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Going for Wilder would not be a short term appointment, meaning the takeover is either likely to fail in the coming months, or not going to be decided by the beginning of next season. We aren't sacking Bruce, paying out all that compo, and then appointing Wilder if new owners are coming in this summer. Giving Wilder the job now, at this stage of the season, would be even a more ridiculous decision than apponting Bruce after Rafa. It's all bullshit anyway as Doubtfire is now here until the end of the season, at the very least. If he was getting sacked it would have happened this week.

Without a doubt.

I will bet that the numbers of these self-styled "superfans" will currently be no more that 20,000. People are in for a shock how low the crowds will be if NUFC are mid-table or worse in the Championship. Also, let's not forget that the vast majority of this lot will not have witnessed NUFC do anything worse than finish top of the Championship. A year or two truly in the wilderness will sharp have loads of them jumping ship.

The sole reason this prick took the NUFC job was because, in his head, he saw it as one last easy payday. Fail in the job just like he has in every other and he gets the windfall pay-off. He's made a fortune off doing it with other clubs. Except this time he has come up against Ashley, who is going to make him suffer, rather than be taken to the cleaners by a chancer. After all, nobody recognizes a wide boy like another wide boy. To be honest, as much as I hate Ashley, I have a sneaky admiration of his stance here. He's certainly got balls, and is prepared to risk the vast loss in the value of the club if relegated. I guess, even at this level & no matter how much money is stake, it all comes down to ego and not being shafted by someone.

Just had a look on RTG and they are already on to it.

Can't remember the last time I saw the media turn on a manager and pretty much demand his sacking the way they have in the last 10 hours. If he is still here for the Spurs game I really hope NUFC go down now. Not bothered what the possible ramifications of that would mean either. The club in its present form are a stain on the integrity of the game.

They are peaking too early. They will finish 3rd and then fuck up the play-offs. Next season they should piss that league though.

Ashley must not be expecting this to be resolved this year, to be carrying on like this. A lengthy court case can be the only thing he is anticipating as it makes no sense to gamble this way on losing £150m against a payoff of a few million to Bruce.

For however much of a shitbag he is, there are clubs that have had much bigger arseholes owning them, and been run far worse. Wanting the club to tank and burn just to remove Ashley I’ve always found too extreme. I just can’t stomach the idea of us plodding along in the Championship, hoping to scrape a play off place whilst teams ping pong up and down building stronger through parachute payments like WBA, Norwich - but at least we got rid of Ashley. Moment we go down, and if PIF pull out, we leave ourselves with a greater chance of some even bigger scumbag buying us. Bare minimum we should be in PL. End of the day shouldn’t be a case of having to tank just to cause Ashley leaving. Would rather be in PL with Ashley, in strongest position for potential buyers than drop down and take a punt on some American come in a strip us clean. Exactly the kind of comment that Ashley hopes every NUFC fan will have. Happy with 17th every year in the forlorn hope that one day the club will be sold.

Who gives a fuck. Anyone still planning on still following or caring about Ashley's NUFC in the Championship is a moron.

Well listening to this cheered me up no end. NOT. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/nufc-podcast-takeovers-treason-what-is-going-on-at/id922005191?i=1000511743132 The special guest basically took a gigantic dump over today's procedings and pretty much wrote the takeover off.

That's brilliant from Jacobs tbh. Does away with all of the conspiracy theory stuff. Its in the lap of the Gods now. And, to be honest, I'm not at all confident of it going through.

Exactly what I was thinking.

"The Saudi takeover of NUFC no longer exists as a going concern. Ashley is pursuing damages on the grounds of restraint of trade. No-one should give a shit whether he gets what he wants on that front." IMTTS said no. Think this statement proves he is, as suspected, full of shit. He wont be seen round these parts for a while.

Yeah, I take back what I said about DeMarco just trying for compo. The good news is that the Saudis are still on board. The bad news is that the odds seem massively stacked against Ashley winning his case.

