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MA is looking for the receipts as we speak, in the hope he can return them. Hope the cunt has to pay postage. ASM probably getting bundled into his private helicopter as we speak to recoup the cash

Why would he need to do that? The PL have already given him the perfect excuse for staying on and running us on a shoestring budget. If he says nothing he's already £17 million up from where he started before the takeover bid. Not really sure what your logic is there. It's a perfect excuse for if things go pear shaped this season for him to purely blame the PL for everything now instead of his abysmal running of a club, last night's statement was reinforces that now. Pretty much, not to mention he's also publicly aligned with the fans over perceived failings in how the Premier League have handled it all, which has gone down a storm, at least on social media

Getting the overriding impression this was just a typical gung-ho PR move by Ashley Coming off the back of a successful week in the transfer window, what better way to misdirect fans attention away from his failings as an owner than attack the Premier League

That Martyn Ziegler's agenda is painfully obvious like

The way this has been handled has been a complete and utter joke

:lol:

PR masterstroke this for Ashley

Carrasco has rejoined Atletico for £20m

Great player who deserves better, at least he's away from this coaching setup

Tomori always looked far better than both Zouma and Christensen, so quite surprised they're willing to loan him out

Only player I can realistically think of is Nketiah Suppose this is where Nickson can justify his role and do some actual scouting, sign a relative unknown like Martinelli was for instance

I still don't think he was that bad for us like

That is big money like, however I feel confident he’ll do very well for them, so the initial outlay may not prove particularly significant in that respect Don’t know if this means they’re still interested in Josh King too

We should be all over this

This is why it's always good to let managers have the types of players they want, because the frauds can hang themselves out to dry quicker, without any excuses. This is probably the best bunch of players he will have ever got to work with in the prem. It's all on him now, and there's nowhere for him to hide. He was hiding for most of the games after the restart, continuously contradicting himself in every press conference As one example, after the Watford game, it was all "soft penalty decisions, nothing in it", pre-match for the next game "players weren't good enough" etc. He'll never take responsibility, didn't at Villa when he had them 12th, one win in 9 in the Championship, after spending a fortune Worst thing about it is the club will adopt the same strategy as with McClaren, persist with him until it's too late

Maybe we can actually rotate our attacking options for once, like a normal club

Good luck to him, hope he's a massive success

Considering Wilson's awful injury record, I do think we need another striker on loan as a rotation option, such as Nketiah Carroll will never be a viable option, Gayle's out until next year and Joelinton's not a striker.

I'd be surprised if by the end of the window, our spending isn't partly offset by sales anyway Yedlin, Atsu, Schar, Lejeune, Muto etc.

Only got a year left on his deal, so I suppose they're banking on him having a decent spell somewhere and subsequently getting a fee later down the line.

Nickson must be massively out of favour now (with good reason) if Bruce is calling all the shots

Local Hero Paul Dummett will be playing every week regardless anyway