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Hope no one replies with an absolutely nothing quote, just to push the thread along faster

This little slump we are going through may help push this through, surely Ashley can see major investment in the squad is needed in January, even to get to a comfortable mid table position. He's shown in the past how reluctant he is to do that kind of thing, one comment he made in his pre-season rant was about not wanting to go down again. The single most assured way to avoid that is to sell up, I honestly don't think he has the appetite for another relegation battle, if he can't come to an agreement with this lot, he's all but signing up for one again as Rafa will be out of the door.

We don't know where the money is coming from and hence who the new owners are IF (and it's still a huge IF in my view) the deal goes through. But to answer the question, I would rather roll the dice and see what happens, we could end up like Sunderland going from a bad owner to a generous one that has no clue about who to employ and how to run a football club but this purgatory we've lived with under Ashley is slowly killing the club, it needs to end soon.

He's on one right now, we'll probably break it with a draw somewhere may not be this game though, Watford are clearly very good, with a manager who knows what he is doing. We need a win though, simple as that.

Wow Lazaar can't even get a game for this lot: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/42046280

I had forgotten completely that he was Coventry manager, and from all counts his appointment there coincided with the begin of their fall from relevance. Can anyone recall those times ?

Amazing that like, how are either of them professionals in the 2nd tier of the game. You can't mess up twice from the same free kick like that.

Is it a coincidence that our results have go down hill since he came into the side again ? Think we miss the combination of Clark and the capt, might not be our best two centre halves but is probably our best pairing.

Not unexpected, disappointing though after the start we made.

Fucking red noses around the king of the red nose. Hate him still.

Joselu MoM for me, didn’t deserve to be on the losing side, never out of the action.

Not sure anyone believes been terrible, we played really well most of the first half but our defending second half has been really bad Spot on.

Wouldn’t be surprised if we had more attempts than them. We are in a bit of trouble right now though, Rafa needs to find a win somewhere soon.

Yay Diane.

Very undeserved score line, they have been very good, but we’ve not been that bad.

Pogba has been excellent got to say

Should been Red

Ritchie been very quiet again

Time for mitro surely, hard to take Joselu off though he has been sensational again

Problem we have now of course is that if we want to get back into the game we have to push more forward and take chances, defensively we have not been good enough today and can not afford to be under manned at the back

Excellent goal that like

Will Ferrell's prediction is way off like.

Got to score that Hayden

Great ball not much we could have done there, it’s over now

That is a clear pen like