Minhosa

I don't undertand the thinking here- a few others have said similar. You have your doubts about potential owners who have done extensive due diligence, who are clearly have the upper hand in negotiations, to cave and pay more than they need to? We have someone in charge who did the opposite when buying the club. That hasn't worked out well. If anything, it gives me heart that they are doing things properly and as would be expected for a transaction of this size. If the number is £250m that's low imho, even given the HMRC issue (for which there would be a covenent anyway) and the possibility of relegation. They've also got to have the collective intelligence and ability to make Ashley think he's getting a good deal. Sticking him in a corner and poking him with a two week deadline is not how you play with billionaires.

The offer, if reports are accurate, doesn't reflect brilliantly on PCP imho. If they're low-balling on day 1, what kind of owners will they be?

If that is the deal then there won't be a deal.

Our fans sounding incredible.

You'd think so unless he goes renegade and brings Aarons on?

It's like they've got two extra men through the middle. Everything is coming back to us.

Boring Brummie Cock that he is.

I'd have Merino over Drinkwater on the basis of todays game.

Lejuene handled it there.

I'd bring Mitro on and just lump it up to him as an outball tbh.

They just look they could pick us off at any point here.

Here comes 3........

Perez has been complete dogshit here.

Diame's not been as awful as normal which is a mild positive.

I think Merino clearly looks our best player, quality-wise.

Mistakes happen but for him to have the fucking front to bollock Mbemba and Lejeune when he was the source of the problem is fucking shameful tbh.

Just have an image of Charnley sat quivering away in the corner of the press conference awaiting the impending call from the Fat Lad.

. As ridiculous as this probably sounds to many, I'd even take a negative change at this moment in time. Break the monotony, highly likely to be more susceptible to external pressures than Ashley and worst case of two steps back for one forward. We're going nowhere fast with this shithouse.

No exclusivity yet, you're not mistaken, as far as I've read. PCP wouldn't be upset if Ashley was talking to other groups too, it's absolutely normal business to do that. Yup. Wish this was over. Desperate for change.

That's not really looked like happening at any point over the last ten years and he's made shit decision after shit decision. I honestly don't know what he'd have to do to get an empty ground tbqh. And this is a huge part of the problem.

Not that I think it would happen but his reasons for dismissing Rafa would be completely different from any previous sacking tbh. He'd probably quite like Rafa to be gone if Ashley was sticking around. Their relationship is not, nor would it ever be, sustainable. The only reason Rafa is still here is because of the takeover talks. On both sides. Rafa staying because of what we could be, MA keeping him because he's a hugely valuable asset to any potential buyer. If MA changes his mind, Rafa will be down the road. Just a question of which one blinks first.....

Since when has Mike Ashley given a fuck about the wellbeing of anybody but Mike Ashley? He doesn't give a fuck about this club and what it represents. He'd take us down again if he thought the market to sell it would be better in 3 years time. Say he had a hunch that the TV money was going to be even more extreme with the likes of Amazon/facebook going for it, I think he'd happily hold off to that point.

My feeling all along is that he's been engaging with more than one buyer. I can quite believe the Telegraph story tbh. Unless I'm mistaken, an 'exclusivity' clause has never been mentioned in relation to PCP therefore they may even be aware of talks with other parties.

Based on Dortmund innit?

Do you think he'd play ahead of Murray? I do yeah. I think he'd actually do well there tbh.