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A half-full stadium is pretty bad publicity like.

You say that but Sunderlands was always half full - what did that achieve?

Meanwhile Ashley's laughing his cock off at you. Money for nothing. He does what the fuck he likes, even when it deliberately makes the team worse, and you keep piling cash in his pocket for it.

You cannot criticise people for going to the match - everyone has their reasons for going, some taking their kids, some it's a form of escape (good or bad) from daily life, others (like the guy I sit next to) have been going since the 70s - it's in his DNA to go.

I honestly don't believe he would care if attendance figure dropped as the TV is that much these days.

What I think he would/does care about is bad publicity - he even dragged himself in from of a House of Commons committee to defend himself.  We need coordinated protests - in numbers - like Liverpool fans did.  It needs to make the national press - not the likes of the Chronicle for him to care.  And it needs to be constant until he's gone.  And stop shopping at SD in Northumberland street.

Pretty sure that's the cheapest MFI kitchen cabinet set you can get.

I bet Charnley fitted it himself as well

Why have we signed this guy? What about him makes Ashley think he’s worth it? Hmm.........

 

Potential shirt sales in Japan / exposure to new markets etc. It’s fairly straightforward.

 

I was kinda making that point tbh

Anyone is an improvement over Joselu.

Why are they wasting money sending new seasons tickets? Not like we can afford it.

Where's the money going?

 

 

Is it legal for him to treat the club as a piggy bank?

Mou is gone by Jan. He's already in meltdown, slagging players, whinging. It's over.

Seems to happen eventually - gets a nice pay off then onto the next club.

Does Rafa actually want Rondon?

Did he injure his knee in training?

*sigh* we all know Fat Mike won't sign a replacement.

That's a shite fee in today's market.

I get what you're saying but we needed to sell so if we get £27Mil over the course of the deal I think that's not bad considering.

He'll give his all we can be sure of that - rather this lad than Rondon.

What kind of a mong follows Sports Direct on twitter anyway?

Post of the day ^

This deserves the Picard upgrade

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#ifashleystayswecancelsky

I'll take him as a squad player but lets face it he's no replacement for Merino - lad is going to be a Spain regular come next tournament.  He was class on his day. He's an upgrade on Collback mind so i'll take that 

In two minds about a boycott, it would hurt Rafa just as much I think.

 

What happened before was after years of terrible football on the pitch and excuse after excuse by that snake oil merchant managing the team.

 

We can hardly say that’s the case now, our team give it all on the pitch and they deserve our support.

 

A boycott wouldn’t hurt Ashley financially as we’ve sold all of our season tickets. They’ll just report the tickets sold figures.

 

Like someone mentioned here before.. a protest holding everything up outside his warehouse would make national news and effectively interrupt profits for a time. Occupy SD?

 

That would get his attention.

 

The real question is, which of you daft fuckers would actually go all the way and carry something like that out?

Agree with all of this tbf

 

What does a boycott (with Rafa still here) achieve? Like you said the ticket money is gone anyway. Is it a form of protest to let Ashley know we want him out? Cause he sure as hell knows that already and doesn't give a flying fuck.  Hurt his business and he'll take notice

 

The boycott would only impact if people (and large numbers) had not renewed so absolutely no point whatsoever going down that route now.

 

It's all about the negative attention. It's pretty clear it pisses him off when national media picks up on it.

This ^ and it's pointless boycotting unless we do it on mass. 

Empty Stadium for the 1st Game of season would have the biggest impact - it's televised.

I'd happy not go if everyone could unite and do the same.

£30m a year man

 

plus outgoings you'd hope. Merino + Mitro could be another 30 this summer alone

 

Burnley's net spend was -£9m (spent £35m) on players last season, Everton £56m, Leicester £35m, Palace £31m, Bournemouth £11m, West Ham -£21m (spent £38m), Watford £47m

£30 Mil will include sign on fees, wages - so that really equates to £10Mil to spend.

But that aside - this whole business with the stand off is easily resolved - give Rafa the cash, let him have control and he'll sign.  He wants to stay but who in their right mind would trust Ashley. Clearly imo Ashley has no intention of giving Rafa control or he would have already.

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If they are using £10k to hit Sports Direct by holding protests outside the distribution centre so they can’t do deliveries then it’s a good idea. If it’s £10k to produce a few ‘cockney mafia out banners’ then they can forget it.

As much as I hate seeing stores close on the high street - I would love to see people stop buying from the Sports Direct store - it's free and it's a statement.

Fulham will finish ahead of us and mitrovic will outscore any of our strikers.

This ^

Contract until: 30.06.2019

 

 

So he's gone there on a 12 month loan with an option to buy at the end.. when he's a free agent. Who they buying him from then?

Maybe pay a fee after so many games?  But good question

Better than a signing 

Need it on some T-shirts which we can wear to the match

Plain white with the hash tag #IfRafaGoesWeGo written onto it