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The players could try just telling the truth, they are not obligated to continually big up the owner, the manager, the club etc.

It will be similar to Arsenal, attendance is always around 60k even when the stadium is half empty.

I’m laughing at our spending compared to Aston Villa/Fulham/Everybody else It won't be funny when we get relegated. It will be funny when we get relegated. We deserve to get relegated irrespective of how much we spend and hopefully we won't come back up. (until Ashley no longer owns the club)

You mean you are not out already? What the fuck is wrong with you?

So apparently Rafa asked for 8m a year potentially rising to 9.5m with bonuses. Where would that have put him in comparison with other managers in the Premier league?

Much better and more ambitious club than us.

Even Rafa couldn't turn Yedlin into a decent defender and footballer. He is fast though.

We knew Hayden was going, Fernandez is good but a back-up and not that bothered about Dubravka. Schar would be a shame, though. Why wouldn't you be bothered about losing Dubravka? It's posts like this that make you worry about the future of our great club and the ability or lack of it of the supporters who are the only people who can do something about Ashley. In case my answer isn't clear enough, it doesn't matter which players stay or leave, which manager joins or doesn't, the place needs destroying until Ashley sells up.

I have the misfortune (though it is good for business) to work indirectly with lots of these rich fuckers many worth a lot more than fat ash. It's no longer about the money at a certain point, it's about the game, doing the deal and thinking you've won, it's gambling, brinkmanship, one upmanship, that's what interests them. Virtually all cunts in my experience.

The Leibniz Caramel is indeed truly magnificent. However Liebniz the company have historically been misbehaving in the past, which slightly ruins the taste.

Well nothing is happening with the takeover so I suppose this is all fair game. Bonne Maman biscuits in general are way ahead of all that Brexit crap you have to eat back in the UK.

This is what should happen but it won't. Clubs no longer have supporters they have customers, and the customers have put up with 12 years of Ashley, JFK, Pardew and lots of other fuckwits, and the crowds have stayed solid, with a little bit of booing and posturing from time to time. Let's face it we aren't Liverpool or Rangers or even West Ham for fucks sake, they would never have put up with this shit.

No doubt Ashley would love to hold on to NUFC for a lot longer but unfortunately for him he has painted himself into a corner whereby he simply has to sell this summer. The reasons for this are two-fold....firstly he is haemorraging cash from his other business interests and secondly he has a manager of NUFC who cannot be replaced without the whole club imploding in a manner not seen before in its entire history. If Ashley is a smart gambler then he knows all of this and also realises that now is the time to walk away from the table. He has got his money back, made a tidy profit and had 12 years of exposure for his tatty brand. If he stays at the table then his asset will turn to dust over the next 12 months and wont ever recover while he is the owner. "he has a manager of NUFC who cannot be replaced without the whole club imploding in a manner not seen before in its entire history." I'm not sure that many people believe the above. In an ideal world for sure Ashley should suffer for his dreadful ownership, but even after mismanaging the club for 12 years and been relegated twice, he's still the owner of a profitable advertising vehicle for Sports Direct. If Rafa doesnt sign the contract he's alledgedly been offered, he'll be replaced by someone else and SJP will remain pretty much sold out. If the new manager turns out to be an idiot we'll probably get relegated again, something that seems to be no more than a minor inconvenience to the fat man.

Why? Knows Rafa is leaving and Ashley isn't selling? Seriously I have no idea what is his best position is, apart from it's definitely not where we have been playing him. He needs to be constantly involved in the game so probably through the middle somehow.

We are very unlikely to be signing anyone until we know whether there will be new owners or not and have a manager for the new season.

I don't think we are allowed to have good things anymore.

For what it's worth, my best bet is that they've agreed on the fee for the club as stated in the press release, but everything is now bogged down with extracting the club from the relationship it has with Sports Direct, which I'm sure Ashley is very reluctant to do.

What thing is pretty much certain and that is if the club doesn't get sold and Rafa leaves, apart from a bit of angst on some forums, nothing will happen that concerns Ashley, as SJP will be sold out for the first game of the season irrespective of who the manager is.

Henderson started in 21 games (out of 38) in the premier league, Wijnaldum started in 32.

You can't pick a bunch of reserve premier league players who are not good enough to start for their clubs and expect to win at the highest level. Delph, Stones, Lingard, Barclay, Walker (soon will be), even Henderson is not starting when Liverpool are at full strength. Southgate is seriously overrated.

Does anyone have a relatively simple answer to how much money the new owners (if we get them) would be able to invest in the club without running into issues with FFP?

Imagine being a journalist and the Sun beat you to a major football story. Time to retire.

Me too, until Ashley leaves who gives a flying fuck who the manager is.

If Ashley is not selling the club I want Rafa to leave as quickly as possible and Pardew to come back. Then burn the fucker to the ground.

Wanker Barcelona fans booing Coutinho. Gillipollas.