Chris_R

True.

Surely it's impossible for Rafa to come back, as he never breaks a contract and is currently under contract.

And I'll believe you when the ink is actually dry on the contract.

As with every single previous "takeover", I refuse to get even remotely excited until the ink is actually dry on the contract.

But how will I let the world know I'm a good person if I don't raise awareness of the twats? Well this is precisely it. You let the world know you're a good person by NOT raising awareness of the twats.

Anyone who tweets Richard Keys, or follows him, or retweets him, is just giving him the oxygen of publicity he craves and needs. The only way to deal with the likes of him, Katie Hopkins etc who just feed off attention is to utterly ignore them.

Maybe not, but he's quite capable of living for another 40 years, and that'll be long enough that most of our lives watching football will be under his guise and we'll be old and wrinkly fuckers at best before he fucks off this planet. Yeah, I get that given his lifestyle we should expect he'll not make another 40 years, but you just know for a fine fact he's going to Kieth Richards it.

TBF I think most people are writing everything off after 12 years.

Edit: Round 3 has already finished. Disregard.

I'll be voting for Johnson if he's in. Catts if not.

Jimmy Hill, surely? He had dementia and is hated enough that they still feel the need to fight his statue.

I mean rather than guessing where they play he could, oh I dunno, maybe ask them?! Or is that a bit controversial? Or ask the coaches? It's such blatant bullshit. He played them there because he's an egomaniac and thinks he's a tactical genius. Same reason he played Cisse and Ameobi on the wing. Tosser.

'no more excuses' Oh, the poor fools. Excuses are literally all he offers. We had years of them.

Hopefully Ashley. Beyond that I don't give a single shit.

I think the motto is something like "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me for 8 consecutive transfer windows, and I'll buy a season ticket."

Home v Liverpool was the one which got to me the most. From memory, for the first 70 minutes we didn't have a single shot on or off target, or force a corner. I've never before or since seen a team set up to offer that little going forward.

Never have I known so many people seemingly be interested in something yet all fall to buy it. It's almost as if everything they say is complete horseshit.

I believe it's directly proportional to the cuntiness of the present owner.

This club jumped the shark a long time ago. Now we're into season 13 and we're introducing these ridiculous and implausible characters whilst our viewership figures tumble and those of us that once enjoyed the shows in the good old days just hope they cancel the whole thing, and we look on in bafflement at the few who still manage to eke any entertainment out of the shambolic husk of a club.

As long as it's not a Siemens.

Pardew is a slightly better manager but an infinitely worse human being. I don't want either to manage my football club, but at least if I was stuck in a lift with Bruce I'd have decent odds of the floor not being covered with his entails when the doors finally opened.

Well yeah. The real stumbling block to any sale has always been that Fat Mike doesn't really want to sell. I think he'd sell, but not cleanly. He'll want to keep advertising his tat emporium around the ground for free and keep the club shop. When the other party refuses, his 'clean break' price becomes prohibitive and the deal collapses as he places such a disproportionately high value on those things and the buyer does not.

I've given up on hoping he sells, I'm just concentrating on outliving the cunt now.

So if he's keeping us, he can put that money into Newcastle now?

Literally nothing happens in Saudi Arabia on a Friday, except prayers. Whole country shuts down. The chance of any business being done then is 0. They're about as likely to work on a Friday as we are on Christmas Day. Staveley would be willing to work though, no? Assume the money is already in her account, all she needs to do is arrange the transfer of funds if Ashley agrees to sell. If the deadline's from them for Ashley to sell, sure, I guess. Though it really wouldn't be their preference and would mean they'd have to give her sole autonomy to conclude everything. If the deadline's from Ashley for them to buy, then if they haven't decided by Thursday then you're waiting until Saturday. I don't know which it is as I missed this deadline chat.