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Almost sounds like they're haggling about the price Ashley: I'll sell you this club for £480m Buyer: No chance, it's worth £200m and no more Ashley: Hmm, well I could drop the price to £400m & throw in this nice gourd Buyer: Well I could go to £225m Ashley: That's still less than I paid, how about £350m? Buyer: Still too high for me, how about £275m & you keep the gourd? Ashley: Nice doing business with you.

I'm sure I remember some boro-supporting friends saying that his record there was no better than Robson's & it may have actually been worse than Robson's

Wasn't that the idea of what would happen on Saturday too? I'm sure I remember 10 minutes at the start of the 2nd half being devoted to cockney mafia bollocks ignoring the team on the pitch. If you're not going to support the team on the pitch during the game then just stay the fuck away, the team will be better off without you.

Anal's just making shit up now. We're weighing up for a move for Curbishley who left WHU because he couldn't work with the same system that we have in place here? O'Dreary I could just about understand, a placeholder manager who will only be there for as long as the club is for sale when a new owner will find it nice & easy to sack him and replace him with a new man of their own. Still a shitty choice, even as a placeholder

So.... some reporters have filmed Ashley without his permission & either he, or someone else has complained about it. The reporters are now trying to blame Ashley for entrapment? Suggesting that he has pressured/tricked them into filming him? Not sure that will work somehow, but some of the laws in a number of Arabic states are a little extreme and they may just be trying to come up with a reason that they shouldn't be sent to some Dubai jail for the next 2 years.

Would the commercially valuable land around the stadium be the St James Park Metro station car park? Because other than that I can't think of what land the club actually own.

Did I dream that he actually scored 7 in 7 for us at one point? Edit: not from his start with us, but just a run of sorts.... 7 goals from 22 games I believe. Stats-wise he wasn't a bad player, except he only managed to play about 3 consecutive games in his time here.

And if he has any sense he'll just say that he was driving that way because he feared he was being followed by someone intent on causing him harm

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This.

Disappointed. Mike Ashley desperately needs to speak to the press now, the wall of silence from the club has probably made matters worse over the last couple of days. Someone from the club needs to clarify what the hell has gone on over the last few days and how the club intends to move forward. We need to appoint a new manager quickly & it must not be anyone currently within the club, they've been badly tainted by what's happened in the last few days. No one person is bigger than the club, Keegan has gone but it won't stop me supporting the club. The king is dead, long live the king (as long as it isn't Denis Wise).

More likely that Oliver is trying to make himself relevant again. He & the Chronic made some very close friends when SJH gained control of the club with the club acting as their quasi-official mouthpieces for years after. Since Ashley has come in they've had no more special treatment than the rest of the press, although some of the players have done their normal "exclusive" interviews Oliver has had little or no contact from board level. Some of the drivel that Oliver has come out with seem to be stories purely designed to force the board to talk to him, even if it means that his latest "exclusive" interview with Mike Ashley would be little more than Fuck off Alan, you're a cock. If Oliver & the Chronic want to remain relevant they need to either make the current board talk to them (unlikely) or champion a new board who will be friendly to them from the outset.

Could be Everton now with kenwrights statements. Which statements are these? Everton 'need billionaire owner' (BBC) Everton owner Bill Kenwright says the club need a new billionaire owner if they are to remain competitive in the Premier League. Kenwright said the massive riches available to Manchester City, who are set to be taken over by the Abu Dhabi United Group, highlighted the need. "I'm a pauper when it comes to other chairmen," said Kenwright. "I want Everton to have a billionaire, but it is not me. My shares have been for sale from the day I bought in." More at the link

Haven't seen this posted yet, from The League Managers Association (http://www.leaguemanagers.com/news/viewfromthetop-6167.html?LMAS=e7d046899160bb7de1cb9e81e36e3318)

Why does everyone assume that KK wants to keep Milner? True he's talked him up a lot in the media but he's not even guaranteed a place in the 1st team when everyone's fit, Geremi is a more productive player. Not every manager has to subscribe to the Graeme "He'll never play for this club again!" Souness school of transfer dealings. Perhaps Keegan is aware that talking down a player's ability isn't the brightest way to increase his transfer value.

Ah, but he's so versatile! He's shit in every position

None of them Hughes looked great at first with Wales and Blackburn but he seems to run out of ideas after a while Jol is seemingly untested in the transfer market with others at Spurs making the transfer decisions, tactically he's OK but nothing great - I don't remember him pulling off any unforeseen victories against the top teams 'arry has always done OK with teams but he's never managed to get a team consistently into the top 6

Really smacks of desperation by AO. No one at the club is talking to him any more so he's forced to make up utter crap that will at least get Mort or BSA to tell the press (a ronnie gill exclusive no doubt) that AO's story was wide of the mark. AO gets a new story out of it & keeps up the pretence of having contacts within the club.

The Mirror ran a story at the time that said FFS wanted to give SBR until christmas to turn things around but Douglas Hall overruled the decision & pushed through his immediate sacking. Perhaps the reason FFS & SBR have remained friendly is because FFS isn't the one who made the decison to sack him, he just carried the can for it. I'm not trying to defend FFS in any way, but the Hall family - Douglas in particular - should not be above criticism in the decline of the club.

Only has to be reported to the Stock Exchange at the earliest possibility, that can be Tuesday morning

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Nice image, but I'd rather the fat man didn't have a scapegoat available to make everything OK again. Roeder isn't the right man for the manager's job, but Freddy will sacrifice him in a heartbeat to save his own skin. Leave Roeder out of it for the time being. Target Freddy. Ona completely unrelated matter, a few years ago we made a deal with NTL to sell the club to them should Sky buy Man Ure. If Freddy was happy to sell the club to NTL, why is he so unwilling to sell now?

Ouch! Complete garbage tbh. Whilst he didn't have the best of games, whilst he was on the pitch Fulham were totally unwilling to commit players forward in case he got enough space to do some damage. Once he left the pitch Fulham came forward whilst we sat back. Since we can't defend to save our lives, allowing any team to attack us is a risky venture, especially with a single goal lead.

A lot of people are basing it on his two games for us so far: Villa: only played from the start because he was the only fit senior forward at the club, he'd been to perhaps 1 training session and barely knew his team-mates names Fulham: a team who spent most of the game, right up to his substitution, defending as deeply as possible giving him no space to run into (on the couple of occasions he did get some space it was to chase balls headed to the corner flag) whilst we spent most of the game hitting long balls to the head of someone who is nearly a foot shorter than his marker. If the team don't play to his strengths he's going to look poor. I fully expect that he'll get goals away from St James against teams who will be more willing to attack and leave space at the back when they're playing in front of a home crowd.