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Are they hell. Linking the club's incoming funds with Ashley's buyout, definitely. But there's a clear and obvious link between the club's lack of spending and Ashley's investment elsewhere. Got to disagree. It's his desire to reach the aim (staying in the prem while spending as little as possible). Do you really think if the HoF deal wasn't in the offing NUFC would have spent more ? This. NUFC's transfer business does not affect whether Sports Direct acquire House of Fraser ffs. They're not all little pots of money that Ashley moves around as he sees fit Most people know this but its an emotional thing to find something else to have a go at Ashley, and my god theres a lot, but keep it factual or we look daft. Sing somerhing better, more questioning than get out of club you fat cockney bastard, then the medi may listen and ask it themselves. We all saw how Ashley doesnt like being questioned. There is a direct correlation between SD capitol and the free advertising at SJP so it's not a massive leap to suggest that money is the club's money that should have been used to pay for advertising and reinvested in the club.

Amazing I have added my rating and it felt Good, infantile, but Good!

Surely throwing our name in the hat, supporter group or not, can only be a good thing? Whatever the choice I back it 100%

The best/worst thing Ashley has ever done is hire Rafa Benitez, best because he gave us part of our cloob back, worst for Ashley because Rafa embodies something he spent years trying to extinguish, hope. Ashley and Pardew worked hard dashing hopes, dampening expectations and telling us, we can't afford, we can't compete, we are where we belong and apathy reigned. Anyone speaking out was told "support the team, not the regime" because that's what we were told to believe. In one season, with a modest squad, Rafa broke into the top 10 and showed us how we can compete, with a little investment in the right areas why couldn't we try for Europe, why can't we have a good cup run, you never know what might happen in a knockout tournament. Years of work undone in one season by one man. Ashley is trying to bring us back down to earth, undermine the man who awoke hope, dash the expectations of our support, but the damage is done. Never have I seen, under Ashley's stewardship, this amount of pressure building, the "support the team, not the regime" line touted so quietly by a minority. The anger is brewing, I hope it doesn't fizzle out, I hope a couple of deadline day anticlimax deals don't hush the crowd. This feels different, this feels like for once the whole support is pulling in the same direction. Ashley needs to go before Rafa does or we've wasted a whole generation and we might not get another chance under a manager as good as this any time soon.

I said the same on Twitter when everyone was calling out the wording of the "if Rafa goes we go" petition. It's less important what it says than what it means. Rather than argue over the intricacies of what it should/shouldn't say, threaten or offer, it's a focal point of frustration. Rather than be divided over wording we should be United by intent. People have different ideas of what might be effective but the reality is whatever we do if we do it in unison then we will be heard 50,000 with the same agenda, even if it was another mock funeral () would make people stand up and listen.

https://sillyseason.com/list/salaries/premier-league-wages-per-team-69064 Not sure how reliable the information is but it has our wages from 2014-2017 being £68m, £78.3m, £75.8m then £47m

Wasn't that including contract amortization for the likes of Colback though? They can't claim those wages twice ffs

I was just about to add, how have we got a £100m wage bill? Unless FCB is paying himself around £40m a year that is

I can see apathy overriding anger TBH, it probably will with me. Don't think I have the energy to get angry any more. How much fucking energy do you need to get angry? Never really understand that comment - how much energy have you used so far? I get the feeling of apathy in what seems like a hopeless situation that you can't control or affect. That's the inherent problem though, everyone thinking like that, we/you can make a difference by standing up together over an extended period of time, relentlessly! You're only tired when you're beat, once the adrenaline kicks in you'll not be tired anymore. Rafa leaves then there needs to be a huge backlash and one that is sustained until he's gone, not placated by MA vow to leave. It's worked before, at different clubs, it even worked on MA at Rangers, we need to do the same.

England set penis > pardspew floated set penis

Floated set penis... I rest my case your honour

That's a 4th placed team right there!

At this stage it would be more shocking if he was in for 3 months

Chelsea taking the same approach to managers as we do to players, I wonder how long they'll monitor other managers for? #trendsetters

https://twitter.com/KiOfCoke/status/1017046330185846784 Scotland would struggle against all of those in that list, not to mention he conveniently missed out Colombia [emoji23]

In fairness I completely forgot Lazaar existed, so Ryder did well to even remember him. Aye but neither of us get paid to write the stuff, i mean a quick check would have took a few seconds, so you get the facts right. The man is a buffoon, a total buffoon. Who according to Ryder was a decent keeper in his day so he accepts the analogy

I've got the day off, trying to occupy my time with a bit of Fortnite to take my mind off it. Incidently I keep waking up with Three Lions going round and round in my head, like none stop!

It was difficult tbh but he should have been alert to it rather than it just bouncing off him

Lukaku [emoji23][emoji23][emoji23]

I'd be fine with that if it meant Ashley had no more excuses for not spending. The reality is he probably pays clever accountants more than anyone else in his empire Almost looking forward to studying next years financial submission from the club. If we don't buy a couple of players soon we're going to run out of contracts to amortise, then where will the imaginary debt go?

I just hope all this shit doesn't overshadow what has become an amazing achievement for the English team.

Fyi this is all happening dahn saaaarf

[emoji38] I hope he's picked up a serious injury. A grown man, ffs.

We've raised a generation of self entitled nobheads basically, I'm not saying they're all like that because that's what's annoying me about the "All England Fans are the same and we actively want you's to lose" mantra. Yes we've got a load of pricks causing havoc, wrecking public and private property and throwing beer around, it's not indicative of England Fans, it's the Ingurrrland "fans" that jump on the bandwagon when it's going well and only own an England shirt, maybe a 2018 Man City shirt and an old Chelsea shirt in the wardrobe on top of an early 2000s Man U shirt. A bit of nice weather, some beer and a mob mentality is a disaster waiting to happen. Like HTT I stay far away from public gatherings of said nob heads when the game is on, I've been hosting World Cup days at my gaff for 5 or 6 friends and it's been a quality tournament. Don't let pictures on social media and in the papers form your opinion on England Fans as a collective, as NUFC fans you know how easy it is to get caught in a clichè.