Dr Jinx

Trying to beat Burnley at hoof ball..

HWTL

Try not to get hammered for 85 minutes and then give Willock, ASM and Wilson a run out. Welcome to Bruceball

I stand corrected, but yes, I think they will lose a couple more games. Man Utd’s only real test is against Liverpool. It’s a tall ask but not quite the impossible one you’d have thought just a few weeks ago. Certainly worth a tenner punt at those prices

If Man Utd win both games in hand the lead is down to 6 points. City arguably have the tougher run in. The amount of games they have to play too, could catch up with them. 66/1… ?

That’s nothing to do with Ashley, it just took “some” people a lot longer to get up to speed with the internet

This will get the media off his back now until the next horror show. Its occurred to me that these (rare) team performances this season have all been against sides that either have major problems or just had an off day, not because we played so well, just something missing in them that allowed us to be more than we are. When we play a team that’s playing to their ability we get stuffed

He said he was shocked that he was left out ? obviously not trying to make friends here

El Jurassico? The thieving cunt

I wholeheartedly agree, sure he sacrificed trophies, but how long would he have lasted at Man Utd, certainly not being still the top dog at the club into his mid 30’s. He was happy to see out his career here and earn a shedload of money. Am not shitting on him btw, before anyone gets offended. Something he supported became his job, ever talk to a sound engineer about gigs they’re looking forward to?

Wilson won’t allow himself to be rushed back if he’s not ready. He owes no loyalty to the club, he’s clearly one of our best players and should be somewhere challenging for success. Why would he risk serious injury when he’d be a certain transfer target as soon as the season ends. I suspect/hope he is though (ready) and they are just keeping Spurs guessing.

So Luke comes out of his mini Covid hiatus to run a story about Bruce when his only source at the club right now is Bruce. Payback for the results of that mean poll. Don’t believe a word of it. The board and Steve Bruce are not on the same page

Well officially they have, and there has been nothing to stop anyone else from coming in during this season to make an offer to Ashley. Perhaps they have, but I believe his loyalty to making a deal with the Saudis goes further than just the sale of nufc, there might be some sort of agreements which could further his reach with “Fraser Group” in the Middle East. He’s been over there quite a lot in the last few months.

It’s not from anywhere, it’s a loose guess at the type of conversation they might have had.

Don’t confuse being thick with pure spite. He hates the club and especially the supporters. The thin skinned cunt. You think those chants that he pretends to laugh off didn’t get to him? He’s got the offer he wants. 100%

I think it’s already been agreed. “We’ll wait to a point if the club remain in the PL, assuming the legal case goes well. But if the club is heading for relegation, don’t prevent it and we’ll move forward from there” He’ll get what he’s looking for.

No it hasn’t. Nothing happens quickly at this point. Just remember as long as this arbitration takes, that doesn’t suddenly mean we’ve passed the o&d’s test. It just clarifies one small section of it. The PL will have to conduct another o&d’s test if and when the consortium put themselves forward again. Or pick up from that very early stage they were at before. You’d have to imagine in the unlikely event that we stay up that this will still be dragging on into next season. Relegation really simplifies things.

Unless it’s all been agreed on behind closed doors with his legal team and the people representing the consortium. The club have been actively trying to pave the way for this takeover to happen, why when he’s this close to getting the payout he wants, would he risk stopping the whole thing? It doesn’t make sense. Bruce has probably been begging to be sacked but they say no because he’s the right man to take us down

That may be the case but they simply don’t have the framework in their o&d’s test to do what the premier league have done.

What was the deal with Swindon? Did they not go into administration?

Exactly. This is why relegation simplifies things. The arbitration will continue anyway because they will want to ensure a smooth passage once promotion happened. The thing is, the PL got away with stalling our takeover with ‘relatively’ not much noise about it. The average football supporter won’t know a whole lot about it other than we had a collapsed takeover (if at all), no clue why or what actually happened. Now if we’re taken over in the Championship, the PL will still have to approve PIF as a director once we’re promoted but it would be totally unprecedented to block a promoted team from playing in the PL. It would be non stop headline news which is the last thing they would want.

Ah the majority of players want to play. If he was happy to sit on his arse collecting wages he wouldn’t have been going on loan moves to other clubs. I don’t blame anything to do with this on Dwight Gayle. He’s certainly not the player he was but he’s always just gotten on with it regardless of whatever the club decided to do.

Ah so it had feck all to do with Dwight Gayle, a clause in his contract which the club acted on. I bet this feels like a prison sentence for him, especially under Steve Bruce.

Fits in with the notion of a deliberate relegation. He’ll score 20+ goals at that level. Then let him leave when we get promoted.

While I don’t want a relegation I want a takeover and a path forward more. I firmly believe dropping into the Championship will facilitate this in a quicker manner. I mean, what changes if we stay up. Jonjo Shelvey will still be playing for us. Steve Bruce will still be manager. I think that’s worse to be honest than the opportunities a good aul relegation will give, especially if/when the takeover goes through. I may be jumping to many conclusions when it comes to guessing what Mike Ashley is doing but surely everyone can agree that something is very odd with the managerial situation at the club. It’s plain as day we’re going down with him in charge and yet all that’s happening is what seems to be a civil war in the dressing room, players pleading with the club not to allow this relegation and yet it’s all falling on intentional deaf ears.