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What actually was our net spend the year we went down? Saying he put money into get us up, but we got over 50mil for Gino and Sissoko!

 

About -30m. The joke then was that the Sissoko money was never spent.

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Still another 3 years before we have the Sissoko money in full. He's happy to accept installments for players he sells but insists on paying for new players up front. It's just one one the reasons most of our signings are either frees, loans, or in the £5m bracket.

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What actually was our net spend the year we went down? Saying he put money into get us up, but we got over 50mil for Gino and Sissoko!

 

I’d be surprised if he didn’t have to put money in to negate the lack of TV and prize money like. Self-inflicted though.

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One thing that people in the media have said for quite a long time but that Ashley has ensured becomes the truth is that we're not a big club.

 

In the very traditional sense of the word we always will be - like Villa, Leeds and Forest our history can never be taken away - but from the outside looking in, in terms of whether to spend a lot of money buying and investing in a football club, we're barely even another also-ran. We're certainly no bigger than Watford, and thanks to the two relegations probably regarded as a yo-yo club. A huge risk.

 

We used to challenge, could and would attract and buy world class players, and have a huge, enviable stadium full of paying punters that would all pour money in for another slice of hope that this would be OUR YEAR. Even that loyal fanbase isn't really a selling point any more, given that we don't benefit from or rely on it (see the recent news about clubs being able to operate without any fans at all, we can't be far off that). Commercial income is non-existent.

 

The current manager is the only thing of note about NUFC. And we're allowing his contract to run out in the summer, whilst currently actively trying to denigrate him via the very same media that believes he shouldn't be here in the first place.

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We were put in room 101 when Ashley took over and Sports Direct United was born, the fact that I paid an extra 25% this season to support this shit makes me feel dirty.

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Thought the presenter and JJ were spot on. :thup: The latter has now gone up in my estimation again, after the 'goldfish bowl' comments that he made some years ago. As for Ferdinand - he's taking the Ashley coin and has now been made a complete mug of. Richard Dunne just doesn't care about being involved in that discussion.

 

Must say, fair play to If Rafa Goes for doing the digging. :thup: The truth will always out, in the end.

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We were put in room 101 when Ashley took over and Sports Direct United was born, the fact that I paid an extra 25% this season to support this shit makes me feel dirty.

 

If truth be told if he hadn't put my ticket up by 25% I would probably have just renewed without giving it much thought. When I went on to the renewal page and seen it had suddenly jumped up to £628 my first thought was that he's taking the piss out of me here and I'm not paying that, which I didn't.

 

Suppose he did me a favour by pushing me to break free.

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Well it’s international break time, wonder what the fat twat has got lined up for this one. Normally likes to kick us in the bollocks that little bit more at this time.

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Clutching at straws here, but the UK’s richest man, Sir Jim Ratcliffe (I think?) had a £2bn bid for Chelsea turned down not so long ago, and is still interested in taking over another football club (apparently according to the Mail on Sunday). Don’t know whether that means he’s going to up his offer for Chelsea or has moved on to another club. Fingers crossed that it’s the latter and obviously that it’s us.....

 

That would be all well and good if the club was actually for sale.

 

Ashley is worth enough to not have to sell to other billionaires. He’s worth enough that he has an army of media c***s on the payroll to back up his lies. He’s worth enough that he can literally take the p*ss out of a football club, it’s fans, even the premier league itself. Nobody with any clout would dare take him on.

 

The reality is that we were probably once upon a time a very attractive prospect to buy but not anymore. Not since he’s turned the club into a living breathing sports direct coloured pot noodle suit.

 

We’re turgid to watch on the telly. Turgid to watch in the stands. It can’t be an attractive prospect for overseas markets any more. So what mega rich c*** is going to watch us and think.. “that’s the club for me”?

 

The playing squad isn’t fit for purpose. The stadium is in need of an overhaul. And there’s generally a toxic atmosphere which more often than not filters down to the supporters.

 

The training facilities are worse than plenty of teams from the lower leagues..

 

The club are still probably under investigation for dodgy payments and avoiding tax. Despite it all going quiet.

 

The only thing going for it is a manager who will very soon be out of contract.

 

Ashley is getting everything from this club that he wants, which is free advertising in the most lucrative league in the world.

 

It would probably take about 2 billion quid to fix all of the things mentioned above.

 

So with that in mind, if Ashley is happy with the current arrangement and some mystical benefactor isn’t forthcoming. Why the f*** so we still think there’s going to be a takeover? There’s no evidence for it.

 

And before anyone brings up Amanda Staveley, that bint never had the shillings to be taken seriously. It wouldn’t surprise me if she or her husband were tied to KBA somehow..

 

The stadium, playing squad and training facilities you describe are pretty much exactly that of Man City pre the Arab take over. If you think no one will ever take us over, then what exactly is the point of all the anti-Ashley rhetoric and activity which is taking place? You might as well give up supporting right now. If all that we have at the moment is some (even small) element of hope for change, then I’m willing to give the club (not Ashley) my full support still. At some point, all the demonstrations, positive press etc, if it keeps rolling onwards in the manner that it is now, will cause a tsunami of change at the club which I want to be there to see. It’s the fans that make our club what it is. Not the annually changing squad. Not the training ground or even stadium. Certainly not the owner. All those things eventually come and go. Believe me, ive had more than enough of Ashley- the blokes a prize c*nt. Sometimes I think that I can’t bear to watch the games, and each time matchday comes up, I tell myself that I won’t be there. But each time, there I am, cheering us in. He’s a c*nt, a sh*t owner, BUT there’s no way that he’s going to drive me away from our club- he will leave before I do, that I promise.

 

I still love the club so it’s going to take something drastic for me to turn away but make no mistake, Mike Ashley is here for as long as he wants to be.

 

There’s no right or wrong way to go about this because I’m fairly sure in the context of top flight English football, this has never happened to another club.

 

We’re screaming out to be unleashed but are being purposely held back. There’s no stopping that. No amount of protests will make him think “oh yeah, I am a cunt, I better sell up”

 

He already knows he’s a cunt. It doesn’t bother him.

 

Being talked about before and after games on the telly now will only serve to make him more vindictive. He’ll blame all of this on Rafa and the supporters like he has already.

 

Pure sociopath material. Same as the fucking loan he has hanging over us. The fucking neck of him to do that as if our relegations had nothing to do with him.

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