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That's the problem. Loads of other clubs will have their finances predicated on the status quo, so it's not quite as simple as Take Your Toys And Fuck Off. Thank god we're the Balance Sheet Champions. Might count for something

Shame we can't have custom titles any more. Would have liked Legacy Fan

Does anybody think it's just a negotiating position? There are a few in the media saying it (Pat Nevin, Greg Dyke both said it during my drive in to work this morning). Seems a bit full on to me - doesn't leave them a lot of room for subsequent manoeuver and is a hell of an opening salvo (unless it's been playing out quietly for months and months, of course - I haven't been keeping up).

And this is the reason that the PL need to grow a pair, call them out and say that they'll be attracting too much external funding and as such will compromise the "integrity" of their competition (which is fucking laughs, of course, but you know what I mean)

Said it when this first came up a few months ago, and still agree with this now. I'd rather not get taken over by Saudi Arabia and watch us playing competitive football against "lesser" teams in a league which isn't skewed and tainted by the super-rich.

I started reading this from page 27 this morning after seeing the news on the BBC and reading about the mystery unnamed three. Was convinced that a Saudi owned NUFC would have been unmasked as one of the three by the time I caught up

He was right and spoke well but Gary Neville was just doing for Sky what hairy hands did for Bein during our takeover (imo)

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Looks fucked to me if there was that level of diplomatic interest last year and they still couldn't get it done, like

We kept losing them, man

More ambition than the club has shown for a decade. If you don't like it you don't have to be part of it, there doesn't need to be any drama attached.

The last one got off a bit easier (although to be fair he got plenty of grief as well)

Can't believe I've never seen that before. Outstanding

I assume that this thread and its little brother are being lined up as the priority ones to get shifted over to the new forum, along with the Brexit thread and the one where Delima talked about consensual sex with animals

'Joy' as in 'they're getting a lot of joy down that left side' I fucking hate it, and not only when Chris Waddle says it

Fuming about it, me That said, I know when we get our shot at it in a couple of years we'll come second best to a newly-promoted-to-League-Two Cheadle Town FC in the fifth round

From the BBC reporting this sounds like an absolutely textbook cup final between two dogshit teams from a crappy League

Basically this, aye. No matter how interested we are, it's fuck all to do with us of course

He won't win any loss of earnings claim because he wasn't obliged to hire or stick with a fucking useless blancmange of a man to manage the team

wonderful summing up there RS

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That's a shame, had a lot of respect for Glenn. Running the rule over Dirk Kuyt to the end, I hope. RIP

I guess it really comes down to how much meaning you attach to 'Amanda Staveley is still trying to buy the club'. I don't doubt that she is, I'm just increasingly coming to the conclusion that she'll never manage it no matter how much she wants to