Odear

You have far too much time in the morning ? I want every one of his business interests to fail. Once he gets full control over Debenhams it will be exactly like HoF, screwing over customers and suppliers. The general public are starting to turn on him. BBC are certainly covering every little detail of the HoF story. All of this is good for us because 2 years ago Mike Ashley was considered a good businessman, and it was just bad luck on his part that he bought our club. Deluded Geordies etc.. See, nobody gives a shit about Sports Direct or whoever works for them so the zero hours debacle was always going to blow over. But start fucking around with prestigious high street stores and now everyone is furious.. it’s a mad world. It’s taken them a few years but everyone else is now seeing what an absolute cunt this man is and with that are beginning to understand why we would be protesting his existence here. It can only help our cause.

I think Murphy is starting to get into it the more he starts now, caused Arsenal problems all through the first half. Let’s see how he does in the next few games. I wouldn’t expect Kenedy to be starting any time soon, not after the last few games so the place is up for grabs.

20 odd million in transfer surplus. tv revenue of about 130 million and general club revenue (match day, season tickets, corporate, sponsorship) must be at least 15-30 million? So let’s just say 160 million or there abouts. Offset wages for the season, probably about 120 million. So yes you’re right. There might be about 40 million in profit so the notion that he’s taken the money out directly to pay off the loan doesn’t stack up, unfortunately.

Literally all of that is wrong Shearer was more professional than fat Ronaldo. But Ronaldo was a far more gifted player. One of the best ever. His Barcelona days are probably the most devastating I’ve ever seen from one player. (Not unlike what Jonah Lomu did in the mid 90’s with Rugby) Cristiano Ronaldo I see as more of an athlete than a footballer. He’s so fit he can make it work at 33 years old. His pace gets him in the right places and his style of kicking the ball is different from most other footballers (sort of toe pokes shots) Messi is better at most things as a player and is still so skilful that he can pull it off when he’s clearly lost a bit of pace. Gazza is an enigma because if he’d taken care of his health a bit better and made better choices, who knows how good he could have been. Easily the best talent England have ever had. Can compare Messi, Maradona and Gazza and then Cristiano, Shearer and Ronaldo. It’s easy to pick out Messi and fat Ronaldo from that bunch.

Bring one of these and play him like a tuba at the next protest

It’s hard to boycott while Rafa is still here. Although he’d know what was going on.

They’ve literally done everything at this stage. We know their play book so now that they’ve come full circle and are trying the same old shit that might have worked before, it’s simply not working now. Even the most dim witted of supporters can see everything plain as day. I think the next logical step will be for Ashley to go separate ways with Bishop and hire someone even worse. He’s getting it from all angles now. The club, SD and now HoF. He’s incredibly thin skinned when it comes to his businesses so he won’t let it go on like this for much longer.

HoF has been failing for years. It’s template of business is not really fit for purpose anymore so I doubt he bought the place to just keep running it the same way and lose money. He can easily afford to kill off the brand but keep the stores and locations to push something else. This whole bollocks about saving jobs is just to keep the bad press away for the moment. He literally couldn’t give two shits about pissing off House of Fraser customers, or customers of any other business he owns. The tramp is due a fall.

Twisted his ankle in the warm up. Tried to soldier through it but would probably have done more damage to it.

It’s becoming hard to find positives to take from any of this. We’re particularly shit. Worse than last season.

A newborn will do that to you. But he’s been total shite all season. Looks like he doesn’t want to be here. I think Murphy looks better at this stage, who seeming as is our player and gives a shit about the club, should be starting every game.

Arsenal look a different team since half time. Without Lascelles we look devoid of confidence. So has Rafa written off this game too? Or will he change things up..

How many are protesting as opposed to just going to the match? ? Still, decent effort.

Brendan Rodgers would be about as best as we could hope for if/when Rafa leaves. He’d have to be unemployed for it to happen. We don’t pay compensation. My money would be on TCA.

Dennis Wise just liked a tweet where I called him a poison dwarf. Sticks and stones..

Duped how? That wasn't some orchestrated plan by Ashley. Unless you think the likes of Caulkin were "duped" by it as well? Is it not more realistic to think that perhaps Ashley is just a c*** to negotiate with? I’m not bringing Caulkin into this at all, journos can be duped just as easily as us. Ashley would have known Staveley didn’t have the cash quite early doors but when she attended the Liverpool game he’ll have seen the storm created by that (or Keith Bishop) and immediately realised that this would occupy us for the year. All it takes is a few well placed comments from “someone inside the club” and an official “no comment” for rumours to get legs. He pulled the exact same shit in the transfer window last summer and got very little flack compared to this year. Why wouldn’t they try it again?.. We should be wise to all their tactics by now. We’ve to double down now while they’re back tracking.

We got duped last season by that whole Amanda Staveley crap. Kept us well off his back. Articles like this appearing to me seem like they are bare faced lies coming from inside the club. They know us well by now. They know a takeover treasure trail will consume the majority of posts on social media or on forums for the season, thus taking pressure off them. (Which also leads me to believe they’ve been feeling pressure) Going after his brands and leaving bad reviews will hurt them, we should be stepping it up on this. If any business has a poor online presence, it can’t not affect them. It’s petty as fuck but this is the level he’s brought us down to. Public protests are fine too, but that’s not really going to hurt his pocket as much as the online campaign. He’s here forever unless this club suddenly becomes too hot to handle. Only we have the ability to bring this about.

Got a link? https://thisisfutbol.com/2018/09/blogs/ashley-will-accept-300million-no-strings-attached-newcastle-sale/

Well it’s probably going too far to say that our eyes weren’t on it. We were very aware but prepared to live with it because of the takeover carrot being dangled. More fool us though. Won’t get fooled again..

An article posted that he’s prepared to accept 300m for the club now. Don’t be fooled by this bullshit. It’s a morsel he loves to throw out to get people talking about something other than what a total cunt he is. Just like last season. That whole agent Staveley business sure kept our eyes off his total mismanagement.

I couldn’t not say something to him if I saw him.

“I said shave those sideburns Mitro!”

You're questioning a man that has won everything there is to win in the game!!! Saying Rafa should adapt his clearly very successful methods to accommodate one player is absolute lunacy. 'Ere Rafa, i know you've won multiple league titles, and the Champions League with a rank outsider but my expert opinion is that you're wrong and you should change your winning ways to work around Mitrovic because he's class' I’m not sure if you’ve noticed but we play nothing like what Liverpool did when he was there. We barely play the same way from game to game despite picking the same shite line up. Respecting what Rafa has done in the game doesn’t shield him from criticism. He got it wrong here. By the time we sold Mitro it was fairly obvious that the money wouldn’t be spent. So if Rafa is prepared to walk away, why not leave at least a few players with promise in the squad. Maybe the next manager would have rated him..

You aren't allowed to question Rafa, did you not get the memo? Rafa will be managing elsewhere from next season. So we won’t have him or Mitro. We'll still have Joselu though, thankfully..

I’m sick of people apologising for Rafa on this one. When you have a striker like that in the club, you play to their strengths and they will get goals. You get goals you stand a chance of winning games. It’s quite simple. He played in a diabolical Steve McClaren side and then barely played for Rafa in a league that he would have torn up if let loose. That doesn’t count as a fair crack at it. If we weren’t gonna play him, we should have loaned him out that season. He would have had a run of games and come back on form for last season perhaps. It leaves a bad taste in the mouth that he’s a Fulham player now. I still wish him all the success in the world, he was black n white through n through. He still loves this club.