Dr Jinx

This is my prediction, he’ll give his pre match press conference and will announce himself that he’s going to step down at the end of the month and allow the new owners to get their own structure in place.

I should read that comment above and just assume Hakka is taking the absolute piss out of someone there but I’ve seen some absolute Karenesque comments from folk over the last few days in relation to this. We've been absolutely mentally abused into thinking the way Mike Ashley carried on running this club was normal and we’re now hopping on any moment of slight indecision we think we see. Our new owners are not stupid people, they can’t afford to act like Mike Ashley, they can’t just sack Steve “I’ve got loads of media chums” Bruce without some amount negative reaction, unless they do it properly and at least appear to have given him some consideration while they conduct a more thorough review of things. I believe them when they said this had happened so quickly that they were caught off guard. We have to take PIF into consideration, Yasir Al-Rumayyan won’t be doing this as a hands on day job so he’ll be presently assembling a day to day PIF team that’s based here, but this might be like 15/20 mins of each day while this happens, this is how busy this man is. It’s probably easier getting world leaders on the phone. Once that happens and whoever this day to day person is, they’ll be authorising the money the club spends. Only then will we see rapid changes. How much input will AS and the Reuben’s have? Some probably, I’d imagine the latter will be here for the overall 2030 plan than just the club and for AS, I think having a share of something that people in high places will want to come to, she’ll be in a prime position to leverage PCP into making deals happen on these corporate match days. And for right now, yeah sure I’d prefer if he was gone before the weekend but no biggie, I’m not expecting us to win, we’ve been so poor. I almost prefer that Jones doesn’t have to take the brunt of that deflated enthusiasm if we end of losing by 2 or 3.

Baffling

One comment really riled me.. “I’ve got to look after number 1” For him that says it all, it’s about what he can get from the club, not what he can do to help his teammates or anything remotely suggesting that he’s a team player.

He’s bizarrely looked like a good player tonight, Qatar must be the worst team in the world ?

14 years of Ashley and you're giving the new owners a week before your confidence in them will be "non-existant"? Jesus wept.

I know we're all desperate for this silage heap to go but also important to remember, the new owners have barely gotten their feet under their desks yet. They're nice people and will have been used to dealing with people in their line of work with a certain courtesy, this doesn't mean they won't be afraid to make the important decisions. The truth is we don't know anything about what's happening behind the scenes, the amicable chat they had yesterday may have very well included the information that they will want to bring in their own setup when the time is right. Bruce may have indicated that he plans to retire after stepping down, so maybe they are letting him get his 1000th game as a professional courtesy. We just don't know. Ashley was always the issue, and that's been solved. Everything else will just fall into place in time. Chill..

Before we sign anyone we need to bring in a management setup with a clear ethos of how we will play. Then the list/options of players who will fit into that becomes far more manageable.

Good shout actually. There’s not all that many strikers out there with those attributes.

They’ll have his bank details already. Now that could have been an awkward conversation if it was Harry Redknapp ? “sorry Harry, you want me to write your dog a cheque for 3 million?” I suppose they’ll thank him for his work and say something about wanting to move forward without any link to Mike Ashley which is why they feel they must bring in their own coach. Everything going very smoothly until Lee Charnley brings in the tea and cakes, then the reptile part of Steve’s brain kicks in “I like cake, I could have done that” ”Mandy, Jaymeee, Bogdod, I’ll see you in coourt”

How is it normally done at this level? I mean forget about Mike Ashley, that would be a text message but I mean, classy establishments which it seems we’re going to be run like. Will he get the courtesy of a face to face meeting?

So long you fucking silage heap

The season before we sold Andy Cole.. exciting times.. then the following season he went and it seemed like we’d taken such a step back.. until that summer. Remember seeing the footage of Keegan coming out to talk to the supporters and pleading for them to trust him.. he never let us down ever. How could you not fall in love with football at that moment in time?