We aren't beating WBA. And as crazy as it might sound, I don't think Fulham losing last night did us any favours either. If they had put us in the bottom three the pressure for Bruce to be peddled would have been immense after not beating WBA. Now he will be allowed to plod on until it's too late. In short, we are going down IMO.

Don't believe a word of that. Why don’t you? I just don't believe Ashley would have agreed to a figure that high. It will be closer to half of that amount. The same idiot that gave pardew, carver, stone & woodman 8 year contracts with no clauses and had to pay them up in full. Aye I well believe it. Also wasn’t Rafa on £6m a year? He probably thought less was a bargain for Bruce We dont know what, if any, clauses were in their contracts. Dont get me wrong, Ashley is definitely stupid enough to have agreed to it. I just dont think he would have though.

Don't believe a word of that. Why don’t you? I just don't believe Ashley would have agreed to a figure that high. It will be closer to half of that amount.

Don't believe a word of that.

Ideal man? He's going to cost him £150m in lost value of the club man. Well he’s obviously clearly not that bothered about it is he. He hates us that much he won’t care if we go down. People forget just how much he hates us and how personal this is to him. If we go down he can just sell a few players and bank the parachute payments and he won’t be out of pocket much if at all. It will be us as usual that have to suffer. He hates us that much he is prepared for it to cost him £150m. Aye, righto. The parachute payments wont all come in one go and the players we have aren't worth much at all, so all of that won't be anywhere near £150m. The whole "he hates us" thing is bollocks too, he doesn't care either way. The man is simply as thick as a castle wall, nothing more than that. Aye righto? Aye that’s exactly what is actually happening. If you think he is prepared to watch NUFC halve in value simply because he "hates the fans" then you are genuinely off your nut. It is a ludicrous thing to think I would agree but what other explanation could there be because keeping Bruce in a job at this stage defies belief. Like I say, it's simply because he is an imbecile. Utterly out of his depth when it comes to how to run a football club. People way overthink Ashley's motives when it comes to NUFC.

Ideal man? He's going to cost him £150m in lost value of the club man. Well he’s obviously clearly not that bothered about it is he. He hates us that much he won’t care if we go down. People forget just how much he hates us and how personal this is to him. If we go down he can just sell a few players and bank the parachute payments and he won’t be out of pocket much if at all. It will be us as usual that have to suffer. He hates us that much he is prepared for it to cost him £150m. Aye, righto. The parachute payments wont all come in one go and the players we have aren't worth much at all, so all of that won't be anywhere near £150m. The whole "he hates us" thing is bollocks too, he doesn't care either way. The man is simply as thick as a castle wall, nothing more than that. Aye righto? Aye that’s exactly what is actually happening. If you think he is prepared to watch NUFC halve in value simply because he "hates the fans" then you are genuinely off your nut.

Ideal man? He's going to cost him £150m in lost value of the club man. Well he’s obviously clearly not that bothered about it is he. He hates us that much he won’t care if we go down. People forget just how much he hates us and how personal this is to him. If we go down he can just sell a few players and bank the parachute payments and he won’t be out of pocket much if at all. It will be us as usual that have to suffer. He hates us that much he is prepared for it to cost him £150m. Aye, righto. The parachute payments wont all come in one go and the players we have aren't worth much at all, so all of that won't be anywhere near £150m. The whole "he hates us" thing is bollocks too, he doesn't care either way. The man is simply as thick as a castle wall, nothing more than that.

Ideal man? He's going to cost him £150m in lost value of the club man.

If that happens doubt we’d stay up anyway even if Jones took over. After this week's events we aren't staying up under Bruce either. At least we get the satisfaction of seeing the prick peddled.

We need Fulham to dump us in the bottom three tonight and then a loss at WBA on Sunday to bring this shitshow to a head. If he's not sacked after that then everyone can forget about staying up and any takeover once and for all.