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Man, we should just sign him. The hell do we have to lose.

 

Bring the Prince home, I say.

I'd have him back - Rafa could be the secret to unlocking his potential

0 - Rafa is off and that's all that matters !!

Isn't he from the area? It's like he's sold his soul to the devil for £150K a year and single handedly helping Ashley flush this club down the toilet.

Such a waste of a talent

Ashley clearly didn't want Rafa to sign the contract - he just offered him it knowing he would never sign it. 

Salah is just killing us - how much was he last year?  Can he have another season like last year? Can you afford NOT to have in your team? 

Positive thoughts everyone - Rafa just has to stay - just has to.

does the forum have a league?

 

Updated the OP with the invite code.

does the forum have a league?

We're become increasingly reliant on loans to replace, rather than supplement, transfers. Which is problematic, to say the least.

its not the way to build a squad

I would swap places with the Mackems right now.

 

Not in a million years.

 

At least they have hope.

You said it yourself, it wasn't newsworthy. Ours would be.

Why would it be?  Ellis Short shafted Sunderland - people stopped going - it took them to drop to League One before he left. Yet it barely made the press.

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 ^