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I still have nightmares about the way Ozil overtook him for that goal.

They got him on the cheap, so its a shame. Where'd you hear that?

May as well be singing 'The Wheels on the Bus'.

Imagine the reaction when MA is about to sign off on a £10m sponsorship deal and then the Sunderland Echo come in with a £5 offer, which of course he accepts. The Sunderland Echo Arena.

Love it

Is it sad that I know of most of those due to Football Manager?

Shouldn't be called Bedroom, it doesn't have a roof on it. Oh, wait...

8 Pages in the Chronicle i just bought. I only bought it cos it's thursday ie Jobs day and there's only 2 pages of very little of them! You've just saved me 45p (i think) With that kind of money, you could buy infinite stadium name sponsorships. I've already renamed my room SportsDirect@mybedroom, in case any Qatari trillionaires become interested.

8 Pages in the Chronicle i just bought. I only bought it cos it's thursday ie Jobs day and there's only 2 pages of very little of them! You've just saved me 45p (i think)

because theres no buyers bollocks. If he put the club up for sale for a reasonable price I think we'd get a buyer. If there has been any private interest he'll be increasing the price because we're nearly 'self-sufficient' define "reasonable price" because you can be sure to Ashley a reasonable price is at least getting all the cash he's spent on the club back and I don't see anyone atm paying near £300m for NUFC £300m is reasonable. The basis is there in the stadium and fanbase for someone (be it Russian, American, middle-Eastern or whatever) with serious wealth to take the club to the next step on the field and reap the financial benefits off it. The Frenchies love us, maybe we'll get Jean Claude Baguette to take over.

Might be blind hope but if this commercial interest doesn't materialise, could you see them changing it back? They can claim they listened to the fans and learnt from their mistakes etc. Maybe around season ticket renewal time.

Any new letters will be vandalised within weeks, I'll do it myself if I have to. Honestly, what a fucking prick Mike Ashley is. Why couldn't he just leave us alone for a while?

If its Sports Direct, we're losing a source of income. Oh who are we kidding? Even if we get a good sponsor, everything else will have gone to shit so it doesn't really matter.

Come on Mike, go on a hectic burger diet. Set us free.

Good point, although I'd think new owners would drop the name as an early PR move. Gets the fans onside, makes them look good etc.

Because they hate us, they'll do whatever they can to make us look bad. Thats why I've always found the 'Magedia' thing hilarious - in reality its the complete opposite.

People will still call it SJP, if this happens. If you're gonna rebrand SJP, dunno why you'd do it with Sports Direct though. We'd get no money for it and its not like we don't know about them already......

Can't wait for Wireside to come back - it'll be hilarious.

Santon replacing Marveaux is a good shout, especially as he's played there before. They'll be aiming for Simpson and Raylor so if we have Santon and Jonas running back to help them, it'll be a massive help. Unsure what to do with Ben Arfa though, part of me thinks he'll rise to the occasion and petrify their defence. But the other part thinks we should stick with 4-4-2. By the way, this thread will be massive by matchday

Strange seeing Milner and Kluivert in here. I was always a fan of Milner and maybe it was just my youthful days but I thought Kluivert did well here......the FA Cup goals, the flick against Palace, Bnei Sakhnin etc.

Did he ever really 'have' it?

Sammy, man

10pts ahead of Villa 13pts ahead of Stoke 15pts ahead of Everton 15pts ahead of Sunderland 15pts ahead of Fulham ...already, these gaps look too big to close down. Anything below 7th would be very disappointing and if we get lucky with CC/FAC finalists that'd be enough for Europa League.

God, I hate Liverpool. It was there before Dogleash, but with him its got worse. I still refuse to watch them on TV because the very thought of them makes my skin crawl - everything about them. PhilB is a canny poster though

dannysimpson12 Danny Simpson Its being spoken about that I may be called up for The England Squad, b such an Honour to represent my country