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Dunno what to feel. Lawro is predicting us to lose, so I've got and inkling we might nick it...

He has an outstanding touchline ban from his time at Forrest...

Crazy when you think of it in those terms, but it would show that they intend to give KK a role at the club, both as manager and beyond...

What do people expect? He's a fucking business man, he wants as much as he can get. Ask for £480m, settle for £250 - 300m. As for whoring about, we don't have any solid facts that he's been to meetings in Dubai or whatever, just press specualtion at the minute, and we know how much he loves to respond to press speculation...

Some of the articles over the last couple of days have been ridiculous. They remind me of a Simpsons episode. Remember when the comet was going to wipe out Springfield and half the town went to Flanders' bomb shelter? Homer convinced everyone that Flanders was useless and should leave. Only to have a sudden change of heart when he felt guilty afterwards, and then proceeded to blame everyone for making him leave. For Homer, see Media, Flanders, see Ashley, and we're everyone else. Probably stupid, and definitely silly, but it made me chuckle. They made out from day one that Ashley was a shyster who was only after profit, and would sell us down the river for a few quid. Now, after some simply stupid business decisions on his part, which have made his ownership untennable, he is being painted as an idealist who wanted the best for us but we were too pig-headed and deluded to let him help us. Complete bollocks... :colo:

It's been a pretty poor match, but at least we're getting the 3 points. Too often we've been going away from home to the lesser teams in Europe and blowing our chances by dropping points. Win ugly or lose ugly? I know which i'd prefer. Also bear in mind, it's Trap's first competitive match. Onwards and upwards I say...

Too fucking soon man!!!

Without any sense of hyperbole, this is fucking catastrophic for the club...

How is that different from now? The thing I really worry about is what happens when Abramovich (or our version of him) loses interest or in his case gets on the wrong side of Putin and ends up with a Polonium sandwich? Chelsea would be instantly totally f***ed. I'm really uncomfortable with the entire future of the club resting on a knife-edge at the whim of some billionaire. You don't get to be a billionaire by being nice remember, these are ruthless people and they wouldn't hesitate to bin NUFC if they felt the need to. There's going to be a global recession in the next few years, who knows what's going to happen to these people's fortunes. They don't even need to be in financial trouble, simple PR could do for us, too. What happens if times get hard in India and all this bloke's customers are suffering the pain, if they start to say "hang about we're f***ing skint yet the bloke who owns this company is chucking money about owning a foreign football team", then he could just f*** us off to placate them, it wouldn't be the first time something like that's happened. Apart from anything, being rich doesn't guarantee you anything, hands up those who think Citeh are going to win the league next season, I doubt they'll even come second actually. How much have Real won over the last few years? It's not as simple as people are making out, there are risks, big risks and it's far from a no-brainer. Sorry Indi, that doesnt make much sense. All this fear mongering of billionaires leaving the club to death is just that exactly. It is exactly because they treat football clubs as an investment, that they will continue supporting it. If they leave it to rot to death, then the value will drop and nobody will buy the club from them. That's a dent in their investment portfolio not to mention reputation. You don't become a billionaire by making poor investment decisions and neglecting the club (or pulling the plug as you put it) would rank as a very poor investment decision both financially and reputation wise (which is very important for these blokes). Being known as the billionaire who screwed NUFC (or a high profile Premiership club which we are) will look really bad on his CV and will have repercussions beyond his investment in the club. And no, I doubt Ambani's wealth is funded by the average Poor Indian consumers How much has Abramovich put into Chelsea so far? £300m, £400m, half a billion? You reckon he's gonna get that back!?! No chance. Chelsea is his play thing, it's not an investment, not a financial one anyway, although it may be an investment in another sense in that it gives him the right to stay in the UK and what with Russia being the way it is, that's a useful thing for an oligarch, always have somewhere to run if things go sour, look at Thaskin. Do you seriously think that the people who have bought Man City are buying it to make money from? £32.5m for Robinho!! Is that your idea of a good investment decision? These people aren't interested in money they're interested in status, both legal and social that's all, the money involved is pocket change to them anyway. They want some bling-bling and at the moment the blingiest thing you can get is a Premiership football club. That won't always be the case though and what happens then? I see your point, but if they do become bored and move on to something else, they'll surely just sell up to the next multi-billionaire playboy / corporation in line. It's not like they'll just dissolve the club and write-off several hundred millions worth of assets

You need to take a hit to stay in the top flight. They're spending big and will stay up, it'll pay off in the long run.

Typical. I watched that shite SSN loop for the last 3 hours, then decide to get up and make a cuppa and something happens!. Still not over by a long stretch methinks...

Fucking cretins. Jumping about like they've never seen a camera crew before. I'm sitting in the house depressed and them fucking muppets going on like it's a fucking party...

This feels like a fucking wake... How did we end up like this?!

According to BBC website... 2104: This won't surprise you in the least, but I'm getting wind of an enormous bust-up over the signing of Tottenham's Bulgarian striker Dimitar Berbatov. It probably revolves around Manchester United taking him though a medical, even though Spurs haven't allowed United to speak to him yet. This one is about to get brutal.

Didn't Barton have a tough time in Liverpool area and to go back to the same area is asking for trouble indeed Wait, isn't he not allowed in Liverpool? After his shenanigans at Christmas he fucking shouldn't be...

Maybe in for Skjelbred?

Top 10 club after Joey. Everton maybe?

SSN say Real in for Berbatov...

Differing from what? They all agree that he has improved a lot, and will get better, and score goals, given a good run in the first team...

Of all the major European leagues, I think Holland is the only one that finishes tonight...

What? Did you just contradict yourself in the same sentence? The same Mike Ashley who financed deals for Jonas and Coloccini? mackems.gif

I honestly don't give a shit what any commentators / pundits say. IMO, listen to what KK, MA, and the rest of the team say and then make up your own mind. And, Setanta is a much more attractive package for me in Ireland as we get 3pm Saturday games live too...