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Zigic oot.

Very modest of you KD.

Surely there's absolutely no reason to believe we'd sign Carlton Cole, other than it would be a stupid thing to do and Mike Ashley loves doing stupid things.

Darius Vassell drilled through his own toe?!?!?!? What a tool

I saw him out in Newcastle last weekend, forgot to post about it.

There's an idea we could use.

That red and white one actually makes me physically sick... it's like desecration of a sacred monument.

Being a Gateshead fan I have nothing but hatred for the Bay. (But I hope they win)

I would rent Clairfontaine for the whole summer TBH.

Agree, he's done well this season.

Can I return my Chelsea and West Brom tickets?

Working toward a sale and "sell if someone came in with the right price " is a bit different though. If he is planning to sell (which a businessman like him would do, not just hang around hoping a buyer turns up) he won't trash the club - why trash something you want to sell - but he won't be arsed about selling our favourite players like Tiote, Enrique etc as long as we have competent enough, young, cheap players to replace them. It all depends on the time frame he's given Pardew but if decent bids come in for any of our players in the summer don't think for a minute they won't be sold. The quicker the money can be raised the quicker he can be off. Let's face it, he can't be enjoying it anymore, it'll be time for a new toy for him once he sells us. I don't think selling all our good players is in his interests either though, the more successful NUFC is the better it is for him. Anyway, don't want to turn this into another Ashley debate thread, I have no idea what's going on in the bloke's head.

That's both disgusting and gorgeous, well played.

Are you mental?

When you watch videos of Batty now he looks far more dynamic than I remember thinking at the time. Maybe because it's highlights mind.

James Milner has no place anywhere near an all-time toon team. Massively overrated and a great sale at £12m.

N'Zogbia ahead of Robert and Ginola? Controversial.

Fergie will try his best to come up with some devious plan, but at the end of the day Barca are a way, way better team and will run out winners by a couple of goals at least. I reckon Man Utd could well be beaten by Chelsea at the weekend and be down on confidence (as much as they ever get). They're just too average to win the Champions League and the Premiership, if either.

I would go with this, although Tiote might prove to be better than Batty given a couple of seasons. I might prefer Ginola over Robert, not sure.

I don't doubt that Ashley would sell if someone came in with the right price - but he still needs to at least maintain NUFC's Premier League position to make it attractive to buyers. Clearly reducing costs is part of his plan.

His defending and attacking are shit to be honest, Liverpool would be mad to sign him.

surely you know zippo about what hall does or does not know? Well I suppose so, I haven't been tapping his phone or anything if that's what you mean. Based on my observation of the club sale situation and common sense about the relationship between Ashley/Hall, I conclude it's likely that he knows nowt. Anyway, surely you know zippo about what I know about how much Hall knows about Ashley? So there. common sense would suggest to me that if a club is for sale one of the first people aware of it would be the last person who owned it? they're gonna be pretty high up on the list of people likely to invest, no? Possibly, but probably not IMO.

At any price?

surely you know zippo about what hall does or does not know? Well I suppose so, I haven't been tapping his phone or anything if that's what you mean. Based on my observation of the club sale situation and common sense about the relationship between Ashley/Hall, I conclude it's likely that he knows nowt. Anyway, surely you know zippo about what I know about how much Hall knows about Ashley? So there.

Finally I think you're right, he has said the right things and done the wrong ones a lot in the past, but now he seems to really have put things right.