Think only 3 or 4 people on here still think it’d going to happen to be fair
I still there’s a fair chance
Same man. Far more likely than Ashley staging an elaborate hoax, involving arabs and Companies House, that he didn't need to stage
Yep, that’s full on tin foil hat territory
Nobody actually believes that it's a hoax/setup etc, just that there's no way Ashley is going to sell.
Exactly. Complete straw man. Over the 12 years of Ashley's ownership there have been numerous seriously interested parties, and they have all been disappointed in the end by Ashley moving the goal posts. Ashley or his PR goons don't have to create smoke and dagger scenarios of interest in the club to help alleviate the pressure on them, because the interest is genuine and has always been there. It suits them to keep the media and fans in awaited suspense while they obviously have no inclination whatsoever to go through with any sale, or at least not until somebody puts in an offer that is too good to refuse, because whilst this is the case they can get away with leeching the club for their own interests whilst simultaneously running it into the ground for everybody with a proper affinity towards it.
Hopefully though this time he has dug himself into a hole he cannot get out of. If he pulls the plug then BZG need to hang him out to dry.
Like he’ll give a fuck.
As far as the fans are concerned there’s a decent minority who think Benítez is a mercenary.
You can forget any big protest about 3-4 games in, as usual
True. But if nothing else it will finallly destroy the myth that nobody has put in a proper bid. He won't be able to lie about that anymore.
A myth that nobody has put a bid in?
Serious bids have been going in this black hole of a club for a decade (!) now, i.e. http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport2/hi/football/teams/n/newcastle_united/8137156.stm
Not long after of course those bids collapsed. Steve McMahon, a spokesman for one of the bidders had this to say at the time:
10 years and counting and we've seen the exact same act played out before us numerous times since. It's a piss take, it really is. And our fans just either forget or just don't particularly care as he gets away with it every single time.
Wow, I had forgot all about the McMahon offer.
The only way Ashley is going to leave is in a denim coffin.