Odear

Anyone with their deck chair out at the arrivals gate? Flight from Dubai landing in the next 10 mins 😂

Even if the potential new owners are minted, it’s so important to keep the core of players who know what it means to pull on the shirt. Perez has to stay. I think he has the potential to become better again next season. Some sort of penny seems to have dropped. He’s so much more efficient now with the ball. And way more greedy when he has a sight of goal. Jury is out on Lascelles but I’d keep him on as he is captain. Schär and Lejeune have to stay also. Total gems. (Hopefully the latter heals up well). But we need new full backs. No room for sentiment. Dummett, Yedlin and Manquillo would struggle to get a place in the squad. We’re yet to see the best of Almiron but we will. Midfield is where it’s at for investment. And two top class forwards (Rondon has to be one of them, then someone else to replace Joselu. But midfield. Let’s just say we’re losing Hayden, Diame and Shelvey. That’s a physical defensive midfielder we need. A playmaker and then a box to box type. I’d keep Ritchie in the squad because he falls into the core players mentioned. I could care less about overpaid ageing players who are past their best. (Yes Gareth..)

A little part of me reckons he’s hoping Spurs win. Just so he can say he’s the only one who brought a trophy there 🙂

Everything but Sports Direct!? 😂

The night shift janitor? Club photographer.

Had a message off someone from the club today on LinkedIn. They haven’t a clue what’s going on so trying to not get too excited about it. Business as usual basically.

Yes. Now that the confusion (on here at least) about which one he is has been sorted out, I for one feel more relaxed about things. He seems a decent sort. I have no idea of his wealth but I assume he’s at least on a par with Mike Ashley. At least. That’s enough to fund a rebuilding job. I listened to his interview earlier. He knows well that he has to put an infrastructure in place to make anything successful. And it wouldn’t surprise me if he employs an expert hierarchy to run things for him. (If it goes through)

Isis I reckon. They ain’t there for the sausage rolls.

Yes this. I think the press are all to eager to pour cold water on this because it was the bloody sun that got the scoop. We’ve waited 12 years for this cunt to go. We can wait a few days while this prospective new owner gets his affairs in order. If it doesn’t happen then nothing changes and we’re back to where we were last week which was total focus on Rafa signing a new contract. (which should be the main issue)

I don’t know. I think she would likely scupper any deal such was the animosity Mike Ashley had towards her. He essentially publicly called her a time waster which must have been fairly damaging to her career over there too.

I’m still quite cynical about this whole deal and won’t believe it until it’s done. But he’s far from a Fredo type character. Did some digging and found this interview. He seems fairly well balanced and intelligent.

Twats. This ain’t happening. Fuck the press. It was fun while the illusion lasted.

It’s on, it’s not on, it’s very on, wait he’s a fake and plenty of racial slurs and numerous threatening references to the United Nations all throughout the day. It was never going to be straightforward.

It would be hilarious if this turned out to be some Walter Mitty type. Not for us obviously but to have everyone fooled like this, even the BBC got drawn in, it’s excellent trolling. In fairness the club have said nothing. Absolutely zip. So whatever happens they’ll have kept their powder dry. The journos have made a show of themselves on this.

So will Rafa be getting his new training ground?!

Let’s not assume what kind of club we could be set to become. Time will sort that out. But we have hope once more. It’s a beautiful day. Now let’s get news on Rafa and we’ll be set.

Assume the general press and media staff at the club are on best behaviour. Depending on how it goes, most of these could be out of a job if the new owner decides to run things differently?

No way would he want to be leaving now if the takeover is true.

They haven’t a clue what’s going on. And all the stuff from the Middle East on Twitter is the same as anything. It’s trending over there so anyone with a tick beside their name will be commenting on it. I think at this point if it was bullshit, someone would have come out and said so. I just wonder what conditions Ashley has insisted on. Sports Direct being advertised for another year will be nailed on.

😂😂 That’s fucking terrible man.

Talking in hypotheticals, how cold will Rafa be with no constraints on budget?

Mikes just waiting outside a Western Union branch to see if the moneys gone through. They don’t close until 5 so plenty of time.

Funny that You were getting all giddy last night Aye. I lost myself in it there for a bit. Woke up this morning quite tired and with a fresh dose of cynicism 🙂 Until Charnley is publicly given a shoeing all the way from the stadium and down St James’ Blvd this is fake news.

If Rafa had made up his mind to leave you would know about it as he is not one for messing about. Well only Mike Ashley and Rafa Benitez know where that’s at right now. All we have is speculation guided by history. He’s still under contract for another month so he’s hardly going to announce anything just yet. It would be an aggressive PR move but I still wouldn’t put it past the club.

Once bitten, twice shy. Refuse to believe anything until it’s gospel on the bbc or even the official club website. The worrying thing is I can think of many more plausible scenarios where this is a Keith Bishop PR stunt. This one keeps coming back to my thoughts. What if Rafa is going to walk. Talks have stalled etc. So this is either a ploy to get him back to the table, or he’s leaving anyway regardless and they want a bigger story to distract people with.