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run the club on a shoestring, try stay out the bottom 3, free worldwide advertising for SD every fortnight, full ground every fortnight, everythings pure profit for him

Agreed but it would be criminal if he went i'm fairly certain a lot more would support it. What would be the point of going to games

The buck stops at Ashley's door

Hopefully, Mike Ashley can keep his word.. says a lot to me Ray

might be time for the Ashleyout.com gang to start making preparations just in case

Fanks Mike

That last sentence says a lot

This from Ireland from Rafa When asked his message to fans on the recruitment front, Benitez said: “We are working very hard and trying to get as close as possible to some signings.enitez When I had the meeting with Mike Ashley I was confident that after that meeting we have the money available and the wages. “Everything is in place to move forward. “Hopefully, Mike can keep his word and we can do what we want to do.”

He's not selling us anytime soon he's just got the goose that lays the golden eggs again (premiership football) thats why there's a £400 million asking price on the club

Hopefully we'll hear from Rafa this week it seems a bit strange we haven't heard much from him since the players got back. i thought we'd have heard from him on the first day back of pre season training, then i thought we may have heard from him on friday before or after the Hearts game all there was, was a scripted interview on NUTV. I'm hoping when he does get asked the inevitable question about signings he doesn't answer like he did in January over the Townsend no show were he really didn't know why the club hadn't signed him. I think we'll learn a lot from his first proper interview.

i agree we dont make last minute panic purchases because after we've dithered on about wether to put an offer in for a player they've normally signed for somebody else.

The thing for me is Murphy should be an easy signing for Charnley to oversee. If he takes all this time over an easy one. Dog help us when he gets to a £20/30 million player

Tbh if Ashley wanted to show Rafa he had any ambition for the club instead of saying Rafa "can have every penny the club earns through sales etc" he could have said "what ever you make from sales etc i'll match it & we'll give it a good go. It would be a mere drop in the ocean for him. Instead he resorts to type running the club on a shoestring.

The reason people are getting jittery is because Rafa said he wanted the new signings early & even gave up his holidays to sort things out. The no show of these "-signings" means Rafa having to put on a brave face allthough inside he must be thoroughly pissed off

Murphy's travelled with Norwich to Germany by the looks of things Fanks Lee.

You forget it's Charnley negotiating he can barely tie his own shoelaces

Sounds like an eventful day mate

Yeah we started well enough but went off the boil in the 2nd half it was a decent run out & no injuries

Well they're certainly dragging it out. If its going to happen get on with it & move on to the next one we need another 3 or 4 yet

Norwich manager saying he expects Jacob Murphy in his group in Germany next week looks like Charnley's really driving this one through

A week in Ireland then 5 games in 15 days i hope everyone comes through unscathed.

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Cheers man

1-2 Gayle again

Hearts miss a penalty still 0-1