Ankles Bennett

It's perfectly clear that as the players finished 10th and 13th fatso thinks all he has to do is hire an average coach and the current squad will keep us in the epl I reckon fatso decoded to bin rafa the minute he said it would take a miracle to avoid relegation with last season's squad. The fact we survived with relative ease in the end was probably another nail in Rafas coffin .

3someone just message BZG and tell them to stump up the readies or pull out of the deal and let us return to a semblance of normal life.

Its great that so many have cancelled but I have one reservation. Knowing how vindictive the fat get is, he will simply sell of the crown jewels to offset the loss to ST revenue.

You've got that the wrong way round. SD is bigger and more profitable than NUFC and SD doesn't have anything akin to relegation threatening to slash its revenues in the space of a couple of months. To put the supposed asking price of £350m into context, that's roughly the operating cashflow of SD over the last 12 months. SD has had £100m worth of free advertising from us, that's got to have affected where the value of the company is at and shows the value of NUFC to SD. Also, I was talking more about all his other businesses than SD, the ones which are loss-making. SD is his baby, I know he sold shares in it years back to raise money, but that's the heart and soul of his empire. It'll be the last thing he permanently gets rid of. We have to remember that when he floated ST on the stock exchange he made about £2b and then the shares nosedive and it was thought that he caused the crash and the city vilified him. Two years later he bought the shares back at rock bottom price and returned SD to private ownership. Another example of how manipulative he is.

This has dragged on so long now I just can't see it happening.

The club verified their statement was accurate via the chronicle Just because the club confirmed the BZG statement was accurate doesn't mean Fatso had any real intention of selling.

Its obvious this takeover was never going to happen, but surely the reason there was "no comment" from the club was that any statement that BZG were timewasters would have a detrimental impact on the sale of season tickets. Keeping fans hanging on thinking the club was going to be sold meant many fans would happily renew their ST Of course this was all based on their assumption that Rafa would toe the line and sign his new contract.

Almost 2pm in Dubai so not expecting to see a statement issued today

I see Quique Flores Sanchez has just resigned from his Chinese club. Our next manager?

We all know that Ashley will be allowing Leicester to pay the £30m over the next 5 years with the first £6m not due until next summer, so that we will have to fund his replacement out of the "£50m" transfer budget.

This is just confirmation that if there ever was a takeover it's dead in the water knowing BZG will have done all the numbers on all the players contracts and advertising rights for said players, so I would have thought there would be a freeze on selling club assets.

But back when Keegan left his family received threats of violence from some of our more moronic fans hence the current state of affairs of the fcb simply ensuring survival in the epl and treating the club as a cash cow.

Is an owner allowed to bet on football matches? I wonder whether fat ash is raking in millions by making sure the club are ripe for relegation then placing huge bets that they will avoid relegation. It is clear the bookies wouldn't now take that type of bet with Rafa as manager. Just speculating but we all know the waste of space loves to gamble.

With hindsight it seems to me that fat ash always intended to bin Rafa. Signing Redfearn as u23 manager was simply a smokescreen as it was always intended that he would be the (caretaker) first team manager/ coach once Rafa was gone.

Here we go. Fat Ash seeking clarity from bzg. Next will come his declaration that they are time wasters and he won't waste any more money on lawyers dealing with the proposed sale.9

He's under contract for two more years so I doubt we will let him go this summer.

My mate down here in Leeds supports Farsley Celtic. Season ticket £82 for 21 games plus he gets a free pie and a pint each home game. Not a bad inducement to support a non league team.

I fear a fire sale once Rafa leaves. The only saving grace will be if no players are sold or indeed bought after Rafas contract ends it may be an indication that the FCB is indeed selling!

With it looking very likely that Rafa is almost certain to leave in 9 days time we need to make it absolutely clear to Mike Ashley that SJP will only have crowds of 25k tops next season so that he he has to subsidize players wages!

Option 1 without a shred of doubt!!!

His hands may be tied by a NDA. He will be due a bonus for keeping us in the EPL and breaking the NDA may mean he and his coaches would lose their bonuses. We all know this is par for the course with fat Ash!

I'm more concerned that fatso will cash in on Almiron, who is bound to attract attention with his displays in Copa America. Also, we all know that Man U are casting envious glances at Longstaff, so it should come as no surprise to see bids for both players landing on Charnley's desk the day after Rafa vacates his position as NUFC manager and fatso lining his pockets with £30m or £40m for both players and replacing them with loan players.

I don't recall other EPL clubs like Leicester having to go through all this crap when they were bought. Southampton have also been sold a few times, as have Villa. I think Watford have also been sold but not sure if while in the EPL. Everton sold a majority stake to a shareholder too. Palace were sold as well but again they may have been taken over while in the Championship.

Anyone think the ST price increase is to pay for all the upgrades Rafa has asked for?

Rafa is as good as gone. The only reason he hasn't gone yet is he is honouring his contract and there is probably a gagging order in his contract preventing him discussing renewal of contract talks.