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I'm fully confident that in the not so distant future we'll be marveling at how we've lasted through ten years of Mike Ashley.

That team looks dangerously mediocre, even for this division...

It makes no sense at all for normal human beings so it probably makes perfect sense for Ashley.

It seems we've gone from having a couple of promising candidates back to square one: there are no prospective buyers. Ashley is your owner for life. Bow before him.

Looks like my favorite player finally gets someone decent to play up front with

I wonder if Hughton will still be scouting Lovenkrands 2 months after he signs for Birmingham? That isn't too bad in comparison to Roeder. He's probably still out scouting Dirk Kuyt as we speak. Well, the man's got nothing better to do.

What I enjoy about this is that you live in Korea, and Rick Astley was playing. In Korea. Jesus Christ, yes. Talk about hitting you when you're not expecting it...

This has nothing to do with the takeover, but since this thread is already uselessly long and utterly lacking in substance anyway.... I was rick-rolled in a cab tonight. Damn song started playing literally the second I opened the door and jumped in. Being drunk, I froze for about five seconds fumbling for Ctrl+Alt+Del on a non-existent keyboard. That is all.

Every time I see Arshavin play I remember that we had a 100 page thread on this forum about signing him. And I shed a tear.

Baehng's pal? Yeah, he was in the same Le Havre youth team (Stephane Pelonde), and apparently came across with him to help him settle up here, and found himself a club. Didn't know that. Bit like Freddy Adu at Monaco then. He's absolutely f***ing amazing on FM, before anyone else mentions it

Iranian midfielder, he's scored against Liverpool before IIRC. Never heard of the guy, but surely he's Israeli not Iranian?

Who?

who scored?

Damn you, I just creamed my pants.

You've gotta be kidding. Chopra is like the Drogba of this division

When a rumor sounds too good to be true... It probably is.

Could be a very good signing. It'd be an intelligent risk if they were actually going to spend anymore money. (like Xisco). No idea why Tuncay would even want to go to Stoke. He'll be ridiculously out of place. Perhaps Pullis is slowly working towards making Stoke a side that plays something approximating normal football now that they have some cash to spare? I think he might be a very underrated manager. If nothing else the signings he's made so far have been absolutely brilliant.

I can do the interview for him. "Don't want to lose any more players" "Want two or three more players in" "Up to the owner so we'll just have to wait and see."

Sounds extremely promising. I'm so desperate that I can't even find any room to be bothered about language like "global brand."

My prediction is that there will be no announcement.

Palace are a pretty poor squad and they've apparently got their share of troubles at the boardroom level. I wouldn't be too worried and expect a draw at worst. Cardiff in a few weeks time will probably be our first real challenge.

My transfer window mantra has gone from "oh God please let us sign somebody. Anybody." to "oh God I don't care if we don't sign anyone, please let us keep Steven and Jose." I guess that's a good thing.

It'd be a different story if he was Nigerian tbf. He was absolutely critical in PSV's Champions League run in 2004/2005, there's no denying that. Besides, it's actually not that hard to be "one of the best left backs" in Europe. There's generally not a lot of good ones.

flash mob then. they're turning into tottenham. If hating the little piece of s*** who sang karaoke on the middle of the pitch when we went down is bandwagon jumping... well, then so be it. do you hate tottenham too? Yes. Less than Hull. why? Because of their delusions of grandeur. Because their manager is a grade A c***. Because they screwed up the career of one of my country's best players for no apparent reason. media. hate redknapp then. 90 odd games with a few injuries in 3 years aint too bad. Constantly getting dropped for inferior players and the management going out and getting a new "replacement" every window killed his confidence imo. Used to be one of the best left backs in Europe. The very fact that you're attempting to rationally talk me out of hating a football club is a laugh by the way.

flash mob then. they're turning into tottenham. If hating the little piece of s*** who sang karaoke on the middle of the pitch when we went down is bandwagon jumping... well, then so be it. do you hate tottenham too? Yes. Less than Hull. why? Because of their delusions of grandeur. Because their manager is a grade A c***. Because they screwed up the career of one of my country's best players for no apparent reason. Fair enough for your other two reasons, but the bold one is bollocks. If Tottenham have delusions of grandeur then so do we: it's just another lazy media stereotype thrown out about two largely decent sets of fans by know-nothing hacks. Alright, I'll take your word for it and just keep on hating them for the other two reasons then.