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Option 1 for me, as much as I believe the interest in the club is real I also know how Ashley likes to think he's "won" a deal and will keep moving the goalposts. Gut feeling is that the takeover will collapse because of time wasters (Ashley being impossible yo work with) and that'll be the final straw for Rafa. I pray I'm wrong but 12 years of disappointment makes you a little negative for some reason.

"The transfer fund of £50m is non-negotiable" there they go twisting the issue again to try and make out that Rafa is asking too much when anyone who knows will understand that Rafa is more bothered about who we can recruit.

Slightly off topic, hence this thread, please delete if not allowed. My daughter has been picked as one of the top 60 athletes in the world under the age of 14 in the world! Shed been invited to go to a camp in Atlanta Georgia, we've had 5 weeks to find £3000 and are just £900 short, we're supposed to fly in 11 days so I'm trying everywhere I can, I've emailed big and small businesses, we've had some help but just need 1 last push to get her there. She's only the second ever athlete to be chosen from the UK so it's a pretty big deal. If anyone would like to help or knows someone that possibly could we have a gofundme page here: https://www.gofundme.com/angel-hardaker-next-gen-2019 If you think you can/want to help it would be massively appreciated, even if you could just share it for me that'd be great. If not, no worries and thanks for your time all. What's the phone number for our Sheik again?

Why anyone would buy a season ticket to No Comment United at the moment with so much in the air I cannot fathom. Also if you hate your Mrs that much that you'd rather watch Curbishly relegate a MA team then it's probably time you reevaluate your relationship.

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Rafa is the only manager I want here at the moment and he deserves his chance with some money to spend for this connection he's made with the club, the fans and the city. However, that being said Ashley leaving is infinitely more important than anything else at the moment and given a direct choice I'm afraid it would be Ashley gone every time. We can only hope for both of these to happen. I still think it was a misconstrued (probably on purpose to sell some rags) quote, BZG, I believe, only stated that their main priority is buying the club, as it should be and if they were to miss out on Rafa then there are other options, the rest has been pure guesswork and blown out of proportion.

It takes a week. My understanding is that the process needs to be instigated by nufc. It could be that BZG have submitted paperwork to nufc and Big mike has binned it Takes a good while to print off a document that big with a dot-matrix tbf

I second that sentiment, sometimes it's just good to vent

Make or break for me this, I can't follow a rafa-less SD United with Ashley still in charge. I'm currently 50/50 it feels like there's a lot of effort to play this down, but at the moment it's just unfounded "sources" through the media. They say there's no smoke without fire, but the problem is there's a lot of smoke coming from all directions, so where's the fire?

They also say they want us to replace him with Mourinho or Wenger but quote a source as saying "there's other options". Totally fabricated nonsense to sell red top rags.

Klopp deserved that I'd say after losing out on the league with 97 points, they've had an amazing season. Just back from a bunch of Scouse mates house, what a dull game though, Spurs had all the ball but were so poor in the final third, was there even 6 shots on target between the teams over the 90 minutes? Spurs seemed to wake up after the 2nd went in, not sure what they expected to do at 2-0 down with 7 minutes left. For the neutral it was a dull final, but least worst team won.

An Ashley source stated: “Mike is starting to think that it’s another publicity stunt, which will ultimately end in the club remaining unsold. He now wants those representing the Sheikh to either put up or shut up. We’ve had fake Sheikhs before. He’s hoping this isn’t another one.” Wow... I said it in another thread, but that's really worrying if true. If you read between the lines it's obvious they were asked about the deal being quick enough and what if Rafa's contract were to run out and the natural reply is if he does find another job then there are other options. That's how I read it. Filling column inches with he said she said drivel, sources close to, etc.. not the horses mouth, yawn.

He's not doing anyone any harm, personal attacks are out of order, if you don't want to hear it you can mute the guy and if you're bored of the speculation just stay out of the thread, it's like some weird kind of masochism?

Heartening to read this as a recovering alcoholic when so much else of the thread is ill informed, insulting, heartless and brainless bullshit. Honestly it's been a painful read, seeing some of the very strong "opinions" that we're up against, as well as an exasperating and often crippling mental illness. I'm 3 and a bit years sober but often the easiest way to stay that way is to disengage with much of the world, as there are judgemental people all over just dying to tell you their "opinion" on stuff they know nowt about. My sobriety doesn't make me any better than Gazza, I could drink any day but if I did I wouldn't have to put up with knackers up and down the country pointing their finger and making their judgement on my situation. And this is not a pop at people like Bimpy who have had a real life experience of alcoholics close to them being destructive and putting their next drink, i.e. Feeding their addiction, ahead of everything else. I know that's what happens as I was getting to the stage of doing the same to everyone around me before I was lucky enough to be able to draw on various resources and stop. But anyone trying to make this a black and white issue without any understanding of the illness that I and many others live with can absolutely get fucked. Awesome that you're sober mate and I wholeheartedly hope that continues for you. Far too many judgements being thrown around by ill-informed, judgemental keyboard warriors. It's an horrific disease and as usual people don't understand the intangible diseases in society, it must be a simple case of "pull yourself together" or "cheer up", if only it were that easy. I've seen it destroy my sister's marriage, as much as I hated his alcoholism and what the guy did to my sister, I couldn't help but also feel for his plight, I know what drove him to alcohol and I know he didn't want to be the guy he was but it was his only escape. It's easy to judge someone who has had everything and is seemingly throwing it all down the drain, but you don't know what demons he is fighting, what daily struggles he faces. I don't profess to understand, I can't empathise but I can sympathise, I hope he can get help and I hope he can stay clean.

RIP another life taken too soon

Walk a mile in his shoes, judgemental pricks

I was supposed to be meeting Gazza on the 8th June, such a shame, he clearly has some major issues but the people that associate with him don't help. It's not as easy as just stopping and anyone that has had an addiction or knows someone that has suffered with one will attest to that.

If it wasn't clear my delete the forum comment was in jest, these crazed musings of would be Columbo's on here is the only thing keeping me sane from real life at the moment. Crack on! If you don't like it, don't read it, I hate this mentality, no one is forcing your eyes open and pressing F5 for you. Let the nutters have some fun and go chat elsewhere, it ain't hard, one little click

Delete the forum

Covered all bases Trying to get a job at the Chronic? 5 things we learned from the bid next...

Its been a while since I've had to scroll past the list of names to see the topics on a non-match day

I'm just sat here quietly waiting on Black Cloud to confirm.