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Maybe it was lost in translation and was a bonus for winning the championship

Was gutted the day he was sacked, felt so unjustified. Says it all though when I don't think any of our fans have a bad word to say about him. I wouldn't have been disappointed to see him return if we hadn't managed to get Howe, even though it probably wouldn't have been the best option for his legacy here

PIF thinking that all purchases need to take as long as it took for them to buy the club

If we do go down I'm at least feeling alot more comfortable about our future now then I was a few months ago when we were certain to go down with Bruce at the helm. And as bad as we've been the other clubs in the tail end of the table won't be writing us off just yet knowing we could look completely different by the end of January.

Under previous management we'd have thrown in the towel at the red card, and not had the grit to keep working. Unfortunately can't afford to lose that kinda game, but the team looks entirely different to how Bruce had them playing, enough so that I don't think the season is a write off yet

Joelinton has been immense today, amount of defensive work he's done is brilliant

What better way to wake up, then to see this confirmws

Been hitting refresh all day, now after midnight so time to sleep, kinda surreal knowing could be waking up to a new era at the club

Well I just made Ronaldo my fantasy football captain, may as well get what I can from this match

How could Jahiem have lied to us like this? He even said official in capitals

Dubravka is great, but with over a decade since he played for us, I think it's easy to forget how consistently great Given was.

Would be the perfect ending to it all, after them verbally agreeing last time, let them think the pressure has been taken off them for a week, then having a non Newcastle owning Ashley take them for all they are worth and exposing all the corruption they have overseen

Isn't the arbitration about the separation of PIF and the Saudi state, while this case is saying the EPL is corrupt, which would make these definitely separate cases and completely independent of each other but both applying uncomfortable pressure to the EPL. Especially with all the talk of Masters meeting big 6 before meetings and any link they can draw between him and ESL and project big picture will just be further evidence. I could be wrong here, but if he wins this case there could be some serious implications for the premier league

With project big picture and the Super League attempt multiple attempts in a year to hijack the football pyramid for their own gain at the cost of others should see massive repercussions, other wise they will be trying something new before we know it. Can't see it happening though.

What's the bet that even after trying to do this, the EPL would still pass those 6 owners on the O&D test if they had to resit it

I thought it was meentioned a while back that PIF/Ashley was funding them?? Or have I got that wrong? I don't think it was ever confirmed directly but it's been hinted at the whole way through that they had no concerns about funding, and so assumptions have been made

Read his autobiography as a kid and absolutely loved it, wish he had not turned his back on Australia though, he could've done so much for us as a country

Considering that we only announced legal proceedings after the Premier League accidentally let slip, I've no issues with no information coming out. I expect almost all of this to go on behind closed doors and not be a media circus like it was in the first half of the year

That's a horrid list, think Carver wins out though you could make a case for all of them. Souness is the one i look back on hate the most though, he's basically the point where the good times ended

Masters has instead of attending the meeting sent the NUST an offer for arbitration instead

Ashley's years in charge have been depressing watching the club lose its identity, but there was always the light at the end of the tunnel that he won't own us forever. To get this close and then have it all fall apart, not because of Ashley, but because the premier league wouldn't give the green light, we'll it's the hope that kills you.

Amazing considering Rafa had literally none of those issues when he was manager. Absolute bell end Fucking hell that's lifting. So Bruce has admitted he doesn't know what to do with players except try to copy what a successful manager has done with them. Except he also doesn't know what Rafa did with them to make them work together.

So when we're getting rejected by 10 people this time, after bruce gets his inevitable marching orders, how far down do we have to go before we will find another person that is willing to manage here?

According to a Chinese mate, "All citizen in red and sports in blue" is the direct translation

A tactical masterclass from Rafa to prevent liverpool from winning, only for city to lose as well, and Liverpool miss out on the league. This way the man who got them the champions league also then stopped them from winning the premier league. See your they feel about him then