Pandamninator

After the Ashley years we're probably gonna (rightly) see this recreated for a dozen different signings over the next window or two

They already tried it once during the Pardew era - funnily enough, his Mike Ashley simping ways didn't go down any better here either and ended up giving an epic little flounce.

Can we please have a shoot to kill order set in place for Christmas Tree if he tries to migrate here?

Can't think of anything more sustainable and measured than giving Masayoshi Son 50 billion to waste on WeWork and cratering Uber shares.

60 monthly instalments

Look at some of the trash Man City signed the first January window after their takeover. In 2022 I would call the Bellamy and De Jong prices an overpay, let alone in 2009. 3 January 2009DF Wayne Bridge Chelsea£10M[25][26] 19 January 2009FW Craig Bellamy West Ham United£14M[27][28] 21 January 2009MF Nigel de Jong Hamburger SV£16M[29][30] 1 February 2009GK Shay Given Newcastle United£5.9M[31][32][33] Even the second season was shoddy and scattergun outside of Tevez and Gareth Barry 1 July 2009MF Gareth Barry Aston Villa£12,000,000[27][28] 1 July 2009FW Roque Santa Cruz Blackburn Rovers£18,000,000[29][30] 1 July 2009GK Stuart Taylor Aston VillaFree[31][32] 13 July 2009FW Carlos Tevez MSI£25,500,000[33][34] 18 July 2009FW Emmanuel Adebayor Arsenal£25,000,000[35][36] 29 July 2009DF Kolo Touré Arsenal£16,000,000[37][38] 24 Aug 2009DF Sylvinho BarcelonaFree[39][40] 25 Aug 2009DF Joleon Lescott Everton£22,000,000[41][42]

As a Kiwi, i'm probably drinking the Kool Aid but honestly, I have no issue with the Wood signing. I see him and Trippier doing what Matthew Etherington and James Beattie did for Stoke the season we went down. They were both signed in January in the midst of a relegation battle so one could whip crosses at the others head for 4 months, safety was secured and Beattie was immediately turfed from the First XI. I have no issues with paying that money if Wood gets us half a dozen vital goals and is used as a substitute/cups striker from thereon.

Made a bet that he would drink his own piss if Nolan scored 6 goals in the first season post promotion. Hilarity ensued.

If they're literally barbequing the Sports Direct signage, sign me up.

Ritchie would just do it himself.

5 years of being indispensable due to Ashley refusing to sign a replacement and knowing it. If he doesn't see the light by December 31st, he'll soon learn very quickly that those days are over once the transfer window opens.

Director of fireplace sanitation. I imagine that will be quite a busy role now that Mike Ashley has one less thing to take up his time with and 300 million burning a hole in his bootcut jeans pocket.

Pretty much. Obviously I would've loved Conte or Emery, but he isn't a shit manager - the worst case scenario I see with him is he get's given the war chest and guides us to a 7th place battle within 2 seasons before getting turfed as at that point the elite managers will have a good base to build on rather than being thrown into a relegation battle with Matt Ritchie as their left back.

They would probably struggle to even to do that - isn't he already the highest paid in the world?

I just don't believe the 8 million for a second - maaaaaybe if it includes the entire staff? Unless there was a poison pill about new ownership inserted I can't see how Ashley would let himself be on the hook for that, especially after Rafa.

I give it two months before he is in an asylum smearing faeces on the wall. He is cracking faster than Bruce.

To be expected with Brewcies entertainers. Would rather lose 4-3 than win 1-0, something, something, expectations.

He just didn't give a shit anymore after Hillsborough, not that I can blame for losing the spark after that and the burden he carried in the aftermath. Even at Blackburn he never really gave the impression he cared beyond sticking it to Ferguson - buggered off after winning the League and couldn't even be bothered having a crack at the European Cup for the first time as a manager. Once he got to us it was just another pay cheque.

Mike Ashley is going to want his money, even if the Saudi's get bored or go elsewhere you know he would scorch the earth for a 20 quid note, let alone the tens of millions rejecting the takeover will have cost him.

Record TV deals being replaced by even bigger Record TV deals as they expire combined with Rafa and Chris Hughton bailing us out the two times his gambles backfired and we got relegated. I think both the club and him would've been in trouble if we didn't bounce back first time asking.

Same could be said to you. He is definitely not a Mackem - when he rips into the support the team, not the regime lot, there is real venom there.

I know we've all been clamouring for it for 31 years, so rest easy now that we can finally hear Gazza and Beardsley attempt the rap verse for World in Motion. https://crackmagazine.net/2021/07/listen-to-previously-unheard-versions-of-the-world-in-motion-rap-by-paul-gascoigne-and-peter-beardsley/

It's a hangover from when Llambias thought he was a football visionary with his purple stickers, the nuffies think that they now have all the "leverage" because such a lengthy deal will inflate the transfer fee price. Completely ignoring that with current transfer dynamics you can now still extract near full price for in demand players even if they only have 12 months left, so all you're really doing is taking on all the risk if they turn out to be shit and you can't shift them like with Colback, Marveaux and Tiote.

So status quo since September 2008?

Spain was supposed to be in it for 2011, but pulled out due to wanting to give their players a proper break after playing in the Euros, Confederation Cup and World Cup in three straight years. Would've been interesting to have them at their peak competing in it.