so. Too mayne if's and buts if you ask me. Maybe we have and we are just waiting to get the weekend, with all the abuse and protests out the way. Wouldnt have been an ideal game for a new manager yeah its possible we could have given him until monday to decide imo

fucked with injuries by our second home fixture, sakes to respond to a post above, can you really see hughton putting gonzalez in the middle in his first game against a team that are just gonna try and kick the shit out of us?

gotta be deschamps from the possibles at the minute, imo

the game's on thursday night in peru, thats a quite a flight back on friday, even if you haven't played

am i right in thinking that jonas and colo have a game on thursday night? so we might not see them this weekend?