Sean

Perez is looking lively.

Deepest i've seen us play i think.

Fuck was that header?

Ian Holloway on Sky Sports News saying you can hear the creaking of ashley's wallet as he's that tight

Yes

Disgusting cunts with their gamesmanship man.

Rondon's sportsmanship stands in contrast to the city team and Kyle Walker, surprise surprise

Pep always seems pissed off with his teams' inability (or lack of will) to smash 7 or 8 past us I feel

How are we gonna manage to fuck this one up then?

But Rafa bought them! He must think they're world beaters surely

There seems to be various groups planning various ill-thought out "protests" that are obviously going to fall flat on their face. Except the obvious one which is stay the fuck away from this shell of a club.

Imagine paying Ashley money to boo Rafa's subs Imagine fuming at Rafa and not Ashley Some people ffs.

Yep, the club haven't directly said this. They've put it out to the press (self confessed liars to the press). They've gone out of their way to fuck it up. It's part of their war against Rafa.

Atmosphere should be lifting after the recent transfer activity

Also, the aim shouldn't always be to make money on a player. So many of our fans live in Ashleyland ffs.

It's all eerily similar to the Jimenez/Wise situation against Keegan - disagreeing with his picks, putting lowball bids in for his targets, in Keegans case they even made bids for players he didn't want. They lied to Keegan that Milner would be replaced by Schweinsteiger ffs...clearly Rafa knows if he agrees to sell anyone the same will happen to him. I wonder if Barnes has interviewed targets himself like Jiminez did. Wonder who they've said isn't good enough for the PL this time.. Rafa should walk, he's too good to put up with this. So should our fans.

It's disgraceful. There's hundreds of millions gone missing from our club under Ashley. Would love to see someone work out how much money he's deprived the club of over all these years.

This is where I'm at too. It's gone past the point anyone can pretend otherwise now. May as well all hold up white flags next game to let him know he's won

Just a side note on the value of the club here, but the entire squad cost £120 million. Compared to teams like Everton, Leicester and Southampton (who we should be at least matching, if not outspending in any normal, sane world) there is a £100-220 million deficit there ffs The amount needed to catch up on but also off the pitch, is massive.

This was my first thought, more lies put into the public domain by Ashley's sources, f***ing p*ss take. I have a feeling him and his cronies are already making plans to try to placate supporters for the summer already...judging by his past actions and the reactions it isn't going to be too hard for them to achieve sadly. I agree and I reckon it will happen by tricking Rafa to stay If they actually spend any money before the end of Jan you could well be right.

It's incredible isn't it. All he has to do is give him some moderate backing now/in the summer and it would be a solid mid table club raking in the Pl money for years to come and he wouldn't lose Benitez or face any backlash. A bit of spending and he would make it all back and have an easy life yet he would rather go down the hard route. Beyond me what goes through his head Doesn't make any sense. Even minimal spending would secure league status and move the club into top 8-10, enable a cup run, etc but he actively works to fuck things up. I genuinely believe he enjoys rubbing the fans up the wrong way. This. He fucking hates us and has done since Keegan left. Everything he's done since makes perfect sense when you realise it's pure hatred that drives every decision to do with this football club.

It really pisses me off how the media just peddle Ashley's bullshit without question. Surely they know it's all a load of shit even.

This was my first thought, more lies put into the public domain by Ashley's sources, fucking piss take. I have a feeling him and his cronies are already making plans to try to placate supporters for the summer already...judging by his past actions and the reactions it isn't going to be too hard for them to achieve sadly.

Ben Arfa!! :lol: