Ankles Bennett

I was there as well guys. Glory days!!!

Where West Ham are. 100% what I was going to say. Keeping Rondon, Perez and Almiron and then giving him the £90 million that Bruce got?! The defence was already sorted. The Longstaff and Hayden pairing was getting better and better every game in midfield. He would have just fleshed out the squad and made the team better in certain areas, and improved the subs options. We would have been top 6 minimum, while threatening a whole lot more, considering how vulnerable the typical top 4 bunch have looked. Totally agree. It's so bastard frustrating. He's a stupid twat Mike Ashley and this for me has been his worst decision as NUFC owner by far. But is it Ashley? Just suppose Ash has divested all responsibility for the club to Barnes and Charnley, and its Charnley who chose Bruce because he is (a plastic) Geordie (as an aside is Charnley a Geordie by birth?), and Barnes bought Joelinton because he relied upon the judgement of Nixon who said his value would sky rocket.

Me too!!! Could hardly speak after we all chanted "Howay the lads" for the entire second half!! As you say a great day out and we managed to drive back to Newcastle in time for last orders!!!

Not really. If it doesn't go through he gets to keep the non refundable deposit of £17m.

My worry is if Ashley sticks with Bruce in the Championship, he just might take us down to join the great SMB's in League One!!!

The hierarchy are gambling that the 25 points we got from games at the start of the season can be replicated in the games leading up to the end of the season.

Wolves next week is a nailed on defeat!!!!

Ole saying cheers for the 3 points Steve. Bruce saying No bother Ole your welcome !

Ffs Ashley swallow your pride and tell Bruce to Fuck off and offer Rafa whatever he wants to come back and save us !!!

Well at least we know Bruce will be told to pack his bags tomorrow morning x

Only got to hold out for 86 more minutes for a point!

I thought Staveley was going to get a 10% share for the work she does setting up and completing the takeover?

I posted on here yesterday the question of whether Ashley would ask Rafa to come back on a short term contract etc and would be in situ as manager if the takeover goes through. Looks like its developed into a rumour overnight!

If Ashley does sack Bruce, who do we think he will appoint as his replacement. Is it possible he would go to Rafa and say look I know we don't see eye to eye, but I'm going to be gone from this club soon. Will you accept a contract to the end of the season to keep the club in the EPL. If the takeover falls through, or we get relegated, and you cannot work with me, you can walk away at the end of the season. Keep us up and you get a bonus, and if the takeover goes through I know the consortium want you as manager so you will already be in situ for them. A possibility or just a dream!!!

Alternatively he knows nothing yet and is just showing a bit of solidarity to the cause by liking the tweet.

If passing legislation to allow real madrid tax breaks not afforded to most of the other La Liga clubs isn't a government bail out I dont know what is!

The Spanish Government passed legislation way back in 1990 declaring Real Madrid to be a non for profit Sporting club owned by its members and therefore exempt from tax. This is how they are able to buy the best players as they don't have to pay tax. To be fair they also afforded the same privilege to Barca, Athletic Bilbao, and Osasuna, but that was probably so they couldn't be accused of favouring Real Madrid I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity! No they didn't. [emoji38] They did they bought the ground for millions and gave it back to them didn’t they? I remember they received a massive amount of illegal state subsidies a good few years ago but think they were forced to pay it all back? Firstly, it was the local government that bought the land off them not the actual Spanish government. Secondly they were forced to pay some of it back by the EU in illegal state aid but not the whole transaction. Thirdly, it affected several other clubs. https://www.ft.com/content/750e14a2-3f94-11e6-9f2c-36b487ebd80a

I heard that and he was Implying that proved they weren't legally separate. A government bailout doesn't prove they are of the same entity. The Spanish government bailed out Real Madrid when they were on the verge of going bust many years ago, and I believe its not the first time they have done so, but that doesn't mean the government and Real Madrid are the same entity!

So we have paid Bournemouth compensation for a ft coach who would probably have been sacked today .

If it really was Bruce's idea to bring on Jones then fair play to him. I wont have a problem with Bruce if the team keep playing like that even if it's all down to Jones!

I reckon Bruce is being undermined by the club to try and force a resignation. Once Jones is settled in they will put Bruce on gardening leave and promote Jones to head coach.

So the media tell us that Ashley will only consider Bruce's position if, and only if, we drop into the bottom three, and that it will cost £1.5m severance pay to bin the waste of air. It beggars belief that owners don't stipulate in the manager/head coaches contracts that they can be sacked without compensation if the club drops into the bottom three after a certain number of games have been played, or maybe they do, and that is why Bruce wont be sacked until we drop into the bottom three.

Several years ago i was once called into a meeting to provide some information affecting a change in social security benefits in the upcoming Chancellors budget. I was advised that only 6 people knew about this and I was warned to not even discuss it with my wife. Any leak would be easily traced. Needless to say I kept quiet until after the budget! The reason I post this is I cannot understand why anyone in the position I was in with confidential information would risk losing their job just to pass this information ergo I conclude that these itk's are just making it up as they go along!!!

Her rage at wasting MP time during a pandemic is a bit rich aswell, she openly admits she sent a letter the 1st time round. I’m quite sure they have enough spare time to deal with multiple issues, and likewise govt ministers. She's on there for the sole purpose of boosting her social media profile, pure and simple and shes succeeded there I'll give her that. She's a solicitor (calls her lself a lawyer to make it sound more interesting even though Lawyer is just an American term for Solicitior). Literally the first word in her bio is "Solicitor", like. My apologies as I haven't seen her Bio for a while. She used to use the word Lawyer all the time when trying to underline her own importance. She is a lawyer. However all lawyers come to a crossroads eventually where they opt to either follow the solicitor path or the barrister path.

How can MBS be charged with lopping someone's head off. Its the law of the land so its a judicial killing, the same as the USA who executed that woman in the gas chamber the other day, that's also a judicial killing. Should Trump be charged with murder, because he was the one that said executions in the USA should be resumed.