Ankles Bennett

When you say waste of space, I take it you mean between Bruce and soon? Got it in one!

If we dont sack the waste of space called Steve Brucesoon, the consortium may well pull out altogether as they wont want a championship side.

Couldn't agree more with this.

It's significant that the PL held up the takeover by offering arbitration which some say could take up to two years to resolve, by which time the "Big 6" would have grabbed power and would then veto our takeover. It's so obvious that was the reason behind the delaying tactics.

You can see it happening, Bruce sells Almiron and replaces him with that hack Phil Jones who is years past his best, which was never very good anyway!

I agree there is a real danger of this happening.

Assuming the takeover doesn't happen, when fans are eventually allowed back into stadiums, we should all stand and turn our backs when the teams line up for kick off whenever we play one of the "Big 6"teams, especially when it is televised. At least then other fans watching on TV will ask why we do it and will then realise that the PL is corrupt and only interested in looking after the welfare of the "Big 6" at the expense of the other 14 teams in the PL!

Isn't Stephen Clemente one of our first team coaches. Commiserations to him and has family.

Thought this post would have created more of a frenzy. This lad doesn’t get a team selection wrong does he ? I think it's just indicative of how lethargic everyone is about the whole thing. I'm not sure many people have the energy left to get excited about rumours. People are just sick of hearing things that could mean something only for it to end up meaning absolutely nothing. 7 months of that and now people hardly take any notice. It could be that this will be resolved within the next month. It took 8 months for the Southampton takeover to go through. We have been waiting 7 months so far, so we may only have to wait one more month to see this takeover go through.

There's more chance of Joelinton going through Southampton's defence like a knife through butter than the takeover happening in the next fortnight. Goto bed. If you disagree that's fine just explain how and why you reached that conclusion, but no need to be unpleasant.

My take is that maybe the takeover is going to go through within the next 2 weeks Failing that it's another delaying tactic.

Surely it's possible that the legal team Mike has hired have looked at the PL stance regarding the takeover and concluded he has zero chance of forcing the takeover through.

There are only two people that appear to be ITK on here and neither have said it is close. Mimms has said that it may be a few weeks today but before that has always said that it would be months. Mimms did say make sure you have cans or something along those lines but yesterday’s news shows is the takeover isn’t anywhere close to being back on. Please don't say what he didn't say. He said you might want to make room for can's. However it will be few weeks later not now. Jesus Pretty sure he said the takeover is still a long way off. Talking like next year I'll take next year as long as its the first of January 2021!!!

To me steve Bruce's strategy is to identify the potential winnable matches and to put the strongest teams out in those games. That is not competing its surviving! He focuses on cup runs to mask his pl inadequancies!

Aye that makes sense but i still think it would be a lot more useful to have a wall there if it’s for players likely to take Free Kicks. I mean, surely we’ve got the equipment and the staff to sort it out something that simple so why not? Yeah, but the manager ain't going to be too chuffed if your top striker gets concussed by a practice free kick

What is surely the aim of the "big 6 " is to effectively create a PL 2 and to send the other 14 teams to pl 2 and to then invite the top 14 euro teams to take their place in the PL1 with 6 teams promoted to the PL2 from the championship.

Just chuck them out of the PL. Greedy American owners ruining our national game and as for drafts they can f**k off.

Yes I meant one of the big 6

Seems to me if one of the top 6 ends up in a relegation spot the top 6 will simply suspend relegation that season .

Rumour the Saudi finance minister has also flown in. Can anyone confirm this?

Bruce has got to go. Virtually nill possession as usual.7

Just in time for the transfer window to slam shut.

We were told the transfer budget was £35m. That's what we have spent on Wilson and Lewis so I dont expect to see any more incoming unless they are freebies or loans.

Not a single shot on target. Just not good enough.

Wouldn't it be fair to say that this is not a frivolous purchase but a key part of MBS Vision2030 plan? Are they cutting back on this project too? This keeps getting mentioned but I don't see how it has anything to do with the potential acquisition of NUFC. The main concerns with regards to Vision 2030 are: to diversify the economy away from oil (if this is related to that, there are far better options ROI-wise than buying a football club, especially in the current climate), improve the health sector, improve education, promote tourism (again can't imagine this would be enriched through buying nufc), facilitate more recreation activities and improving infrastructure. Hard to argue that buying the club ties into any of those goals in my humble opinion. But the Saudis are planning on investing in the region and owning the football club gives them a link to the region. They will use oil money to invest in projects that will provide an income stream so they are no longer reliant on the oil especially when electric cars are the way forward.