We knew this already though. It’s one of those, we had to ask situations given his contact with AS in the first instance. But they’d have known he’s 100% loyal to a contract. It’s shite because he’s the perfect fit for a massive project like this, but it’s all about timing. If they (the consortium) didn’t know this was going to go ahead until the start of last week, he can’t have known anything they didn’t before that. I’ll still be hoping he receives a massive welcome when Everton come here. You never know, things might align for a return further down the line.

He’s made everything about himself at every opportunity. Even on the day of the takeover he was giving his “woe is me, some people on the internet said mean things” shtick. It’s as pathetic as his management skills. He’ll never get a bigger job and it could very well be his last job at the top level, you’d have thought he would have at least tried to make the best of it but he seems to have gone out of his way to do the bare minimum this season. Taking a fucking holiday a few weeks into the season. He might not be the worst manager we’ve had statistically, but I can’t recall hating any as much.

Conte, premier league experience? Check, a natural winner? Yes. His English is limited but enough to convey a message across. I’m not sure if he’s a long term appointment but he would steer the ship in the right direction which is what we need. At the end of the day, this squad is in real danger of taking us down and there needs to be a serious patch up job between now and January when we can bring in a few reinforcements. We have some good players but it’s so disjointed, we need someone who can identify exactly the type of player who will make our existing ones perform better.

I’m not sure where that figure came out of, probably from Bruce himself! Final year of his contract with no clause mentioned that anything gets triggered. It’ll be less than 3 million and he should count himself very lucky to be getting it, the absolute charlatan

The fuss will die down, I don’t recall Chelsea supporters ever having to answer for Roman Abramovich’s link to Putin or dodgy business dealings but Man City certainly got a bit, probably nowhere near as much as what we will over the next few months. It’s 80% people who just have a gripe with the wealth, a quick scan of peoples Twitter timelines shows human rights or even the Khashoggi murder were things they never thought to mention before. But now they are experts on the matter? Im not uncomfortable at all with it because I believe PIF are separate enough, Yasir Al-Rumayyan is the one in charge here and he’s extremely capable, sure is he doing a good job for the Prince? Yes of course but MBS knows this man will do a far better job than his personally interfering would ever do which is why he’ll stay out of it. Not even sure he’ll make an appearance at SJP, at least not until things really quieten down

She’s hardly going to trash any player we currently have in our squad. I can tell she knows more about football than the previous lot. None of the things that are obvious to us will have gone unnoticed with her or her husband either.

I’d be very surprised if this version of nufc will allow Bruce to be any part of their beginning. I think he’s gone by Monday or Tuesday. Then they’ll announce a new manager a day or two later. It could be anyone, that’s the amazing thing. The conversations before were always “but who would come here” now anyone is attainable. A manager who hasn’t already fallen out with many players would be ideal.

I’d imagine his shirt collar feels rather tight. They must owe close to a billion on their stadium, now no super league and the prospect of playing Champions League again is looking remote. Plus covid probably affected them more than any other club, they needed bums in seats the last 18 months before this season started.

I’ll tell you why, last Wednesday they were backed into a corner during that Jurisdiction hearing. The 3 chairs took in the evidence along with everything else that’s been disclosed up to now. They will have given the PL notice that they would have indeed lost not only the hearing but the case overall so just go and settle. By the weekend both legal teams worked out a way so that every party came out of it saving face. This whole thing about legally binding assurances? They had that to begin with. The PL backed down in spectacular fashion. It’s a huge loss for them. AS was in Newcastle on Monday or Tuesday, by that time the funds had been transferred to Ashley. Few last minute checks and singing of contracts and here we are now. The PL never wanted to allow the takeover but they simply didn’t have a choice in the end and I think Staveley was incredibly diplomatic in thanking them for their hard work in reaching a resolution, there’s no way it was amicable. All this virtue signalling from other clubs and other supporters. As if they really care about human rights, they care about their clubs ability to win things and it’s about to be seriously threatened.

I was expecting to see plenty of virtue signalling by supporters of other clubs and boy did the bindippers deliver. RAWK is a hoot.

Like watching a president address the nation. She’s great.

Finally!! It’s over, this must feel like when a country overthrows a dictator ? I can breathe once again. ⚫️⚪️