Chris_R

It's all just so depressingly predictable. Honestly, just burn the whole fucking thing to the ground.

making a late concerted play for forum divvy of the year I see. Oh Christ this has given me creeper memories of Butt, Geremi, Smith and Nolan stinking up the middle of the park. By god that was an abhorrent time.

Yeah, you're right. Any anti-Ashley sentiment and it'll be the end of your displays.

Have I missed it, or is there any chance of anyone copy and pasting this open letter here for all to see?

Lots of new clothes from Sports Direct. Hang on, I'm not sure I'm doing this right....

I was bored years back. Now I'm bored of being bored.

Only if he's wrong.

There's going to be a lot of angry / confused people come kick off tomorrow.

Yes

We'll probably buy 1 player for £17.00001m so we can say that we've broken our transfer record, and enough idiots will renew to see our record signing in action. Completely disregarding that this figure gets you fuck-all these days and it'll be some mediocre, no-mark journeyman cast-off from a shit team.

Why would anyone rip their pink seats out? Let them pay their own fans to do that, don't do it for them for free ffs.

Nah, it's a ride at Alton Towers. I know the queues can be long, but fucking hell.

What's "local lad" got to do with why anyone should get a game? People should play based on talent, and if you want to make that argument for Longstaff then great, but "local lad" is utterly irrelevant.

Yeah their crowd on boxing day is magnificent, but it's not a 3rd tier record. They can't just draw that line wherever they want. Did we claim our 52,000 crowd was a record for the 2nd tier ffs? It'd have been the same logic.

Once Rafa goes, he's knocked millions off the value of the club. The club without Rafa will need tens of millions of extra investment just to stay up. If Ashley wants to sell us under those terms, that's up to him I guess. But it's not in his interests. That said, I don't think he will sell us at all. Burn it all to the ground as far as I'm concerned, at least until the day a takeover is actually signed.

#wait

and he'll want his debt paying off too. what is that? another £144m? He's selling it with the debt cleared. No one would pay £300m + the debt for our club. am just trying to work out why a premier league club such as ours would only be valued at £200m. Because it's got £144m of debt.

This. I'm basically already there, but I'll come back if and when we're sold. Until then, my stance is as above.

It's a bit early to assume the fucker will even be dead in 100 years, such is our luck.

After how well that panned out last time?

It's the spacing between words that gets me. Like the second paragraph, there's 1 space between most words but 2 between "supported" and "any". It's the work of a lunatic. But I guess we know that.

The double-spacing randomly between some words on that email is really hurting my head.

I think you've just made the fundamental mistake of believing something in a newspaper.

Nah, this has got to go to the end of January to explain our zero net spend. No point it being busted before then.

Top work.