Dr Jinx

Nout wrong with him I bet, just terrified of being sold down the league.

He’s a player who needs a few games to get up to speed, mainly with his decision making to be honest. He goes past most players with ease, but say his output has an 80% failure rate, which sounds bad but he tries so much in games that the 20% success either leads to a chance or a goal. It might even be a higher failure rate but that’s beside the point. He’s worth the frustration. Now if he could be coached to make better decisions that is a scary prospect. He’s still quite young after all. He’s not stupid, he’ll play another season here and wait for a takeover like the rest of us, if it doesn’t happen he’ll be away then.

Not only are the three Steve’s incompetent, but they’ve added laziness now to their repertoire, couldn’t be arsed, good ol’ Graeme will sort the mess out when he gets back from his holidays. Bunch of journeymen who feel absolutely content in their mediocrity because they’ll get their last year of the contract paid up if they get sacked.

That was quite ominous, players standing around hand on hips looking at each other to see who’s to blame. Where is the leadership? I know it’s a game that means nothing other than fitness levels but you can already tell they are miles off where they need to be.

Blasphemy regarding Shearer but you’re not wrong. I think maybe if the entertainers team hadn’t been broken up things might have been a little different, with all those influential players gone he ruled the roost and anyone coming in had to play it his way. Gullit saw this problem but wasn’t smart enough to fix it, he tried to meet it head on and predictably lost. Even bringing in Ferguson, it was all a bit too obvious.

I wouldn’t take him. He was aware that the takeover could happen over the summer but thought Everton was the better option. He could have waited if he had really wanted to come back and finish what he started but we are where we are. Time to move on from that.

Was it not the take on prefab sprout?

Some say it starts on Monday, but honestly, who knows? It may have started already. Today was yet another media appearance by Staveley, initially it does appear like she’s trying to increase pressure on the PL but there’s another way of looking at it.. she appears confident, like she’s been told it will go through but she’s also very keen to build bridges with the PL as the club will need them on-side for future issues. She sounds like someone who already owns the club.

Anita was fairly gash, cost the guts of 10m too iirc, likeable character though. But the winner I think must be Michael Owen, he could have been decent for us if he was bothered but he wasn’t and he didn’t give a toss about the club. 40 million for big Joe but honestly can’t knock his attitude. I think he’ll improve but never enough to justify that fee.

So is it fair to say that all isn’t well in that camp? Honestly thought Willock would have had enough currency to return there and be a first team player after what he did. It wasn’t just the goals, he transformed the team. Another thing to consider is that if we are to become one of the wealthiest clubs in the world, Arsenal might just be smart enough to be one of the “big six” that didn’t try to fuck us over?

That’s not an update we’d hear anything about until well after the fact. When they initially presented evidence it took the club nearly a month to retort. Then the PL had 2 weeks or there abouts to address those arguments. They got an extra week and I suppose their argument will be with the judge/clubs lawyers now so if there’s anything to answer on this the club will get a chance to retort again probably. So am guessing it could be another month before this jurisdiction gets settled based on how long it’s been taking up to this point?

It’s a bit unsettling that all that was keeping a large portion of fans from acting like a bunch of racist cunts was actually winning the competition? Like they can abide having the “monkeys” in the team as long as there’s a trophy? It’s fucked

A tough pill to swallow I’m sure. But you were beaten by the better team. Aside from the goal after 90 seconds, I can’t remember another clear cut chance England had. Italy defended well and took control of the game after 30 mins. There’s not much more to say about it. You have a young talented side that can go one better at some point. The inevitable media witch hunt will commence but it serves to purpose, the manager is a good fit, the playing squad are all very good and it’s mostly a well balanced team. Any big changes will undo all the progress the team have made over last few years.

I disagree, one of the things they’ve done to make the club an attractive investment prospect is how they’ve been able to make money while being absolutely shite with no real ambition. Just suddenly letting players go who are worth something would be a terrible idea. We've occasionally taken a punt on an unproven player. Gayle fell into that bracket, he thrives in the championship but just doesn’t seem to be able to translate that at PL level, he’s not fast enough, not strong enough despite being a good finisher. He’s worth something though.. 5-10 million while under contract? Murphy is different. He’s got pace, he’s got skill and he can deliver great crosses and he can score. When he first came he was a bit lightweight, but he’s taking it very seriously now, you can see he’s much physically stronger now than he was, I think he’ll do well this year. He’s one of the best athletes at the club. Even with a takeover he has a future here.

He’ll be here long after Bruce is. He knows the score.

This new thread has started off where the last one left off ?

I read all of that. It’s grim reading. I know it was only focussed on removing the arbitration chair but it seems like every argument the clubs lawyers made was quickly dismissed by the judge. Why would we expect the rest of it to go any differently?

That’s good news. He’s turning into a proper player. Professional on and off the pitch.

Can’t wait for this takeover economy to be done with. It really grates that certain individuals have been making a living out of all this while we ultimately suffer.

There'd be absolute hell on if that ever happened. Plus I doubt they would be interested there. The investment in the city has already come in from the blue side. How much growth could they possibly achieve? I think we’re all getting ahead of ourselves, whatever reason the buyers and seller have gone public for, we can only guess. Again we can only guess what PIF’s intentions are with regards time limits. None of us have a clue and every supposed ITK has shown to be absolutely full of shit when it’s come to the last 17 months of this nonsense.

They couldn’t organise an assassination in an embassy that lot!

Just looking through the PL accounts, it seems they really can’t afford to have any sort of financial judgement go against them. They have about 1.5 million cash in the bank, the rest of what they get in gets passed on to member clubs. You think they are going to be happy to share a 300m penalty between them to stop a takeover?

Well this is different because it involves money. If they lose this case they stand to pay Mike Ashley millions. I can understand them using all available time to prepare the best case they can. I would imagine if this becomes obvious to them that there is a risk of a large financial penalty coming their way, they will settle. Actually, I’m more optimistic about the whole thing now than I was earlier. We were all working off an assumption that we had won the jurisdiction and that now if was going to be about it being behind closed doors which would have been terrible. But we’re actually not there yet. The case is still live and I would imagine the judge/president will be a little annoyed at the constant requests for more time considering the club are in the same process but have not asked for this at any stage. It’s also occurred to me that tying the PL up in all of this weakens their preparation time for the arbitration case too.

How do we know they filed their evidence? Because a journo posted it on Twitter? If this process has taught us anything is that they know fuck all when it comes to this. The only difference between them and us is that they are getting paid to speculate on all this bollocks

Yes so the jurisdiction issue hasn’t even been heard yet. That sort of conflicts with the club statement that said they were trying to move it behind closed doors? If that statement was written or at least approved by their legal team, you’d have to worry about the rest of the case ?