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Ashley saw this spat with Keegan coming a mile off. In my opinion it was contrived by himself and Wise etc to get Keegan out of the club. The selling of Milner and lack of signings on the final day was just the last straw. Well done Ashley you fat charva tracksuit selling twat. You have what you wanted, now you can install a puppet manager and continue asset stripping the club.

Now all we need is some faceless foreign "coach" to put the players through their places. While Ashley and his cabal of Cockney cnuts bring in some Spanish/Italian U21 players to sell on for bigger fees. Keegan's strength is building a team, he has a great eye for a player and given the resources he could of had us challenging.

Ashley is an asset stripping cockney spiv. No self respecting manager would put up with the level of inteference Keegan has had. The much vaunted "continental system" is supposed to work in tandem with the manager by taking away responsibilities for negotiating contracts etc and scouting new players not buying and selling without the manager's acknowledgement. Keegan has done the right thing, he won't be anyone's stooge.

Fixed. where are these 4 signings ? it's sunday ffs, when do u get signings announced on a sunday? never When its 24 hours before a major transfer window deadline?

We will sign players. I expect at least two, but they will be what MA said, "young players 22-24". They won't be the galacticos some have been expecting and not even in the "straight into the first team" class that we desperately need. As stated previously, the likes of Guthrie, notwithstanding his good start to the season, are currently first team material because we have no one else. Arda Turan is 21. Does that rule him out? Yes.

We will sign players. I expect at least two, but they will be what MA said, "young players 22-24". They won't be the galacticos some have been expecting and not even in the "straight into the first team" class that we desperately need. As stated previously, the likes of Guthrie, notwithstanding his good start to the season, are currently first team material because we have no one else.

But we haven't been doing nothing have we? We've already brought in 4 good players. We've brought in two good players and two squad players and we have let 8 players go, 3 of whom could be considered first team players.. Is it not 3 first team players and one squad player or do you rate Butt higher than Guthrie Guthrie has had a good solid start to the season, he's a tidy player and his passing is excellent. However, if we had signed the players we really need in this transfer window he would only be a squad player.

Agreed, there will be some disappointed hectors tomorrow when the awful truth is unveiled. Still, we might be surprised and Arshavin and Berbatov could be introduced at a press conference on Tuesday. :toke:

I don't think anyone of any note is coming in, which makes the selling of Milner even more galling to me. I certainly don't expect a WOW signing. I was stood outside the offy next door to the Drayton pub a the Emirates yesterday. Minding my own business scuppering a few green grenades when Mike Ashley and his entourage turned up. His bouncer was despatched to get the beers in and Mike was mobbed within seconds by fans asking about new signings. His exact words were "we are looking at 2 or 3, young lads about 22-24, foreigners, because the English market has been done." I'm not holding my breath, he may have something up his sleeve but I doubt it. It's going to be a long hard season.......