HaydnNUFC

p*ss take, surely? Yeah but the wierdo middle man is confusing the situation, someone obviously leaked their meeting to the press, otherwise why would a photographer just be there. If this guy owns a paper or two why is the Sun running with the story and not one of his own. Unless this isn't the real story and exclusive will drop soon .....

Piss take, surely?

Imagine what we could do with him as manager when soundly and thoroughly backed, man...

I do think we'll get decent results in our games (apart from Arsenal & Man City) before the end of the New Year. 20+ points going into Stoke away and we're well on track to stay up. Still need some investment in January though, where that comes from, I don't know.

https://twitter.com/CaulkinTheTimes/status/938903066694377478

There's hope then. A face to face meeting is positive, and shows both that Staveley genuinely wants the club and that Ashley wants to sell. What the craic is going to be in January is the worry, though.

It's the Sun.

Over a curry? Pleased some (relatively) positive info is out though. Believable as well, due to Caulkin.

Fucking love this bloke.

Oh yeah, loved that. "You cannot leave these people."

That's a right shitter. I quite like the change, should help the atmosphere further, extra drinking time and the like. Glad that BT picked it tbh, Sky shifting it off the 9th would make the 125th year celebrations a bit less meaningful IYAM. So, glad that they got it.

Big turning points and moments. Last FA Cup win and Fairs Cup win probably, Keegan arriving as player and as manager, Shearer signing, SBR appointment etc. The appointment of Rafa ended an awful, execrable period of apathy for many supporters, some on here can admit to that. He's made us feel like a living, breathing football club and to do that under Ashley has put him up there with the greatest managers we've had for me, not even counting his past honours.

They said that some flags will be iconic newspaper headlines in the club's history. Would you have preferred The Sun?

Needs to replace Lejeune. Aye. Lascelles/Clark has been our best CB pairing this season. Lejeune is a good player but we seem to be a worse defensive unit when he's playing. Hopefully it's just him being new to the league and needing to adapt.

Hope he's fit for Saturday. It'll be f***ing freezing at the match, like.

Napoli finished 3rd.

Napoli finished 3rd.

Hope they bum rape Everton.

Is the 40 days/month long process not the Premier League's Fit and Proper Owner's test or something?

STFU dude, what do you know of me ? I was perhaps the first on here to be openly critical of Ashley while others were still sucking on him for saving us from Shephard and Hall. Rafa is fanstastic but not perfect, if he was he wouldn't be managing us right now that's for sure. He is not above critic, you're right he's not been supported anywhere near well enough, his work last year with transfers was excellent by in large for the short term, but a lot of those signings seem to have one thing in common (great for the champo, just not good enough for the PL), he's also spent the ridiculously limited amount of money poorly his summer signings have be poor and he's focused on the wrong areas. Give the man 40 million or so and we'll survive, 20 million is much more of a gamble based on his record so far finding PL quality for us. He signed the players last summer to get us out of the Championship, which they did. He then expected another similar summer, ship out the players he doesn't need, want or whatever and replace them with PL calibre equivalents. The fat bastard who owns us thought he knew better, or wanted to limit spending to the bare minimum as he doesn't want to make any more investment into the club he's been trying to flog. You can't give any manager £20m and find PL quality players. Wages also played a key in the summer. Merino is the exception.

TBF to Manquillo he was bought as a reserve RB and has had to play LB since Yedlin came back from injury. My only slight gripe this season is his refusal to start Mitrovic, but Rafa knows what he's doing. Hate to think where or what we'd be if he hadn't came here.

Would be fantastic if Simon Jordan keeled over and died.