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They will if the go into administration. Fact is they run at a loss. They will no longer receive funding from the owners and banks wont touch them. The money wont last for ever so if they arent sold they will go into administration and they will be docked points. There is nothing untoward here. That's the point I was making..... they were claiming on the radio that they'll escape that on the grounds of some loophole they've exercised in the registration process! It's not a loophole, basically the club as a business is separate to that of the ownership. Now that the owners are in the shit the club will have to be self-sufficient and if it isn't then the club will be put into administration, you can't really dock points from West Ham for doing nothing wrong.

If Mike Ashley or his companies went into administration do you think we should get docked points?

If he came it would mean money was available. So even just for that I'd have to say yes. : Plus I think Shearer has a fairly traditional view of how a club should be structured and would only take the job on those terms.

I disagree, any sale is dependant on nothing more than the finances being agreeable so heres my belief. If, by January no sale has completed (and I believe its highly unlikely one will have) then MA will sell, sell, sell. The reason being that it will not affect the balance sheet, in fact it could enhance it. For instance, currently the books may look like this Shay Given £10m Steven Taylor £5m Michael Owen £0 (based on contract running out) Shola Ameobi £2.50 Oba Martins £9m If he can sell those for £12m, £12m (according to the wacky world of Sunday papers!!), £5m, £25, £10m then hes increased the balance sheet by £15,000,0022.50 which goes into the clubs coffers. Therefore club even more attractive to the buyer. I agree, not more attractive to any sensible football minded buyer but to a business one, its a no brainer. Or to be honest theres no reason why he cant withdraw that £15m for himself leaving the difference in the bank, balance sheet stays even and nobody loses, except the fans and club long term. Heres the double side to it though, that £39m (in real terms) would be sitting there should the sale fall through. Ashley will be able to withdraw it from his club and transfer it to himself. Sort of insurance if you will against the sale falling through. All of these things hes perfectly within his rights to do as he owns the club outright, he'd be doing no wrong in any of that. All well and good apart from the fact that we would be relegated which would mean that our income would be vastly reduced and the club worth nothing near what it currently is. He's stupid but not that stupid.

Jobs for the boys!

Anyone else read it initially as 'Help for Herpes'? That's one calendar I'd find it tough to knock one out to.

I'd say most managers have turned down the odd gem, given the number of players touted around they're bound to miss a few.

Just get SG to break the news to him. And watch it from a distance.

Owning the site tends to help.

HTT made admin over there?

Part two on now.

The next manager of Everton: http://homepages.nildram.co.uk/~kritip/managers%20job.htm

Though apart from Villa I can't remember us playing anyone of note at home yet.

It was his skill and trickery that meant Boyce had to foul him and in doing so got him his first yellow card.

Agreed, I think that both Owen and himself would benefit from playing together, unfortunately JFK seems intent on not letting that happen.

The quieter the better at the moment imo. There's nothing really for them to comment on currently so at least they're not talking just for the sake of it.

Have good one.

He's still a top class striker, available in January for a knock down price and isn't cup tied for Europe. I'd be very surprised if there weren't a number of clubs sniffing around him.

I'd imagine most people who have had any sort of dealings with him will share a similar assessment.

Whelan = bitter twat.

Grounds for banning yet?

Just bought my tickets to see him in February.

Aye but as we know all too well the manager's opinion is secondary to that of Wise and Vetere's.

Aye it'll take a bit of footballing sense but most of all it'll take business sense. Personally I don't think that Ashley has much of either but we have to hope that he's clever enough to realise that relegation will hurt both him and us and that in the end all he's worried about is himself.