Rayvin

I'm not sure about it to be honest, I think it's an oversimplification. I would be very surprised if around 4m people actually want to leave with a deal, given that no particular flavour of deal is being seriously talked about anymore. I think that's 4m tribal voters. The point about the other 16m or so who didn't vote scans though, and I think should really come out in favour of Remain in the end. No Deal Brexit is an extreme position, and it's hard to imagine anyone who really wants it, not having come out to vote for it in these elections. As such, I think that with Remain being 'non-extreme' (however much the No Dealers try to characterise it as such, this should be easily dismissed), it will naturally pick up the majority of the electorate that aren't really arsed either way. I think c.6m might be the full extent of the people really committed to No Deal. I daresay they'll pick up some stragglers as the interest intensifies, but if we have a straight choice between No Deal and Remain, they're fucked. I'd be surprised if they hit 40%, despite what the polls say.

This is a fair point We haven't been shit enough to even qualify for their two Wembley finals. I'm quite certain that if you put the current NUFC side in a League One playoff final and the Checkatrade final, we'd win both with something to spare. We'd certainly register more than one shot on target. Plus you'd notice our fans were there.

Dear me... I mean there's clutching at straws and then there's whatever the fuck that is. A whole different level of delusion.

I don't understand why they aren't more self aware about how much of the blame for what happened to them actually rests with the fans. That season in the championship they picked up 21 points away from home. At home, they picked up 16. Meaning that the atmosphere at home was so dismal that they were actually better off playing in front of opposing fans. That's not on the manager, or the players really, that's on them. They failed to create any kind of supportive atmosphere for the team, for basically an entire season. They needed 6 points to avoid relegation that year. If the home taking of points had exceeded their away taking, by even a solitary point, they'd have done it. Tl;dr, the mackems relegated Sunderland to league one by being shit fans

That tweet explains why it's still pending, unfortunately^

So... it's done then?

Chronicle says it's listed as 'pending'...

FFS I'll check that out then.

Great post by someone on Reddit about the guy's background: https://www.reddit.com/r/soccer/comments/btsm4j/who_is_sheikh_khalid_bin_zayed_al_nahyan_a_deep/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app

It's actually quite possible that Charnley is as totally useless as we think he is you know. He has been promoted far beyond his competence. If Ashley has tasked Bishop with the details and Charnley is just aware that there are multiple talks going on, he could have just offered up the accounts for perusal without being aware that a firm bid had come in.

Kenyon's issue was a lack of proof of funds wasn't it? I guess he could use the same thing here. I mean, I do feel that at some point, Ashley will take the money and run. And the £150m hit he took on Debenhams is something that he really will have felt. Surely he can't enjoy this constant negative shite any more than we do. There has to be an endgame for him, this is the highest the club's stock will ever be under him, it's not going to get better than Rafa and a lower midtable PL finish with what he's prepared to put in.

Have to say though, if the buyer has confirmed a £350m bid, I'm struggling to think what Ashley can possibly say. That's his asking price down to the penny. He's getting everything he wanted here.

Anyone get the feeling that if we do finally get rid of Ashley here, Trooper is still not going to be happy about anything

Getting the feeling Corbyn has jumped in two footed in his initial response and then been straightened out by Labour high command: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/may/27/jeremy-corbyn-signals-more-support-for-second-referendum-after-voter-exodus "Any Brexit deal must be put to a second vote" No longer just in the case of the Tory deal. So maybe we've got what we wanted after all. Although it's not just about his support for it, he needs to start fucking calling for it, loudly, and pushing the Tories as hard as possible.

Yeah no, the guy definitely wants to buy us. Whether Ashley wants to sell us is the issue IMO.

It's not beyond possibility that the Sheihk's interest is genuine and that Ashley has opportunistically seized on it with no intention of seeing it through, but honestly this one seems to have more fanfare than any of the previous ones and the whole media lit up with it.

Ashley fucked off the MSM before it was cool anyway, they know fuck all. Whether it goes through or not, no one in the standard media circles will know until about 1 hour before we do at best.

On this as well - I would love to see one of them come on here and start trying to give us a hard time about. They'd be crucified. Who cares if it falls through and we don't get it, for a day or so it's been brilliant to actually feel excited about the club, and I'm not letting judgment from those dismal cunts make me hesitant about anticipating it keenly. Even if they got half a day of enjoyment out of it, the crushing reality of the gulf between the clubs as it is now would come streaming back to them sharpish anyway. I see they're keeping Ross for another season. The good times just keep rolling on... Also, I'm on the sauce

I know man, but I just don't think that any reasonable businessman would pay £25m just to talk to the board of a club that doesn't actually want to sell.

Would you? £25m just to talk about buying the club? Especially one that has made clear it doesn't want to be sold.

I mean, presumably he intended to spend money at Liverpool as well. If he was going to drop £2bn just to BUY them, that's a pretty fucking good indication to me that we're in for a decent time of it, even if he was going to borrow a full 50% of that.

So you're saying he only has £1.25bn to spend on a football club himself? And we cost £350m. Leaving him...? £900m to spend from what he was prepared to throw at Liverpool.

Why would be start a process to buy a £2bn football club if he didn't have the money? I mean, maybe he is a total waste of space but I find it hard to believe.

If he was going to buy Liverpool for £2bn, then one assumes he has enough money to throw at football to make him worth our time.