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Exactly. The thick fuckers have just painted themselves into a corner, about 10 coats deep.

So, based on their newly acquired morals, if they get promoted this season (snigger) will they insist that the club does not accept the TV money that comes from the BEin deal? Insincere, virtue signalling cunts.

This is quite the eye-popping read. I thought that Everton had secured the funding to build their new stadium, now that the building work has started. Turns out that they don't seem to have it at all, and are working on the idea that if you just start the early parts of building it then that will attract investors to finish off the job. https://www.theguardian.com/business/2022/nov/13/everton-football-club-new-stadium-bramley-moore-dock

Nice. Whatever happens, it is fairly obvious that we won't just be sticking with SJP in it's current state. They will either find a way to expand it to 65k or they will build an all-new one somewhere within the city centre.

Not so long ago over there, that CaptainRed was one of their most rational posters, but even he/she has turned into a full-on bitter cunt now. Just goes to show, this is all turning even their most level headed brethren insane.

Currently 60% say yes. Socialist club though. Ahem.

The self-loathing on there tonight is off the scale. Thoroughly heart warming to read.

Haha, I love it. Without doubt one of our own on the wind up.

Handling today’s events well over there then…..the quote below is their new reality in a nutshell. ‘’I’m at the point now where I outright refuse to discuss football with the mags. They were unbearable at the best of times. Never mind now, as they do have a decent team which they’ll build on as they have unlimited financial backing. Sadly the inevitable is going to happen unfortunately. I’m just thankfully that I work from home most days as I couldn’t be arsed listening to that lot everyday of the week”

Its like a library man. We literally dont appear to have a songbook anymore. We dont even sing the name of our own club these days. Pitiful.

Why does our home crowd not sing actual songs anymore? The SJP "atmosphere" is a total myth these days.

That thread is almost claustrophobic with their gloom. They are so badly raging & depressed you can almost touch it, and if we win on Sunday it really might send some of them over the edge.

These fuckers are that desperate to see the takeover fail, that they seemingly want Saudi/Putin tensions to heat up, just so that NUFC don't get to become an elite club. Sad, sad Mackem Bastards.

Quelle Surprise

Spotted it myself actually. No doubt they will be all over it soon enough though. I've seen too many false dawns to get cocky about our future at the moment. When we have a state of the art training complex and and an all-new SJP I will start to relax, lol.

We wouldn't have their luck, and would probably end up in the hands of Henry Fucking Mauriss.

Not sure about that mind. We are the USA's pet, and when they say "jump" we say "how high?". Added to the fact that we need a post-Brexit trade deal with them too, I wouldn't be surprised to see this get messy. It's why I am just enjoying this ride while I can and, especially in the current climate, won't be making any confident assumptions about how long this ownership will be around for. Just hope they stick around long enough to build that new training complex.....

This is a bit of a concern mind. It was be so very NUFC to have the rug pulled away from us just when things were getting good.

Another quick glance over at the lunatic asylum and it seems our rise up the table is really upping the ante in their rage-state, as the penny drops a little further about what has happened over the last 12 months. And, can anyone explain what this loon is going on about???....."The vast majority of fans have no idea about Saudi Arabia and the Middle East in general. To compare the situation to Man City is ludicrous - the UAE is barely 10m with only 20% being Emirati. Given the oil wealth it is easy to keep 2m citizens happy - they couldn't care less about the other 8m, Meanwhile Saudi is 35m people with a very young population with a much smaller migrant workforce. Keeping that young population happy is going to be very difficult. You also have to remember MBS broke the succession rules and later locked his enemies in a hotel and took their assets. He will have many many enemies and sooner or later it will go pop. We will have the final laugh here, of that I am absolutely certain". So the Saudis will have to sell up in order to keep the Saudi people happy? That's a new one mind.

Nope. Pretty much everyone agrees that the stadium needs to remain somewhere in the city centre. Build a replica of the all-new Bernabeu on Castle Leazes. It’s going to be the best stadium in the world when finished and will make Spurs’ stadium look like the Stadium of Shite. if the Saudis expect to own us for a long time then this is the level of ambition I imagine they will have for us. And if so, we really need to get on board with it.

He will get a new & improved contract very soon to fend off Madrid IMO.

If the club remains as as ambitious as it currently is then 52,000 is nowhere near enough. As has been pointed out earlier, there must have been at least 15,000 long-term ST holders who have walked away in the Ashley years who now cannot get back in. Of course, the club must stay in the city centre....that is non-negotiable. But the idea that moving a few hundred yards north to Castle Leazes would "tear the soul" from the club is absolute bollocks. It would mean a bit more walking for a few minutes and that's it. Another very good reason for a fresh start in a new stadium is that, although many people want to come back, they also don't want to sit up in the Gods, which would be the only option in an extended SJP. The club needs a stadium that is basically a bigger version of how SJP looked in the 1990s. Symmetrical stands so that good views are accessible everywhere, and also that ensure the atmosphere is kept within the stadium. People go on about the atmosphere at SJP but in reality it is pitiful compared to 25 years ago. That's due to the changed design of the stadium and also the many thousands of the more militant, vociferous supporters walking away. Only an all-new stadium will rectify those issues.

Mehrdad mentioned ongoing discussions with the council in today's takeover anniversary interview. If they've got any sense then those talks will have involved discussing the possibilty of building a new stadium at Castle Leazes and remodelling the park. Sorry to say but SJP will probably never cut it as an elite stadium. There are simply too many obstacles.

Same here. I let them off with so much shit in the 90s and then kind of wished I'd given them more grief when they were doing well under Reidy and giving it the whole "2-1 FTM Top Dogs" shit of the early 2000s. But they again turned to shit, we soared again under Bobby and yet I still couldn't be bothered to grief them. Then we had the Ashley years and the six-in-a-row, the relegation in 2016 and once again they milked it for all it was worth. Now we have seen them be an utter shambles for the last 6 seasons and we've now shaken off Ashley, with a dazzling future possibly in store, with them going nowhere....and I still cant be arsed to properly take the piss. It's easy to see why though. Going excessively out of the way to mock them would just make us small time, like them. So it really is best to just ignore them. And, ironically, that actually gets them wound up a lot more than any pisstaking ever could. It's much better to be hated than ignored.

Yeah if it had been them hitting the jackpot and us in the shit then I would have been mortified. And it was pretty terrifying when it looked like they were going to be rich with the Dell takeover. So for that reason I don't blame them for losing interest or even thinking of walking away from football if we become an elite club. What I cannot stand about them though is the OTT personal stuff....scum, vermin, murderers, horse punchers etc. And using a few individual idiots in our fanbase to fit their warped narrative. Like you say though, it's just a comfort blanket.